Pandemic - Quillette

We’re Still Waiting for a Great Post-COVID Pandemic Novel

Fiction writers are used to working in lonely isolation. Maybe that’s why the stories they’ve written about the pandemic seem so out of touch

Neal Pollack

30 May 2022 · 16 min read

Looking for COVID-19 ‘Miracle Drugs’? We Already Have Them. They’re Called Vaccines

The evidence that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines are safe, and that they work, is about as solid as medical evidence gets.

Claire Berlinski and Yuri Deigin

6 Jul 2021 · 14 min read

On the Dangers of Big COVID

One need not posit some secret cabal of illuminati lizard people or the creation of a clandestine 5G-COVID bioweapon to make sense of the rise and potential dangers of Big COVID.

Michael Robillard

3 Jul 2021 · 14 min read

Bunker Boy: Preparing for Apocalypse Since 1979

The film gave me nightmares and panic attacks. I did what I could with such difficult information.

Ewan Morrison

9 Mar 2021 · 12 min read

In reducing sex to a basic mechanical function in the service of health, we have covered the uniquely human parts of ourselves that should be engaged during sex and lost precisely what makes sex sexy—what transforms its mechanics into mystery.

Marilyn Simon

31 Jan 2021 · 10 min read

At One With the Disc: How the Pandemic Taught Me to Love (Real) Golf's Casual Cousin

No, disc golf won’t provide you with high-impact interval training: It’s basically a wilderness stroll punctuated by a bunch of full-body throwing motions.

Jonathan Kay

28 Jan 2021 · 9 min read

God and the Pandemic

For many established religious institutions, the pandemic threatens to exacerbate an ongoing retreat from organized religion.

Joel Kotkin

23 Dec 2020 · 11 min read

‘Things You Should Be Aware Of’: A Pandemic Prose Poem

It’s more important to fight racism than to stop the spread of the disease.

Stephen Elliott

22 Jun 2020 · 5 min read

Yes, People Are Dying. But It’s Still Okay to Worry About Your Job

When people are dying horrible deaths in isolation from loved ones, and essential workers are putting themselves and their families at risk by going into danger zones, this isn’t the time to focus on how much we’ll “repay” young, healthy people who, though worried and unemployed, are safe at home.