Here we are, the end of Week Three. This would have been our day of release from the original SIP orders, but no one much notices, they don't give a fare-thee-well. What we do notice is that we've had some slowdown in the growth of cases in California, even as the nation races towards half-a-million cases of the virus. We've noticed the folks that didn't make it - like the magnificent musicians John Prine, Ellis Marsalis, Bill Withers - and the folks who did, like Dr Matt Willis, Marin County Public health Officer, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 on March 23, just after California's SIP was put in place. After two weeks in bed and full-on quarantine, he released a
video today, sharing his experiences with the disease and his gratitude for the care he received, for the organized and supplied emergency room he went to, for the fact that our hospitals in Marin, at this point, are not over-whelmed. He looks -- well, he looks like he went through something, he looks humbled and full of gratitude. Check it out
here.
I've also been fascinated by this series of reports, as collected by the
New York Review of Books,
ThePandemic Journals, first-hand accounts from around the world on the impact of this virus, this new global reality. I can't stop reading them. They are not grim; they are just true.
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/04/06/pandemic-journal-april-6-12/
And boy, howdy, was the moon ever full and the howls loud and vigorous tonight!
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