Editor’s Column: Common sense

I don’t begin to imagine plagiarizing the title of Patrick Henry’s famous essay will lend a similar impact to my little column, but I’m using the title just the same.
Once again the world is in the frenzied throes of paranoia, this time over another new virus: COVID-19, aka coronavirus. Doesn’t it make you long for the days when you didn’t know what bug was coming down the pike until it took you out? I…