Not much to add today, readers, so just a quick announcement about the future, see below.
Announcement - don't even think about it
Big announcement, folks - God help anyone who forwards me anything claiming to describe 'lessons learned' from the COVID-19. This applies for the first year after I finish my next Guinness at a bar. Further, this ban applies to TED Talks for the rest of my life.
If you haven't guessed, I am dreading the flood of pop science books, six-part podcast series, and seventeen thousand word 'think' pieces about this pandemic. I'm sure several such publications are imminent, but count me out, out, out! Corona has the two key ingredients for future time-wasting content - the audience already knows the basics yet the specifics remain vague. Therefore, writers or speakers will feel licensed to say anything they damn well please about COVID-19, which essentially makes it the equivalent of reality TV. No, thank you.
So, just to be clear - I don't care if the virus is related to the marshmallow test, or the trolley problem. I don't care if Michael Lewis interviews six people that most people will pretend to have heard of about the virus. I don't care if the Apollo program, Netflix's corporate office, and the first-ever rugby team share some hidden quality that proved essential to fighting back the virus. I don't care if the virus is a metaphor for vulnerability. I don't care if some loser rode Blue Bikes every day during the virus and wrote about it on Blogger. DO NOT send me recommendations to these future books, talks, or programs.
Please.
Thank you in advance.
