Yesterday I tried my best not to celebrate the fact that one year ago I chose to start my own quarantine here in Italy. A village very near where we live had been blockaded by police because they had an outbreak of the covid virus. There were three main places in Italy at that time and the virus was just beginning to scare a lot of people and make them consider the future. England My wife had flown to Great Britain for a conference and I headed to the supermarket to "stock up" on items I thought we would need. How foolish it was to think that this pandemic would be finished in a few months. More foolish to think 6 months, and now it has been one year and I am still, in a fashion, hiding out. Last night I watched to Mars Landing and I saw the workers at NASA wearing double masks which is now being suggested as a big help against the new form of the same virus but coming from Africa where its makeup has been somewhat changed into a more contagious version. I have bee