Nice. I know it's bad to like invasive species, but I get excited when I see parakeets when visiting London. Kew Gardens is full of them.

Oh, and deaths lag behind the number infected. That's because it takes weeks from when someone is first diagnosed until they die. So, daily deaths in Italy and Spain probably won't peak for another week or more. Daily daths in the U.S. won't peak until mid-April.

I don't need any excuses to go to Taco Bell that's for sure.

There's an interesting theory I read that every experience you have had, or will ever have, has already been experienced at some point in history.

We think we're unique. That we're special. We're only stumbling in someone else's shoes trying to walk a better path than they did.

That theory is disproved if there is even one novel thing that did not exist before. There are many such things. Unless one speaks of being the absolute first to use something which even then does not preclude one from having a previously unexperienced event.