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Pete's Pandemic: 100 Days of Isolated Reflection

by Peter Davidson

A hundred daily reflections from the first months of lockdown

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A hundred daily reflections from the first months of lockdown

Structured around 100 days of quarantine and lockdown, Pete’s Pandemic gathers daily writings addressed to friends as one man tries to make sense of life reshaped by COVID-19. The entries bring together humor, personal memory, philosophy, current events, and reflections on stress, with an openly self-conscious and at times controversial perspective. Framed as an effort to hold onto ethical clarity and equanimity amid disruption, the book treats isolation as both a shared public circumstance and an individual mental reckoning.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults interested in personal accounts of the early COVID-19 lockdown period
  • Readers of humorous and reflective essay collections
  • Those interested in diary-like writing that connects personal stress with current events

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Pandemic isolationStress and copingHumor and reflectionEthicsDaily life during lockdown

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Book overview

"Pete's Pandemic" is all of our stories yet none of our stories. It is one man's attempt to understand the new reality caused by the coronavirus. We all have had to come to terms with very different lives. This is Jimmy Tolmie's attempt to manage his stress through humour, reflection, philosophy, reminiscence and current events. At times self-conscious, periodically stream-of-consciousness, occasionally controversial, Jimmy has struggled to find a way out of his stress through the medium of daily writings to friends. His book reflects 100 days of quarantine and then lockdown. It is an attempt to find common ground, to emerge on the other side with ethics and equanimity intact. It is hoped that the reader will find some point of contact between his or her own perspectives and those of the writer.

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