Tag: Covid

• The Amity that Wisdom knits not

  The World Health Organization has recently declared the ongoing outbreaks of Mpox in Congo and elsewhere in Africa to be a global emergency, requiring urgent action to curb the virus’ transmission. Will these crises never end? Are we forever destined to experience new untamed diseases ravaging our world? I mean think of Ebola, Zika, SARS, multi-drug…

  gozzter

  August 21, 2024

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  Covid, infectious diseases, masks, vaccines

• I have a kind of alacrity in sinking

  ‘I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed.’ I have always loved that quote. There was a time when I was fond of saying it; I softened its blow by explaining that it was actually an example of clever Shakespearean sarcasm. Unfortunately, I was once challenged by a…

  gozzter

  August 2, 2023

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  Covid, lying, Penny Pexman, public transit, sarcasm, social distancing, the Conversation.com, University of Calgary

• There is flattery in friendship

  I have always admired liminality; for me, boundaries are also thresholds. And yet there are areas where, until recently, only angels dared to tread. But I am content to watch from afar; I have neither the need, nor the desire to trespass; I am content with who I am, but curious about who I am…

  gozzter

  April 26, 2023

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  appearance, Covid, food courts, Gender, jewellery, liminality, non-binary

• Neither here nor there

  I don’t think I’m very good at handling conflicts -I hate confrontation; I prefer the view from the top of the Bell Curve where I can safely watch the goings-on of the extremophiles in their respective antipodes. I suppose that’s why I gravitate to boundaries where, if I’m careful, I’m neither here nor there. This…

  gozzter

  July 21, 2021

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  categories, Covid, face masks, history, in-groups, Marek Kohn, out-groups, pandemic, physical-distancing, The Lord of the Flies, them, us, victors, virus