A Novel Virus and Insidious Ice Floes

The COVID-19 pandemic made our lives rigid and frozen. Now (maybe) those jagged edges will begin to melt.

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Before any lockdowns, mask mandates, even before the spread of SARS-CoV-2 was labeled a pandemic, I’d paid attention. From the first mention I came across on Twitter, early in January 2020, describing an epidemic of infections from a mysterious virus, I searched for as much detail as I could…