Hello? Hi Catherine. You read any good poems? I feel like poetry is private. My poetry is my business. Why did you read that poem before?

Because I'm losing my mind. All of my boundaries are in flux because I'm so confused by this whole situation that's why.

If listeners send in the poetry they've written would you consider reading it on our call?

Absolutely.

Hmm.

What if some of the poems come from an account that seems like a totally legitimate account?

And could have been anybody anybody we don't know and some of the poetry is just

about the marvels of the majestic elm tree. Yeah I mean have we gotten one of those emails yet?

I have a feeling we may.

Anyway.

Anyway.

Some terrifying sounding news going around.

Yeah, we've actually gotten questions from listeners about this too.

But yesterday, there was a story that was like there's a new mutant strain of coronavirus that's even more transmissible than the one we already had.

The headline was, study reports mutant coronavirus that may be more contagious.

Mutant coronavirus?

Right, well, Mutant is a word that has negative connotations, right?

Despite so much work done by the Ninja Turtles.

Yeah, viruses mutate, especially RNA viruses and they change and the hope is that usually they become less severe.

You know, the disease becomes less severe.

Because if a strain is killing people, then those people don't pass it on.

Whereas people with milder disease might be out there shedding it and over time you get a less

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