Covid Musings

Monalisa, Mona Lisa, Mask, PaintingProbable matrimonial ad during Covid…
Lifelong Covid negative girl seeks lifelong Covid negative boy. Boy should believe in masks and vaccines. He should have special lockdown skills like cooking, washing dishes and housekeeping. Separate TVs a must in the house for OTT.

How we will count the years from now on…
____-2018: BC (Before Covid)
2019: Year 0
2020: Year 1
2021: Year 2

Is this the New Normal…
Annual scares.
Annual waves.
Annual lockdowns.
Annual vaccinations.
Annual confusion.

Written more than a 100 years back, EM Forster’s short story “The Machine Stops” (1909) talks of an “omnipotent global machine” which takes care of all of mankind’s “bodily and spiritual needs” (The Internet? AI?). People largely message each other all the time. Communication is perfect and transportation nears zero. Most of the human population socially distance themselves and live permanently below the ground in a standardized room in the short story.
Could we be heading to something like that?
Even science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, who got many predictions right, has his Robotic Trilogy showing humankind escaping underground away from the open air of Earth.

2020 goals…
To be alive, healthy and working by the end of the year.
2021 goals…
same as above.