Tag: health

• French ‘anti-maskers’ see themselves as free thinkers, study shows

  September 8, 2020

  French people who reject mask-wearing are more likely to be older, educated women who support the gilets jaunes (yellow vests) protest movement and the controversial virus specialist Didier Raoult, and… more ›

• The Mask Slackers of 1918

  August 3, 2020

  As the influenza pandemic swept across the United States in 1918 and 1919, masks took a role in political and cultural wars. The masks were called muzzles, germ shields and… more ›

• ‘Cocktails and Masks Don’t Really Go Together’

  August 1, 2020

  Young Russians are partying again, seeking a return to normal life and willing to risk a coronavirus surge. “We are people, not robots, and want to have a life,” said… more ›

• Mumbai’s amazing lunch couriers bring office workers home-cooked meals every day

  June 28, 2020

  Dabbawalla 4 minutes https://aeon.co/videos/mumbai-s-amazing-lunch-couriers-bring-office-workers-home-cooked-meals-every-day more ›

• A nation on pause: coronavirus in India

  May 24, 2020

  Nilanjana S Roy   It was the beginning, though we did not know what it meant then, the river of men and women eddying towards the Nizamuddin Railway Station in… more ›

• ‘This feels great’

  May 18, 2020

  ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The sky was blue, the sun was rising, and as the death toll from the coronavirus continued to soar across much of America, the fountains switched on… more ›

• A luxury leather company is using a post-apocalypse art thesis to survive the pandemic

  May 9, 2020

  New technology is upending everything in finance. There’s not a lot of demand for luxury leather bags during a pandemic. https://qz.com/1851931/lutoff-leathers-pivot-shows-how-businesses-can-survive-covid-19/ more ›

• The first modern pandemic

  April 26, 2020

  This is the full-length version of this post. You can read the condensed version, which appeared as an opinion article in the Washington Post, here. The coronavirus pandemic pits all… more ›

• Our Pandemic Summer

  April 14, 2020

  The fight against the coronavirus won’t be over when the U.S. reopens. Here’s how the nation must prepare itself. Updated at 6:45 p.m. ET on April 14, 2020. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/pandemic-summer-coronavirus-reopening-back-normal/609940/ more ›

• We Mapped How the Coronavirus Is Driving New Surveillance Programs Around the World

  April 12, 2020

  an attempt to stem the tide of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 25 governments around the world have instituted temporary or indefinite efforts to single out infected individuals or maintain… more ›