It’s no secret to any of you readers that we are in difficult, unusual times. I think most of our elected leaders are trying their best to protect us citizens from Coronavirus, sometimes called Covid-19, but they really don’t know what to do. There are some exceptions, where their decisions seem rather stupid and nonsensical. But I agree that the stay-at-home orders are effective, if unpleasant.
When I send columns to my editor, I usually add a few comments not for publication about my most recent effort. Last month, I included the statement that I was living in the darnedest time I had ever lived in. He communicated back that this, to him, was a strong and somewhat scary statement considering I had lived through the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, 9/11 and two decades of this century. I replied that he missed two of the big decades in my life: the 1940s, which included World War II, and the 1950s, which I remember as good times.