The worship at the church of the mask Another in-depth analysis of masks as a defense against Covid-19 is out, and it comes with conclusions much the same as those in the […]
Fact vs belief
Questionable priorities
The costs of machines dictating policy Alaska State Troopers are yet again trumpeting their desire to make everyone safe by taking extra efforts to enforce the nation’s mandatory seatbelt law. “…Troopers […]
Eat, sit, die
With the vaccinated but unfit continuing to die from Covid-19 at a significant rate, isn’t it about time someone asked how many lives might have been saved if political leaders had spent […]
Making things worse
When the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic began, there wasn’t much governments could do to make things better, but there were things they could do to make things worse. And, according to a peer-reviewed study […]
Killing us softly
ISSAQUAH, WASH. – Maybe the time has come to quit fretting over Covid-19 – the latest disease nature has produced to limit a human population that has been exploding since about the […]
Fat madness
DETROIT – Traveling across America again after a year of pandemic isolation, it is impossible to avoid noticing the widebodies flooding airports. And we’re not talking airplanes here. Walking through the concourses […]
Protect yourself
If you are not by this time on a fitness kick, you’re being foolish. Why? One hyphenated word: COVID-19. Study after study after study is pointing to cardiometabolic fitness as your best, […]
COVID’s upside?
What if one of the side effects of the SARS-Co-V-2 pandemic was to make some people healthier? Crazy as it sounds, there is some reason to believe this could be happening. The […]
Brain saver?
Once more science brings confusing news as to alcohol’s role in society. Vilified by some as “demon rum,” hailed by others as the explanation as to why the French stay slim and […]
The good news
In the overall scheme of life, Alaska came through the first wave of the global pandemic basically untouched, according to a June summary from the state Division of Public Health. The agency’s […]
