I’ve read accounts of the Spanish Flu, which was the last major pandemic, mainly in 1918 [so over and done with relatively quickly]. At times, could seem responses were odd: maybe trying to act as if there was no disease around; also some familiar scenes like wearing masks, holding classes outside.
Well, Covid is outlasting Spanish Flu; and the news items can be far stranger and wackier at times; some scenes as if from dystopian movies. Here, a selection of snippets from around the internet.
Covid articles by DocMartin
- Science shows face masks help reduce Covid spreadJust had one of those silly Twitter “conversations” with someone who had position so fixed, impossible to change with facts. Yeah, reminds me…
- A Covid scrapbook: snapshots from the crazy pandemicI’ve read accounts of the Spanish Flu, which was the last major pandemic, mainly in 1918 [so over and done with relatively quickly].…
- Keep Your Underpants Duck Taped and Air Clean as Covid Wild Ride ContinuesWe’ve learned a lot about Covid, even developing vaccines. Yet Covid remains an issue, no matter how much we might wish it gone.
- Covid is airborne so ventilation and air filtration are importantSince early in the pandemic, I’ve been seeing scientists arguing Covid is airborne, even with hashtag #covidisairborne – including to counter notions it…
- Long Covid – info and links indicating major impactEvidence is snowballing that Long Covid is also a serious issue, even affecting people in whom the disease initially appeared mild.
- Perhaps Covid arose through lab leak of tweaked bat CoronavirusMaybe humans tweaked bat coronaviruses in gain of function experiments, inadvertently creating Covid thro lab leak.
- The Covid Conundrum: Endless Lockdowns, Let It Rip … or What?Covid is airborne, which means that much as unprotected sex is a risk for HIV, unprotected breathing might result in Covid.
- Science shows Covid including Omicron is Really Not the FluSome of the science showing Covid including Omicron is a huge issue; and one that looks set to be with us a long time.
- “Alarmist” Covid predictions outperform Covid deniers’ soothsayingThe disinfo downplaying Covid is often from rightwing, mainly money-minded folks who perhaps don’t care too much about actual people.
- Covid virulence, vaccines and variants Science can provide some insights into what may happen with Covid, along with ways to limit its impacts.
- We’re in the Covid Era for the Long HaulWe’re in this for the long haul, with the virus like a relentless, invisible foe, ready to exploit errors, slip through the best defences
- Covid virulence, vaccines and variants[Written for South China Morning Post on 6 January 2021] In January last year, as reports were emerging of the new coronavirus being…