The Masquerade

With masks becoming mandatory in Paris as of today and my own SAS flight back to Umeå coming up within a few weeks, I was happy to finally receive the topography-themed mask from Territory Run in Oregon that I ordered back in July. Together with a black “post-run” flannel shirt, I feel ready to take on the world outside Umeå.

On campus, there will be free mass testing for Covid-19 starting next week as part of a scientific experiment when the students return from all around Sweden. Considering that this region of Sweden has had very low levels of transmissions, the idea is to both counteract that the university becomes a new cluster and to study how fast the virus spreads in a university setting.