Three Years Ago Today

Yup. This is the three year anniversary of the COVID pandemic. On December 31 2019, the health commission of the city of Wuhan announced that they were investigating an outbreak of an unusual respiratory illness. The statement said that most of the afflicted had visited a food market in the city and that 27 people had contracted an unusual viral pneumonia. Seven were in serious condition. Things went down hill from there. China shut down and the rest of the world vaccinated.

I posted in these pages on those early days of the pandemic here if you want to revisit the beginning of this strange time.

At least I can say, all this has kept me occupied. My blog, going on 160 posts now, has earned me some new friends (I got a very nice message last week from someone in the Phillipines thanking me for "helping humanity." It made my day.) And it has earned me enemies from people who want to believe that Trump botched his response. He didn't. He launched Operation Warp Speed that gave us the vaccine and respirators in record time. On the other side of the political spectrum, I get vitriol from those who think that Tony Fauci is Satan incarnate for shutting down schools. He didn't, since NIH has no authority to do so.But that fact doesn't change anyone's mind.

So, among that cognitive dissonance, I thank my friend in the Phllipines and other readers who fined use in my blog.  I write it for you.