The Incredible Shrinking News Tribune – in Plague times

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This is what I saw when I looked for the DNT on my front walk yesterday. It was folded over to half is already diminished size. Still, it had important information in it:

Its top story was word of an outbreak in St. Anns. Three deaths. Of course the Trump cult’s hysterics are furious that we should test every one lest we discover how widespread the virus got while their God was playing golf and firing anyone called an IG (Inspector General). They don’t want the many bodies being discovered in New York homes to be counted as coronovirus victims. No they want the snake oil show to push the drug used against Malaria. I know something about that drug. Claudia knew something else about it. It can kill people with a pacemaker. She has a pacemaker.

Next to the Trib is a book I bought years ago. Its one of three I have about pandemics. Guns, Germs and Steal I read a decade ago. I never got around to reading the one by Barbara Tuchman. But this book by Cantor is a much shorter book about the Black Death. I started reading it last night. Its all about something I’ve heard constantly in the news for the past twenty years. Experts have been warning us for decades that we are running out of antibiotics, More dread diseases are going to sweep over us. And no one is paying attention. Donald Trump wasn’t. Even as advisers like his trade adviser was warning him we were going to get his hard President Trump maintains no one told him. Just another cute lie that shows he’s really our first President telling it like it is. He probably gives good wet willies too.

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