Cory Doctorow compares living in the present to early 2020, when Covid was approaching. It’s a throwaway comment in his blog post yesterday, and it has stayed with me since. Julie and I are fortunate enough to be spectators to the news — it does not touch us personally yet — but I can see in the headlines that something bad is coming, it’s going to hit hard and I don’t know what to do to prepare for it.