Tag: COVID-19
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2021 year-in-review: Another year we basically have to remember but may end up forgetting anyway
Before last year, whenever I thought of 1918, I thought of World War I. Mass bloodshed is rather memorable, even if it wasn’t your time. I always knew of the Spanish flu, but I was never too interested in life during a plague. And now that we are living through our own, I am more…
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Covid-19, hygiene theater, and the United States of Amnesia
Hygiene theater is not the—or even a—reason Covid-19 has hurt and killed so many Americans. The virus was novel and vicious, our government (like others) responded incompetently. Experts blundered, then battled their organizations’ mishaps. Yet even though hygiene theater may have had a negligible effect on disease prevention, it continuously wasted time and resources and, in the process, exposed the rotten pathology of American…
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2020 year-in-review: A year we basically have to remember
At the beginning of the year, I ran into a colleague in the elevator and asked about his New Year’s. He said it went fine and well, but that he was worried about coronavirus. Ah, I said, it’s nothing, just a headline from across the globe, and anyway these things are always overblown. In mid-February,…
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Why I’m starting my blog, which is not about coronavirus, during coronavirus
COVID-19 is born It is quite the time to start a blog. COVID-19 is rampaging through the human race, and I live in New York, the current U.S. epicenter, though I am not near any of the hospitals that have been saturated with COVID-19 patients. I know people who are, and when they walk outside…
Nathan Schiller 