May 21, 2020 - Thursday, SIP Pandemic Journals - Smiles and Smizes, Emergence, Vaccine?

Reflecting on the impact of not being able to read our full faces. Will we have to develop cute sign-languages to convey our appreciation for our fellow humans? Can we learn to communicate without visual cues from our mouth?  Smiling just with our eyes "smizing"/ Remember the eye hug?

A Bay Area Without Smiles

How The Bay Area will Emerge from Coronavirus Sheltering
These are the most important steps. . It will be a matter of tracking down known cases and all the contacts. We have to learn how to live with this disease for quite a while, maybe up to several years, before a vaccine is developed and ready to deploy. 

Contact Tracing
Thinking to apply to be a Contact Tracer - it would feel like worthwhile work, that I would be contributing something. Of course, only if it was all or mostly online and by phone. Not sure I'd be ready to do face-to-face work.

See, errr, I mean, listen to this podcast, where Dr Stephen Thomas talks about the process of getting a vaccine through trials and to the public. Social Distance Episode 50 Is There a Vaccine Shortcut?