Obligatory COVID-19 post
In the last few months I've had the distinct and unique experience that literally every other living human being on Earth has had: there is a global pandemic, the likes of which most people living have never experienced before. The current death count in my country recently passed 20k, a number both so large as to be meaningless on a personal level, and yet so small compared to the whole population, it's still almost possible to think maybe this isn't that serious. By historical epidemic proportions, these are small numbers, but by modern standards, we are really doing a horrible job of handling this. Twenty thousand families now have a gaping, irreplaceable hole. And there will be so much more death to come. Like climate change or a toothache, we tried to ignore the problem for so long that it no longer matters if we make every possible change instantaneously, the impact will still roll over us like a melting glacier sliding down a hill. However, this post is not about...
