Category: COVID

If we lived in a world where acting on a false belief led quickly to one’s death, most humans would be methodical about choosing their beliefs. As it stands, we have a number of mental weaknesses that make us vulnerable to nonsense notions. It takes training and mental discipline to overcome them, and then never…

What a loss it is that high-school seniors this year won’t have a graduation ceremony. This is really the only rite of passage in American culture, and all they get is a bag with some stuff in it. IMHO, part of healing from COVID should be to have belated ceremony some time in the near…

We’re back home from Bunker Hill. Hoping we didn’t pick up Corona along the way. Now I must wait 14 days before going back to work, though the chances of work actually being open in 14 days are a bit unclear. Strictly speaking, I should self-quarantine for the next 2 weeks, but I hope to…

Well, the Corona Apocalypse has suddenly gotten a lot more real in Albuquerque. With 6 confirmed cases, the governor decided to close schools for the next 3 weeks. At my job there is talk of asking everyone to work from home. We were taking bets today on whether that would happen by Monday or not.…