What Oxford is Saying

So on one hand, I feel totally crazy — but on the other, firmer than ever in my conviction that all is not what it seems to be with regard to this COVID situation.

Met up with a writing and production partner of mine at Oxford University this morning, chilled with her until mid-afternoon, talked about a lot of what we’re lining up for our new podcast (which will be really cool, and which I’ll tell you about when we’re clearer on our launch date) — and then talked a lot about China and this virus.

I asked her whether she’d started buying in food, or at least some extra medication. Water. Anything. And she sort of looked at me like I was mad. Her husband, who’s a pretty extraordinary mind, too, came in and didn’t buy what I was selling, either.

I’m sorry, but I just don’t get this. How can we believe it’s no big deal and keep on keeping on with travel and life as usual while watching our governments behaving in such extraordinary ways? It just doesn’t add up.