I have been thinking a lot about fear lately, and how much it behaves like a virus. How it can spread insidiously, person to per-son, or airborne, through new media and old, faster than we can contain it. How it induces so many of the same symptoms as a virus does: sweating, palpita-tion, nausea, shivering, and some-times an almost overwhelming desire to curl up under a blanket in a dark room and stay there. How once fear has infected you, it is hard to get rid of, but ex-tremely easy to pass on to others.