With all the important things going on in the world that people might really want or should be informed about, Forbes felt it within their priorities to publish an article explaining that English (a Germanic language) may result in greater disease spread because it’s more “spitty”. This one did not achieve a higher score because I didn’t bother to read the underlying research [because I do have all kinds of better things to do with my time]. It’s plausible that there is a small positive correlation between language spoken and viral transmission, making it perhaps the 483,733rd most important variable in the grand facade of public health—somewhere between how frozen fish sticks are handled and exactly how much time gets spent on ideology, trading off with statistics, in pursuit of the median public health degree.