Masks and Politics

Seeing The Trumpites packed in, mostly unmasked, against the Bidenites strictly social distancing with chalk circles marking their carefully spaced chairs and masked up in a beautiful green park, feels like a really bad science fiction movie. Yinon Weiss is an American bioengineer who created some charts connecting the timeline of mask mandates against case … More Masks and Politics

The Mask Maze

One of the first and funniest encounters I had with use of face masks for potentially infectious patients was in 1999 when the hospital ward I worked on accommodated two elderly sisters from a very remote community in northern Australia, who were thought to possibly have Tuberculosis (as it turned out they did not).  Because … More The Mask Maze