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5 Basics To Protect Your Health During A Pandemic

  This year, 2020, will be remembered, unfortunately, as the year of this horrific pandemic, which has seen over 50 million worldwide cases. Some articulate, a variety of inane concepts, and theories, including, herd immunity, pandemic - fatigue, or, it will all go away, by itself, etc, but, if we wish, to address this virus, and begin to reduce the public health risks, we need to take personal responsibility, to protect our health, and well - being, during a pandemic. With that in mind, this article will attempt to, briefly, consider, examine, review, and discuss, 5 basic steps, to achieve this. 1.  Wear a mask:  Why has wearing a mask, become a political discussion? Nearly, every public health expert, states, if, everyone, simply wore a mask, whenever social spacing, was challenging, and, especially, indoors (in buildings, restaurants, etc), the rate of infection, would probably be reduced, about 95%. Isn't this, not only, logical, from a personal perspective, as well a...