I've wrecked news car after news car. Just news car after news car. But the pick-up truck I own in real life has remained consistent.

Loyal Scaiaholics will recall I've never had an at-fault crash in a news car. I have been fired for a crash. Maybe they did the right thing, though. I was wrong to order that hurricane.

Loyal Scaiaholics will recall last week, when I explained how my pick-up truck, 15 years old and a stalwart representative of American know-how, logged its 200,000 mile.

Earlier this year, I learned many of my Facebook associates are epidemiologists who specialize in the study of coronaviruses, posting articles and commenting on other people's posts with strongly worded opinions about how viruses work.