No, I haven”t read all of Proust. Fighting the coronavirus humble brag

David Hockney has painted 10 new iPad works. Barbra Streisand is working on her memoir. On Instragram people are baking bread and working out. Friends are calling to say that they”ve Marie-Kondo”d their homes.
And all their getting-things-done is stressing me out.
What this is is an epidemic of humble brags.
People are knitting and quilting and reading children’s stories aloud, and giving lessons on how to play the slide guitar and reading plays aloud and performing music together with other …