This All Could Have Been Avoided

Kent Anderson
6 min readMar 16, 2020

Now what?

Now the fuck what?

Where do we go? What do we do? Do we hermetically seal off ourselves from everyone else. Don’t interact with anyone? Bathe in rubbing alcohol and Epsom salts? Avoid restaurants? Church? Synagogue? Temple? Mosque? Bingo? The mail box?

This is a 21st Century version of The Plague. I’m not being overly dramatic here, either. A pandemic beyond anything. This isn’t the flu. It is a virus, that lives, or can, for years. The Spanish Flu killed 500 million between 1918 and ’19. That was before air…

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Kent Anderson

Purveyor of Truth and Facts. Lifelong Detroiter. Journalist. Loves good TV, sports, friends and family. Mostly. Also: https://rollingwheelie.substack.com/