Day 19 – Total confirmed cases in US: 245,601 “We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” Albert Einstein The reckoning is here. Dylan’s hard rain is pelting the fuck out of us. What we could have done to stop it doesn’t matter now. It will again at someContinue reading “Day 19”
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Day 17
Day 17 – Total confirmed cases in US: 189,633 The nightmare we wake up to this April Fool’s Day is no joke. If it were, the joke would be on us. An ordinary imbecile is at least aware of his own stupidity, but our president is no ordinary imbecile. As he does on every subject,Continue reading “Day 17”
Day 16
Day 16 – Total confirmed cases in US: 164,719 I know I’m not the only one who finds it hard to read a book these days. It’s hard to concentrate on literature, even though the distraction of getting lost in an imaginary world sounds incredibly sweet right now. Someone I know suggested reading poetry asContinue reading “Day 16”
Day 7
Day 7 – Total confirmed cases in US: 26,747 The numbers have septupled in less than a week. The opportunity to “flatten the curve” has passed and we won’t know for a while how successful our social distancing has been. Welcome to the first weekend without restaurants, bars, theaters, and zoos. In keeping with ourContinue reading “Day 7”
Day 4
Day 4 – Total confirmed cases in US: 9,415 Today is the first day of Spring. It is also two weeks since I went to work so I am a little ahead of the shelter-in-place curve. There are good things that will come of this. They will be heavily outweighed by the bad but theyContinue reading “Day 4”
