A few years ago, I wrote about some Life lessons I had learned over the years through my participation in cycling. Bicycling can be just a fun form of recreation for the whole family. If you are so inclined, a cycling lifestyle can also lead you into explorations of physical performance, nutrition and even human…
Tag: COVID-19
Marketing: Sorting Healthcare from Health Care
With the COVID-19 pandemic, and the dizzying swirl of rhetoric surrounding its management, healthcare has certainly been front and center in our media intake. The wearing of masks, vaccinations, and other topics labeled as healthcare present as legitimate each day but are we really talking about the same thing? As Managed Care has been teaching…
Garbled in Transmission: Messages Missing from Our COVID-19 Response
The world’s COVID-19 response has certainly been a litmus test for how people treat one another. We have had wondrous examples of selflessness when people come together to help one another and we have had the glaring embarrassments of political egos running off the rails. All of these things together are what makes us truly…
They Said No Masks: Making Sense of COVID-19
Reliable information was the first COVID-19 victim. With so many players, from politicians and government officials, to self-described experts and bad actors on the Internet, all have weighed in on how to respond to the pandemic. The resulting confusion and obfuscation have been astounding. Messages with vested interests behind each pronouncement make it tough to…
Being Healthy: Responding Constructively to COVID-19
Being Healthy has certainly been the headline of the year. COVID-19 brought all of its political baggage and started to move in. We learned: about a novel virus – both the real and the perceived threats to ourselves that Public Health measures can help retard the spread of the virus through a population that political…