Sympathy is like a cold knife, it doesn’t burn, but it sure hurts. There’s a pang of it whenever someone you know gets exposed to Covid, a worse one if they get sick. Those might fade away once a negative test comes back or someone gets better, but then inevitably…

The naming of diseases has evolved greatly from the time of calling the plague that sprouted black boils on the skin, “The Black Death,” partly due to the advancement of scientific technology and theory, but also due to the tendency of humans to overreact. Most humans, in a disaster or…