Sorry, but I can’t avoid the 900-pound virus in the room – hopefully not in the room itself.

I’m among the growing many who think the COVID-19 thing is more hype than horror, though it remains duly entrenched in the no-fun zone. The disease’s rockstar status is the first in what will undoubtedly become a long line of diseases spread through intimate social media contact. It’s more a cyber disease than a real-world pandemic, while adding an odd literal credence to the term “going viral.”