Curveball

Curveball

That’s what I called it several weeks ago when I said “the next curveball in this election is going to be that one of the candidates gets it.” And by “it” I was of course referring to the coronavirus. I only said what a lot of people were thinking. And now here we...
Trump knew. But so did we.

Trump knew. But so did we.

People are making a big deal out of Bob Woodward’s tapes of the 45th president of the United States. In them he can be heard admitting six months ago that the Coronavirus pandemic was way more deadly than the flu and also highly transmissible. This is a big deal,...
Madness

Madness

One hundred and seven days ago, on March 25th, the governor of Wisconsin issued stay-home orders. Those of us who could stay home did. For seven weeks. Some states did similar. Other states did pretty much nothing. The point of staying home and isolating ourselves was...
Waiting for a Vaccine

Waiting for a Vaccine

Contrary to the 45th president of the United States of America, the virus isn’t going to go away “by itself.” If there’s a lull in the infection rate in July and August–and that’s a big if–there’s every reason to think that it will...
Pandemic Thoughts

Pandemic Thoughts

It’s day 43 since I began observing Governor Evers’ “safer-at-home” order (although technically he only issued it 42 days ago). Things change quickly and events that happened just a few weeks ago seem like another life. So I thought I would memorialize where I think...
You Know Who’s OK? This Guy!

You Know Who’s OK? This Guy!

We’re living in a very strange time. A whole lot of people have lost their jobs and can’t pay rent or buy groceries. People who are struggling through an unemployment system that was never meant to accommodate this many people. There’s the small businesses that are...