It is a debated question, so, if there are different opinions, there are good reasons not to wear masks, so why bother? Here are a few reasons why you should better wear masks. The World Health Organization changed its guidelines some time ago and now recommends to wear masks in public places. I guess WHO […]
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The Musée d’Orsay (pronounced mjuːzeɪ dɔːrˈseɪ) is one of principal art museums not only in Paris but in the whole world. It is also the main world’s museum for pieces of impressionist and post-impressionist art. Using the Google Arts & Culture project, here you can see nearly 300 masterpieces of Van Gogh, Renoir, Manet, Cézanne, Degas
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According to new research of physicians, skin rash may be another first symptom of coronavirus. To remind, the most common symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, fatigue, a dry cough, body aches, loss of appetite, shortness of breath and mucus or phlegm. Less common coronavirus symptoms include headache, sore throat, chills, loss of smell or taste,
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People are very tired of quarantine measures and need to work, to get their regular health treatment, to go to beauty saloons after all. Businesses and countries’ economies suffer much from each day of the quarantine. So governments are very keen on easing the restrictions. From the other side, easing the restrictions means more contacts
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The World Health Organization changed its recommendations on when and how to use masks against COVID-19 yesterday. Previously it recommended to wear masks only to those who are ill as it saw no evidence that masks can protect healthy people. Now it recommends to wear masks in places where it is difficult to keep the
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As Joseph Addison said, “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body”. We now have more spare time than we usually have, so why not spend a part of it on reading a good book? And if you don’t have a queue of books on your bookshelf that you already plan to
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Another popular entertainment that can have more demand these days. BroadwayHD, a subscription service, offers streaming recordings of live Broadway stage performances. There are lots and lots of them, including Romeo and Juliette with Orlando Blum, Salomé with Al Pacino and Jessica Chastain, Macbeth with Patrick Stewart, as well as Webber’s Cats, The Phantom of
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A month ago I wrote about records of performances of Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper) that are available for free in good quality on the Internet: https://dmitryexplores.com/2020/05/03/vienna-state-operas-performances/. A new month has started, and a new calendar of performances that are to be demonstrated daily is now available. You can watch such famous operas as Boris
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For different people chances to die from the coronavirus vary from less than 1% to 25% or even more. It depends most of all on age, chronic deceases and sex. There are several calculators on the Internet that will calculate chances to die based on your personal data. For a substantial number of people chances
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