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They say it's the "new normal"; it's a novel coronavirus, after all.  But how do you learn something that no one has learned yet?

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Everyone says people, people, people are important.  The coronavirus can tell if you really mean it.  Or not.  

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Values are what you "hold near and dear" to your heart.  So what's in your heart?

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They say don't get caught in "analysis paralysis."  So just do it!  

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Potential is what you can do more of, going forward, than you can do right now.  So what is your potential?

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Opinion | The Courage to Be Alone

On our daily walks together, my young daughter and I begin to navigate a new reality.

My youngest daughter has told me that Annabelle, her baby doll, might have the coronavirus. We talk about it as we take a daily walk up the road...  [She] holds my hand as we walk. She wants to talk about her doll’s sickness every day. Not surprisingly, she’s not sure when or if Annabelle will get a test.  ~Megan Craig

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In an interview last month, Dr. Fry remembers that "quite spooky" pandemic experiment, aired on BBC Four in 2018.  She remarks, "Everyone knew that something like this was coming...  It was inevitable.  We knew that when it finally came, we needed to be as prepared as possible."  

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BBC Four - Contagion: The BBC Four Pandemic

Hannah Fry leads a nationwide experiment to help plan for the next deadly flu pandemic.

Hannah Fry masterminds the experiment and adopts the role of Patient Zero by walking the streets of Haslemere in Surrey to launch the outbreak. Meanwhile, emergency physician Dr Javid Abdelmoneim finds out why flu is still such a danger to society a century after Spanish flu killed up to 100 million people worldwide. He meets researchers trying to discover what makes some people more contagious than others and visits a factory that will produce vaccine when the next pandemic flu virus emerges.  ~BBC Four

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This BBC Four Pandemic is about COVID-19, or rather it could've very well been about COVID-19.  Hosted by mathematician Hannah Fry and emergency physician Javid Abdelmoneim, it's a 2017 experiment that simulated how a catastrophic pandemic would spread throughout the UK.

That spread was frighteningly fast and wide-ranging:  43,000,000 people were infected.  But mathematical models noted that simple hand washing, done much more frequently, reduced infection rates by 13,000,000 people. 

So how much did this sophisticated, predictive modeling help the UK, when the reality of the coronavirus actually hit in 2020?  It's hard to tell.  But as it stands right now, the UK is 4th in the world with 211,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

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#COVID-19 + #Ventilators (No. 5 of 5):  Big tech is helping, e.g. deploying robots to kill with ultra-violet light (e.g. hospitals) and to disinfect with vaporized hydrogen peroxide (e.g. trains).  But simple measures, like face masks or dish towels, can be 97% effective.

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#COVID-19 + #Ventilators (No. 4 of 5):  The wrong ventilator design can do more harm than good!  The amount of air pumped into a patient, and with how much pressure,  depend on his or her particular respiratory distress.  Too much pressure, e.g. and it could collapse the lungs.

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Coronavirus: A team from MIT is producing an open-source, low-cost ventilator design

Their work is based on a decade-old project that created device that could be built with $100 worth of parts.

#COVID-19 + #Ventilators (No. 3 of 5):  Engineers, doctors and computer scientists at MIT quickly came up with an open-source, low-cost ventilator design.  However, they caution that it requires both medical know-how and technical skills to create the right ventilator.