Coronavirus Pandemic

Pandemic day 374 You might have noticed the numbered days in this series of pandemic-related blog posts. Recently I changed “zero day” which also required that I change the numbering on each post. Previously, I was not counting from 11 March 2020. That is the date on which the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID19 … Read more

Pandemic day 367 Although the eleventh of March is the anniversary of the day the World Health Organization classified COVID-19 as a pandemic, the thirteenth of March is the anniversary of the day most of the local schools and business began to shut down. There is some poetry then, that this should be the date … Read more

Finding and scheduling a test for COVID-19 in my area remains surprisingly difficult. Here, in a developed nation we are seemingly unable to make widespread testing available to the public after almost a year of this global pandemic. That is inexcusable. Pandemic day 272 The president of the United States equates testing with causality. Trump … Read more

We are not merely experiencing a localized health crisis, like an increase in seasonal flu along the east coast. This is a global pandemic. The United States cannot simply take that position that this is China’s problem or Europe’s problem. Bad COVID policy decisions instituted by the current administration can and will cause the death … Read more