Sabal x brazoriensis is Brazoria County's own palm tree species

By Janice R. EdwardsThe Bulletin

On the original Palm Sunday, palm branches were placed in the path of Jesus as he entered Jerusalem - before his arrest on Holy Thursday and crucifixion on Good Friday.

Palm Sunday denotes the last week of Lent and the beginning of Holy Week. Palms were sacred in Mesopotamian religions and

represented immortality in ancient Egypt. The palm symbolizes peace, triumph, victory and eternal life in those ancient worlds.

I remember as a kid going to church on Palm Sunday and making sure I didn’t leave without my palm frond. The family’s fronds would be displayed all year long above the hanging turkey platter in the dining room.

It was tradition. We couldn’t

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While searching for a good movie during my coronavirus self-isola-tion, I stumbled across one of my favorites, “Guess Who is Coming to Dinner.”

I first saw the movie in 1967 in an exclusive engagement at the famous Grau-mann’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles. It wasn’t the theater’s Walk of Fame that I remember, it was the audience reaction to the movie.

Let me set the stage for you.The movie, starring Spencer

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I was passing by the supermarket and thought I’d go in just to look at the empty toilet paper aisle.

But there they were, in plain sight, on a weekday mid-afternoon - sev-eral 12-pack rolls still on the shelf. It was like a miracle. The hoarders who already have half their garage packed with toilet paper and hand sanitizer should have come through by now and stripped the store clean.

I was not in danger of running out yet, but my supply was getting low, so I hurried down the aisle for a closer look. I read the sign quickly. I thought that it said a limit of 4 packs per customer. I grabbed only two.

I never buy the limit during these sorts of situations. I want to leave some for others. I am not a hoarder.

I never understood the toilet paper hoarding concept. How is that going to protect you from the virus? I men-tioned this in another column also. Since then, eggs have disappeared from the shelves. That’s the new hoarding fad. By the time you read this, it may be something else, like

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Mayo Clinic News Network (TNS)COVID-19 symptoms can mimic

the flu.Dr. Clayton Cowl, chair of Mayo

Clinic’s Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, says symptoms can come on rapidly. These symptoms can be especially dangerous for people over 70; immunosuppressed people; and those with underlying conditions, such as lung disease, heart disease and diabetes.

Dr. Cowl says that many people who contract the disease will have mild or no symptoms.

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have Palm Sunday without the palm fronds. I never really thought much about the tradition, though until recently when I learned something new.

Palm Sunday is coming around again this week, and the “something

new” I learned about Palm Sunday is that Brazoria County grows a unique palm tree found nowhere else in the world.

People new to Brazoria some-times mistake the lowly Palmetto

Sabal x brazoriensis is Brazoria County’s own palm tree species

Guess who’s coming to dinner – againTracy, Katharine Hepburn and Sidney Poitier was one of the first movies to picture interracial mar-riage in a positive manner.

As hard as it is to believe today, interracial marriages were histor-

ically illegal in this country and, at the time of

the filming, 17 states banned such marriages. Coincidentally, anti-mis-cegenation laws were struck down by the Supreme Court just weeks before the film was released.

The plot revolves around the struggles of two sets of parents -

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officially recorded was -89.2°C. Brrrr!

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their plumage.“These observations… represent

the only known examples of a wild bird using a tool to scratch itself.”

Banking with Parmesan cheese

Q. What’s a bank doing in the cheese business — Parmesan cheese, that is?

A. An Italian bank called Credito Emiliano, or Credem for short, has a high-end security system with cam-eras, electronic doors, around-the-clock surveillance and—-atypical for bank vaults — temperature and humidity controls, says Dan Lewis on his “Now I Know” website. Inside the vault are neither cash nor gold but 80-pound wheels of Parmesan cheese, half a million wheels at any one time.

Parmesan producers have a problem, a short-term cash flow problem, because, according to Harvard Business School professor Nikolaos Trichakis, the producers “‘face very long lead times,’ as a good quality cheese requires at least 18 months (and ideally up to 36 months) to age to maturity.” Since 1953, Credem has been offering a cheese-secured loan to area Parmesan producers, equal to 60-80% of the cheese’s value, using the cheese as collateral and storing it in a special vault/warehouse. If the producer defaults on the loan, Credem sells the cheese when it’s ready, knowing that its value keeps appreciating. Per NBC News, as of 2009, one 80-pound cheese wheel had a wholesale price of about 300 Euros (about $350).

Concludes Lewis, “… be thank-ful that all that cheese is there, because, without the Parmesan banking system, it would be hard for many of the producers to stay in business.”(Send STRANGE questions to brothers Bill and Rich at [email protected])

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You can thank the moviesfor fake snow

Q. Ski-lovers, the next time you take to the slopes, be sure to give thanks to Warner Brothers technical director Louis Gelb for making it possible. How so?

A. For a 1934 movie, Gelb invented the first snowmaking machine, consisting of three rotating blades that shaved ice from a 400-pound block and a high-powered fan that blew the particles into the air, says April White in “Smithso-nian” magazine. Before then, faked winter wonderlands were made with “a dusting of gypsum, banks of bleached cornflakes, fields of pyocel (similar to the substance used for dental impressions) and flurries of asbestos.” Gelb’s machine soon became popular with the burgeon-ing ski industry that, having to truck in snow at times for big events, now began experimenting with the same technology.

Now winter could appear anytime, anywhere, even on a 63-degree day in Los Angeles in 1938. In the Memorial Coliseum, 350 tons of ground ice were used to create five-foot snowdrifts on a towering ski jump, where competitive skiers “hurled themselves more than a

hundred feet into the air.”This past winter, water-crystalliz-

ing snow guns modeled after Gelb’s low-tech precursor were used at about 90% of U.S. ski resorts.

Birds are not reallydumb after all

Q. Birds are no “bird-brains” when it comes to using tools to extract food. Egyptian vultures crush ostrich eggs with rocks, some parrots grind seashells with pebbles. But seabirds with their smaller brains have generally been discounted as tool-users. How has that changed?

A. Ecologist Annette Fayet observed an Atlantic puffin off the coast of Wales bobbing in the water holding a stick in its orange-black bill and scratching its own back, reports Jonathan Lambert in “Science News” magazine. “Puf-fins hadn’t ever been seen using tools. In fact, no seabirds had.” Four years and 1,700 kilometers (about 1,100 miles) apart, on Iceland’s Grimsey Island, Fayet’s motion-sensitive cameras captured a puffin snatching a stick from the ground and using it to scratch its chest feathers. That summer was an especially bad tick season in Iceland, leading Fayet and her colleagues to speculate that puffins were using sticks to flick ticks from

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EVIDENCE!? YOU CALL THAT EVIDENCE, OFFICER!?: Acting with military precision, three men stormed into a CVS pharmacy in Clear-water, Fla., at five in the morning, tied up employees and made off with about $320,000 worth of the opioids hydrocodone and oxycodone in white garbage bags. But, once in their getaway car, they emptied out the pill bottles and tossed them out the window as they fled. Detectives followed the containers like bread crumbs, leading them to the robbers’ house.

IT DOESN’T ACTUALLY PAY IN THIS CASE: A man was arrested in Terre Haute, Ind., after a police chase, for resisting law enforcement, reckless driving, possession of methamphetamine, maintain-ing a common nuisance and auto theft. He has a “Crime Pays” tattoo on his forehead.

MOMMY AND DADDY ARE JUST SO MEAN TO ME: A woman repeatedly called the police emergency number in Jackson Township, Ohio, to complain that her parents had shut off her cell phone. She is 36 years old.

NO NEED TO BE SUSPICIOUS, SIR: Police in Southbury, Conn., posted a message on Facebook to the man who stole some cans of Red Bull from a Stop & Shop but left his cell phone at the scene: “We have it, so let’s trade. Bring the Red Bull back, and we will return your phone.”

MY CLIENT IS INNOCENT! INNOCENT, I TELL YOU!: A man got 10 years in prison for impersonating a Florida assistant state attorney when he filed fraudulent court documents to get charges against himself dropped. He was found guilty of practicing law without proper authority among other things.

LET’S HAVE A NICE, QUIET EVENING, HON … UH-OH!: Husband and wife police officers went out for Date Night at a restaurant in Elizabethtown, Ky., and, while they were seated at a table eating dinner, a masked man came up to the register, pulled a gun and demanded cash. The couple then pulled out their own weapons and moved on the robber like the wind.

THIS IS SO EMBARRASSING!: A man, who broke into a tire store in Cartersville, Ga., became trapped when a stack of tires fell on him, so he had to call the cops to come and rescue him.

SO, HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THIS, SIR?: A bodybuilder from Manchester, England, claimed that when he was accidentally hit with a piece of heavy equipment and knocked into a pond in his back yard, he was left with a fear of heights. But he later posted pictures of himself careering 108 feet down Europe's highest waterslide, the Verti-Go in Benidorm, Spain.

VACANCY: 1 BDRM, 1 BATH, 1 CAVE OF WONDERS: The building manager of an apartment complex in Sydney, Australia, stole a massive amount of personal property from his tenants’ storage lockers, and hid the stuff in an underground “Aladdin's cave” he had constructed to hide the goods. Cops raided his hideout and found more than 250 items, including sporting goods, garden equipment and power tools.

mayonaise maybe. (This is only a hypothetical. There is plenty of mayonnaise, I was joking.)

What are hoarders doing with all those eggs - trying to make their own antivirus? Eggs don’t have the same shelf life as toilet paper. If

you eat all those eggs before they go bad, you’ll need all that toilet paper in the garage.

Stocking up is different from hoarding. A lot of us are smart enough to stock up on essentials in case a hurricane threatens our part of the Texas Gulf Coast. We buy

things over time so that we won’t have to stand in long lines after a storm enters the Gulf and the wiggly noodle things all point in our direction.

That’s O.K. But buying up essential supplies during a virus scare is basically like taking it away from the rest of us. Whatever the reason, whether it’s for resale later or just to have, it is a despicable act.

Sorry if I am getting a little harsh. I usually write on the lighter side of life, but hoarding makes me angry. It should make everyone who could not buy hand sanitizer, paper towels, toilet paper, eggs or cleaning products mad also. It’s not the way to behave.

When I took my two packages of toilet paper up to the checkout counter, all eyes were on me. It was like they knew that I was doing something wrong. But what?

“It’s one per customer,” said the cashier politely.

“Oh, I thought I read that it was a four pack limit,” I said.

He went to check and returned: “It says one per customer.”

I must have read the sign wrong. I was trying to be considerate and wound up in the eyes of all the front clerks as someone who was trying to cheat the limit rule.

“I am so sorry. I must have mis-read it,” I said, as I put one of the packs back. “I always try to leave

some for others.”The clerk misunderstood me.“You are trying to buy the other

pack for someone else? You can do that,” he said.

I could have lied. No one would have known the difference.

“No, no. I didn’t say that. I’ll just take one.”

The toilet paper was quickly transferred to my van, where it got covered up by a jacket and transported home and placed in an undisclosed secure location.

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Toilet paper fun facts• Packaged toilet paper wasn’t sold in the United States until 1857. Joseph

Gayetty is the man who introduced packaged toilet paper to America. And he wanted credit, so he had his name printed on every sheet.

• The first recorded use of toilet paper was in 6th-century China.• The Chinese government was mass producing it by the 14th century.• About four billion people in the world do not use toilet paper (that’s nearly

75 percent of the world’s population) because it’s too expensive, and they do not have sufficient plumbing.

• Americans use an average of 8.6 sheets of toilet paper each time they go to the restroom.

• It takes 30,000 trees every day to fulfill the global demand of toilet paper.


growing in low-lying areas as baby palm trees, but these plants are rel-atively small and are not palm trees. However, deep in an unpublicized “Palm Unit” of the San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge – behind a locked fence – flourishes a rare palm tree, the Brazoria Palm.

The existence of this palm has been known since 1941. Much of the early research on it was done by Landon Lockett, a linguist turned botanist, who wrote extensively about the speciation of palms throughout Central and North America.

Lockett reported his findings to the Refuge complex in the early 1990s, and by 1996, the refuge acquired the acreage where the palm now thrives.

Botanists have studied this plant for years. It was identified by DNA in 2011 as being an ancient cross between Sabal palmetto and Sabal minor.

The scientific name of this palm, Sabal x brazoriensis, was pub-lished for this plant in 2011. Sabal x brazoriensis is the hardiest of the trunked sabal palms and, when mature, can reach 20 feet tall. (Everything’s bigger in Texas.)

The Brazoria Palms in the refuge have continued to grow and reseed. Retired biologist Mike Lange collected some of the seeds for cultivation, and seed-lings were offered for sale at the 2018 Migration Celebration.

Maybe there will be more oppor-tunities for us to own a Brazoria Palm – I hope so. It is named the Brazoria Palm because there are none like it anywhere else in the world.

(Write Jan in care of The Bul-letin. Email: [email protected]. Snail mail: The Bulletin, PO Box 2426, Angleton TX, 77516.)

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As the coronavirus prompts more restaurants to close dining rooms, a debate grows over whether takeout or delivery service are safer options.

Opinions differ among experts.Harvard Medical School advises

against ordering takeout during the outbreak, while the U.S. Food & Drug Administration says it’s safe, as long as you practice social dis-tancing with restaurant staff.

“Currently there is no evidence of food or food packaging being asso-ciated with transmission of COVID-19,” the Food & Drug Administration

says on a website devoted to the virus.

“Like other viruses, it is possible that the virus that causes COVID-19 can survive on surfaces or objects.”

That means it’s still critical to wash your hands after food service transactions and to avoid letting the food touch possibly contaminated surfaces, the administration says.

When it comes to takeout vs. delivery, having food delivered is the riskier option, experts say.

Food delivery workers are in the business of meeting strangers, so they face “higher exposure to cus-tomers who may be sick,” according

to Eater.com.Dr. Jeff Kwong of the Centre for

Vaccine Preventable Diseases at the University of Toronto tells Global News that the best option may be having drivers leave the food at the door — a burgeoning food service called “contactless delivery.”

“The option of contactless delivery was first made available in China — where the outbreak originated — by companies like McDonald’s and Starbucks,” Global News reports.

Multiple delivery services are now offering it, including Postmates and Uber Eats, which says its customers “can leave a note in the Uber Eats app to ask your delivery person to leave your food at the door.”

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We had a girl name, but it’s a boy, and the search beganBy Stephanie JohnsonThe Bulletin

It’s a boy. Now we needed a name. Easier said than done.

He is going to have his name his entire life. This was a big decision, so we knew we needed to take our time.

Back in the day, they had baby name books that you would scroll through and read. The names were in alphabetical order, and you could look up the most or least popular names. Nowadays, we just get on Google and search “boy names 2020.” At least that is what we did.

Link after link, we found multiple lists and wrote down names that we liked. David liked more generic names, and I favored different, unique names that not a lot of kids would have. Google didn’t allow us to come to an agreement, so we started looking at different options.

Our dilemma was caused by the fact that we didn’t have any male family first names that we both liked. If the baby were a girl, the decision would have been easy. We would have named her Gizella, my middle name. It belonged to my grand-mother, whom I have never met. She died before I was born. But I heard that she was a great woman who escaped from communism with her 10-year-old son, my dad.

Thus, our quest for a boy’s name that David and I both liked, began.

There are baby name phone apps that can be downloaded, which is what we did next. I downloaded one that randomized names and suggested different ones. I could then give the name a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, and the loga-rithm of the app changed before it suggested another name. We had better luck with this one, but still couldn’t come to an agreement.

We even asked Alexa for baby boy names. She suggested Alexa.

That name must be like Chris or Pat, gender interchangeable. No offense, Alexa, but I cannot name the kid Alexa after Amazon appro-priated that name. I couldn’t do that to him.

This name research was taking up a lot of our time. Bur then it hap-pened. We found the perfect name while sitting on the couch watching Astros baseball.

The announcers were talking about Michael Brantley’s stats.

“Brantley”, I yelled. David looked at me with bright eyes, like he had just seen an angel. “Brantley”, he said. That’s it. That’s the name. We finally agreed.

“Now, who is Michael Brantley?” I asked.

We finally decided on a first name in a very unconventional way, and now it was time to come up with a middle name. We started going through our family names again.

“Who is someone who influenced your life?” We both had the same answer - our grandpas. His grandpa was his best friend, and my grandpa was my best friend. David is actu-ally named after his grandpa. Since this is our first boy, I figured I would let him have this one.

His grandfather’s middle name was “Eugene.” No, any name but Euguene, I initially thought. Our baby sounds like he is already near-ing retirement age.

My grandpa’s middle name was Milton, but he absolutely hated it. He wouldn’t tell people his middle name, and would just sign it as “M”. Milton was eliminated from consid-eration.

We were hanging out with his family, and we mentioned that we might use Eugene as a middle name, but we hadn’t fully decided. Everyone loved it, especially David’s grandma. That is how Brantley Eugene was finally named. We hope he likes his name as much as we do.

We felt a mutual sense of accom-

plishment. Maybe the next child will be a girl, and we’ll be all set on the name. No new research needed.

Now, it was time to get some diabetes testing done - all a routine part of the course, or supposed to

be routine, anyway. More on that in my next column.

(You can reach Stephanie at [email protected]. Or by writing to: The Bulletin, P.O. Box 2426, Angleton, TX. 77516)

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Artificial intelligence recruited to find clues about COVID-19By Gopal RatnamCQ-Roll Call (TNS)

WASHINGTON — U.S. health and technology specialists on Monday said they had launched a new collaborative venture to assem-ble a dataset of tens of thousands of scientific papers and literature on the coronavirus, which would then be analyzed by artificial intelligence

programs to find patterns and answer questions raised by the World Health Organization about the pandemic.

The dataset includes 29,000 articles, including 13,000 full-text pieces of medical literature, which will be made available on a special website allowing data scientists and artificial intelligence programmers

to propose tools and software code that can unearth insights from the articles, White House officials and experts told reporters in a confer-ence call.

The venture came together after the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a call to tech companies and research groups to figure out how artificial

intelligence tools could be used to sift through thousands of research articles being published worldwide on the pandemic, said Lynn Parker, deputy chief technology officer at the White House office.

With data scientists and machine language experts mining the litera-ture compilation known as COVID-19 Open Research Dataset, experts and White House officials expect to get help developing vaccines, forming new guidelines on how long social distancing should be main-tained and other insights, Michael Kratsios, the U.S. chief technology officer said.

The venture includes the National Library of Medicine, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, Microsoft, Allen Institute of AI, Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technol-ogy, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (named for Mark Zuckerberg, Face-book’s founder, and his wife Priscilla Chan), and Kaggle, which is a unit of Google.

The Allen Institute’s Seman-tics Scholar website will host the database of scientific articles and add to the collection over time, while Kaggle’s platform, which provides access to about 4 million artificial intelligence researchers, will receive suggestions from the experts on tools and codes to use to mine the database, experts from both organi-zations said.

Scientists have been working and publishing their findings on various strains of coronavirus over the years, including other variants such as SARS, MERS, and the

latest, COVID-19. The application of artificial intelligence tools to look for commonalities and differences among the thousands of such pub-lished articles will help the scientists spot things they may have missed, Eric Horvitz, Microsoft’s chief scien-tific officer said.

“It’s difficult for people to manually go through more than 20,000 arti-cles and synthesize their findings,” Anthony Goldbloom, co-founder and CEO of Kaggle said.

“Recent advances in technology can be helpful here. We’re putting machine readable versions of these articles in front of our community of more than 4 million data scientists. Our hope is that AI can be used to help find answers to a key set of questions about COVID-19.”

Sharing vital information across scientific and medical communities is key to accelerating our ability to respond to the coronavirus pan-demic,” said Cori Bargmann, head of science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

“The new COVID-19 Open Research Dataset will help researchers worldwide to access important information faster.”

Publishers of scientific journals and literature have agreed to make their full articles available to researchers so that machine learning algorithms can look for key insights from them, the experts said.

As scientists around the world continue to publish new research, journal publishers have agreed to provide those articles in electronic form ahead of their printed versions, they said.

The performance of a new coronavirus vaccine is tested at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, but the finished product remains in production. In the meantime, doctors on the front lines of the coronavirus fight are looking to drugs that are already approved for treating other diseases. (Monica Herndon/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)


one black and one white - as they try to accept the fact their white daughter and black son have fallen in love and plan on getting married.

Tracy and Hepburn play a liberal San Francisco couple who must now show the courage of their convictions.

The movie explores all view-points and is filled with memorable dialogue.

There’s Poitier, the son and a noted physician, explaining to his father the difference in their gener-ations: “You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.”

There’s Tracy’s character, Matt Drayton, calling his friend the priest “a pontificating old poop.”

And the climactic speech by Tracy in which he tells the couple that the wedding has his blessing, but warns of challenges ahead: “You will just have to cling tight to each other and say ‘screw all those people’.”

After those words, the capac-ity crowd stood, applauded and cheered, not just for seconds but for minutes.

Despite the fact the country was being torn apart by the Vietnam War and civil rights struggles, I left the theater feeling better about the country than when I went in. The movie inspired me and the audience response heartened me. This teenager felt his generation was going to change things for the better.

I had enjoyed watching the movie several times since and each time I remembered that night at Grau-mann’s.

This time, however, my reaction was different. I felt sad and won-dered why.

Surely, the depressing pandemic news contributed to my reaction. But it was more than that.

I couldn’t watch the movie now without thinking of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville or the hate-filled massacre in El Paso.

And the day I watched the movie, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that this country had a “crisis of hate and extremism” that threatened our democracy. And federal investigation documents revealed that white supremacists were considering weaponizing the coronavirus.

I felt optimistic after seeing the movie in 1967, but now, despite all the progress in the more than 50 years since, I couldn’t help but think the country was backsliding. Had my generation fulfilled its promise?

Of course, there was also a sad backstory to the movie that I didn’t know about in 1967. As I age, the

backstory takes on greater poi-gnancy.

The movie was the ninth and final on-screen pairing of Hepburn and Tracy. The couple had carried on a

two-decade love affair. With Tracy’s health deteriorating in the ‘60s, Hepburn put her career on hold for five years to help care for him.

Tracy was seriously ill during the filming of “Guess Who is Coming to Dinner.”

In the emotional scene at the end of the movie, the camera focuses on the faces of Tracy and Hep-burn. Hepburn’s character never speaks as her husband blesses the marriage, but you can tell Hepburn wasn’t just acting. She knew this would be their final scene together.

Tracy died 17 days after filming ended. Hepburn never watched the movie, saying it was too painful.

I will probably watch it again one day, but not when I am feeling like a “pontificating old poop.”

(Ernie Williamson welcomes reader input. Please contact Ernie at [email protected]. Or, send letters in care of The Bulletin, PO Box 2426, Angleton, TX. 77516)

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Netflix’s ‘The Circle’ set stage for isolated socializingBy Amy WongThe Seattle Times (TNS)

SEATTLE — There’s no doubt social media has changed the way we communicate and interact with others. And the spread of the novel coronavirus has resulted in the cancellation of major events, the closing of public spaces and the rise of social distancing.

With more of our interpersonal interactions being pushed online in this time of quarantine, uncertain-ties loom around the lasting social impacts.

A team of University of Washing-ton psychologists is already study-ing the impacts of social distancing on adults in King County. The stress that comes from isolation can affect immune-system functions and increase anxiety; human connection is more crucial than ever.

Uncannily, as we look for ways to navigate our new state of social iso-lation, two of streaming behemoth Netflix’s biggest shows of 2020 have portrayed similar socializing scenar-ios — and they offer some things for all of us to keep in mind.

After being intrigued by fanfare online, I watched Netflix’s “The Circle” for the first time a month ago. And one of my first thoughts was, “How do these people stay sane while staying inside for so long?”

“The Circle,” an American spinoff of a British series of the same name, debuted on Netflix on Jan. 1 to a steady rise of fans. The com-petition show isolates contestants within their own rooms in an apart-ment building, and they can only communicate with others via a com-puter program that transcribes their messages into text. Because of this streamlined form of communication, some contestants choose to take on fake personas to impress others. The group is periodically asked to rate their fellow contestants, with the top vote-getters becoming the “influencers” of the Circle, thus earning the power to eliminate other contestants.

“The starting point I’d had is: What would a reality show look like where people never met face to face?” Tim Harcourt, “The Circle” showrunner, said in a New York Times interview.

Forced to stay inside for two weeks, cut off from all human con-

tact, contestants are seen passing the time reading, playing with puzzles, cooking and, of course, competing in the complex popularity contest of “The Circle.”

In a recent interview with Vulture, contestant Joey Sasso gave his own advice on quarantine.

“Of course you’re going to get bored! Of course you’re going to get angry and be like, ‘Damn, I can’t take this!’” he says. “But there’s so many things around you, in terms of keeping yourself busy and working on something, that now it’s like, O.K., let your imagination run wild. Look at all the things that you can do and get done.”

Maybe it’s the nature of the competition, but surprisingly, the isolation aspect of “The Circle” is very rarely an issue on the show. You would think the extreme circumstances — no phone calls, no internet access, going days without hearing another person’s voice — would drive these people to the brink of collapse, but they seem to only be blips on the contestants’ radars.

With the oversaturation of social media and other digital forms of connection, maybe humans have found ways to preserve ourselves without being face-to-face with others.

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What’s the difference between quarantine and isolation?Mayo Clinic News Network (TNS)Preventing the spread of the

virus that causes COVID-19 is key to slowing the pandemic. People who have symptoms or who have suspected or known exposure to the virus, should practice self-quar-antine or self-isolation. But what do the terms mean, and which should you do?

Dr. Clayton T. Cowl, a pulmon-ologist and chair of Mayo Clinic’s Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, says that the terms are different, and people should know which one is the best option for their situation.

“The terms ‘quarantine’ and ‘isolation’ both refer to the act of separating a person with illness from others,” says Dr. Cowl. “But the terms are different. Quarantine is used for someone who has no

symptoms, and isolation is used when someone has been confirmed to have the disease. Isolation is typi-cally more acute than quarantine.”

Quarantine“Quarantine is when we take

someone who is completely asymp-tomatic and keep them away from everyone else in the event that they might develop the disease,” says Dr. Cowl. “Usually, there’s some reason why we do that. In other words, they’ve traveled to an area that has a very high prevalence of a disease or a condition.”

Dr. Cowl says quarantine is also appropriate for someone who has been near someone with known exposure.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says people should stay in quarantine for 14 days from the time of the exposure

if they have traveled to geographic areas where there is a large number of COVID-19 cases.

While in quarantine, Dr. Cowl suggests people take actions that include:

• Stay at a distance of at least 6 feet from other people in the home.

• If possible, stay in a separate room.

• Wash hands regularly with soap and water. If that’s not possible, use hand sanitizer or disinfecting wipes.

• Wash surfaces regularly in the home.

• Avoid touching your face.• Monitor daily for symptoms such

as fever, cough and shortness of breath.

• If symptoms develop, call your health care provider or local hospital to see if you should be tested for COVID-19.

Isolation“Quarantine is different from

isolation,” says Dr. Cowl. “Isolation is when we take somebody who is positive for the disease and keep

them away from everyone else. If you’re in isolation, and you’re at home, you want to be isolated from your family members as much as possible. If you have access to even a basic surgical mask, you should be using that type of personal pro-tective equipment.”

“Sometimes you may not have another room to put them in, but if you can, stay outside of that 6-foot ring,” says Dr. Cowl. “Don’t breathe right in their face. If it’s a partner or spouse, they shouldn’t be sleeping together in the same bed during a time of isolation until they’re taken out of that isolation period.”

“Remember, it’s spread by droplets, so if you wash your hands before you go in and after you go

out, that will probably minimize most of the opportunity for the virus to spread at all. “

While in isolation, Dr. Cowl suggests people take actions that include:

• Stay in a separate room. If that’s not possible, maintain at least a 6-foot circle of space from others.

• Wear a mask when in the same room as others.

• Wear a mask when someone brings food or other necessities.

• Wash hands after interacting with others. Use soap and water. If that’s not possible, use hand sani-tizer or disinfecting wipes.

• Wipe down surfaces such as door knobs, cellphones, countertops and other areas touched.

hospital or visit your health care provider without at least calling first,” says Dr. Cowl. “By calling first, you can avoid exposing yourself and others to the virus. And you can help prevent an overflow situation at the medical facility.”

SYMPTOMS OF COVID-19Shortness of breath; cough; fever;

fatigue; muscle aches.“Symptoms of COVID-19 are typ-

ically myalgia, or muscle aches, and a lot of fatigue. Usually it’s asso-ciated with a fever. Sometimes it’s low-grade from 100.3 F to perhaps higher. Some people experience much higher fever that go up to 102 F or 103F. Individuals may expe-rience some shortness of breath. They may experience cough. And it can either be a dry cough, or they may cough up phlegm.”

WHEN TO SEEK HELPThe Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention (CDC) says that if you think you have been exposed to COVID-19, and you develop symptoms such as a cough, fever and shortness of breath, you should call your health care provider.

If you are concerned that you

may have been exposed to COVID-19 but do not have symptoms, Dr. Cowl says you do not need to be tested. You should self-monitor for symptoms that may develop and use good hand hygiene. He adds that since the COVID-19 situation is evolving, experts are learning more about the virus every day. Recom-mendations for testing also may change.

“Right now, the recommendation is if you’re asymptomatic, you do not need to be tested,” says Dr. Cowl. “Part of that is because the number of testing kits needed are not available. But, clinically, if you’re asymptomatic, no test.”

Dr. Cowl emphasizes that if you think you may have COVID-19, call your healthcare provider first, rather than showing up without warning. But if you experience more severe symptoms, seek emergency medi-cal care.

EMERGENCY SYMPTOMS INCLUDE: Difficulty breathing; chest pain; confusion; bluish lips or face.

Check the CDC website for addi-tional updates on COVID-19. For all your COVID-19 coverage, go to the Mayo Clinic News Network.

If you get the coronavirus, you should...(Continued from Page 1)

The 1918 flu pandemic spread quiclyFive hundred million people were estimated to have been infected by the

1918 H1N1 flu virus. At least 50 million people were killed around the world, including an estimated 675,000 Americans. In fact, the 1918 pandemic actu-ally caused the average life expectancy in the United States to drop by about 12 years for both men and women.

There were no laboratory tests to detect, or characterize these viruses. There were no vaccines, no antiviral drugs to treat flu illness, and no antibiot-ics to treat secondary bacterial infections.

Tito’s Vodka making hand sanitizer

AUSTIN, Texas — It was just a few weeks ago that Texans were using their perfectly good Tito’s Vodka to make hand sanitizer to stop the spread of the new corona-virus, causing the company to say, in effect, “wait, no, don’t do that,” over and over again.

Now, Tito’s Vodka is taking matters into its own hand sanitizer — the Austin-based brand is testing formulas for its own sanitizer to be produced in its distillery.

Tito’s has enough ingredients and equipment to make an initial 24 tons of hand sanitizer, which will be distributed for free to help combat the coronavirus, officials said in a statement.

The announcement comes after the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau authorized production of ethanol-based hand sanitizers by permitted distillers last week.

Officials don’t yet have details on when the hand sanitizer will be ready or where people will be able to get their hands on it.

—Austin American-Statesman (TMS)


Take it from an American in Italy — the coronavirus is seriousBy Gracie Bonds StaplesThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS)

In the beginning, Debra Biagini approached the coronavirus much like many of us here and across the country — with a bit of skepticism.

In her mind, it was a kind of flu, and as with H1N1 and other flu-like viruses, we could expect some fatal-ities. Plus, China, the epicenter of the disease, was thousands of miles away from her home in Italy.

“What effect would that have on our lives?” she wondered.

Then March 9 arrived, and the gravity of the illness was clear.

That was the day Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte ordered all businesses to close and residents to remain a meter apart at all times. They could leave their homes only to go to the grocer or pharmacy or walk the dog.

“At that point, I figured you could still manage your life,” Biagini said in a FaceTime chat. “When they decided to close the gyms and health spas, it all became real. It was as the young people say this is going down, this is not a joke anymore.”

I had the pleasure of meeting Biagini late last year during a visit with her father, Theodore Roosevelt Britton Jr., of Atlanta. I shared their story in October soon after Biagini discovered through MyHeritage.com, a global family history and DNA website, that the man she believed was her biological father for most of her life wasn’t. Britton was.

Three years before Biagini’s birth in 1958, Britton and her mother, Elizabeth, met at Carver Savings and Loan, where the two worked in Harlem. Most of their time together had been spent at the bank with Ted, happily married, sometimes giving Elizabeth a lift home. When she abruptly left the bank one day, they never saw or talked to each other again.

The year the father who raised her passed, Debra divorced and moved to Rome, Italy, where she runs a successful florist and event design business. Britton, a former U.S. ambassador to Barbados and Grenada, had remarried and was living in Atlanta. He, too, had received notice from MyHeritage that he had a daughter in Italy.

Even though he’d visited over 170 countries in his lifetime, Britton was certain he’d never been romantically involved with anyone in Italy, plus he didn’t know one person with the name Biagini.

It was a sweet story with a happy ending. Not only did Biagini discover her real father, but the entire Britton clan, spread across four states, including New York, where coro-navirus cases now number in the thousands, embraced her.

They have been in near-constant virtual contact since the virus hit.

Like other shop owners, Biagini was forced to close Debraflowers more than a week ago and has been holed up since at her home just outside L’Eur south of the city center.

At the beginning of the outbreak, Biagini said she could take walks, but in addition to all the other restric-tions, she must limit the time she spends outside, conscious of the fact that her behavior can negatively impact others.

The social distancing, perhaps, has been the most difficult of all this.

“Italians don’t believe in personal space,” she said. “They are known all over the world for the double cheek kiss. You can just imagine the difficulty they are having at the moment.

“On a cultural television pro-gram today when by video call the interviewer asked a young person, ‘What is the first thing you want to do when this is over?,’ her answer was ‘Meet my friends for a hug and cappuccino.’”

Even after 30 years in Italy, where coronavirus cases and deaths are killing thousands, Biagini said she marvels at how Italians have remained upbeat, taking to the inter-net to celebrate birthdays and other special moments.

“It says a lot about how Italians

deal with difficult times,” she said. “I can’t imagine people in Man-hattan hanging out their windows singing together. We will be singing this song. It was a very emotional moment.”

Very typical of Italians, the kitchen has become even more popular than usual. On the few WhatsApp groups that Biagini is associated with, members are posting photos of elaborate meals that they are preparing for their family. They are also sharing Photoshopped pictures making fun of how fat they all will be when they return to the beach this summer.

The good news is they won’t have to worry about how lean their pocketbooks might become. Conte thought of that, too, putting in place immediate stop payments on things like taxes, gas, electricity and mort-gages.

“If you didn’t have enough money in the bank to cover that, you don’t have to worry about getting a notice,” Biagini said.

On a grim note, Biagini said Italian victims of the coronavirus are being taken directly from the morgue to the cemetery.

“I’ve heard that in the northern part of the country, funeral homes are bringing people in every 30 minutes for burial,” she said. “We’re hoping when this is over, there will be a memorial service to cover all the people who have died.”

Meanwhile, Biagini said she hopes we Americans will take this virus more seriously. And as much as she believes in the power of prayer, she’s perplexed when people use the sentiment to be reckless.

Pray but do our part to remain safe. Practice social distancing and wash our hands.

“This virus kills,” she said. “Take it seriously.”

One test for coronavirus is done every five minutes at a drive-through in Bologna, Italy. The test is done in the car with swabs. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse/Zuma Press/TNS)

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sonal Lord and Savior and accept His forgiveness and His salvation, which brings about repentance, a turn-about-face. Only then are we brought into the family of God. His spiritual Fatherhood belongs only to those who trust in Him.

Class warfare is another mis-understanding in society. The Bible says that there are only two classes of people: the saved and the lost; those who are going to Heaven and those who are going to Hell (Mat-thew 7:13-14).

Outside of Christ’s work on the cross - His death and His resur-rection from the grave - there is bitterness, intolerance, ill will, preju-dice, lust, greed, and hatred.

Within the efficacy of the cross of Christ Jesus, there is love and

(Send your queries to “My Answer,” c/o Billy Graham, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, 1 Billy Graham Parkway, Charlotte, N.C., 28201; call 1-(877) 2-GRAHAM, or visit the Web site for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association: www.billygraham.org.)

Only two classes of people - the saved and the lostFrom the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

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Q: Religion seems to separate mankind instead of unite them as the Bible commands. Why is this when we are all brothers, and God is the Father of the whole human race? - M.T.

A: There is a great deal of mis-understanding when it comes to the universal Fatherhood of God and brotherhood.

The majority of appeals made in behalf of peace are based on the idea of brotherhood.

There is a wrong sense in which God is the Father of us all by creation. The truth is that He is the Creator of mankind.

But the world seems to be blinded to the fact that for mankind to know God spiritually as Father they must receive Christ as per-

fellowship, new life and new brotherhood, no matter the race, nationality, or social standing.

“For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity... to create in Himself one new man” (Ephesians 2:14-15).

There is no Jew, no Gentile - no black, white, yellow, or red. Those who belong to Christ are one great brotherhood in Him.

There are no words …Envelope, please

With not even one shining moment to be seen this year, let’s award some March Madness tro-phies anyway:

— Single-City (Tag-Team) Divi-sion champion: San Diego, its State Aztecs and D-II UC San Diego men a combined 60-3

— Single-School (Coed) Division champion: Gonzaga, its men’s and women’s teams a combined 59-5.

No Split Ends Dept.So, the rumors are finally official:

Tom Brady and Bill Belichick are divorcing.

At least there won’t be a battle to see who gets custody of Gronk.

These guys are seriousThree sure signs the coronavirus

is serious stuff:

SPORTS STORIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSEDBy Dwight PerryThe Seattle Times (TNS)

SIDELINE CHATTER

When it comes to throwing strikes, big league pitchers have nothing on these guys!

The five-member Shelter Insur-ance bowling squad broke the all-time record with a 1,457 team score — or 291.4 pins per player — at Concord Bowl in St. Louis on Feb. 28. The quintet rolled games of 279, 289, 300, 300 and 289, registering 10-pin knockdowns in 55 of 58 frames — 95%.

Steel yourselfHated AFC North rivals Pittsburgh

and Baltimore agreed to a rare trade — the first between the teams this century — bringing defensive end Chris Wormley to the Steelers.

So see, folks, there is still hope for peace in the Middle East.

Aw, shucksAccording to BetOnline.ag’s find-

ings, based on geotagged Twitter data, Iowans make up the most-un-happy state over sporting events being canceled.

But only if you consider cornhole

a sport.Coronavirus diaries

— From @GaBoy_Shockley on Twitter: “Day 6 no sports. Watching birds fight over worms. Cardinals lead the Blue Jays 3-1.”

— Jim Barach of JokesByJim.blogspot.com, bemoaning the French Open getting postponed until September: “No one can even get a Grand Slam at Denny’s.”

BeanedtownRob Gronkowski hangs ’em up,

Tom Brady splits town for the Bucs, Mookie Betts gets dealt to the Dodgers and Chris Sale undergoes Tommy John surgery.

When will those long-suffering sports fans in Boston ever catch a break?

Wanna get away?Ahead of their time when it came

to social distancing: Secretariat … Iditarod mushers … Marlins fans …

This spells troubleAs if all the other shutdowns

weren’t enough, now they’re telling us there won’t be a Scripps National Spelling Bee this year.

— The U.S. scuttled March Madness.

— Canada canceled hockey.— Ireland closed its bars the day

before St. Patrick’s Day.Rerun for the Roses

The May 2 Kentucky Derby has been pushed back to Sept. 5 because of the coronavirus.

Or as this year’s race is now known, “the most exciting 2 min-utes/longest 18 weeks in sports.”

June Madness, anyone?If the NBA wants a nice, com-

pact playoff this year — like say, in just three weekends — we humbly suggest a single-elimination tourna-ment with 14-play-in games the first weekend followed by four four-team regionals and a final four.

Hey, it works for the NCAA, doesn’t it?

Or, if there’s not enough time for that, just dig up the old BCS crew

and let them determine the two finalists.

Fall-back positionFrance’s 24 Hours of Le Mans car

race has been pushed back to Sept. 19-20 because of the coronavirus outbreak.

If marketers had been on their toes, they’d have done it on Daylight Saving Time — and made it the 25 Hours of Le Mans.

Tweet of the Week“1918: Toronto wins its first Stan-

ley Cup“1919: Stanley Cup canceled“1992-93: Toronto wins its first

World Series“1994: World Series canceled“2019: Toronto wins its first NBA

championship“2020: NBA championship poten-

tially canceled(What the #$%&#@) did Toronto

do?” — @matttomic

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steak/gravy, cheese cauliflower, squash casserole, pears & cottage cheese, biscuits, dessert.

Thursday, April 2: BBQ chicken, broccoli rice casserole, corn, peas, slaw, garlic toast, dessert.

Friday, April 3: Meatballs & gravy, rice, navy beans, spiced apples, pea salad, cornbread, dessert.

Monday, April 6: Beef stroganoff,

Scramble solutions: use a mirror to check your answers

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THE MIDDLETONS By Ralph Dunagin and Dana Summers

ANIMAL CRACKERS By Fred Wagner

CHARMY’S ARMY By Davey Jones

MR. MORRIS By Rick Brooks

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COPING WITH COVID-19

become more ambitious and want to participate more fully in the outer world.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Get out and about. You might be at your best when you have a cheerful com-panion by your side. You may not be content unless there is something fun to do and someplace to go.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your mind is at its best today, so make decisions and discoveries while the time is right. Your intuitions could be out of kilter, when it will be best to avoid a dispute with a loved one.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your ringing phone may accompany an upswing in popularity. Stay in touch with your most trusted friends and partners, because the news and views you hear could help you get ahead in the week to come.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The change jingling in your pocket could fall out an unnoticed hole. In your enthusiasm to spend time with loved ones or friends, you might be careless about spending.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): When you have your heart set on meeting a goal, you can move faster than that road runner in the old cartoons. You might have better results if you strive to be candid rather than hide your feelings in the week ahead.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Widen your network of friends and acquaintances in the upcoming week by getting familiar with the latest trends. Your social life can be energized if you take up a sport or sign up for exercise classes with a partner.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Brilliant is as brilliant does. Show off your understanding of a subject by putting it into action. Your grasp of the latest ideas and new discoveries can draw you and a special some-one closer this week.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Accept positive criticism if it’s offered. In the week ahead, your thoughtful and studious behaviors may shift into new territory as you

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Content might be king, but the contentment that comes from being in perfect harmony with others is the power behind the throne. You can enjoy working side by side with your favorite people this week.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When you are on a roll, being over-confident can create challenges. You are unflinching about tackling even the grittiest jobs, but purchas-ing decisions can be penny wise and pound foolish.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Great ideas sometimes need to simmer before they make a palatable meal. Avoid changing your business and financial routines based on incomplete knowledge of new opportunities.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Some people may call you old-fash-ioned, but your sterling ethics and moral code will withstand the test of tides and time. Focus on rising above petty gossip and some peo-ple’s odd behavior.

March 311880 - Wabash, IN, became the

first town to be completely illumi-nated with electric light.

1889 - In Paris, the Eiffel Tower officially opened.

1917 - The U.S. purchased and took possession of the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million.

1918 - For the first time in the U.S., Daylight Saving Time went into effect.

April 11748 - The ruins of Pompeii were

found.1778 - Oliver Pollock, a New

Orleans businessman, created the “$” symbol.

1927 - The first automatic record changer was introduced by His Master’s Voice.

1985 - World oil prices dropped below $10 a barrel.

April 21917 - U.S. President Woodrow

Wilson presented a declaration of war against Germany to the U.S. Congress.

1932 - A $50,000 ransom was paid for the infant son of Charles and Anna Lindbergh. He child was not returned and was found dead the next month.

1978 - The first episode of “Dallas” aired on CBS.

April 31776 - George Washington

received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard College .

1933 - First Lady Eleanor Roos-evelt informed newspaper reporters that beer would be served at the White House. This followed the March 22 legislation that legalized “3.2” beer.

1953 - “TV Guide” was published for the first time.

April 41905 - In Kangra, India, an earth-

quake killed 370,000 people.1945 - Hungary was liberated

from Nazi occupation, only to be occupied by the Soviet Union for the next 43 years.

1967 - Johnny Carson quit “The Tonight Show.” He returned three weeks later after getting a raise of

$30,000 a week.April 5

1892 - In New York, the Ithaca Daily Journal published an ad intro-ducing a new 10 cent Ice Cream Specialty called a Cherry Sunday.

1933 - The first operation to remove a lung was performed at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, MO.

1951 - Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for committing espionage for the Soviet Union.

April 61896 - The first modern Olympic

Games began in Athens, Greece.1909 - Americans Robert Peary

and Matthew Henson claimed to be the first men to reach the North Pole. They didn’t say anything about finding Santa there, or a workshop.

1931 - “Little Orphan Annie” debuted on the NBC Blue network.

1957 - Trolley cars in New York City completed their final runs.

1965 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized the use of ground troops in combat operations in Vietnam.

Jumbles: OFFER GRIPE FUNGUS APPEARAnswer: The fish that started their own rock band were -- GROUPERS

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21 Against22 Make amends (for)23 *”Airplane!” flight number, to the control tower26 Boats with double-bladed pad-dles29 Forget to include30 Mosque leader31 Address for Bovary33 Having one flat, musically36 *Carl Icahn or Michael Milken

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