Spring has sprung in our little town. Fresh beginnings… At last. …and now, on to lesser matters:
- Remember hearing about the Bubonic Plague? And how it came from Black Rats who came off the boats returning from the Far East hundreds of years ago? .. And then how it did not really come from the Black Rats but from the ticks who lived on the Black Rats? And then studies recently revealed it did not come from Black Rats, but from the Central Asian Gerbal? …And just recently a study claims the Plague was really spread by filthy people who could have stopped the Plague in its tracks – if only they had been cleaner. Me? I suspect the Plague could have been spread by unwashed immigrants who were trying to broom away some kind of flea bitten rodents from his or her master’s house and things got worse from there. The whole story reminds me a bit of the Covid one, where we still don’t know, or believe, for sure, where Covid came from (i.e., A meat market in China? A weapons lab in China? Dr. Fauci’s imagination?) …And did anybody make a fortune off of it? …And, was/is it a ‘Left Wing Hoax’? Or, just an excuse to take away our Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness from our Freedom loving people? Granted, an untold number of people died from it, but that is not the point; so say many Anti-Maskers & Deniers. The Progress of Man is on a narrow and winding road.
- The paragraph above takes me to wondering about what we are capable believing in and what we are capable of refusing to believe in. I suspect those who believe in a specific Religion think all other Religions are far fetched to absurd – where theirs makes sense and is Truth Undeniable. I also have taken to the idea that we humans tend to believe in what we want to believe in…and tend to not accept what we don’t want to believe. (For example, I have ‘acquaintances’ who do not believe Climate Change has been caused by human activities – because they do not believe their God would grant so much power to man.)
- I read in Colorado, due to Ice Melts (due to Climate Change), ‘They’ recently discovered a ten thousand year old hunting weapon. Questions to be asked: 1) Do Christian Fundamentalists deny the merits of this ‘Discovery’ by the virtue of man not having been around that long? 2) What was the guy doing walking around in the snow, anyway? 3) Maybe he was a Neanderthal? 3 1/2) And are Neanderthals human? I think they have/had an opposing Thumb, which could qualify them as such. Studies show Homo Sapiens frequently ‘mixed’ with Neanderthals and many humans of today now have Neanderthal stuff in their genes, or wherever. Maybe samples of our urine could show Neanderthal traces, like the ‘Forever Chemicals’ which are revealed in our urinations….if you choose to believe in such things.
Two quotes:
- “Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light … and then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that too. It sounds interesting.” -Either said by Lord Wickersham, advisor to the king of England, in 1356…Regarding stopping the Bubonic Plague…Or by -the Victim and Former President Don j Trump in the year of our Lord 2020…you could look it up.
- “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” -Either by Alice in Wonderland, Or by -the Victim and International Economist: Don j Trump. (2015) You pick.
That’s it for the week. And a fond “Hello” to Roger, the poet…wherever you are…
