Testing, Testing ...

My friend "The Spreader" was supposed to get her coronavirus test results today, but instead she was informed to call back on Saturday. That's crazy! She was tested on Monday here in Maine, but for reasons unknown her specimen went to a lab in California. Oddly enough, several of her colleagues who were at the same meeting she attended with a proven virus carrier had tests at a different facility and got their results two days later. So what does this mean for you and me?

For me it means stay inside. My husband and I have been virtually self-quarantined, since we might have gotten it from our friend Ms. Spreader last Saturday when she came to dinner and coughed at us for four hours. As for all of you, it means that the virus testing in our country is spotty at best, with some people having no trouble getting tested and others left out in the cold.

Face it: Any one of us could have Covid-19 and pretty soon, everyone will. The test doesn't prevent it or treat it, it just helps those TV news people make all the charts and maps that flash on the screen and scare everyone. It's up to each one of us to stay healthy and survive, tests be damned. Now go have a kale and spinach salad with a glass of V-8 and do 15 pushups. And turn off the TV!