pandemic

Several months into the coronavirus pandemic, we still don't have a good understanding of SARS-CoV-2. The often contradictory information we get from scientists and public health officials reflects this.

As I mentioned previously, I've been marooned in Poland for a few months due to the coronavirus pandemic. Poland, along with several other Eastern European countries, implemented a very severe lockdown.

"Now is the winter of our discontent," begins Richard III, one of Shakespeare's most famous plays.

Thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown, pornography use is up. But that's not what is meant by the term "pandemic porn."

The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has been the source of never-ending surprises, all of which have been very bad.

The novel coronavirus, officially dubbed SARS-CoV-2, and the disease it causes (COVID-19) have continued to surprise all of us. And the surprises have been uniformly negative.

Despite COVID-19 being a public health crisis, we have politicized our understanding of the disease.

As of today, the American death toll from COVID-19 stands at more than 69,000, according to Johns Hopkins.

DAY 1 Was it just last winter when we left the New Year's Eve party in a snit because we couldn't dance to the music selected by the "younger group" living in our retirement community?

This article was originally published at Geopolitical Futures. The original is here.