{"id":520998,"date":"2021-12-17T11:01:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T16:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=520998"},"modified":"2021-12-17T11:01:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T16:01:56","slug":"pandemic-will-end-when-we-turn-off-our-screens-says-the-bmj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=520998","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic Will End When We \u2018Turn Off Our Screens,\u2019 Says The BMJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The pandemic will end when society decides to resume normal life rather than waiting for COVID \u201cdashboards\u201d to register zero cases, said the authors of an article published Tuesday in The BMJ.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPandemic dashboards provide endless fuel for news coverage, ensuring the constant newsworthiness of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender_category\/covid\/\">COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0pandemic, even when the threat is low,\u201d wrote Peter Doshi, Ph.D., The BMJ senior editor, and David Robertson, a Ph.D. candidate in history at Princeton University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn doing so, they might prolong the pandemic by curtailing a sense of closure or a return to pre-pandemic life,\u201d the authors wrote.<\/p>\n<p>A BMJ analysis of the past century showed previous pandemics including the Spanish flu faded away gradually as societies \u201cceased to be all consumed by the pandemic\u2019s shocking metrics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/bmj-covid-pandemic-end-turn-off-screens\/?utm_source=salsa&amp;eType=EmailBlastContent&amp;eId=df192f4d-9d59-42e4-a37d-c40f43499cdf\">https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/bmj-covid-pandemic-end-turn-off-screens\/?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/just-one-more-booster-then-ill-quit-drug-addict.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-520999\" src=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/just-one-more-booster-then-ill-quit-drug-addict-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/just-one-more-booster-then-ill-quit-drug-addict-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/just-one-more-booster-then-ill-quit-drug-addict-145x150.jpg 145w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/just-one-more-booster-then-ill-quit-drug-addict.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pandemic will end when society decides to resume normal life rather than waiting for COVID \u201cdashboards\u201d to register zero cases, said the authors of an article published Tuesday in The BMJ. \u201cPandemic dashboards provide endless fuel for news coverage, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=520998\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}