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Why Walking Matters—Now More Than Ever – WSJ

April 18 | Posted by mrossol | Health, Interesting

I share just FYI. I have not way to verify the proposition. mrossol

Why does walking make us feel good? We all know that a satisfying stroll changes our outlook. Perhaps we realize it all the more today, when so many of us are hunkered down and this simple... Read more

What Victory looks like

March 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Health

As I have said before, it is good to have alternative views to consider. And this is one.  mrossol ====== WSJ  3/20/2020 A telling moment came on CNBC Thursday. A host gently shushed the learned Jim Grant, editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, saying discussion of tradeoffs was not encouraged. On TV, delivering up unpleasant choices is bad for the brand. Unfortunately policy... Read more

Rethinking The Coronavirus Shutdown

March 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Health

Always good to have alternate perspectives.This “crisis” needs to be keep in perspective. mrossol ======= By The Editorial Board WSJ Updated March 19, 2020 7:40 pm ET Financial markets paused their slide Thursday, but no one should think this rolling economic calamity is over. If this government-ordered shutdown continues for much more than another week or two, the human cost of job losses and... Read more

What We Can Learn From the 20th Century’s Deadliest Pandemic – WSJ

March 8 | Posted by mrossol | Health

A good perspective:  Containment, isolation, quarantine. Truth. Leadership. mrossol In 1918, the Spanish flu killed more than 50 million people around the world. The lessons of that outbreak could save countless lives in the fight against the coronavirus.
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The Backward March of Civilization

December 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Health, Stupidity

Disease on those who unresponsively denigrate vaccination. Nothing is risk-free. Even stupid me knows that. I don’t have the time of day for them.

 WSJ  12/7/2019
Our age likes to believe in the inevitability of human progress, but for an example of the opposite consider the Pacific island nation of Samoa. A measles... Read more

Health care without profit

March 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Health, The Left

Health heaven is just around the corner… ======

By Bill Hammond  WSJ  3/19/2019 House Democrats’ new Medicare for All bill asserts “a moral imperative . . . to eliminate profit from the provision of health care.” The legislation specifies that federal health funding— virtually all health funding if the bill were to become law—may not be used for “the... Read more

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