“Stella Bates, 70, said she is walking five miles a day
now and feels pretty good under the circumstances. She’s from Great Britain,
she said, where people are ‘less prone to panic’ having lived through things
like the Blitz.
“‘Being miserable is not going to do any good,’ she said.
‘If you have the news on all the time, you’ll go mad. I try not to listen,
especially when the president is talking.’”
—Steve Rubenstein, reporter, “Coronavirus
fears: If you touch an onion at Ferry Building farmers’ market, it’s yours,”
SFChronicle, March 21, 2020.
• Editorial Comment: Stiff upper lip, what? Pip pip!
Pile on.
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