I don’t turn on the teevee during the day.  I try to listen to music. I exercise and do a yoga session every day. I FaceTime with my grand baby.  I talk to friends on the phone. But, like everybody else, I caught a miserable case of anxiety.

So every now and then, someone sends me a hint of good news.

Michael Levitt, a Nobel laureate and Stanford biophysicist, began analyzing the number of COVID-19 cases worldwide in January and correctly calculated that China would get through the worst of its coronavirus outbreak long before many health experts had predicted.

It’s in the LA Times so that gives me hope this guy is not a Trump apologist. The numbers do look a tiny bit less dire now.

And, a bit of bad news.  Science-type people are now wondering if the loss of smell is an early indicator of Coronavirus.

Medical professionals say one indicator for the coronavirus may be a simple one: the loss of smell.

Those in the health care industry are still waiting for firm and robust data confirming that patients with COVID-19 develop this symptom shortly after contracting the disease. However, anecdotal evidence has started to show anosmia, partial or complete smell blindness, may prove to be a side-effect of the disease, some claim.

I guess this means I have to cook Brussel Sprouts every night just to check it out. Yuck.

Thanks to Epp for the heads up.

From our friend Kary, a Texan who now lives on the coast of Spain and who thinks I’m an idiot for not getting in my brother’s bass boat and heading over there right now.

For the average American the best way to tell if you have covid-19 is to cough in a rich person’s face and wait for their test results.

He’s got a point.

Oh y’all.  No. No. No.

Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick was on Fox News tonight just a few minutes ago and volunteered me to die for my grandchild.  Click right here.

He’s apparently calling old people on the phone to get them to volunteer to die to save the economy.

That is so messed up.  That is so messed up that Mr. Clean, super glue and McIver couldn’t fix it.

And no, I am not willing to die so Donald Trump can get re-elected.  And thank God that I am blessed with children who are also mortified by this.

What?  The free market and trickle down now requires human sacrifices?

Hey Dan, you go first. It was your idea.  I told you that Trump is going to get us all killed, Dan, but you wouldn’t listen.  So, instead of grandparents, how about Republican politicians volunteering to die for Trump’s screw-ups.

If there’s 100 typos in this, it’s because I am shaking.

He’s offering tests to North Korea and Iran when we are desperate for them here?  Get a helicopter and a parachute and drop his fat lily white naked butt in the middle of either one of those countries with “A Have A Virus” tattooed on his chest.

That is just typical of the whole Republican Party.  They want to give bonuses to billionaires and corporations while the needy get nothing and they want to give much needed tests to our enemies while we suffer and die.

I hate these people.  God forgive me. I hate them.

All of them?  All of them.  You can’t even find one to support you and thank you and tell you how wonderful you are?  Doesn’t that tell you something? Everybody but you and Mike Pence is wrong?

You are a big ole whiny baby who sucks all the kindness out of a room.  You are dumber than dog dump. You look ridiculous with that Fake Hair and Skin.  I have to stop. I really do.

There is a pandemic, John.

It’s threatening the health and financial security of millions of Americans, John.

You want a fat, bulging slush fund for corporate bailouts and executive bonuses, John.

Dems said no.

Your response is “blah blah blah”

In a time of crisis, what a serious leader you are, John.

Thanks to Sharon for the heads up.