And yet, it isn't.

Four months after the gym reopened and no one has gotten sick, even though no one except the staff wears the Holy Rag. Perhaps it protects the rest of us. It's a meerakuhl!  Say it like the great TV evangelist, Ernest Angley – a specialist in religious things.

One of two things must be true – assuming it isn't a meerakuhl.

The first is that the "virus" – I put it in finger quotes to emphasize the holy totemic nature of the term – isn't nearly as contagious or as dangerous as Pope Fauci XVII and his Jesuits would have us believe. If it were, then logically by now at least some of the several hundred people who are members of my gym would have caught the "virus" – and at least some of them would have become seriously ill. Ill enough to have required medical intervention to avoid dying . . . if, indeed, the "virus" is that dangerous and that catching.

No one has even caught cold.

Ergo, it cannot be as contagious – or as dangerous – as we've been led (just the right word) to believe.

There will be some believers who say, it's just a matter of time.

Wait and see!

Well, it's been four months. How much longer must we wait to see?

At what point do these hysterical assertions take a back seat to what's actually proved to be the case? Why do fearful claims carry more weight than facts?