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Sars 2

A few days back I walked over to my friend Michelle's house about 10 minutes down the road from my mud hut. We talked about all kinds of matters. Somewhere, in the conversation I suggested we ought to get together with other friends and do that round of how tough we had it growing up. You know, kind of like a Monty Python sketch: " when I was your age we were so poor my father cut holes in my pants so I have something to play with." Then, the other person says: " I didn't have pants." Someone else replies: " I didn't have parents." And on. This got me thinking about the variety of Corona Virus experiences I have and am going through now. Let me introduce a distinction I created. Coronacitis. Sars 2 is the virus. Covid 19 the disease. Coronacitis is the effect of the this zombie across all platforms and media. I say "zombie" because according to science Sars 2 does not meet the criteria of a living thing. My sense ...