Fear is an Emotion. Risk is a Statistic. What we fear is typically not based on risk per se; as a species, we rarely fear things in proportion to their riskiness. For whatever reason we are hardwired to ignore commonplace risks but fear novel or dramatic ones. Two examples of dramatic fears: Dying in an […]

With this third entry I’m going to steer (somewhat) away from the Covid portion of this category’s title and more toward the topic of Social Discourse. Social discourse is not synonymous with social media, of course, but these days social media probably makes up the largest portion of it, at least if you’re counting volume […]

I promised in my first blog in the category “Social Discourse in the Age of Covid” I’d look at a “constellation” of factors, with the idea that understanding the cultural impact of Covid-19 is a multi-faceted endeavor. So let’s talk about “science.” The Washington State plan for reopening the local economy, sports and the arts […]

This is a brand new category in my Author blog, and certainly one that I could not have predicted even six months ago. Covid-19. The coronavirus. With the introduction of several of my blog categories, I’ve begun with an Apologia. A justification for my choice to write on the subject. There are a lot of […]