Thank you for the greeting and I do hope you had it and beat it back. Our best information at this time is that your victory leaves you stronger in case of another attack and possibly even immune.

Should somebody in your family be struck personally, you cannot hold their hand. But everything you can do to throw a line to them is a positive blow for their morale. A major advantage this beast has is the sense of isolation that crushes hope.

If somebody is circulating one of those huge get well cards then sign that sucker because every little thread of connection to school, to work, to family (understood in the broadest sense), is a lifeline. We can all throw many lifelines.

Persons of my age are prime targets for the beast but we also have stacks of memories from everything we’ve done and each memory is a cluster of anchors for lifelines of connection.

The enemy isolates us one by one. We fight back by maintaining connections. Good on you for fighting back.