just as well i am not a conspiracy theorist

"And an odd story of Alderman Bence's stumbling over a dead corps in the street, and going home and telling his wife, she at the fright, being with child, fell sicke and died of the plague." samuel pepys' diary 10 august 1665__________________alderman bence's wife may indeed have perished of the plague..however the story of the "corps" was probably not the cause of her contracting the plague...fear does weird things to people and they search for answers everywhere and find some unrealistic and illogical explanations for what is going on...some of our more unstable citizens may read far more into the deployment of the new york national guard around new rochelle ( rob and laura still living there? )...with questions about what they are going to "clean up"...good the times has the "truth"...

times' map...

cdc"s...

the cdc's numbers, while the times says the number has "passed 950"...so are we over reacting here? don't know...as a species we are ripe for a pandemic...there is no such thing as "race" we are all humans...however human genetic diversity seems on the decline and that is an invitation to epidemic disease...corn needs so many herbicide and insecticide inputs because it is pretty much genetically monochromatic...same mechanism applies to humans...add in antibiotic resistant infections and my drift should become apparent...modern medicine has not got all the answers...that said, i will got to work tomorrow and mingle with my peers and probably be closer than six feet and i will touch my face and be around the general public which you cannot avoid in retail...i may wash my hands more often than usual and use elbows and hips on crash bars to open doors and press the elevator buttons with gloves on and disinfect often touched surfaces...but i am not going to hide...unless, of course, the governor and the national guard force the issue...to end on a positive note, the markets have rebounded some after yesterdays drubbing as the government moves to "bolster the economy"...i have to wonder how much of that bolstering will trickle down...