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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

Very, Very Rare Commodities

December 23 | Posted by mrossol | Health, Interesting, Personal Development

How about you? Got silence? ====== Silence, by Erling Kagge Reviewed by Sara Wheeler, WSJ 12/22/2017 Twenty-five years ago, the Norwegian adventurer Erling Kagge trekked solo across Antarctica without a radio (actually, the aviation company that flew him to the coast insisted that he take one, and he did—but he dumped the batteries in the plane’s trash bin). The experience of being alone for... Read more

Washington Price Choppers

December 7 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Health, Ruling Class, The Left

Cool your jets, people…. ===== WSJ 12/7/2016 The belief among Democrats that a Republican could never win another presidential election was apparently so firm that they’re still in a state of shock. They’re even more stunned that Donald Trump has dared to name an Obama-Care critic as his health-care point man—which makes for an instructive moment. Tom Price, a six-term Georgia Congressman and... Read more

Fans of CrossFit Training Brag About Extra Bulk

February 17 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Health, Personal Development, Sports

My son is into Cross Fit – and good at it too.  I would say that this article is intended to take a look at Cross Fit from a bit of a humorous perspective. ============= By Rob Copeland Feb. 16, 2015 8:52 p.m. Claire Koch is proud of her hard-earned physique. So she wasn’t bothered when her jeans went up a size or when... Read more

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