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It’s Giving Tuesday, and yes, I will piggyback on it like everybody else.
Unfortunately, I do not have happy news for today. I’m actually going to avoid digging into 2020-2021 stats today, because I don’t want to. Supposedly, suicide rates dropped during the pandemic…. but I think it’s because COVID (and some other things) killed people before suicide did. I will be doing separate posts about 2020-2021 trends another time.
So yeah, if you...
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As I said back in October, Winter is Coming. No, I didn’t know a new variant was coming, but given omicron is the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet (and yes, two letters were skipped over, let’s move on), let us assume more variants are on the way,...
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Thanks to all who have donated to my Movember fundraiser so far!
For those unfamiliar, Movember focuses on men’s health concerns in the areas of prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and men’s mental health (particularly around suicide).
My dad has been a huge inspiration to me in my life...
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Last Week, I posted about my Movember fundraising, and thanks to everybody who boosted up my numbers! Huzzah! (Update at end of post)
Also, today is International Men’s Day:
Yay for men!
Movember centers on men’s health, and,...
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Since 2017, I have been doing Movember fundraising:
My husband Stuart was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in 2017. The treatment regimen he’s been on didn’t even exist until recently, and he’s been stable, though this is currently uncurable cancer.
Globally, more than 1.4M men are diagnosed with prostate cancer each...
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In my prior post, I looked at how the number of deaths increased by racial/ethnic group in the U.S. in 2020-2021, breaking out COVID but also looking at deaths overall.
I ended the post with a few maps, particularly with “the Acela corridor”, which reaches from DC to Boston....
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