The Plague-Ground – More Money Than Brains
But oh, what very big brains they have. Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci are the scientists whose company, BioNTech, is partnering with Pfizer to produce
November 13, 2020
August 9, 2021
Tags: pandemic
The Plague-Ground – Survival of the friendliest
Now is the weekend of our discontent. Cases are spiking, leaves are falling, the wind is up, the market’s down – and organizing coffee is
October 30, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – Do you suffer from Friend Fatigue?
If Zoom Fatigue is what happens when you spend too much time with other people (often strangers) on the screen, what do you call spending
September 7, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – Two voices, not in the wilderness, crying.
This past week, two Canadian writers penned breathtaking pieces that insist you stop, read, think, set them aside, then read again in a couple of
August 10, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – Is the cavalry coming?
The fate-of-humankind question isn’t “When will a vaccine arrive?” It’s also: “Who will take the vaccine?” Two things happened last week to help us answer
July 27, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – Summer cleaning
My laptop is groaning with articles, videos, and the wave of “stuph” that lands every day from friends who say: “Must see this!” And I
July 6, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – Are airplanes our next long-term care residences?
Last week a passenger on a WestJet flight from Toronto to Halifax tested positive for COVID-19 after it landed. This prompted the Nova Scotia Health
July 6, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – Yearning to breathe free
It’s Christmas. The vaccine is working, as are most of us. Much is calm. Much is bright. Mainly because Joe Biden won the Presidency a
July 3, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – It’s an “and-and” thing.
Toronto is one of the last places in North America still largely closed by the pandemic. Good. Because saving our lives or saving our economy
June 18, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – What We Didn’t Know
Today is 13 weeks exactly since millions of us were told not to come back to our offices and stay home. Three months exactly. One
June 12, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – The Rise of the Online Intellectual
There’s a flood of online courses, experts and self-improvers out there, all vying for time on my screen and my day. Frankly, I’m exhausted from
June 11, 2020
August 9, 2021
The Plague-Ground – Why can’t I read anymore?
I haven’t read a book in well over a year. Sure, I dip into books, extracting what I need for work. Often and ironically, this
June 1, 2020
August 9, 2021
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