She told me that the airlines never tell the peons (her) what's going on, but her understanding is that cancellations were due to weather, but mostly ATC, or air traffic control.
"Sickness?" I asked. She didn't know.
I said, "We live in such bizarre times." She could have interpreted it in many different ways, but long story short, she is "one of us."
I could tell. She NEEDED to know she isn't alone in her thinking. We're all so worried about offending someone, or being called a name. Pftt