Partying Through a Pandemic (The Supplement, Cont.)

Im continuing my COVID supplement to The Book of Waking Up. If youd like to support this project, signup for my Substack. (And follow the tags below to read the full series.)

2. The Responses to the New Demon

In the earliest hours of the New Demons dawn, the people gathered around office coffee machines, stopped in stocked toilet-paper aisles, and yammered around lunch tables. We became prognosticators and predictors, pandemic forecasters. We created narratives, and those narratives were much...