#I mean David Quammen knows his stuff. I know he would not be making wild speculations in the book without data behind it | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

torchickentacos · 7 days ago

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I am falling back into my pathology interest right now, and on one hand, it's fun as hell. There are soooo many interesting diseases out there, and I could spend hours upon hours listening to different informative podcasts, shows, essays, audiobooks, etc, and I have so many books on my shelf that I need to get around to (Spillover*/People, Parasites, and Plowshares/The Hot Zone/etc).

On the other hand, this does not mesh well with my predisposition to anxiety. I know full well that I'm about to ruin my brain for the week, but alas

#*Spillover is by David Quammen and he has a book on covid 19 but it was written in 2022.#and on one hand it's great to have books on contemporary viruses and current events #but on the other hand I can't help but think of everything that we've learned about covid-19 since 2022.#we've put so much more research into long covid and the connections with sudden-onset dysautonomia #(which is interesting to me! I have it genetically but a lot of people got some of my conditions from covid.)#but anyways I am putting that one on the bottom of my list purely because I just wonder how out-of-date it would already be.#I mean David Quammen knows his stuff. I know he would not be making wild speculations in the book without data behind it #but I just feel like there's so many unknowns with covid and so many things we're constantly still learning about it.#I am sure that it is a spectacular and insightful book #and there is no point in waiting to write books until we know everything (we never will)#but I just have to wonder how wholly the book can cover the topic when it was written in 'the early days' of it all.#again. i'm sure it does what it does incredibly well and I cast no doubt on its factuality. I just would rather read a book-#-that has more insight into the things we've learned in the last three years (or even a ten-year retrospective in the future).#can you call it a retrospective if it's something endemic at this point???

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