FACEBOOK 11/20/20 This latest shelter-in-place is bringing me to ponder how mother nature sends Edgar Allen Poe’s Mask of the Red Death to our grand Mardi Gras party of life. The great teetering tottering tower of Babel that we call civilization is a very mechanical invention that can be knocked off center by natural submicroscopic viruses, which cannot even be seen in the microscope. From the edge of the cosmos zoom in to submicroscopic viruses. How’s that for the BIG PICTURE?