public health
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Observing a One-Year-Old: The Transactional Satisfaction of Flushing the Toilet
My youngest (and last) child has discovered flushing the toilet. It is his new hobby. Jesus be a fence around my water bill.
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Black People Disproportionately Died of COVID-19 Last Year, Study Says
The study concludes that the last 20 years of effort to close the mortality rate gap between Black and white people are erased by the past year of the pandemic.
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Can You Smell What The Rock Is Cooking? It’s Called Bathing and Showering [Updated]
The Rock, who is a Black Samoan, made sure to remove himself from the (white) celebrity trending narrative of refusing to bathe themselves and their kids.
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Texas Spent Over a Million Dollars Fighting a Lawsuit Filed by Prisoners Asking for Sanitary Supplies and Social Distancing Measures
I really don’t fuck with Texas politicians, y’all. These motherfuckers really never miss an opportunity to be dumb, cruel, or just flat-out trash. A group of prisoners in the state filed a lawsuit last year to have hand sanitizer, soap, and proper social distancing measures implemented in prisons to help combat the spread of COVID-19.…
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Apparently, Some People Are Using the Pandemic as an Excuse to Take Fewer Showers…and I Think That's Qu-White Interesting
See, y’all think I just be talking shit. Y’all think that when I make jokes about the dis-melanated not using washcloths or bothering to wash their legs in the shower, I’m just pulling white stereotypes out of my ass much like the bars of soap wypipo pull straight out of their asses BECAUSE THEY DON’T…
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Newer, More Contagious Coronavirus Strains Has Some Medical Professionals Urging People to Wear 2 Face Masks
It might be time to either upgrade your face mask or start wearing two of them, as medical officials believe it will provide more protection against more contagious strains of coronavirus. According to the Washington Post, there is currently debate over whether Americans should be encouraged to wear two masks at the same time or…