Tag: 2022-02 Now is the Winter
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Uncertainty
I have come to see uncertainty as a cousin of frailty. As the pandemic emerged the danger it presented was unclear, whether it was simply on the scale of the flu or something more, it was unclear how it spread, whether by touch or by air, and how we might protect ourselves. This lack of…
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Frailty
“Flight 704 from Chicago to Los Angeles will be cancelled unless there is a passenger who can provide the flight crew with a rubber band” — Urban myth announcement at Chicago O’Hare *** I had not thought too deeply about the term vigilance, but as it has emerged as one of the more popular words during…
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Now is the Winter …
“Now is the winter of our discontent…” William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act-I, Scene-I, Line 1 This scourge has carried on for two years, through what feels like a never-ending cycle of lockdowns and isolation, through information wars spawned from within and without, leaving us with uncertainty and doubt. Many are ready to give up. Nearly…
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Isolation
in: Observation
In an earlier post, I assembled a selection of dots connecting an increase in social isolation and certain trends in technology adoption propelled by our tendency to privilege left-brain thinking. Some have noted this trend towards isolation began with the emergence of the mobile phone, around 2008 or so. Now after two years of intermittent…
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The Pandemic: 2 Years Later
We are approaching 2 years. In a post from October 2020, eight months into the pandemic, a time before there was a vaccine, a time when we were still learning about this virus, the death toll for the coming few months was estimated to reach 200,000 in the US. At the time, the US Administration…