@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] And just like that, it’s all over — kind of. Within a couple of days of each other, both England (just England initially that was, not the other UK nations) and, more shockingly, a heretofore extremely...
En Colombia, las pruebas caseras de Covid-19 no tienen autorización de venta libre, pero son una alternativa que se suma a las vacunas, el distanciamiento social y el uso de tapabocas. Estas pruebas de autodiagnóstico que no requieren formula medica han tenido una experiencia...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Thanks to a means-tested health system and with my parents — seven children in tow — deemed too well off to receive government assistance, the idea of going to the doctor for the slightest — and...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] To borrow from John Lennon — and many others besides — another year is almost over and a new one is about to begin. Hitchens hit This is always an apt time for reflection, for taking stock of one’s...
La pandemia del COVID-19 nos afectó de una u otra forma, bien sea con la pérdida de un ser querido, la afectación a la salud física, mental o emocional, o el cierre de un negocio. En este último caso, el dolor implica despedir empleados, entregar locales y endeudarse para...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Much has been written about various «new normals» in our lives in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic. The enforced pause on people’s modus operandi has led many to re-evaluate their situation. Getting...
Por: María Camila Bernal G. Colombia es un paraíso de contradicciones. Un gobierno que trabaja y vela por el bien de un 2% de la sociedad, mientras que deja en el olvido al 98% de los ciudadanos. Cerca de terminar el 2021, los niños se preparan porque deberán retornar a la...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] When it comes to explaining my continued reluctance to get the Sars-CoV-2 vaccine to those who have no issue with it, it’s like we’re on a different plain, nay planet, altogether. Where I see the...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Earlier this month, the UK’s Daily Telegraph reported that accidents at London Tube stations have increased because some passengers are too afraid to hold onto the escalator handrails. This is apparently...
En 2019, un año antes de la pandemia, Daniel Rodríguez Barrón publicó Retrato de mi madre con perros, una novela breve en la que describe a la gente con cubrebocas y guantes de látex, «hurgando como ratones en su teléfono». El Gobierno ha decretado una peste, «un virus cuyo nombre era una combinación de letras […]
