It's two weeks to the day since US Thanksgiving aka national superspreader day, more than two weeks since T-day outbound travel, less than two weeks since T-day return travel.
There are going to be a lot of actively contagious people around you right now, many of whom will be asymptomatic.
Please, please, please be careful.
There are two non-fiction books that haunt me in the pandemic. The first is The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (originally subtitled The Epic Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History) by John M. Barry, about the 1918-1920 Spanish Flu pandemic.
It has made me feel particularly Cassandra-like in our own pandemic, because we absolutely know how pandemics work, how to manage them, and what goes wrong when we don't. 1/n
