Author: Oona Tempest

“I think pro-vaxxers and anti-vaxxers are both just trying to protect their kid. A lot of that stems from a place of fear on both

“What we’re seeing is that the virus is evolving in similar ways, in many different parts of the world. And I think that to us,

I had been assuming that that my life and everyone’s lives and would get closer to normal, and people wouldn’t be dying so much, in

“When you interact with nature in specific ways, there are very unpredictable and weird mechanisms by which pathogens might be able to move between species.”

“There’s something wrong with this system. It doesn’t make any sense. I started doing a lot of research with tipping and I was like, okay.

“This [pandemic] is not a one-time disaster, this is not like where something awful happens and then people try to put the pieces back together.

“I actually lost a friend of mine, Imani Fecu, to an overdose this summer.  You know when you’re in recovery, it’s really important to have

“People tend to remember information that they see or hear first. And oftentimes, particularly if something trends or achieves some degree of amplification on a