Category: System

Nightmares come in themes.

Feeling chased  and chased-by-an-animal remain popular with most dreamers.

My demented dreams make me run away in slow motion.

Death, dying, and falling are common also.

Naked at a party, writing an exam for a course you did not take, and finding out that you are still one credit short for graduation haunt students. Your diploma is a fraud!

Doctors’ Nightmares

Doctors add medical variations to the themes.

I often show up for an emergency shift and cannot find the charts. The electronic tracking board is out of focus and in Arabic. The overhead page mumbles my name.

I am surrounded by nurses whose names I cannot remember; wandering in corridors that lead outside or into boardrooms; and seeing patients who frown and vomit.

Wait a second. Was I asleep?

In real life, doctors fear Continue reading “Doctors’ Nightmares & CPSO Reviews (Not a COVID Post)”

Calling out from quarantine. If Newton could accomplish his best work in his 20s during the Black Death, then I have no excuse to not finish my book. Neither do you.

But I am no Newton.

What we lack in talent, we make up with effort.

So, I have been in front of a screen by 0715 each day for the last month. Bum gets sore by supper and forces me to walk around a bit. An evening shift of editing and reading other people’s stuff inspires me to do better the next day.

I look forward to sunrise with coffee and keyboard. So much for sabbatical. Or is it a real one after all?

Here’s an article I wrote for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute: How We Got in a COVID-19 Fix and How to Start to Get Out.

Actually, with is more accurate. I wrote it with them. They are brilliant. It made the cover feature for March, Inside Policy.

And here is an interview I did in the olden days pre-COVID, a few weeks ago. Second Street is a good organization. They focus on people first to influence policy.

Please forgive my Bob and Doug McKenzie pose for the opening shot. It took years to perfect.

Continue reading “COVID, Quarantine, and an Interview About Medicare”

Social distancing will save us from COVID-19. Who knew?

Stay home. Cancel parties. Why not cancel the whole NBA season and all flights from Europe too?

Grab your laptop. Hide out alone or with a few family members. Shoot, why not dig through all those books you wanted to read?

Revenge of the Introverts

Death, stock market mayhem, and global infections of COVID-19 are not funny. But it does seem odd that it took so long for us to realize that jamming ourselves into crowds with little ventilation is a bad idea.

Extroverts are suffering PTSD, desperate to get out their 25,000 words per day and feel the closeness of another human.

Introverts finally get guilt-free time alone to finish some work.

Globalists are stressed. The last serious pandemic the world saw — the Spanish Flu — came from global travel after the Great War.

But we are smarter now. Infections cannot spread as easily on airplanes. And we have stronger soaps. And better ventilators when people stop breathing. Bring it on. The world is ready for COVID-19 and pandemic globalism. Continue reading “COVID-19, Social Distancing & Introverts”