My wife Pam is an Occupation Therapist who works at an Arthritis Clinic. In anticipation of a staff shortage at Vancouver General Hospital due to COVID-19, the administrators have closed the...
Nine years before the COVID-19 pandemic, Steven Soderbergh’s film, Contagion, presaged the current outbreak. The compelling narrative aside, it was the film’s closing sequence that haunted me when I...
It is now reported that approximate half the world in living in some form of mandatory isolation or lockdown. The dispatches from the U.S. are frightening: New York is overwhelmed, and California...
The COVID-19 pandemic has relegated most people to their homes. In many countries, people are burrowed deep in their nests. The streets are desolate, the parks empty. There are countless others who...
I’ve always been intriqued by the mysterious workings of viruses and bacteria, those invisible microbes that number in the trillions which live on and inside our bodies. The microbiome in the...
This morning I stepped onto the street and was caught by a peculiar silence rarely heard in Vancouver. Broadway was bare. The traffic lights signalled to empty space. The city appeared a ghost...