on Corona

Index of posts

  • The end of Corona (May 6, 2023)
    I first mused about the end of the Corona epoch (a.k.a “COVID-19") two years ago. I did it again a year ago. In both cases I took into account both…
  • Local controls of mask (not) wearing (April 8, 2022)
    Nurse to other nurses (in a health care setting where nurses and patients must wear masks, but where the “office” staff, also nurses, do not consistently do); “I do not…
  • Modeling acting bureaucracies (August 16, 2021)
    Balzac was one of the first writers to make bureaucracy the subject of serious fiction, notably ..., where he takes the un-Kafkaesque delight in its lumbering procedures. As he shows…
  • A coda on Corona and governmentality (July 11, 2021)
    A while ago I mused about the ending of the Corona epoch. Many parts of the world are now in transition towards this ending. As usual various governments, and subgovernments,…
  • on the ages of Corona (January 18, 2021)
    The peak Corona epoch is ending. This may be deemed optimistic if one only listens to the New York Times or NBC. It is not that optimistic if one extrapolates…
  • Transporting school into home (October 14, 2020)
    I rarely I find a New York Times analysis that echoes something I wrote. On October 1, 2020, Carina Chocano did just that in a piece  on “Distance learning, with…
  • Motivations as causes? (September 3, 2020)
    Six months into Corona, I “decided” to get tested for the virus I label 'C19.' I had no symptoms but, off the top of my head, I’d say that I…
  • Ongoing local culturings of Corona (August 12, 2020)
    In my last post, I asked readers to marvel at the multiplicity of institutional responses to similar triggers. It is by now (late July 2020) famous that governors changed their…