A Pinocchio Public Service Announcement

Remember when we were growing up and part of growing up was learning stuff every day? 

And some of the stuff we were learning was useful and some of it like Algebra and Latin maybe not so much but we learned it and to varying degrees, we have retained some vestige of the knowledge we first acquired when we were growing up. 

We've been at this Pandemic Prevention Polka for just about a year now, but we keep screwing up the baby steps stuff. Some of us seem to have a brain so small, as Mr. Roarke the Athletic Director (and a no slouch at either Algebra or Latin) at Carteret Academy once exasperatedly exclaimed during a long, cold, winless prep school basketball season in the winter of 1970, 'if we put it into a mosquito's ass it would roll around and make a noise like a bee-bee in a boxcar.'  

Here it is: 

Subject to your questions, that concludes my briefing.
Figure of speech! Put your hand down!
-bill kenny