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Whether it’s the rolling lockdowns, the personal and family health struggles, or the challenges of working from home and the juggling of duties that entails, the COVID-19 pandemic has made for a hard year and a half and a feeling like there’s no good time to take a break. But this week, that’s what I’m doing.
If all goes to plan, by the time you’re reading this, I’ll have hung some patio lights on my balcony, finally put away the boxes that have been sitting around since I moved into my apartment a few months before Ontario went into its first lockdown, and will be sitting on the dock at my sister’s cottage—perhaps idly casting a line with my niece and nephews. We probably won’t catch anything—I don’t really know how to fish—but that’s fine. It will just be nice to see them.
Normally when I write the newsletter intro I feel the need to find something insightful to say. That my title—news editor—requires me to be hard-nosed and serious, or at least seem that way. But this time, I don’t have anything particularly astute to share. All I know is that the fourth wave is spreading, potential lockdowns and strict tracking measures are looming, the potential for vaccine-resistant variants to emerge is not out of the cards, and that now—otherwise, when?—is probably a good time to take a break, even if just for a minute.
Colin Schultz
News editor
PS Hakai Magazine will be taking a break next week, too, and we won’t be publishing any new stories, but we’ll be right back to usual on August 30. |
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