Self-isolating in Grand Rapids: week 4

Strolling along the seashore, 1909, by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida

Michigan ranks number 3rd in the nation in number of Covid-19 cases and deaths, 20,346 and 949 respectively. Seventy-two of 83 counties report cases and at least 41 counties have had at least one death from the virus.

Like most of you we stay hunkered down -- except for a foray out yesterday to get groceries at the nearby Meijers -- which does NOT offer pickup service any longer, and a stop at the Cheese Lady for, well cheese. Duh.

One month since Susie and I began self-isolating.  We can only imagine how difficult is must for the rest of you.I continue my work on identifying dead French people and Susie keeps baking and blogging and blogging about baking while holding on to our insanity in the midst of a government apparently run by megalomaniac amateurs. 

I mean would you ask your financial planner for a second opinion for that prostate exam or cancer diagnosis? I mean, what they hey, they've got a Ph.D. in something, right?

Trump looking for Nobel Prize in medicine.

Peter Navarro got his Ph.D from Trump University.

May the gods see fit to keep you all well and out of harm's way. I like to think the British queen spoke for us all the other day -- inspiring words missing in US national leadership, sad to say.