OED has the first occurrence in 1666:
1666: G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus i. 2 Some [diseases] do more generally haunt a Country..whence such diseases are termed Endemick or Pandemick.
Later today I have to poke around and find the extended article that someone has written about the evolution of this word.
“And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one’s work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”
One on photography during this time.
One on reading and appreciating Shakespeare during this time.
One obituary that makes me thing I should use this time to walk all of the blocks of Philadelphia. Easier now, with runkeeper and other apps as I could create maps each time. Hmmmm…
