“It turns out that Americans don’t like Asian people talking about collectivism, or British people telling them what to do.”
“I often joked that Ed Yong became a character of the pandemic — a character who’s only loosely based on me and who I occasionally get to write the dialogue for.”
“My therapist (who I got late in this process) pointed out that there are many similarities in our work, but only one of us has training.” (!!!)
Ed Yong at #xoxofest on his work covering the pandemic