Hey folks, welcome to a Dark Horse Short. I am sitting this morning in person with Nick Gibson, who is a friend of mine. He started out in my orbit as a

participant in the evolution discussion that I hold monthly. He has then

started participating in the Coalition of the Reasonable

Discussion. And anyway, we've become friends. I thought it would be a good idea for us to talk a little bit about your trajectory over the course of COVID.

And I don't just mean your trajectory physically, but your trajectory also in terms of your understanding of various things.

I think it will become obvious why we're having that discussion when you tell us what your journey has

been like. But in any case, Nick, welcome to Dark Horse. Thanks for having me.

So tell us where you were in early, first of all, I should should say if you are detecting a somewhat thick

accent that is because Nick is actually from Canada which is technically in North

America but yeah yeah barely yeah I mean it's a very far foreign land.

It is.

It is quite chilly in the winter.

But in any case, yeah.

The grass is not so green on the other side of the border,

so it seems. I didn't even know that you had grass on the other side of the border.

But in any case, tell us roughly how COVID was going for you in the early days, what you thought was going on, and how that changed over time.

Yeah, I think like a lot of people, I didn't take it very seriously at the beginning.

So if we think sort of February 2020, I can distinctly recall going into my office at work and

you know, chummy with some colleagues and just saying,

like, oh, it's fine, just wash your hands a little bit more and

get more sleep or whatever, which ironically may have been actually the right

advice in the long term anyways, but I had no sense of the what would happen approximately a month from then.

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