I haven't actually tried this in the real world, but I found this link on convincing reluctant friends/family to get the vaccine extremely helpful.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/20/opinion/covid-19-vaccine-chatbot.html

(Goes to NYTimes, so might be paywalled.)

It's in the form of an interactive chatbot where you pick answers and then see ( Read more... )

Two relatively small-scale studies, one from India and the other from China, suggest that glasses-wearers are significantly less likely to contract Covid - 2-3x less (the India study) or up to 5x less (the China study). Possible reasons include people who wear glasses touching their eyes less, compared to non-glasses wearers, or possibly glasses ( Read more... )

This is a post I've gone back and forth on making to the point where it's probably pretty useless for people now, given that we're almost done with the school year (edit: here in the US - I appreciate the reminder in the comments that the US school year is not universal!).

Anyway, I've dithered about writing it because I have absolutely zero ( Read more... )

( Cut for avoidance purposes )