When “Unprecedented” Horrors Become the Norm, How Do We Live?

Harnessing the brain’s ability to adapt for a better future

Brandy L Schillace
Elemental
Published in
6 min readSep 2, 2021

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Photo: Kelly Sikkema / Unsplash

In May 2020, the New York Times published the names of 100,000 people, all of whom had died of Covid-19 in the U.S. by that date. They called it, then, an incalculable loss. In August 2021, forecasts by Model predicted that the U.S. would see another 100,000…

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Brandy L Schillace
Elemental

(skil-AH-chay) Author in #history, #science, & #medicine. Bylines: SciAm, Globe&Mail, WIRED, WSJ. EIC Medical Humanities. Host of Peculiar Book Club. she/her