Covid

Instead I invite you to use the disruption of covid as a chance to disrupt your busyness. That as you navigate your journey through this crisis, you also guide your life onto a path of more colour, more impact and more joy.

We all have such grand plans, when covid is over. Some of us want to get back to packed concert halls, while others want to relax comfortably at our favorite restaurants. […] It can also bring to mind other painful waiting periods — so vividly, in fact, that in the past few days it’s become a meme to compare the phrase “once covid is over” to other events that might never arrive.

In weights and measures one hundred catties were equivalent to one picul, or 133½ English pounds; in cloth or long measure ten “poontas” to one covid, and two covids to thirty-six inches English.

But the usual dimensions of a piece of muslin were 40 x 2 covids, the lower and the upper bounds being 36 x 1 and 48 x 3 covids, respectively.

A measure of length, the Chinese cubit, by Europeans called covid.

From east to west it was nine covids, and from south to north seven yen, (63 covids).