A way to shake out Covid-19?

It’s 7:09 am on Wednesday morning and I’m preparing the morning coffee. Suddenly the roof and the rest of the house rattle both noisily and strongly for a few, long and disquieting seconds.

I can’t quite make sense of what happens. My wife erupts from the bedroom and screams “It’s an earthquake!” She was still in bed and could sense the tell-tale lateral motions of the tremor. Just as we needed this in the midst of the pandemic!

We turn on the local radio and it says that the epicenter of what was a 5.7 magnitude earthquake, centered near the city of Magna, next to the Great Salt Lake and 33 miles (53 km) away from our home as the crow flies…

I check if there was any apparent damage to our house, find none and later learn that even though no injuries were reported near the epicenter, the Angel Moroni, standing on top of the Mormon Temple, in Salt Lake, got his trumpet knocked off.

Too bad, the faithfuls should now give him a much more stable instrument like a guitar that the Angel would hold with both hands, plus a strong strap to back it up, and teach him to sing and play “Shake, rattle and roll!”