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The idea of setting a New Year’s resolution for 2021 strikes me as… exhausting. After a year that thoroughly upended so many people’s lives, most “

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Hi, are you being an absolute dick for almost no reason? Irrationally furious all the time? Continually on the verge of hissing at strangers in the street?

The novel Coronavirus is more than a pandemic. It’s a worldwide invitation to panic. Almost 150 countries today now have reported cases of COVID-19, acco

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