Fear is a survival characteristic, but it makes us vulnerable to the impulse—or demand—that we surrender control to somebody else." J.D. Tuccille in Reason
"The current outbreak is thought to have started in a food market in Wuhan, China. But uncertainties remain: Researchers are still not sure which animal started the outbreak. DNA evidence suggests it’s likely related to bats (which also were the origin of the SARS coronavirus outbreak in 2003). But there’s also new, unconfirmed evidence, that the illegal pangolin trade may be implicated." VOX
“To be clear, there is nothing good about twice as many people having this virus, or worse, dying from it, no matter how long the increase takes,” Governor JB Pritzker
" Wellington, Come on back!" Governor JB Pritzker
Recap Parts I-II
Wesley Dioneo is the only son of Chicagoland real estate tycoon, Martin Dioneo and his society maven wife Allyson. Martin Dioneo caught the COVID-19 virus from his Laplander personal trainer and is on a ventilator in Chicago's Northwestern Medical Center. Allyson is holed up in the couple's massive east Lake Shore Drive apartment building a score of yards from the iconic Drake Hotel.
Allyson has sent Wesley Dioneo to the family get-away home at Stop 30 lake Shore Drive in Long Beach, Indiana. Wesley is a senior at St. Ignatius College Prep and had been since the school shut down on March 16, 2020. Ally immediately sent Wesley to Long Beach, where he can be safe.
PART III: Wesley Invites fellow COVID -19 Refugees over to Stop 30 after Easter is Cancelled
Imagine that you are an eighteen year old male, you come from great wealth and privilege, that your father is leaning heavily on Death's Door with a virus that began because some goof wanted to dine on an exotic bat in Red China and that you have been living in isolation at a vacation home on the shores of one of the planet's most beautiful inland seas - a fresh water sea, mind you and that you are a person of great personal charm, intelligence, wit and Ambition - imagine.
Well, Wesley assessed all of his plus column blessings against the force of State and municipal executive orders, the skewed evidence of the dangers the virus COVID-19 might pose, the maternal apothegm hung around his neck upon stepping aboard the 509 South Shore Line eastbound train from Millenium Park to Carroll Street Michigan City, " Behave and have fun, but no parties." and determined after two weeks of isolation that enough was a feast.
Wesley said to himself, " The Nardo Bros. are lonesome and Halib keeps texting me. We can social distance right at home." Wesley text messaged his three pals, the Brothers Nardo, day students at La Lumiere and Halib Samer, teh smartest student at Marquette High School. to come over and Supe Smash Brother Ultimate the hours away and quaff some of Dad's Czech beers.
Declan and Brian Nardo lived in Long Beach year around with their parents and three sisters. Their Dad Sal Nardo was a Machinist with Areclor Mittal in Burns Harbor and their Mom was a grammar school principal in Chesterton. Halib Samer lived in a ranch house near the Botanical Gardens with his mother. Halib's Dad was killed in a car wreck in 2016 and his Mother worked in HR at Franciscan Hospital and grieved mightily.
Halib was accepted for admission to University of Michigan where he planned to study biology. Halib was a master of the intricacies involved in staying alive in Smash Brothers and ran teh Marquette High School Friday Smash Brothers after classes set-to that attracted scores of would be Smash Brothers winners. Halib took down most comers. He could not beat Amy Briddlestone. Not only the prettiest member of the student body but the most aggressive and deadly Smash Brothers paddle smith.
Halib was madly in love with Ms. Briddlestone.
Wesley was plagued with text messages from the fetching young Amy, Marquette HS Class of 2022. Amy made nice with Halib, in order to get close to the yummy and brilliant Wesley. There was no way that Wesley would have anything to do with Amy of a 'relationship' nature, because Halib was a friend. Wesley had developed a code thanks to his Grandpa Bosco. From his earliest memory, Wesley learned the lessons of human obligation from a man who lost toes walking that rigorous walk out of the Frozen Chosin in 1950. Wesley wanted to aspire to be just such a man and no Amy could ever part him from that path.
Wesley asked his three best friends over and they would eat pizza, subs, ice cream and quaff Czech beers, while trying to destroy one another in Smash Brothers Ultimate.
Wesley called Northwestern and talked to Dr. Jay Standring, MD - Notre Dame & Loyola Med. His Dad's temperature was still scary high and struggled to breathe on his own. He was off the ventilator. Wesley prayed.
An hour later called the Nardo Brothers and Halib Samer.
Coming in Part IV - Four men and six ladies violate the Executive Orders.
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