What to Do When You Have COVID

1. Read Widely; Read a Lot

I’m back after a rather unpleasant dance with the devil—COVID. “It’s not if you’ll get COVID but when,” the experts say, and evidently, I had a date with the disease, which was a rather mild date as it turns out and one I’d rather not endure again.

During my time in quarantine, I took the advice of Dr. Ruth J. Simmons to heart: “I’m much less convinced than many others that there is a prescriptive list of books that you must read. I’m more convinced that it is the readin...