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IMPEDING THE PLAGUE
17th-century
Plague Doctor
The inhabitants of London in 1695 knew more about how to treat with a
pandemic than either our president or the current governor of Arizona, where
I have lived since 1956 and do today.
After the Bubonic Plague, believed to be carried by rats, wiped out
half of the inhabitants of Europe and the British Isles, surviving Londoners
found that avoiding all others in a public place began to slow down the
death rate. Tracing down all of the people who might have been
contacted by those exhibiting symptoms and issuing a quarantine, or period
of isolation for all of them, was the most effective methodology used to end
the pandemic.
I would be remiss if I didn’t warn people who attend any big
gathering at this time, that they are risking their lives..
After following the increasing death rate of people in Arizona due to
Covid-19, I find nothing to support in Governor’s Ducey’s retraction of the
strictest health measures possible. I have never found President
Trump’s attempts to deprecate the real threat to our survival the least bit
amusing.
Instead, members of the Arizona National Guard should be deployed to
check as many people’s reaction to a test for Covid-19, as quickly as
possible.
I hope that readers in any or all of our States support our
proposition.
… Or become a body parts donor, as soon as possible.
-Phil Richardson, Storyteller and Observer of the Human Condition.
