Inquiring minds want to know: what’s asymptomatic covid got do with anything anyway? More than you’d think, because during each day of mandatory covid testing chez SZ, one or two asymptomatic carriers have been discovered. In turn, everyone around them abruptly becoming “close contacts” of the disease and subject to lockdown. Not surprisingly, stories of absurd lockdowns circulate: A building was locked down when a plumber was fixing a toilet, so he’s spending fourteen days with the family that hired him. A mother organized a birthday party for her daughter and four friends, the building was locked down, and for the next fourteen days she was responsible for the care and feeding of five elementary schoolgirls. One man was finally able to leave his building, and while he was waiting to be tested, the neighborhood he was in was shut down and he couldn’t go home.