One of the common memes to come from covid19 is to post a before-after photo of a famous city or landmark. The before covid19 photo is the city as we’ve become accustomed to it: brown air full of smog. The after covid19 at the same location, but with naturally blue skies and clear air.

With everyone social distancing and automobile/truck traffic near zero we have been given a rare opportunity. We no longer have to imagine what our air and cities could be like if we didn’t drive pollution emitting vehicles everywhere, we can see, taste, and smell it with our own eyes.

Air pollution from cars and trucks have been suffocating our cities slowly, like one boil’s a frog, so we acclimate and brown air becomes “normal” and the way things have always been. With the burner temporary malfunctioning we can see just what a precarious position we’ve put ourselves in.

When this is all done and our lungs have acclimated to clean air we’ll have a choice: do we go back to the way things were and forget what we’ve experienced, or do we the courage to demand a change.

https://twitter.com/sistercelluloid/status/1249027255797460993

Watching videos like this one about UNIX system from 1982 is a great reminder that no matter what you're building today, we all stand on the shoulders of giants. Highly worth 20 minutes of your time.

https://youtu.be/XvDZLjaCJuw

Social distancing in the local forest. Such a great little place to let the little one run about and have a snack surrounded by trees.

Lovely park weather and the blossoms are starting to blossom.