Hello dear Abigail,
So nice to see you here. Thank you for the kind words. I think you and I share frustration over the conflation of science and opinion. Really important decisions are corrupted by emotional response to one political view or another. Finding objective answers is hard enough even with proper study. When emotions enter the equation, there is just a muddle.

I hope the virus has spared you and yours. It has spared my family, so far, although it has taken at least one friend and few distant acquaintances. New York seems to be the St. Giles in the Fields of the COVID pandemic. It's kind of surreal being here.

Please be well in sunny Portugal. Again, it was very good to hear from you.

With great affection,
AG