Beginning with the opening sentence (above) I suspected we were in for a good journey. Very witty Carolyn - a trait desired but hardly attributable to Professors - even of / especially of / the english lit. variety - perhaps they should teach gym. Not that I'm accusing you of that career.

You seem to be working things out as we go Standard covid, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, now Delta-plus (in India) - I was going to say as we come out of pandemic - but that may be premature.😎