In early 2020 I was (like everyone else) trying to understand what was going with a new virus – https://msemilieoxford.com/2020/03/14/social-distancing-online-chat. But while the US was arguably slow in appreciating the threat to public health, it quickly became clear (to most of us) that we needed to take extraordinary measures. So at that point I stopped doing in-person sessions – and didn’t restart until May 2021 - https://msemilieoxford.com/2021/05/11/re-entry. And even then I required that all my slaves and sissies were vaccinated and/or boosted.

Now I feel a horrible sense of déjà vu about monkeypox.