- Bob Saget, Betty White, Sidney Poitier, Desmond Tutu, Peter Bogdanovich, Joan Didion, and Harry Reid all died in two weeks, and it's really strange ... at the same time as omicron surging, though it's probably unrelated ... - Feels like a really numbing feeling toward illness and death is being renewed this week ... - I was watching the figure skating national championships, and three competitors got sick - The Olympics are coming up, and it feels really disappointing that sports may have to shut down again, even if that's a small concern compared to schools shutting down - My university is running, but remote for now - One of the main conferences I was looking forward to -- in March -- may not be in person. It's really difficult to think that far ahead again ...