While pandemics are hard to predict, we’ve laid out a likely timeline of what comes next. Now is not the time to practice jazz violin: like the ant, now is the time to prepare. If Coronavirus behaves like other flu viruses, it will slow down a bit in the summer, but it could be back with a vengeance in the fall. We’re most likely in the second inning of this ballgame, not the eighth. All told, this has been very difficult - and it’s difficult for all of us, in different ways - but we’ve pulled through. Sure, we lost JCPenney, but they were going down anyway. If you look at this time as one big stress test of the human species, we’re passing the test. In fact, we’ve been through a lot worse - war, famine, Achy Breaky Heart - and we turned out OK. “Making it through” is kind of what we do. The good news is that we will make it through the winter. The moral of the story: ants are a-holes. “Well then,” replied the ant, “you’ll have to eat your violin.” “Please, sir, I am a solo violinist,” begged the grasshopper from outside. “Maybe you can go play a few gigs with your jazz orchestra!” replied the ant. The ant was warm and cozy inside his comfortably-furnished ant farm, when he heard a knock at the door. “I’m practicing my arpeggios, man,” he said, folding his long legs underneath him and retuning his strings. “You gonna store away any food?” asked the ant. In the classic fable The Ant and the Grasshopper, you’ll remember the ant worked hard all summer to prepare for the winter, while the grasshopper sat around playing jazz violin.
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