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- kingsteven4
Fuck, i've been pretty much constantly reading about this outbreak for weeks now. I was off work on strike for the best part of a month and for the first fortnight really getting in to mixing a record but this last week in particular has been real hard going... Multiple tabs of QBN, Twitter and news outlets open - reading with the urgency of someone searching for a cure but actually just selfishly trying to flick that "ENOUGH INFORMATION ACQUIRED" switch in my brain to release the satisfaction neurochemicals to let me be creative again, or just sit down and enjoy a film.
Woke up at 5am this morning with the absolute fear and just went to my office, sat down and started work thinking 'I need something mundane to take my mind off this'... Working from home from Monday, I knew I had a book to design for a university course, it's a medical textbook, currently on the third chapter 'Public health approach for vaccines'. It's postgraduate level stuff so it makes assumptions about the reader's prior knowledge of drugs, pharmacology and the like - i doubt any of us would fully understand it without a decade of study and professional experience. While the language is similar, even in comparison to even the abstracts of clinical drug trials i've found myself reading for the treatment of Covid-19 (intended for a much more general audience) this book is absolute fucking gibberish to me.
And just like that, the switch was flicked... I am not a medical person, this is only making me sick, activate pleb mode, went for a big walk with the dog this afternoon and played guitar for 3 hours, heartburn gone, head clear, hopefully this feeling lasts a while.
- you're procrastinating. get back to work! :)hotroddy
- Please f’ing tell me THAT is the book cover design, and if it’s not, it needs to be.mg33
- hah, i think i'll get it enlarged for my office wall in university for when this all blows over :)kingsteven
- the older i get, the more i need to stay focused. Im pretty prejudice with what indulge in.plash