2021 is when lockdown will stop mattering (Interconnected)
First you cope and then you adapt. The kicker: once you adapt, you may not want to go back.
One Year Since The #IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Met In Person And Other Last Times - Tantek
Expect more poignant one-year anniversary memories this March.
We reached our disembarkation stop and stepped off. I put my mask away. We hugged and said our goodbyes. Didn’t think it would be the last time I’d ride MUNI light rail. Or hug a friend without a second thought.
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Didn’t I Write This Story Already? When Your Fictional Pandemic Becomes Reality | Tor.com
Naomi Kritzer published a short story five years ago called So Much Cooking about a food blogger in lockdown during a pandemic. Prescient.
I left a lot of the details about the disease vague in the story, because what I wanted to talk about was not the science but the individuals struggling to get by as this crisis raged around them. There’s a common assumption that if the shit ever truly hit the fan, people would turn on one another like sharks turning on a wounded shark. In fact, the opposite usually happens: humans in disasters form tight community bonds, help their neighbors, offer what they can to the community.
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