Sunday 7 March 2021, 14:39
I don't remember exactly when I made a specific decision to start serious
anti-COVID precautions, but it was very close to one year ago today. I work
from home and I don't take all that many trips elsewhere anyway, so it's hard
to say that a given day is exactly when I started "staying home" if I
normally wouldn't have gone out the day before or after it anyway. I
started keeping a near-daily journal on March 10. Here are some notes,
going month by month.
Sunday 2 August 2020, 18:33
The word "reckoning" came up a lot in discussions of the COVID-19
pandemic, especially early on as the world just started to realize the scale
of the problem. I've seen a lot of people grimly commenting that "there
will be a reckoning for this" in response to things like media dismissal of
early warnings, followed by later media endorsement of exactly the positions
they had earlier mocked. I've made such comments myself. It's human nature
to hope for a reckoning, but at this point I don't think it's rational to
expect one.
