Ms. Ripple and I are invited last week by new friends, a lovely couple Ms. Ripple met at a Buddhist retreat last summer. Imagine my shock when the woman asked us to take a covid test so everyone could be "safe". If it were just myself I would have declined the invitation right then and there. Unfortunately Ms. Ripple is not a covid skeptic. We'll take the freaking tests which will show nothing. Funny thing is, the tests I have are long expired...