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COVID Day 45: Updated Numbers

To see other COVID posts, visit my Quarantine blog. No time for an essay today, I’m busy painting cabinets in my COVID kitchen. However, a quick look at the data suggest that both the global infections and deaths are flattening. If you believe is the …

COVID Day 43: Herd Immunity

To see other COVID posts, visit my Quarantine blog. Herd Immunity, often called “community immunity,” occurs when a significantly large percentage of a population is exposed to a contagion and the contagion dies out for lack of viable hosts and pathways for transmission. A key …

COVID Day 42: Up The Down Staircase

For the first time in world history, we’ve used quarantine to protect the sick from the healthy.

COVID Day 41: Gone Fishing

I’ve decided to celebrate becoming the newest COIVD survivor by going fishing. The sun is shining, the winds are calm, and there’s a reasonably good chance I can sneak over to Abiquiu Lake without getting caught. If I don’t have too many fish to put …

Quarantine Day 40: Opting Out

To see other COVID posts, visit my Quarantine blog. Dear Governor, we need to talk: It’s been forty days since you so eagerly followed New York and California into lockdown, even though we had yet to have a COVID case. You may recall the story …

Quarantine Day 37: Birthday Memories

Tomorrow is Sasha 18th birthday, a milestone day meant to hold fond memories you carry the rest of your life.

Quarantine Day 36: If Mommy Is A Commie Then You Gotta Turn Her In

To see other COVID posts, visit my Quarantine blog. In 1962, satirical soothsayers known as the Chad Mitchell Trio, released a song called, “The John Birch Society,” containing the foreboding lyric, “if your Mommy is a commie, then ya gotta turn her in.” Little did …

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