Corona virus

Corona is crown in Spanish. Virus is virus in many languages. It's a royal disease that only afflicted the rich powerful and th fabulous in the days gone by but now any rando to his at the right place at the right time can contract it. How things have changed ahhh.

On a mor serious note, I'm traveling to South East Asia in ten days very close to the Chinese New Year. It's that time or the year when the biggest human migration ever happens every year, everyone's traveling. And what better time for a disease to get around than this eh?

Apparently there's a couple of direct flights from wherever the virus has hit directly in China and NYC and LA. Boston is quite close to NYC, they've discovered a few cases of the virus in this country too. My coworkers warned me to be careful on my trip, get a mask and avoid close direct contact with strangers. It's unclear if the mask would do anything other than make me look cool and filter out the dust but hey at least no one's being fatalistic here.

And now roommate BB who has somehow never heard of the disease, and was scared when I told him about it last night, thinks he's been showing symptoms of the disease sans the fever for a long time. Lol, he says, imma he Hella sick if what I have is this. Such buffoonery.

In any case it's not like I know any better either. Does the disease kill? Idk. Are there vaccines for it? Who knows. Etcetera etcetera. In this information-heavy world the ignorance has become a point of pride, how sad.