Sometimes I find it useful to consider the state of the world from a big picture, bird’s-eye perspective, especially when I’m 40,000 feet above the Earth’s surface, as I find myself now for the first time in nearly a year and a half.
With just two hours of sleep in the bag, I didn’t have the energy to try to take on an airport, then an airline, over the scientific senselessness of being forced to wear a piece of woven fiber across my face. So I am muzzled as I write this, and
