What I'm Writing: 2024, Year of Hard Truth?
Hi everyone,
I hope the New Year has been treating you well. There is so much happening in the world, and the news can give you whiplash. One of the things I'm noticing is more prominent challenges to the pretense that the pandemic is over and that Covid-19 is harmless. This extends to other newsworthy topics. 2024, it seems, will be the year of hard truth.
I've been working on a new collection of essays: Welcome to the Zombie Apocalypse: Notes on Collapse from the Covid-19 Pandemic. Culture and art have been my main lenses for the work. However, I follow "hard" Covid-19 news and even made friends with a biorisk consultant along the way. It's shaped my perspective on the pandemic and made the misinformation in mainstream news clear to me. In what may come as a surprise, it's the business press (Forbes, Bloomberg, Financial Times, etc.) that are doing the best job of distilling dense scientific materials and discussing the risks Covid-19 poses.
In some of my discussions with other Covid conscious folks, how to communicate what we've learned to others is a major topic. I believe my essays make a strong contribution. Art, culture and how we interact with them reflect societal changes in ways numbers and charts cannot. However, these kinds of reflections don't provide much practical advice. In addition, appeals to ethics and altruism haven't caught on to spur mitigating the spread of the disease. My conclusion: more "LinkedIn speak" around competitive advantage is necessary.
I have a background in public health and decided to tap more into this skill set and write practical pieces that may help some people fill in the blanks left by legacy media.
Here's what I've written so far:
Are You Protecting Your Brain from Covid-19
Did You Know That Covid-19 is SARS?
If You Work With Elite Athletes, Covid-19 Mitigation Should Be a Top Priority
I'll be sharing more culture essays and practical information about Covid-19 in the coming weeks and months.
Thanks for reading!
Kitanya