A Reprise: Goggles, Gloves, And Masks
A trip to the grocery store should not be deadly or make you and/or your loved ones sick.

Protection against coronavirus: Comfortable disposable gloves that work with touch screens -- I have been wearing the Saloncare brand at the top. I know they work with touch screens. Get a small enough size and you really won't notice they're on. I got small; Gregg got extra-large. 100 per box.

If those aren't available, try these.

Goggles. These seem good -- and aren't expensive.

Masks. I am of the mind that something is better than nothing, and you can put a cut-out bit of a vacuum cleaner bag inside yours to make it block tiny coronavirus particles.

These take a while to come but are better than nothing if things get worse or remain the same. Gregg and I have the gloves and I asked him this morning to order masks and goggles.

Vitamin D also seems important to take. I take 5,000 iu, which leaves my level at about 50, very good but not too high, but I don't go outside really, so maybe I need more than you do. You should ideally get your level tested, but for now, at least 1,000 iu seems like it might be a good idea. From what I've read, most people are low in D.

Also zinc glycinate -- the best kind per the host of shitty studies out there that I read in the middle of the night a few weeks ago.

PS My "science-help" book, "Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence," makes a great gift. It's highly practical book (and darkly funny, too) about the actions to take to transform yourself.

A thing I recommend as a gift -- possibly a gift for yourself!

It's this incredible snail face cream I've been using -- a Seoul-aceutical. Of course, being me, it's the $16ish version of the $80 or $90 cream everybody else wears, but with the same active ingredients in the same amount. And in a nice jar, too, and not a tiny one, either!

Makes my skin feel like velvet, and people I haven't seen for a while keep saying, "How come your face has no lines?" Okay, French sunblock is part of it, but this stuff seems to do something that fills out your skin in a nice way and disappears some of the big ridges you'd otherwise have when you are no longer 22!