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by Mike Power

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  • Day 7

    Day 7 – Total confirmed cases in US: 26,747 The numbers have septupled in less than a week. The opportunity to “flatten the curve” has passed and we won’t know for a while how successful our social distancing has been. Welcome to the first weekend without restaurants, bars, theaters, and zoos. In keeping with our… Read more

  • Day 6

    Day 6 – Total confirmed cases in US: 19,624 Does anyone else hear the rumbling regurgitation bubbling up from the bowels of hell? No? Me neither. This virus did not come from hell but from our own dear mother, nature. We have not been very kind to our mother. She deserves a lot better after… Read more

  • Day 5

    Day 5 – Total confirmed cases in US: 14,250 Some of us are not coming back from this. I’m not talking about physical health, although some of us are not coming back that way either. Some of us are not coming back financially, even to the place we were a few weeks ago. Some will… Read more

  • Day 4

    Day 4 – Total confirmed cases in US: 9,415 Today is the first day of Spring. It is also two weeks since I went to work so I am a little ahead of the shelter-in-place curve. There are good things that will come of this. They will be heavily outweighed by the bad but they… Read more

  • Day 3

    Day 3 – Total confirmed cases in US: 6,510 Today was supposed to be my first day on vacation in Aruba. I had been pushing myself to finish up a few things, like a job, so I could relax and enjoy a few days away from everything. Then I was reminded that there are some… Read more

  • Plague Diary – Day 2

    Day 2 – Total confirmed cases in US: 4,661 In 1762, when a map of our collection of colonies looked like this: the first St. Patrick’s Day Parade was marched in New York City. From then until now, through wars and blizzards, the parade was never canceled. Until this year. I have lived in this… Read more