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SWBTATTReg

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5. Yikes, and I'm 466 feet above sea level! Oh nooooooo!! Funny thing, living at such a high...
Mon May 18, 2020, 10:14 PM
May 2020

altitude will have negative impacts on those w/ breathing problems anyways, so I don't know if the trade offs is better or not...I guess it's a either this or that situation. Go one way, and catch the CV, get ill and/or die, and go the other way, and not be able to breath, and die of oxygen deprivation. Hmmmm...

What they don't say is that those that live at those altitudes do have enlarged lung capacity to handle the thinner air (on a PBS show, don't recall when/where/etc. when aired), so perhaps an overdeveloped lung capacity helps them in fighting off the CV (besides the CV, and thinner air)?

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