On becoming a maskmatician

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I got on the mask-making bandwagon about two weeks ago. Thirty-six masks later, I realize that I will never catch up with my son’s mother-in-law who has made 300 in Florida. But if more people made masks—even a few–there wouldn’t be such a shortage, especially now that the CDC recommends that all of us wear cloth face coverings in public. …

Coronavirus isn’t likely our worst hard time

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My Dad often said that nothing is so bad that it couldn’t be worse. This used to annoy me, him making light of my troubles. But of course he was right. None of my problems could compare with difficulties of his hardscrabble boyhood in the 1930s. I’ve thought about hard times a lot since the outbreak of coronavirus. Maybe it’s …