I asked my doctor if there is a decent alternative to wearing a respirator to protect yourself and she said yes there is a decent alternative to wearing a respirator to protect yourself: a society …| LibrarianShipwreck
If only I knew how to convince people that they should care about sick cattle and dead birds but I don’t even know how to convince people that they should care about other people. * I’v…| LibrarianShipwreck
* The Plague Poems are an attempt to document the COVID-19 pandemic. The first Plague Poems were posted on Twitter by the account @PlaguePoems on March 16, 2020. Since then, new poems have been pos…| LibrarianShipwreck
“I do not believe that things will turn out well, but the idea that they might is of decisive importance.” – Max Horkheimer librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com @libshipwreck| LibrarianShipwreck
It is said that during the plague the bard wrote King Lear. Perhaps, but how many did not live to see it performed? * When they said “go out” I wanted to stay in. And when they said “stay in” I wan…| LibrarianShipwreck
In the early days of the current pandemic everyone was sharing a map which reassuringly showed the countries best prepared and the countries least prepared for a pandemic but that was long ago now …| LibrarianShipwreck