Indeed, we should count our blessings.
Lancet: “COVID-19 is not a pandemic. It is a syndemic.”
So how to best deal with the current situation, which should serve above all as a reminder of the great complexity of things, of too much and too little data and all kinds of paradoxical findings? Hard to find an appropriate modus vivendi. symbiont space will hibernate a bit, but not completely. The exhibition All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace remains open and can be visited on request and we are preparing two online events for the next weeks. In the meantime, enjoy this interactive chart of the many faceted, real-time-holobiont out there:
