The Big 4-0!

       For those of you have been keeping count, who have been with me here since May 5th, this represents my 40th post on the topic "Viral Vicissitudes". Lost track or hadn't even noticed? I hadn't either but this site does it for me and posts it prominently enough for me to note -- thank you Blogger.com! In any case, some readers have inquired if I was getting tired (or 'weary'--see August 20th post) of commenting on this dreadful subject and/or if I am getting close to exhausting my material (are they trying to drop me a hint, perhaps?).

       While admittedly a negative subject at large, if you haven't noticed, I have used the pandemic as a platform to write on may topics that have almost universal relevance, directly related to our COVID circumstances, others indirect, and others quite distant but still quite apropos to the times in which we live. So, when will I tire of writing this 'column'? One way to answer is when you tire of reading it. Another is found in an experience my family had some years back on the day our daughter graduated from Notre Dame Law School, which coincided with the day a self-proclaimed Nostradamus predicted the world would end. While attending a luncheon in honor of the grads, a former dean/priest with a sense of humor reassured the graduates with the following greeting: "I know you've been told the world is going to end today at 6PM, but I'm here to tell you the world will not end until you pay off your law school loans, which is likely to be a long time indeed!"

       I anticipate, in ways unfortunate but also fortunate, that I will not run out of material or pandemic experiences to comment on any time soon. In the meantime, I hope you'll continue to come visit me here -- you are always welcome, mask or no mask!