OF KETO AND CORONAVIRUS

Uncertainty is a strange thing. Take the latest coronavirus disease, COVID-19. We can’t be sure what’s going to happen next. Yes, transmission continued at an ever-increasing rate around the world. But was its virulence increasing or subsiding? Are the new mutations going to wipe us out, or will they be smoke without a fire?

Despite all this uncertainty, the way the media reports on COVID-19 is very consistent—certain, even. The mainstream media maintains its view that the virus represents a very real threat we must take very