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Calls grow for Germany-wide use of face masks
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As the coronavirus crisis heats up, why isn't America hearing from the CDC?
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The US has been fighting the wrong war
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Public health responses to COVID-19 outbreaks on cruise ships — Worldwide, February–March 2020
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Here come the "death panels": Obamacare didn’t lead to rationing. The mismanagement of the coronavirus will.
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Swedish PM Stefan Löfven warned over 'Russian roulette-style' Covid-19 strategy – health experts say attempt to build herd immunity is a 'mad experiment with 10m people'
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LA, other SoCal cities cracking down on crowds at parks, beaches to stem spread of COVID-19
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Mexican president passes coronavirus buck to allies, rivals, business
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Food safety and coronavirus: A comprehensive guide
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Sixteen and evangelical
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The flu killed forty million in 1918. Every flu season since is descended from it
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Social distancing: This is not a snow day
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Interactive media for self-care
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Tech in the time of COVID-19
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The UK backs away from “herd immunity” coronavirus proposal amid blowback
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FDA worried about blood shortage as donation drives are canceled amid coronavirus concerns
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About 4 in 10 adults in the U.S. are at greater risk of developing serious illness if infected with coronavirus, due to age or underlying health conditions
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Infected people without symptoms might be driving the spread of coronavirus more than we realized
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I'm meta-anxious about coronavirus and the panic it's inducing
I'm usually the least anxious person among all the people I know, even when shit is hitting the fan. I practically revel in hardships for the problem solving. But, what is freaking me out right...
I'm usually the least anxious person among all the people I know, even when shit is hitting the fan. I practically revel in hardships for the problem solving.
But, what is freaking me out right now is this mass panic. It started off as a joke but now it's real, people are literally selling toilet paper on craigslist of whatever. Maybe it's still a joke, I don't know. But mass hoarding of important goods seems to be causing disruptions already, from a lack of toilet paper to a shortage of surgical masks for medical professionals.
I would like to ask the community here what they think about this and how they expect things to go on. Are we going to have a second-order crisis in supply shortages? Are shipping route delays going to hit us on top of the local supply shortages? Because right now it's feeling apocalyptic, and I'm struggling between not acting like a selfish hoarder but also making sure I can get through this.
EDIT: Toilet paper is just a prominent example, not my primary concern (we have plenty still). I'm more concerned about e.g. pharmacy goods and produce, since where I live literally 95% of our produce is imported.
EDIT 2: This article articulates what is on my mind much better: An Infectious Diseases Specialist Reflects on COVID-19
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Vintage ads: Selling health and hygiene during the 1918 pandemic
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‘It’s just everywhere already’: How delays in testing set back the US coronavirus response
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The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified
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Hand-washing with soap and water destroys coronavirus more effectively than hand sanitizer
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Why the CDC botched its coronavirus testing
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In 1721, Boston’s colonists greeted Cotton Mather’s proposal for smallpox inoculation with a terror that bordered on hysteria
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Over the past year, 34-year-old pastor Mark Lee Dickson has convinced twelve towns in Texas to pass ordinances banning abortion. For women in those towns, fear and confusion reigns.
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Official: White House didn't want to tell seniors not to fly
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How the working-class life is killing Americans, in charts
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The CDC’s rocky effort to get Americans tested for coronavirus, explained
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California directs some health insurers to waive co-pays, deductibles for coronavirus tests
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Why Taiwan has just forty-two coronavirus cases while neighbors report hundreds or thousands
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A future with no future: depression, the left, and the politics of mental health
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Before coronavirus: How Seattle handled the 1918 flu pandemic
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Greenland has the world's highest suicide rate, and teenage boys are especially vulnerable
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Healthcare rant thread
So I don't know about all of you, but I'm pretty sick of terrible healthcare in the USA. So I'm starting this thread for all of us to rant about our personal issues with healthcare. I'll be...
So I don't know about all of you, but I'm pretty sick of terrible healthcare in the USA.
So I'm starting this thread for all of us to rant about our personal issues with healthcare. I'll be writing my rant into it's own reply later (it's a bit of a long one), but I wanted to start the thread now to give others a chance to start venting.
Rules of Rant Thread:
- Don't argue a rant
- Thread is likely going to be incredibly USA-centric. USA healthcare is assumed unless stated otherwise.
- Rants should involve people no more than 2 degrees of separation from yourself. This thread is to vent about your personal experiences, not hearsay from total strangers.
In order to foster further discussion, and include those without a rant: Here are some things I personally would appreciate and expect for replies, but others might not.
- Explanation of how things would work out for you if you were in a similar situation
- Advice for dealing with any ongoing or future problems
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How DuPont may avoid paying to clean up a toxic 'forever chemical'
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Is change on the way for Sweden's zero tolerance drug policy? Shifting the focus away from zero tolerance to the pursuit of zero drug-related deaths
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Twenty-two studies, across ideological differences, agree: Medicare for All saves money
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Trump faces his 'Chernobyl moment' after slashing pandemic defences to the bone
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Inside Australia's climate emergency: For months, Australians breathed air pollution up to 26 times above levels considered hazardous to human health. The long-term impact could be devastating.
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Suffering from lower back pain while visiting a museum? You’re not alone
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Confessions of a slaughterhouse worker
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The new breed of sex addicts - who don't have sex
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The number of teenagers registered as girls at birth who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria has increased by almost 1,500 percent in ten years in Sweden
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Finnish government has proposed that primary care nurse visits become free of charge
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Chinese scholar and outspoken critic directly blames Xi Jinping for severity of viral outbreak
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The environmental burden of generation Z: Kids are terrified, anxious and depressed about climate change
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Vaping: What people are getting wrong
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Undone science: When research fails polluted communities
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