Life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness while living with type 2 diabetes
My latest article on Type2Diabetes.com is all about that road trip you’re dreaming about. Summer is upon us. Is it time to hit the road? We are all simultaneously anxious to get out of the house after months of restrictions and still stay safe and healthy as we start venturing out. For those of us…
There are just over 10 million people who have contracted COVID-19. About 25% of those are in the US, despite having only 4% of the world’s population. 500 thousand people have died worldwide. Again, the US accounts for about 25% of those, despite being only 4% of the world’s population. Also this week the CDC…
#MaskUp for everyone’s good health. Somehow, there’s a debate around whether or not to wear a mask to slow the spread of COVID-19. Some people make the argument that being required to wear a mask violates their constitutional rights. Other people make the argument that cloth masks are ineffective and so it doesn’t make sense…
Today the US surpassed 2 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 113,000 deaths. That’s like having all the people in New Mexico get infected and almost all of the people in Farmington die.
The W.H.O. walked back an earlier assertion that asymptomatic transmission is “very rare.” Turns out that people who have COVID-19 but are asymptomatic can spread the virus after all. So all those people who felt just fine and didn’t bother with masks or physical distancing might have been making other people sick all this time….
Has the Shutdown Been Worth It? It’s not a yes-or-no question. At what point did we stop being able to engage in complex thinking? It seems that every conversation about the pandemic (and health, and politics ,and economics, and, and, and) gets boiled down to an either-or choice. You either agree that COVID-19 is a…