If you're just interested in what is happening with the virus, you can skip it.
But we never had the feeling that we had already stepped off the diving board.
And each time, that was right, thank goodness.
Researchers are pilloried for updating their beliefs based on new information.
And it's exhausting. It's demoralizing. I feel genuine sorrow over the way our society has become so polarized.
Every day, there are new scicomm crises blowing up, and the thing that kills me is that they are almost without exception MANUFACTURED with political intent.
(Twitter is an odd medium, writing stream-of-consciousness, unable to edit let alone restructure.)
For me, this is the heartbreaking part.
It turns out we're not all in this together.
For some kinds of scientific communication, it wouldn't matter so much. I was an evolutionary biologist through the heyday of the Intelligent Design movement. Public education was at stake, but millions of lives were not on the line.
We may not act like we're all in this together, but in a pandemic, like it or not, we are.