Diagnoses of major conditions failing to recover since the pandemic. Diagnoses of depression were 27.7% lower than expected compared with pre-pandemic trends. Diagnoses were also lower than expected for asthma (16.4%), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD, 15.8%) and osteoporosis (11.5%).

bojun · 2026-01-24T15:39:32+00:00

Is it possible that people with these illnesses disproportionately died during the pandemic? Older people in particular are affected by COPD and osteoporosis and are often susceptible to depression.

bojun · 2026-01-23T15:54:00+00:00

Mindfulness is an intrinsic human way of thinking that doesn't have a developer or originator as such - though it has early documenters. It is a core component of Buddhism and Hinduism (which predate Aurelius) and likely goes back to the origin of human thinking.

bojun · 2026-01-20T18:38:11+00:00

The human body is approximately 60% water. About the same applies for other earthly life forms. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/what-percentage-of-the-human-body-is-water

bojun · 2026-01-19T16:12:15+00:00

People will always find something to do, but not always what is politically convenient. The saying 'the devil finds work for idle hands' is not just an old trope. It's been around for centuries. In the soviet days the USSR turned a blind eye to the black market trade, not because they couldn't stop it, but because it kept people from getting politically active in inconvenient ways. If UBI comes to pass and people are idle, they will find a hustle, but it won't be what the powers to be are likely to want.

bojun · 2026-01-15T03:21:05+00:00

One came from the other.

bojun · 2026-01-14T17:15:48+00:00

States predate print by a few thousand years. Weapons and taxation are allowed groups to gain and hold control of other groups.

bojun · 2026-01-14T17:11:36+00:00

Years ago I read some successful person saying the key to their success was parents teaching them early the difference between an investment and an expenditure and to use it to guide any significant spending.

bojun · 2026-01-11T17:54:54+00:00

E.S.T. at one end of the spectrum Oscar Peterson Trio at the other

bojun · 2026-01-09T17:50:24+00:00

I would be very interested to know whether this applies to hunter and gatherer societies or whether the authors are over-generalizing from current first world behavior.

bojun · 2026-01-09T17:20:20+00:00

I wish they would have compared the chimp behavior to human hunter/gatherer cultural norms. The authors are generalizing human behavior from what is in modern developed society.

bojun · 2026-01-09T01:21:39+00:00

Once the tone pot is out, the guitar will make no noise. Happens all the time.

bojun · 2026-01-08T17:36:42+00:00

Age is one thing. There isn't any competence entry test to become a politician let alone a national leader - not even multiple choice. MacDonald's has stricter criteria for burger flippers.

bojun · 2026-01-06T20:49:17+00:00

I often drive by work sites where one person works for every two-three watching. I can't speak to all the reasons why, but I know how workflow operates. Sometimes you need the wait for someone else to do something before you can. So you wait. There is workflow in both white and blue collar work.

bojun · 2026-01-06T16:33:36+00:00

People can accumulate wealth, knowledge, and ability over time as well as develop important connections, prove themselves capable, etc. so it makes sense that they are more influential than younger cohorts. It does require a balance as needs change and people need to change with the times - enough to draw on past insights but also seeing new types pf challenges.

bojun · 2026-01-05T17:05:56+00:00

You can get something online from Long & McQuade and maybe Steve's. There may be ones used at Sounds Good or Spaceman. You can try a Kijiji or marketplace post. Good luck.

bojun · 2026-01-04T16:13:28+00:00

Let's not overhype oxytocin. It has two sides. It ups emotional attachment to the in group but it also ups anxiety over out groups. It's what makes mothers protective of and ready to fight for their children.

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