So now it's the Delta variant working its havoc. It fills ICUs. It evokes dismal recollections of the time nearly a year and a half ago when we first struggled to understand what was happening to our once-familiar world. It confronts us once more with the question: how many times do we got to do … [Read more...]
Of Viruses and Martians – John M. Barry’s “The Great Influenza”
John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History. Viking Press, 2004. It's hard reviewing a book you haven't read. That remains true even if you have heard the entire book read aloud as an audiobook, listening to it on an iPod as you took the early … [Read more...]
A UFO “Epidemic”? – “Extraterrestrial Vampires” and the Coronavirus
The answer, in my opinion, is no. The question, in case you've forgotten, is the one I posed at the end of my blog post two weeks ago. "Shall we speak of an 'epidemic' of chupa chupas, vampire-like 'suckers' that rise from the sea and attack from the sky," as a model for understanding the spate … [Read more...]
