In Southern California, COVID cases are exploding, and not surprisingly, it's hit a lot of families, including mine. So when a San Diego County contract tracer called up and advised me to wear a mask inside my home at all times, even though I'd been breathing the same air as everyone else and nevertheless had no symptoms, I thought it might be a good course to take a COVID test. The County of San Diego offered them at several locations for free. They'd collect data of course, but it seemed low risk in exchange for some important information. Was I in for a surprise. I chose the location at the University of San Diego, held near a large, out-of-the-way, double-sized parking lot, near the bottom of its hilltop, and the County operation there was open on a Sunday. Ironically, it wasn't the safest setting you'd expect. For an operation about containing a pandemic, actually, it was completely packed. Hundreds, maybe thousands, stood...(Read Full Post)