A letter to everyone's parents about Coronavirus
Boy, what a great reason to write my first blog post in 8 months. I have been traveling in Spain and just got back to America (current status: self-quarantined for 14 days and/or forever) as we grapple with the reality of what is happening, and more importantly, what is going to happen. Being in Recently In Europe (tm) and Extremely Online (tm), I've realized that my awareness of the coming impact of COVID-19 is different than a lot of Americans, and this morning while not-sleeping due to jet lag I realized that the people I needed to share this with the most were my parents. Since then I've showed it to a few friends who were also in the position of worrying that their boomer-generation parents have yet to realize how acute the risk is to them, and someone joked that this is how I get back into blogging. SO HERE YOU GO, JOHNNY. Please feel free to send this to your older loved ones who you suspect are dangerously behind the information curve. You might wan...