2020年3月21日土曜日

A fatal Old Maid game

I was supposed to be on flight from JFK to Haneda today.

Now I'm sitting in my new office, a.k.a., study since I was a fifth-grader. Cherry blossoms started to bloom on a beautiful Sunday, as if the tree does not know anything.

Everything changed since only two weeks ago.

At that time, I was concerned if my colleagues might feel uncomfortable with a visitor from Asia. I wanted to contact to see my friends over dinner or something, but decided to wait in order to avoid last minute cancellations.

Who could imagine that now the U.S. has the third-largest number of cases of the coronavirus?

It's like a fatal Old Maid game. Nobody wants to pull the joker, but you never know. Everybody on this planet is in this game, and it looks like the number of joker has been proliferating.