OK, I stand corrected. Perhaps I live too far north to know but I've personally never heard lung disease described as a blockage and/or suffocation. Suppose the lack of oxygen feels like being suffocated? Thankfully I wouldn't know.

I'll admit to not being totally up on all the modern graybeard malady nomenclature and did not realize all those pay-for-your-bad-habits-later diseases have been lumped into a happy acronym. Blocked did not register with me at all but there it is right in the title; Chronic OBSTRUCTIVE Pulmonary Disease, which apparently now includes emphysema. Who knew.

Either way, we can all agree that if you got some form of lung disease already and get this COVID-19 deal you're up Ye Olde Creek without a paddle.

It's hard to be a pedantic know-it-all sometimes. Every once in a while you take one on the chin and have to go look stuff up.

We now return to our regularly scheduled communicable disease banter.