Love in the Time of Covid

'Love in the Time of Covid' is a memoir in fifty short essays written during the Covid era between 2020 and 2024. The essays describe the author's responses to media reports, debates, and public commentaries on a range of current affairs during the course of the pandemic. His primary focus is on the poisoning of social discourse during this period, when there was 'no love lost' in conflicts between adversarial parties. The digital version of the text is laden with hyperlinks to examples of public statements, arguments, videos, lectures, essays and podcasts that verify and illustrate the author's comments.