Seems Over Now
The pandemic feels mostly in the rearview mirror. It was approximately 30 months of the most extraordinary government intervention to stave off a larger disaster by embracing the lesser disaster. You couldn't say we weren't warned because there have been any number of pandemic stories in the last 50 years. Some of them have made great movies. They all end up with overwhelmed hospitals and corpses piled up on the streets somewhere. It was shocking it happened in places like NYC, but that chaos is exactly what we all collectively lived through on this planet.
The virus is still around but governments have now told us to go back to work and pretend like it's not there. Or to pretend it's like the flu - just another respiratory disease in the population. Of course we'd feel better about it if the thing didn't have the potential to mutate back into a killer. Governments are too keen to make out like the virus has gone endemic and become milder. The science of it says otherwise - it's much too soon for that to happen. Even the Spanish Flu epidemic 100 years ago took half a decade to wind down. We're only halfway trough year 3. Even with the amazing vaccines that have come into play so quickly, there's no statistical reason Coronavirus has evolved into a less harmful endemic organism.
But for now, we're not going to do lockdowns any more unless you're in China. In some ways the lockdown and hitting the great pause button had its upside. I got to spend a lot of time re-mixing things and got 18 months ahead in the scheme of things. Going forwards, I will have less time to tool around with the music thing so it feels like it was a blessing to be able to just delve deeply. I guess if I were Robert Fripp, I would write something like "the drive to 2026 continues" or some such nonsense. In most part the schedule is intact in spite of the aggravations of this year.
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