If you’re sick and need to be around others, properly wearing a mask can protect those around you from contracting your illness. – CENTRES FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION When news of the first death from Coronavirus reported on January 11 in Wuhan, China, and started to reach the outside
I don’t believe in curfews, because you can’t treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust. – Phil Jackson, American former professional basketball player and coach We have spent tremendous time and effort trying to put down our devices. All of that seems so long
When we encourage new parents to ‘treasure these moments because they don’t last forever,’ we need to remember to also reassure them that they will survive these moments because they don’t last forever. L R Knost, award-winning author and social justice activist My wife is the kind of person who
Don’t let go of your dreams. If you have determination and belief in your dreams, you will succeed in spite of your desire to let go. Catherine Pulsifer, author Has a New Year’s resolution ever made a permanent difference in your life? Maybe you stick with it for the first
There will be growing pains along the way — and more horror stories, no doubt — but the sharing economy is here to stay. Glenn Carter, English actor As I got into my Grab to an appointment the other day, I complimented my driver on his punctuality. As our conversation
We were told that there is no great change in government fiscal policy in the 2020 Budget. So this budget — as was last year’s — was as boring as we were all thinking it was going to be. The attempts to both reduce the deficit and shrink the size
I always notice that people get angry about what they think the government is doing, especially when they refer to themselves as taxpayers. You know “As a taxpayer, I … ” What is interesting about this is the end of the sentence is never really about taxes. It is sort
Any healthcare system will not be able to solve inequalities everywhere. But that has not stopped policymakers from haring off after entirely the wrong idea in trying to work out what might be done to reduce health inequality. They are, sadly, blaming health inequality purely and entirely on the wider
VIEWPOINT I understand why people don’t care about vaping and public policy. If you’re not a smoker and haven’t experienced some of the costs of smoking in your own life—say, a relative dying young from lung cancer—it’s easy to just ignore it and laugh about the people who keep hammering
I finished rereading historian Frank Dikotter’s Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962 which I read for the first time two years ago. This is history that I think everyone should know something about and that few do, which is the famine in China from 1958