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Interesting. Money in the US has "In God We Trust," and it's not inherently religious. So I'm not sure the proclamation makes Thanksgiving religious. The origins might, though. I d…

Could be going down the rabbit hole with this comment, but cancer is an extremely generic term - lots of different organ and cell types. And smoking is also less well defined than …

Many of the people who participated in these events are realizing the consequences, and trying to hide their actions. Good for these groups for preserving the records.

The larger services engage in predatory practices. From the article: "With deep pockets, the dominant app companies have devised ways to put pressure on restaurant owners to sign c…

Another factor you're not looking at is long Covid - https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4470 - affects the young, and total consequences not yet known because this is new. I am s…

You might want to take a look at hospitalization rates for Covid. Here's data for Virginia, for example - https://data.virginia.gov/Government/VDH-COVID-19-PublicUseD... Lots of pe…

In my sect of Buddhism, we don't do "contemplation of death" meditation. What we are taught is to consider our last moment before death, so we can approach it (which is the beginni…

I was being sarcastic; should not have assumed that would have been understood. Certainly room for improvement regarding Japan's Covid's management strategy, but I live in the US s…

Not surprising. Haven't seen much if anything of him in the media since he announced Japan's complete victory over Covid 19 right before things started reopening.

Can't tell what his lineage is from what I have read. The temple that I belong to was founded in Japan. The honorifics we use to describe our High Priest and other priests are neve…

Wow. The author of this book calls himself an arhat. That is, shall I say, presumptuous? Not what I think I would look for in a Buddhist teacher (though, full disclosure, I practic…

Masks alone are probably not enough. But they do seem to help when combined with other preventative measures. My impression in the US is that people continue not to take this serio…

As mentioned in the article, there are advantages to face shields. I'm particularly interested in them because I have heard complaints about masks from people who say they have dif…

My two cents (as someone who also has a medical condition, albeit not as life threatening as yours, that is not taken seriously by many and who makes much of their living by writin…

Some of us don't have the space for a separate home office. That being said, I WFHed part time before the pandemic, so the new part for me is being home 100 percent of the time. My…