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<\/a><\/p>\nThe first week of March I received an email announcing auditions for an upcoming performance with\u00a0A-KEEP<\/a>\u00a0Alabama Korean Education Economic Partnership.\u00a0 Given that we were in the middle of “tech week” for\u00a0ADT Alabama Dance Theater<\/a>‘s production of Cinderella we really did not need to have my daughter perform in any more shows.\u00a0 However, being the seize the teaching opportunistic home school mother<\/em> that I am, I could not resist.<\/p>\n I have a heart for people around the world, their cultures, and history.\u00a0 Given that we had recently read\u00a0The Korean Pentacost<\/a>, this audition was something I found time for.\u00a0 To be able to interact with real people whose English might be no better than our Korean is a learning experience to enjoy as it is the closest experience to traveling to the Asian country itself.\u00a0 Plus\u00a0Bruce Hunt’s<\/a>\u00a0(the author of The Korean Pentacost<\/a>)\u00a0account of the Christians in Korea in 1907 gave me a reverence for people of such courageous faith.\u00a0 *Little did I know that we too would have a unique opportunity to demonstrate ours.\u00a0 During this time news about COVID-19 impacting the United States through\u00a0 New York City was just starting to emerge.<\/p>\n Since one of my projects years ago when I worked in the pharmaceutical industry was to work with infectious disease medical thought leaders about a new drug to treat influenza called\u00a0zanamivir<\/a>\u00a0I had been scouring through the\u00a0CDC’s web<\/a>\u00a0site for information about this new strain of coronavirus.\u00a0 I recalled what these thought leaders taught about how quickly a pandemic could spread throughout the world given our modern travel habits.\u00a0 I knew it was a matter of time before it would be a local issue.<\/p>\n I sent an email expressing my concern and was relieved that the leadership at A-KEEP was on top of it.\u00a0 We attended the first rehearsal, received and signed papers to ensure all steps were being taken to protect the health of all involved.\u00a0 The following week rehearsals were moved to an online virtual platform.\u00a0 Approximately two weeks later the show was postponed until the end of August.<\/p>\n Weekly virtual meetings became one of our few contacts with the outside world of our home.\u00a0 I was busy following all the stay at home orders and shopping only once a month to feed our household.\u00a0\u00a0But then it hit me.\u00a0 Seeing Dr. Fauci with the president on video one day reminded me that I once shook his hand and presented him preliminary new product data with him and many of his colleagues.<\/p>\n I remembered that they are humans vulnerable to pride to fill their curriculum vitae’s with publications, speaking engagements, referrals, and political advancement within the medical and local communities of which they partake.\u00a0 They are subject to the quality and quantity their subordinate researchers support them with.\u00a0 The accuracy and speed of their testing equipment limits and sometimes fails them.\u00a0 And most of all the statisticians can “cook the books” or power their studies to say just about whatever the writer of the hypothesis really wanted to prove.\u00a0 \u00a0A professor of medicine at\u00a0Georgetown University Medical Center<\/a> taught me to be careful of the latter.\u00a0 He repeated frequently, “Figures lie and lairs figure.” Interestingly, his family origins are Korean.<\/p>\n Those 10 weeks of almost complete isolation (except for grocery store excursions) also helped me to reflect on what I believed. I wrote about uncertainty.<\/p>\n Uncertainty Has Always Been the Reality<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n