Now for something really important.

    Virus, virus, virus...that's all I hear. Meanwhile there is another crisis in the land which is totally being ignored. Why, it's so overlooked that some of you may not even know this terrible problems exists. It would be interesting to do a survey of you readers to ascertain how many of you have recognized this incipient disaster. Were the general population to awaken to this menace, concern about the virus would fade into the background. This is no time for the fractured response of 'states rights.' A coordinated Federal response is the only hope of bringing swift conclusion to this dire matter.
     It is beyond distressing and clearly brings us to the cliff of disaster to know how many of our fellow citizens confuse the words "lay" and "lie". Recently I heard some one say "I will lie this here."  The horror!  That's as bad as saying "I will just lay here for awhile."
     The Merriam Webster dictionary comes to our aid with this succinct tutorial.
What to Know

Lay means "to place something down flat," while lie means "to be in a flat position on a surface." The key difference is that lay is transitive and requires an object to act upon, and lie is intransitive, describing something moving on its own or already in position. Beyond the present tense, the pair can become more confusing because lay is the past tense of lie, and laid is the past tense of lay.

   Well, there you have it. Please do what you can to thwart this menace. Quarantined as you are, this would be a good time for you to review your grammar.

Takk for alt,

Al