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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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Coronavirus Myths: The WHO Critiques A Few Of Both The Sensible And Wacky Ideas About COVID-19

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Coronavirus Myths: The WHO Critiques A Few Of Both The Sensible And Wacky Ideas About COVID-19
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Coronavirus Myths Busted By The WHO. No, 5G & Wifi Do Not Cause COVID19:
The internet can be a great place, and it can also be a little iffy.

-Especially for health information.

At HT, we’ve tried very hard to stick with the stuff supported by studies and stay away from the hopeful, but perhaps over-optimistic “bro-science” as much as possible.

-Even though it’s fair to say that Science still hasn’t solved every problem.

So in the spirit of Myth-Busting, the WHO has come out with a set of infographics to help remind us about some of the myths concerning Coronavirus…

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Tech Nerd Predicts Coronavirus: Bill Gates’ Eerily Prescient Talk On How We Are Unprepared For Pandemics

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Tech Nerd Predicts Coronavirus: Bill Gates’ Eerily Prescient Talk On How We Are Unprepared For Pandemics


Bill Gates On Pandemics: He Pretty-Much Predicted Coronavirus
With the world in lockdown from the coronavirus,

It might be the right time for people to take a look back at not just a few distractions,

But a few very important talks.

Last time, we told you about the importance of Dr. Michael Osterholm’s thoughts on the Joe Rogan Experience.

But this talk might be even more important in-retrospect.

Because 2 years before Dr. O’s book on pandemics, a little-known public speaker named Bill Gates gave a great TED talk on how we might not be ready for one…

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Joe Rogan Interviews Infectious Disease Expert Michael Osterholm For The Details On Coronavirus

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Joe Rogan Interviews Infectious Disease Expert Michael Osterholm For The Details On Coronavirus


Joe Rogan & Dr. Michael Osterholm The Honest Details About COVID19:
We don’t normally do public health concerns here, but for every rule there is an exception.

So instead of focusing purely on new research for incremental improvements,

We’d recommend instead this video with Joe Rogan and Dr. Michael Osterholm.

In it, they discuss the under-appreciated seriousness of Covid 19.

Some of those concerns include how long it’s is likely to last, what the landscape might look like, and how we might avoid diseases of this type in the future…

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Olive Oil & Living Longer: Deep-Dive Of Mediterranean Diet Finds A Secret Code For Longevity

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Olive Oil & Living Longer: Deep-Dive Of Mediterranean Diet Finds A Secret Code For Longevity
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Olive Oil & Living Longer An Unexpected Find, With A Twist:
A doctor friend once said, “When you finish medical school, they tell you that half of what you just learned is wrong. The problem is, we don’t know which half.”

So a lot of what we think we know is really just general observations and anecdotes.

Like the success of The Mediterranean Diet.

We know it’s one of the best plans out there, but for the “Why?”, we only have educated-guesses.

Until now. Because a UMinn team looked into some of the more interesting benefits and found they come from really odd places…

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