Celebrating The Pandemic That Fizzled

In late March 2009, a 20-year-old employee in our Scarsdale, N.Y., office came down with the flu just after she returned from a Mexican vacation. In short order nearly everyone in the office got sick, with the conspicuous exceptions of my wife Linda and me. We are the only over-50 employees in an office where everyone else is 20- or 30-something. We did not know it right away, and I …