BE BETTER THAN YESTERDAY? BUT HOW

Be better than expected? But who sets the expectations?

Listen hard enough and you hear everything. Then choose.

Choice depends on things like science, experience, informed opinions.

This is what defines who we are, choice.

Be Better With Social Distance

The club is open, the gym is open. Are you open to showing up?

What if you share a household with those who feel no problem in getting with their friends, shoulder to shoulder, having a good laugh, telling a good story?

MIT researchers explain why it might be a bad idea to be so close:

The novel coronavirus has prompted social distancing measures around the world. One researcher believes what’s being done isn’t enough.

Lydia Bourouiba, an associate professor at MIT, has researched the dynamics of exhalations (coughs and sneezes, for instance) for years at The Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory and found exhalations cause gaseous clouds that can travel up to 27 feet. 

How Far Away Is Far Enough

This guy might need more room.

Choice is always hard. Just ask new protesters carrying signs proclaiming “My Body My Choice.”

It’s not just for legal medical clinic marchers anymore.

Now it’s about wearing, or not wearing, a mask in public.

Take a look at the wide maw in the heading pic and tell me how big the mask need be to cover that mess.

The Spiritual Choice To Be Better

Social distance, washing hands, and not screaming at each other is a good choice.

Civil discourse isn’t too much to ask. Public manners? Not too much.

Science based advice works here. Science people in labs work it out for us; non-science people with hunches, not so much.

Who is best to listen to? Which advice is best to heed?

I try and check the background of people who ask for confidence, who say, “Believe Me.”

Like the lion doesn’t need any extra hype to convince anyone it’s a lion, the angry yeller pulling enough attention to generate a following is not the right expert for these times.

If you find yourself drifting for answers to current public health problems, keep looking. Try googling “how to survive covid-19.”

I did it and chose Harvard Health.

For young party dogs:

Though no one is invulnerable, we’ve seen that older adults are at increased risk for severe illness or death from COVID-19. Underlying conditions, including heart disease, lung disease, and diabetes, increase risk even further in those who are older. In addition, anyone with an underlying medical condition, regardless of their age, faces increased risk of serious illness.

If you are suspicious of Harvard, find another reliable source.

If you find the wrong advice, know it before acting.

This is one of my favorites I trot out for my wife the doctor. She does not agree with her former Army medic husband blogger. And she’s right.

(In case she decides to give this post a read, “Hi honey.)

Beer? Who said beer?

I’ll be back soon.