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Dr. Robin’s Covid Updates
Social Dilemmas in the Age of Covid
Staying safe with science-based decisions
As we approach our first Winter With Covid there is increasing anxiety about a) how on earth we are going to survive months of being stuck much more often much more inside and and b) whether this epidemic will ever end.
The first issue I totally get, totally, in my heart and soul: the specter of a long cold mostly indoor winter ….. very very tough.
The second I am much more confident about because over and over — throughout all of history — All Epidemics Always End.
(More poetic version: “Every storm runs out of rain.” )
Some epidemics end because a virus vanishes or mutates or fades away, and some epidemics end because of science. This one, I’m betting, will end because of science.
Covid science isn’t straightforward, and there’s been some confusing moments along the way.
But I heard a great quote on TWIV the other day.
[For the uninitiated, TWIV is “This Week in Virology,” a fantastic YouTube podcast about “Viruses: The Kind That Make You…
