Pat Taub
Escaping the Plague
I continue to be grateful for my Maine country retreat, which offers a respite from the frightening stories of the national spikes in COVID. I still follow the news, but here I can renew my connection with nature, a soothing balm in our increasingly turbulent world. Below is an image of the morning fog, taken from my front porch.
Fauci Goes Rogue
Initially Dr. Anthony Fauci, of the Center for Disease Control, led the White House press conferences on COVID, but as his cautionary stand clashed with Trump’s insistence on a rapid re-opening of the country, Fauci was pushed aside. Refusing to go quietly, Fauci has appeared on TV news programs, alerting states to the dangers of moving too quickly into a re-opening. He challenged Trump’s argument that the 3 million US cases of COVID are misleading because the death rates are going down, saying: “It’s a false narrative to take comfort in a lower rate of death. There are so many other things that are very dangerous and bad about this virus.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci arguing that states with spiked rates of COVID need to slow down their re-openings.
The Truth
This week I streamed the new film, The Truth, a story about a conflicted mother-daughter relationship starring Catherine Deneuve as the mother and Juliette Binoche as the troubled daughter. Deneuve plays a diva film star, similar to her real life standing in France. The Deneuve character is self-centered, demanding and oblivious to the neglect her daughter brings up when she visits her in Paris, but the duo have their moments of shared love, reflecting the complexity of mother-daughter relationships.
Reaching for Hope
In these unparalled times, I find refuge in the words of Martin Luther King:
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose hope.
