
Jeremy Bennett
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Jeremy Bennett
@driftingtides
Doctor of the (ground)waterly sciences, former demi-semi-professional musician. All bad takes my own.












Because we didn't just have clean water for a few yrs, & then decide when infections re-emerged that exposure to pathogens was a good thing! We learned that water sanitation had huge benefits in terms of public health and should be maintained continuously. Same with clean air.

This Lexis plot depicting UK mortality across the 20th century is wild. I had no idea cohort effects (diagonal 'scars') were so strong. Events like the 1918 flu led to not only high annual mortality, but an increase in mortality across one's lifetime. HT: @salonium's newsletter.






I love this video from RIKEN in Japan. It models the flow of exhaled air in various different settings under different conditions. As well as the flow patterns being very beautiful, it also highlights the importance of good quality masks (FFP2/FFP3) twitter.com/la_resistensia…



