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…
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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…
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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…
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Isolation
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…
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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…
