Nursing Homes, Once Hotspots, Far Outpace U.S. in Covid Declines
Since nursing homes took a lot of flack for the rapidity with which COVID-19 spread through their facilities, it’s only fair to shout out this fact, too. We live in the independent living section of a retirement community and were able to get in on the facility’s vaccination clinic, for which we are very grateful.
Words to reflect our new reality: A COVID-19 urban dictionary
Covidiot. Emaskulation. Maskne. Check this out.
‘We Are Going to Keep You Safe, Even if It Kills Your Spirit’
“For the millions of Americans living with dementia, every day during this pandemic can bring a fresh horror.”
In hospitals and care facilities, patients with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia can’t follow mask requirements or social-distancing protocols that they neither understand nor remember. “— but what are administrators to do? They can’t just lock people up.”
An ancient Greek approach to risk and the lessons it can offer the modern world
Joshua P. Nudell, a visiting assistant professor of Classics at Westminster College, writes “I am interested in what the classics can teach us about risk-taking as a way to make sense of our current situation.”
By looking at classical history, he concludes that “history explains that individuals might escape divine punishment, but ignoring omens and failing to take precautions were often communal rather than individual problems.”
Rethinking ‘man’s best friend’: WSU research shows the importance of dogs in women’s lives
New research out of Washington State University concludes:
when dogs are interacting with women in a particular society, dogs are more likely to have names, be treated as family, as kin, to be buried and mourned when they died,” says Professor Robert Quinlan, of WSU’s anthropology department and one of three authors of the recently published paper in the Journal of Ethnobiology.
© 2021 by Mary Daniels Brown
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