Now’s Not a Good Time to Get Hurt
An Accident in the Time of COVID-19 There are no good times to get hurt, but some times are worse As in, during a pandemic that affects the entire health care system. Due to a most wretched adventure a little over…
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Analyze This
Would you, could you, interpret my latest COVID dream? At least, I’m pretty sure it’s a COVID dream There’s nothing directly about coronavirus in it, but dreamland is a notoriously indirect and tricksy place. Let’s just say I suspect this…
Mastering The Trick of Balance In a Time of Crisis
3 Keys: stamina, perspective and time travel Two months is a long time to sustain fear If you’re not someone who is living in an active war zone, a refugee camp, or prison, this is the first time your life has…
Reopening Schools
When the Kids Come Back One of the pandemic’s greatest casualties is the school year The California public middle school where I work held its last day of classes, ironically enough, on Friday, March 13. We didn’t know that at the…
Meanwhile, What’s Happened to Heart Attacks?
There is a drastic decrease in heart attack and stroke since the pandemic hit — maybe Judging by hospital admissions, it looks that way. Stories in news outlets including the New York Times, the U.K.’s Daily Mail and California’s Sacramento Bee describe…