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Are you ready for the final chapter in the Great COVID-19 Limerick Challenge?
That began by accident early in winter when Gary Hunt took fingers to keyboard, doodled out some pandemic limericks and posted them to Facebook. He encouraged others to weigh in with their own.
When they did, he passed them onto yours truly. âMaybe you could get a column out of this,â Hunt suggested.
That ended with Hunt collecting scores of limericks from dozens of doggerel divas. The winner of the Great COVID-19 Limerick Challenge was Blacksburg artist Sally Mook. (Her âprizeâ is lunch with Hunt and me, and thatâll happen early in May, just as soon as my vaccination is fully effective.)
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When the pandemic hit the US last spring, and states went into lockdown, policymakers and experts wondered about the trade-offs. Which would end up worse: damage to the economy from lingering restrictions, or the unchecked spread of a new and dangerous disease? âWE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF,â tweeted President Donald Trump on March 22, after what must have been many hours spent in careful contemplation. But a narrower question, too, drew significant debate: What would happen to the rate of crime? Would the Covid Age, with all its rules for social distancing, produce a stretch of rampant lawlessnessâor one of relative security and calm?