Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end

The Governor of Jalisco pushed the Emergency Button. Only food stores and pharmacies are open for business. The numbers for COVID infections and deaths have doubled what they were a couple weeks ago and are rising daily.

Like elsewhere, people were getting careless and complacent. Out here in the hinterlands, every day we hear of nearby deaths. Today, five in little San Marcos, just up the road. How is that possible?

I feel like Joe Btfsplk from the long-gone comic strip, Li’l Abner. Not that I drag disaster in my wake but that I walk with a black cloud hovering heavily over my shoulders.

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