Coronavirus

Sounds like something you need a lime wedge for. As I lay here with abnormal amounts of phlegm that keeps hanging on eight days after the worst of my cold has already passed, sure, I worry about extinction level events. 

Originating in some China zoo/market/carnival/bathhouse (?), Chinese officials have been incredibly proactive getting the word out to the rest of the world about this strain of coronavirus and they are to be commended for that. That’ll probably save lives. But hearing the death toll taking a sharp up-turn in China, I sometimes wonder if this will be *the* virus, the one that takes a huge bite out of humanity like some Hollywood blockbuster film.

“Contagion”, was a 2011 film starring Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law and amongst others, a goopy Gwyneth Paltrow, who makes everyone sick. And in the movie, she’s also Patient Zero! This movie filmed a few scenes in my own little town of Western Springs. It’s the part where the people start fighting each other in a grocery store for the cure, looting starts, small businesses start on fire. Exciting to watch my lil town get destroyed. Good times. 

But I digress — extinction events! Christ, that’s depressing. Let’s just hope this Corona virus can get wrestled under control before it gets too out of hand. And of course fingers crossed on the no asteroids thing. 

“Contagion” rent it today!

I cope with potential global disaster with humor. You should see my one man show “Wit and wisdom, by the Fiery Light of the Astreroid”. I dress up like Mark twain. It’s a hoot.