COVID-19, too, shall pass

Here we are, adjusting to this new world of “social distancing.” Not long ago, if you walked into a bank with a mask on, everyone would raise their hands and tellers would stuff money into bags.

Now groceries are increasingly filled with masked shoppers, moving silently through the aisle, anxiously seeking hand sanitizer and toilet paper, like Diogenes searching for an honest man. Occasionally I will sort of recognize one, whispering a line from The Lone Ranger, “Who is that masked man”?

I’ve watched New York Governor Cuomo’s and President Trump’s Coronavirus Taskforce updates. Both stress the importance of “social distancing.” One “walks the talk” while positioning his budget, medical and emergency management advisors six feet apart. The other has five or six aides grouped shoulder to shoulder as in a crowded elevator.