Have I been ill? Affirmative. How ill have I been? I've ...

 Have I been ill? Affirmative. How ill have I been? I've been so ill that I did no writing or editing all week long. Was it the commie-rona? Could be. I've lost most of my sense of taste and all of my sense of smell, but I have refused to succumb to the insidious disease.While I've accomplished very little, apart from finally finishing a couple books book, Ferling's Independence: The Struggle to