Category: COVID-19
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COVID-19 Day 27: Published on Medium
My article on the Bumpy Curve was published on Medium. I’d like to say that now I’m a published writer, but that’s not entirely true. I’ve written a few articles about airsoft for an online magazine. My writing has appeared on newspapers and billboards in the form of clever headlines and body copy for ads. And a dozen…
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COVID-19 Day 26: No man is an Iceland
In the nightly news coverage of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, you hear about Italy, Spain, China, etc. But one country hardly mentioned by media or health officials in Iceland. The land of volcanos, ice, and Björk, is also a country dealing with COVID-19. An ideal scientific study of an epidemic requires a sizable and isolated population of test subjects.…
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COVID-19 Day 25: A Mask from the Past
A little over 100 years before COVID-19, the world faced an even deadlier pandemic, the infamous 1918 Spanish Flu. Between 20–40 million died worldwide, including about 675,000 Americans. Like today, institutions and health agencies struggled to find the most effective means of combating the unseen germ. Cloth face masks were one of the strategies…
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COVID-19 Day 24: How To Make a Mask Without Sewing
I’ve created a video tutorial to show you how to make face masks using a single old t-shirt, without sewing. It is almost criminal that the CDC and our health officials took this long (3 weeks since declaring a National Emergency on March 13) to recommend the public wear masks to slow asymptomatic spread…
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COVID-19 Day 23: Politics over Pathology
https://twitter.com/studioincendo/status/1243909358133473285 Another stunning example of why COVID-19 is a worldwide pandemic: Politics is more important than Pathology. During an interview about COVID-19, a senior official from the U.N.’s World Health Organization (WHO), appeared to hang up on a reporter when she asked him about Taiwan. She Skyp’ed him back but he quickly ended the interview. Taiwan, along with Hong Kong, Singapore, and South…
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COVID-19 Day 22: A Bumpy Curve
As the COVID-19 death toll continues to rise in NYC, the nation looks to California for a model of how to avoid NY’s fate. CA enacted the nation’s first shelter-in-place order weeks before NY. The results are promising, CA appears to be is “flattening the curve” in new COVID-19 cases. As CA’s governor, Gavin Newsom,…
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COVID-19 Day 21: Masks send the right message
I urged the general use of cloth masks to help flatten the curve. But 3 weeks later, the CDC is sill ‘seriously considering ‘ changing their mask-wearing recommendations. Los Angeles’ mayor didn’t wait and yesterday urged wearing masks. What needs to get out to the general public are the clear messages: Wear a face mask whenever…