{"id":2458584,"date":"2020-05-18T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/john-colson-a-bit-of-brain-bulge-in-the-time-of-corona\/"},"modified":"2020-05-18T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T05:12:00","slug":"john-colson-a-bit-of-brain-bulge-in-the-time-of-corona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/john-colson-a-bit-of-brain-bulge-in-the-time-of-corona\/","title":{"rendered":"John Colson: A bit of brain bulge in the time of Corona"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My brain hurts, and before you say it, I know for a fact that I am not alone.<\/p>\n

Between the daily assaults of the statistical armageddon known as the COVID-19 plague that is rollicking around the world, the mental and emotional rollercoaster of seeing both the best and the worst of human impulses pouring out in response to that plague and the ongoing tragedy of mismanagement that has our federal government locked in a downward spiral, I feel that my brain is approaching that point where it needs to jettison a big chunk of data before it can accept a single new byte.<\/p>\n

Here at home, my wife and I have been following the stay-at-home guidelines without too much personal difficulty. And one recent balmy day, we went to a garden party of four at the home of some close friends, a wonderful sojourn punctuated by the buzzing of bees and the mewling of frustrated felines.<\/p>\n

Casting my gaze outside our little home-bound bubble, though, I\u2019ve been reading of the tribulations of health care workers around the U.S. and the world; that legion of masked and gowned warriors who have formed the front line of our global defenses against the Novel Coronavirus and its unholy offspring, COVID-19.<\/p>\n

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