The games have ended and the Olympians have all gone home so now you won’t hear any more about how this or that athlete contracted the virus, no, the games have ended, so now you will only he…| LibrarianShipwreck
My cousin who is heading to college asked for advice, but when I said “wear a mask” she said she’s scared if she does no one will want to be her friend, so I told her if they won&…| LibrarianShipwreck
Please note you must react to plagues in an appropriate manner: when facing the brown plague respond not with fear but with mockery, for fascists hate being laughed at; but when facing a literal pl…| LibrarianShipwreck
When the historians write of this day (and the historians will write of this day) I wonder how many of them will note the announcement was made while he was recovering at home sick with the virus f…| LibrarianShipwreck
I know, my friend, that now, especially now, you are frightened and anxious you are angry and distraught but if you feel you must do something and are unsure of what you should do start by putting …| LibrarianShipwreck
Most of the time when I see a masked face it is only because I have seen my reflection but there are times when I see you all masking and though I am alone I am reminded that I am not really alone.…| LibrarianShipwreck
Only those who suffer from paranoid delusions truly believe that everyone else is out to get them but I must confess that there are days when I am surrounded entirely by unmasked faces and I can…| LibrarianShipwreck
You’ve probably heard that in the summer when someone tells you to put on sunscreen what they are saying is that they care about you. So please hear me when I say that in a pandemic when some…| LibrarianShipwreck
We laugh at horror movies for being unrealistic, faced with so many clear signs of the dangers ahead how unbelievable it is that the characters so blithely proceed yes, we laugh, at those doomed fo…| LibrarianShipwreck
You probably know someone who has lived through a disaster. Or someone who has lived through a car accident. Perhaps even someone who has lived through a cancer diagnosis. But, my friend, you have …| LibrarianShipwreck
“If you fall in love with a machine there is something wrong with your love life. If you worship a machine there is something wrong with your religion.” – Lewis Mumford It …| LibrarianShipwreck
Please, do not worry, though it is behind a mask I promise you that I have not forgotten how to smile yes, I know, I know, I need to find joy but right now I am busy trying to find my way through t…| LibrarianShipwreck
Behind me in the checkout aisle a man in a flag shirt kept asking why I was wearing a mask but I was not listening to him not really anyways because the pharmacy stereo was playing Donna Summer and…| 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
