It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn

The next 72 hours are key.

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1. Happy Talk

Back in the Before Times I would devote Friday newsletters to more . . . encouraging topics, in order to balance out the crushing morosity of my normal output.

I want to do that again today.

Right now, alarm bells are going off all across the country because of COVID. We are having—just like …