During measles outbreaks, authorities debate whether deaths should be counted as caused "by" or only occurring "with" measles, echoing pandemic-era COVID discussions. Death certificates use a causal chain approach where the underlying initiating condition is listed as the cause, regardless of the immediate mechanism like cardiac arrest, allowing infections to be properly attributed even when complications occur.
Writer Mike Mariani explores the widespread perception that time is moving faster than in previous decades, particularly since the Covid pandemic. He documents how this conviction has shifted from introspection to alarm across all age groups, appearing in online forums and everyday conversation, while examining whether something fundamental has changed in how humans gauge the passage of time.