Editorial

These are unprecedented times. It really is, I asked my parents and they don't remember a global pandemic. I looked at the history books and the last time this had happened was in 1918, when they didn't have social media to make it all worse. In fact, the only reason they called the 1918 pandemic the "Spanish" flu is because Spain was the only country that allowed its press to run the story that the entire world was dying. Other countries just suppressed the dissemination of information which made everything worse.

So wait, things were made worse back then by lack of information, and it's being made worse now by too much information? Well yeah, humans have the beautiful ability to make things up and that's just a game changer if you give everyone the means to attain a broad audience. Like all things, information dissemination requires balance. Alas! It's a difficult balance, like Atlas carrying the world on his shoulders but on a tightrope. We can only feel bad for Atlas, and the weight that he's carrying.