It’s a new year and a new set of expectations for Gates of Babylon. This site was intended to be a source of news, albeit from a different point of view, of what is going on in the world. And the landing page for the COVID-19 archive. As anyone who has tried to write about current events knows, it’s not an easy thing to do consistently, because it is personally draining. It’s not the writing and the research that’s draining, I actually enjoy that side of it, but it’s the toll it takes on you emotionally. Always dolling out the negative. If you have any real skin in the game…