Chapter 1 Introduction—A.K.A. My Pandemic Story

DOI: 10.4324/9781003267522-1

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy,

not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

—Socrates

I started writing this book as a way to process what I have been through over the course of this pandemic. As a way to understand the magnitude of what we all have been through during this time. However, it has been hard to figure out how to really articulate what the past several years have been like.

On the one hand, I have been in the same boat as many of you. Stuck at home, socially isolated from many of the people and things I love, worried about getting sick or someone I love getting sick, worried about new variants, watching many people (including ...

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