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Jul 13, 2020Liked by Will Leitch

Will, I used to read your Sports on Earth columns pretty regularly, so it appears I am guilty of picking up an old / pre-pandemic habit by starting to read your work again :-).

Anyway, I don't always feel in lockstep with your opinions -- though you can be sure I'm on board with the 'we've been catastrophically incompetent' thing in response to COVID-19 -- but I do appreciate your genuine attempt to keep looking around and trying to make sense of it all. As to not flying around on a near-weekly basis, I've long been a skeptic of the value of doing this, and I've paid some prices for my skepticism. I know one day that people will lurch about again, thinking it's totally normal to jet through the sky at 700 MPH to "take a meeting" about essentially nothing (or a consumptive vacation) when for most of human history people have been lucky to cover 20 miles in a day even when survival was at stake.

I look forward to more updates, and keep your family safe. Don't forget, if the lake is too warm, that's a red flag itself.

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