[valesco]

I respectfully disagree. To me it is a good example of the style of the article reflecting its meaning. To me, the author says that this topic is a welcome relief in a world where every topic is conflictual and complicated. It is the only thing that currently makes the frontpage that is appeasing to the mind, because the mind can fully comprehend it. It is great because it is simple, and it is explained simply.

Your example is extremely convoluted and doesn't mean anything.

[Fern_Blossom]

Once the article got into the fact it's not a political or ideological issue, I got the entire angle. It probably should have gotten to that point sooner, but I get the idea of the article. The boat is simply stuck. That's it. Nothing more. In an era of micro aggressions, politically charged everything and extreme sensitivities, this is the first world event in a long time that is just simple without being loaded... the boat is stuck. It's stupid how refreshing and novel that is.

[SamBam]

I agree. I liked the article a lot from that point on, including (after that point) the first part of the article in retrospect. At first, though, it felt more like someone being silly for the sake of being silly, which can be also worthwhile but I'm glad I kept reading.

Edit: That article and the next most recent one (a short story, written by a different author)[1] were enough to make me subscribe.

1. https://stone-soup.ghost.io/archive/building-beyond-outside-...

[EdwardDiego]

Well, to be fair to a certain novel coronavirus, pandemics aren't inherently politically charged, it's just that people chose to make it that way in some countries.

[Nasrudith]

That also isn't a new phenomenon which mostly says bad things about the people doing it from the antisemetic pogrum responses which in one notable case /poisened their own water supply/ to a more pedestrian anti mask league in tbe 1910s and related Black Death there were also some dim enough to think there was a choice of "skip measures for the economy".

Two kinds of choices - look for some scapegoat and manage to make things worse for themselves and far worse for their victims. The other is downright idiotic contrariness and the failure to understand that "normal" is not an option because epidemics alone cause others to stay away. It is like saying that you can ignore the blizzards and keep on making money growing tropical crops in open fields without wasting money on greenhouses that are redundant most of the year. The choice is between bad or worse because "trying to benefit from the status quo by when conditions won't return under the circumstances".