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More Sea Creatures to Wear Discarded COVID Masks for the Next 500 Years

Images of sea creatures wearing discarded COVID masks touch the heart.  According to a general understanding, COVID masks are supposed to be credible protection against the COVID-19 virus. For example, preventing drops of saliva from spreading from one person to another. But what many don’t know is that while the virus may (or may not) ...

Hermann Rohr

Discarded COVID mask in water on a beach.

Prediction: COVID-19 Will Suddenly Disappear?

There have been countless predictions and prophecies about the COVID-19 pandemic since its outbreak, but there was someone whose predictions stood out from the rest. She was the famous self-claimed medium and psychic Sylvia Browne. Her predictions about the COVID-19 pandemic also coincided with a few others, including Japanese comic artist Ryo Tatsuki, who had ...

Believe It Or Not

Predictions: COVID-19 suddenly disappears.

How Has the Pandemic Changed Us 2 Years On?

I have been reading a book recently, which keeps me up with a resolution for the New Year — reading more often. A part of the tale centers around a plague. Historic plagues have been taught and spoken about, yet never did I believe we’d experience a pandemic in my lifetime. Then, along came the ...

Katrina Hicks

Young woman looking sad through a window.

Indian Millennials Return to Simple Living and Traditions

There is no denying the fact that the ongoing pandemic has massively impacted human life. Apart from becoming more health and cleanliness aware, people are moving closer to a traditional and more natural lifestyle. That is what a lot of Indian Millennials are doing. This started during the first lockdown in 2020 and the trend ...

Armin Auctor

Mountainous rural India.

A Common-Sense Perspective on COVID-19

The COVID-19 coronavirus is on all of our minds, and for a good reason. We are living through a global pandemic, and there’s much we still don’t know, and with that uncertainty comes fear. Even though many of us are vaccinated, it remains a complex and fast-moving situation with the omicron variant. Given this, we ...

Jack Roberts

A visualizatin of the coronavirus at the molecular level.

Is It Safe to Have mRNA Vaccines?

Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the globe, rumors and fuzzy theories regarding the infection, effects, and treatments have been doing the rounds. Even after mRNA vaccines have gained momentum around the world, the rumors and theories refuse to die down. A section of social media users has been circulating posts regarding the mRNA vaccines ...

Jack Roberts

A woman receiving a vaccination.

How COVID-19 Destroys the Lungs

There is no denying how the year 2020 changed life for billions of people, regardless of factors such as economic level, ethnicity, or religion. The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way people socialize, work, interact, and even buy things. While much has been said and written on the killer virus and its effects on the human ...

Armin Auctor

Doctor with a stethoscope and a hologram of inflamed lungs.

Omicron: What You Need to Know About the New Variant

A new Covid-19 variant labeled “Omicron” was first detected in South Africa on November 9. Since its detection in South Africa, the new variant Omicron has spread to more than two dozen countries, including Hong Kong, Israel, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Australia, the UK, Canada, Germany, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, and South Korea. The United States has also ...

The Snapshot Channel

Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

Lockdown Lessons

Wikipedia describes a lockdown as “a restriction policy for people or community to stay where they are, usually due to specific risks to themselves or to others if they can interact and move freely.”  In November 2020, “lockdown” was declared word of the year by Collins Dictionary — hardly surprising given how many global lockdowns ...

Katrina Hicks

A padlock with a map of the world engraved on it along with the word 'lockdown', sitting on a disposable blue mask.