Don’t miss our e-Picnic at 13:00h.
This meeting will be entirely on Zoom, Instructions on how to join the discussion will be posted at 13:00, here on our website. Members and visitors are welcome to join anytime. After the first moderated discussion(details below), we have a chaos meeting scheduled–talk about whatever strikes your fancy, or show us your latest projects!
Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: Speculations on a Post-Pandemic World
Open Discussion, Moderated by Keith Braithwaite
Forgive the Bowie-ism in that title (our debate moderator’s a fan); this afternoon, we host an open discussion on Zoom. Our topic is the COVID-19 pandemic and the future it will almost surely influence.
We’ve all been living through isolation and stress and anxiety these past 18 months, and we’ll examine how this global public health crisis has changed our lives, both individually and within the larger community, country, and world! Will we eventually get back to the way things were, or are these changes likely to be permanent?
Will COVID-19 soon perish, or resist our best efforts to wipe it out? What does the science say about this virus possibly remaining active for years to come; decades, perhaps, or even longer! Are we prepared to live with COVID-19 long-term?
We’ll look at the changes already wrought by the virus in the workplace, at school, in the social sphere, and of course, within fandom, and speculate on where we think we’re headed, for good or bad, in a post-pandemic world!