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DC Reade's avatar

I agree that it's putting on airs to say it. But I comprehend the temptation. I saw all of the live, unmasked rallies the former occupant of the White House held so that he could get his vanity fix.

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Phisto Sobanii's avatar

Haha. You watch TV?

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DC Reade's avatar

Yes. Big-time C-Span fan. Although I did spend a couple of decades abstaining from television, and heartily endorse the benefits of doing so.

One benefit is all the extra time that it allowed me to read books. So I had a little bit of layperson's scientific background when SARS-CoV-2 hit, having read both The Great Influenza and the much more prescient and relevant 2006 account by Karl Taro Greenfeld, The China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic.

Greenfeld's book is about SARS-CoV-1. Having read that book, I realized early on that SARS CoV-2 (aka Covid-19) was no joke.

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