Sunday, October 18, 2020

Of Rats and Fleas

 The Black Death is believed to have been the result of plague, an infectious fever caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The disease was likely transmitted from rodents to humans by the bite of infected fleas.

 

HMMM…During this time of Trump, history has repeated itself, almost like that scratch on an LP record, the needle hitting the same indent on the vinyl, with the same noise, blaring over and over again. Be it the rise of Fascism, the resurgence of Racism, the dismal demand that women use metal coat hangers, the lines and lines of the unemployed, the McCarthy like admonition of are you now or have you ever been (not a Communist, because for the GOP that IS a good thing), but are you now or have you ever been a member of ANTIFA (Which DOES not exist). During this time of Trump, history somehow reminisces about two enemy nations, the Confederacy and Nazi Germany, and seems to conjure up self-described patriots who side with enemy nations and pretend their love for those who demanded democracy die is a good thing, as in there are GOOD NAZI’s, and QANON hate pedophiles, and slavery made America great then and it will do the same now!

 

Sorry, I got waylaid in what was, when I am just trying to refer to what is, a comparison if you will permit! Seems history has brought us a new kind of The Black Death, it is called, this time the CORONASVIRUS, (no, not the Pelosi/Schumer/Soros We Hate Trump Virus, or the ever never Chinese Flu) but COVID-19, AND believe it or not, it too is seemingly spread by rats (Trump/His Paid to Lie Physicians/the GOP/and the Faux News Team at FOX), and like The Black Death, these rodents have fleas, called MAGA, and it is the MAGA who seem to think spreading the disease is a Patriotic, a Warrior, a Freedom Fighter kind of action to take! Think about it, the Commander-In-Chief, lies about science, defends his chances to remain in office and out of jail, so delays and demands no testing, tracing, social distancing, or masks…kind of rat-like if you actually give it thought as to the fact that Trump knows the facts, and refuses to share them…and then there are the cult-like creatures who love the rat, call them fleas, or Proud Boys, or White Nationalist, or Mitch McConnell Senators or, Pay to pray Evangelicals or 1% Domestic Donor Terrorists, or FLEAS. And history once again has decided that if you fool with Mother Nature, you die, no matter how great the Stock Market or Dow Jones Index may be!