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The Leaf Face Mask: Bringing A Little Humanity Back To Your Face During The Coronavirus Pandemic

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The Leaf Face Mask: Bringing A Little Humanity Back To Your Face During The Coronavirus Pandemic
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The Leaf Mask. Returning A Little Humanity In The Coronavirus Crisis:
If there’s one thing that’s become increasingly clear as time under the coronavirus goes on despite the scofflaws,

Is that mask-use is maybe the best thing we can do to stop the spread of the disease.

And new tests spring up all the time to show us the amazing difference they make.

But in a counter-intuitive way, the scofflaws may actually be onto something.

Because let’s face it, unless you’re The Dread Pirate Roberts, mask-wearing is a little unnatural.

But that might be about to change due to a group of nerdy-entrepreneurs…

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Wearing Masks & Social-Distancing: Microbiologist Rich Davis Shows Us A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words

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Wearing Masks & Social-Distancing: Microbiologist Rich Davis Shows Us A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words
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Dr. Rich Davis Shows Us What Happens Without Distance Or A Mask:
So one of the big problems you run into with public health is getting people to listen.

The CDC can get the word out, but many people are too stubborn or skeptical.

Whether it’s the problems in Northern Italy that Bianca pointed out, or the recent US hot-spots that were likely started on Memorial Day,

People just want to ignore any advice that interferes with their lives and just do things as they’ve always done.

But Dr. Davis came up with a very clever and simple demonstration on Twitter that may prove the old adage…

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Herd-Immunity For Coronavirus: New Model Shows It May Arrive Sooner, Especially In Bergamo Italy

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Herd-Immunity For Coronavirus: New Model Shows It May Arrive Sooner, Especially In Bergamo Italy
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Coronavirus Herd Immunity May Arrive Soon, Just Watch Northern Italy:
Getting the numbers right can be tricky but rewarding pursuit.

Even in the middle of a health crisis.

Whether it’s staying 6 feet apart, self-quarantining for 14 days, or having at-least 4 cloth masks so you can throw 1 or 2 in the wash while you use the others to protect yourself and other people.

Well, an interesting bit of numbers-nerdery has come out of Nottingham, England and it might mean positive change for coronavirus infections is just around the corner…

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Coronavirus Infection Rate: Asymptomatic Carriers Make It 10x Higher Than Previously Thought

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Coronavirus Infection Rate: Asymptomatic Carriers Make It 10x Higher Than Previously Thought
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Coronavirus Infection Rate. Surprising Revision & Asymptomatic Carriers:
So in a time of crisis, we all need some kind of thing we can rely on.

It helps us become reassured that the majority of Chaos is being kept at bay,

It’s a very old instinct, built right into all of us.

So when faced with an uncured pandemic, we tend to have some kind of trust for numbers coming out of official-sounding data sources,

But recent discoveries may revise the reality of the numbers we thought we had right…

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Face Masks & Social Distancing Seem Ineffective And Arbitrary? Not According To A New Study…

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Face Masks & Social Distancing Seem Ineffective And Arbitrary? Not According To A New Study…
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Face Masks & Social Distancing Effectiveness, New Look Confirms:
At times, laws and regulations can seem a bit arbitrary.

Even the WHO itself has been really inconsistent about its recommendations on facemasks, and seems to be constantly correcting itself or walking something back.

Lucky for us, the CDC has been a bit better & more reliable.

But whatever rules & recommendations we get in a difficult time, most of us are willing to follow them out of a sense of caution.

Well, a group of researchers at a Canadian university looked at all the data they could find, and the results on what we’ve been told to do are looking pretty good…

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Cloth Masks Vs. Coronavirus: You May Not Need An N95 Respirator To Help Stop A Pandemic

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Cloth Masks Vs. Coronavirus: You May Not Need An N95 Respirator To Help Stop A Pandemic
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Even Cloth Masks May Protect Us From Coronavirus Spread:
One of the things we learned from the Joe Rogan post on coronavirus, is that it spreads by Breathing.

The other things we learned are that at least 1 more wave of it is coming by the Fall, and we won’t have a vaccine by then.

So in addition to lots of washing and hand-sanitizer, there are going to be a lot of Masks for us in the future.

So a good idea then is getting them right, and a few new studies point that out…

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Coronavirus Could Have Second + Subsequent Waves Of Unexpected Scope Starting This Fall, Ending…

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Coronavirus Could Have Second + Subsequent Waves Of Unexpected Scope Starting This Fall, Ending…
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Successive Waves Of Coronavirus May Be Coming:
With lockdown protests in at least a dozen states including Michigan, California, Washington, and Minnesota,

And the upcoming spectre of those restrictions being eased, even at the pace of the White House plan,

That temporary relief could actually create a greater problem.

Many scientists have opined on the dangers of ending lockdowns too soon.

And 100 years ago, our country had almost the same exact problem…

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Visual Capitalist’s Beautiful Infographic On Pandemics Might Need A COVID-19 Update By 2021

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Visual Capitalist’s Beautiful Infographic On Pandemics Might Need A COVID-19 Update By 2021
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Visual Capitalist’s Infographic Depicts Pandemic Casualties:
Although getting an accurate perspective can be a very tricky thing, and it often happens only in hindsight.

The world-changing events we’re living through right now are just another in a long series of microbial & economic pandemics.

Though that doesn’t make the worst public health crisis in 100 years any easier,

It does have a place in the context of history,

Which Visual Capitalist shows in its beautiful infographic about the “disease of being connected to the rest of the world”…

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