Saturday, February 29. Good medicine.

Day 36. Leap Year! What a lucky thing it is to have an extra day. 

Brunch is the most important meal of the day.

We teach another class from 2-4. We work well together, and the kids are happy and fun.

Xiaolin and I have a nice Chinese food dinner with lots of green vegetables and rice. As the day wears on, I get frustrated by the last class, but I get through it.

Some countries are under-reporting, others hiding in semantics. Perhaps they hope to avoid some of the economic damage and stigma of infection. Thailand has frozen its COVID-19 case number, but the number of 'viral pneumonia' cases looks like a hockey stick. Italy, already the slowest growing GDP in Europe, has decided to no longer count the positive test results that aren't showing symptoms. We must presume these people are still contagious.

Around Europe, people are selling masks for 30 euros or 200 for five. Some experts have suggested it would be safe to rotate 10 masks. Ten days should be enough to kill any virus that might remain.

In front of congress, the head of the CDC reports they aren't recommending prepping. Their website tells a different, more reasonable story: people should mentally prepare for closed schools, a limit on mass gatherings, self-isolation, and non-essential jobs to be furloughed.

With all this dark news, this headline left me gasping for breath: "Coronavirus outbreak at cyber goth rave kills zero." At least the industrial crowd and the burners already have enough gear to get by. I always felt like those desert parties were preparing me for something.