And now the Emerald City Comic Convention has officially been postponed until summer with new dates to be announced. This was probably wise but it may ratchet up the sense of panic many have about the epidemic.
Reader Ron Kasman suggested something I should have thought of in the piece I wrote earlier about the virus. He suggested linking you to this page which would seem to the best possible source of information about it all. It's the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Pay special attention to their page on Prevention and Treatment and their page on Risk Assessment and here's their Summary of what's going on and…
…oh, hell. Just read the whole site. And bookmark it. And don't listen to friggin' Larry Kudlow, a prominent economic adviser who proves it's possible to be a prominent economic adviser without ever being right about anything in your entire life. It wouldn't surprise me if this guy announces that Tulsi Gabbard has the nomination sewed-up.