...but get over it, don’t let it dominate your life more than it needs to. Stop the constant reading about it, stop compulsively checking... stop saturating your mind with it.

if you don’t remember life before and life after this pandemic, your view of the world will be fundamentally different... this is the closing event-of-formation for Gen Z

...the right answer is to not bank on any particular scenario, try to be prepared for all of it and try to be flexible and accepting of the fact that flexibility is the only real way to be prepared…

It’s a necessary suspension of disbelief, and it must be widespread, ideally universal, and it’s hard to achieve that. And it’s not hard to understand why some people would question it…

I have to accept that there’s nothing I’m going to read about the pandemic in the next half-day that will make a difference in our situation or change the way I should use this day.…

…this pandemic that’s about to sweep across us is something we’ll talk with our grandchildren about, and the observations that capture now, in real time, are the ones that will be most valid…

I’m thinking of this as a wake-up call for some of us, as a dry run or dress rehearsal for others, and as a good trigger reason for all of us to figure out just how we handle things, how we should handle things