9 May

Uncomfortable truths we don't want to hear. Colds and flus are declining at the moment, while we're in partial lockdown. Rather than see infectious diseases as interruptions to normal life, we're not seeing that our normal life creates them. The disease isn't cold, flu or Covid-19, it's mass gatherings and mass mobility (travel). Quarantine is also seen as an interruption to normal life. Why we call it 'lockdown'. But it's actually pointing us to the 'new normal', much less mobility, much less gathering. I doubt we're listening, we're compiling our top 10 albums, waiting to get back to those planes and gigs. Big truths need death to make them sink in. Even science progresses one funeral at a time, as Planck said. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-10/annika-wells-first-twin-pregnancy-mp-future-of-work/12231354