Videodrome
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Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (nCoV-2019)
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Good news!
lenaitch
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Or alternately, the added moisture of a mask helps moisturize skin and keep it looking young.
This is a very old "problem". Technology and big changes have always had a history of "aging" the face, and it's almost completely bunk. Barely a century ago, doctors once said cars aged the skin, and movies, and a dozen other things.
Can Tech Physically Change Your Face? | Jason Feifer
Do you suffer from automobile face? What about airplane face? Or moving-picture face? These are just some examples from a strange historical pattern: For more than a century, people have claimed that new technologies are physically deforming our faces — and we still say it today. (No, you don’t...www.jasonfeifer.com
Frankly, it's more likely that everyone's seeing themselves under crappy lighting, on crappy cameras and getting subconscious about it.
Or they can go back to ye goode olde days of using things like lead, arsenic and mercury.
lenaitch
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Gawd I hope not. My aged hearing is having a hard enough time as it is. I was part of a three-way old-fart conversation in front of the post office today and it was as hilarious as it was fruitless.
My wife also has quite a mask wardrobe - considering we don't going anywhere. She got a buffalo checked one for her birthday, which was probably the only piece of buffalo checked apparel she didn't already own.
lenaitch
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Between that and fighting stringent measures, they're like our own little Alberta.
AlvinofDiaspar
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Seriously, York Region is becoming bit of a bad influence on the rest of Ontario by every measure.
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Yes, very odd since they do have lots of cases themselves - oh yes, like Alberta
Johnny Au
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Here are two interesting articles from NPR:
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One Of The World's Poorest Countries Has One Of The World's Lowest COVID Death Rates
As of the end of April, only 254 deaths were attributed to COVID-19 in Haiti over the course of the entire pandemic. Why has the death rate been so low?
www.npr.org
COVID-19 Reaches Mount Everest As Nepal Struggles With Record Infections
Climbers are reporting an outbreak at Everest Base Camp in Nepal, where hundreds of climbers assemble as they prepare for summiting the world's tallest peak.
www.npr.org
W. K. Lis
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Island countries have a better outcome since they have better controls to get into and out of the island.Here are two interesting articles from NPR:
One Of The World's Poorest Countries Has One Of The World's Lowest COVID Death Rates
As of the end of April, only 254 deaths were attributed to COVID-19 in Haiti over the course of the entire pandemic. Why has the death rate been so low?
COVID-19 Reaches Mount Everest As Nepal Struggles With Record Infections
Climbers are reporting an outbreak at Everest Base Camp in Nepal, where hundreds of climbers assemble as they prepare for summiting the world's tallest peak.
Johnny Au
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...except that Haiti borders the Dominican Republic and the latter has more cases and deaths than Haiti.
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Here are two interesting articles from NPR:
One Of The World's Poorest Countries Has One Of The World's Lowest COVID Death Rates
As of the end of April, only 254 deaths were attributed to COVID-19 in Haiti over the course of the entire pandemic. Why has the death rate been so low?
COVID-19 Reaches Mount Everest As Nepal Struggles With Record Infections
Climbers are reporting an outbreak at Everest Base Camp in Nepal, where hundreds of climbers assemble as they prepare for summiting the world's tallest peak.
I would be shocked if this hasn't got to do with the fact that because Haiti is poor, so they have serious under-reporting.
AlvinofDiaspar
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That maybe, but other indicators of illness and death should shot up even if cases of COVID is underreported.
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lenaitch
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Could be that with a generally higher national mortality rate and really weak civil/medical infrastructure the impact is getting lost in the mix. They also have a type of pre-existing travel ban; they can't afford to travel and it's certainly not a 'destination'.
NPR article has some thoughts:
One Of The World's Poorest Countries Has One Of The World's Lowest COVID Death Rates
As of the end of April, only 254 deaths were attributed to COVID-19 in Haiti over the course of the entire pandemic. Why has the death rate been so low?
www.npr.org
AlvinofDiaspar
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Could be that with a generally higher national mortality rate and really weak civil/medical infrastructure the impact is getting lost in the mix. They also have a type of pre-existing travel ban; they can't afford to travel and it's certainly not a 'destination'.
NPR article has some thoughts:
One Of The World's Poorest Countries Has One Of The World's Lowest COVID Death Rates
As of the end of April, only 254 deaths were attributed to COVID-19 in Haiti over the course of the entire pandemic. Why has the death rate been so low?
Yeah I thought about that - and/or that they have a demographic structure that have a lot fewer seniors relative to the size of the general population (which is true)
(From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Haiti)
But still you should see something if there is COVID running wild.
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