Post-Pandemic World

Rub-a-dub-dub,
Three men in a tub,
And who do you think they be?
The butcher, the baker,
The candlestick-maker,
All put out to sea.

In the sanitized version of this nursery rhyme, which I read to my children and grandchildren, no one said why the butcher, baker, and candlestick-maker went out to…