Tag: COVID-19
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COVID-19 Day 30: In Defense of Chicken Little
The final death toll currently “looks more like 60,000 than the 100,000 to 200,000” said Dr. Anthony Fauci on NBC’s Today Show. Similarly, The Imperial College in London radically lowered its fatality estimates from 500,000 to 20,000. Under normal circumstances this news would be greeted with relief. Fewer deaths are our primary goal in our battle with COVID-19. But these dramatically lower numbers…
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COVID-19 Day 27: The Forgotten Pandemics
The virus arose in China. Quietly infecting dozens, then hundreds, then thousands, before jumping across borders on airplanes to the rest of the world. As bodies filled hospitals with a mystery contagion, the news media only started to sound alarm after the first cases were identified in Europe and America. In a matter of months, millions would be dead. But this wasn’t…
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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…