Y2020

April 4, 2020

I haven’t written anything in awhile. I think I’ve just been too bummed about what’s happening in the world to write. There’s not a ton of new information… it’s just the numbers and the qualitative experience of living in 2020 that is difficult. Seeing refrigerated morgue trucks parked next to every…

March 26, 2020

The future is here.

The US overtook both China and Italy in number of confirmed cases today. This was expected. Trump’s refusal to allow the CDC to test in the early days played out exactly as we knew it would and the US is now the latest epicenter. To be fair, however, the…

March 17, 2020

Can I just pause the world for a few days and have a vacation?

Anyways… what’s new:

• Cuomo tells New York City to brace for a “shelter-in-place” order within 48 hours.
• The ratio of masks to non-masks when I look out the window…

March 16, 2020

Well today was interesting. I think today will be remembered as the turning point — the moment that the US went from a pandemic…

March 15, 2020

I think the US is finally woke. Pretty much every public school in the country at this point is closed. New York city finally closed its public schools a few hours ago. I think it’s only a matter of days (or hours, maybe) until all bars, restaurants, and gyms will get closed too — an action that…

March 13, 2020

Things are pretty scary out there. But I also, finally, am seeing the world starting to wake up and take this seriously. Unfortunately it’s too late and I believe the US will likely be at least as bad as Wuhan and Italy, and more than likely much worse.

March 9, 2020

I’m starting to form an anxiety of checking the news in the morning. I wish things would just stabilize. Instead it’s like I go to bed knowing things will be worse, day after day, to wake up proven right but to find that things are even worse than I thought they would be.

March 3, 2020

Another day in the life.

As predicted, we’ve started to see some positive tests and community spread. We saw our first community spread in NYC and one in Raleigh, NC today. It was expected, but it’s terrifying just the same. Lots more in Washington, which seems to be emerging…

March 2, 2020

Today was the calm before the storm. Or maybe the eye of the storm is a better analogy — they say the wind stops and the blue sky comes out when you’re in the eye of a hurricane, before the second part of the storm finishes.