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[PCIntern]

We had one in the first term: COVID-19, which almost no one predicted other than some chronic doom-sayers who got “lucky”. This time…who knows??? You have a group of deliberately ignorant miscreants in charge of the infrastructure of our federal government and a sufficient number of glad-handing, ass-kissing subservient governors, cabinet officers both state and federal, and state legislatures which deny the existence of reality.

One of the things I point out to my patients who neglect their health, both dental and general, is that not that many years ago, people died of the simplest diseases due to lack of medication (either because it was not yet invented or shortages) and lack of competent medical attention. Given that, there is no reason why someone can’t die today: there’s no immunity which has been conferred because someone went to a MAGA rally and chanted USA!! three hundred times.

When I was a kid, three other children died in my neighborhood of pneumonia which arose from a cold that evolved into bronchitis and then pneumonia. Three in a six square block area. Of a condition which today is treated with ten days of pills or at worst, IV antibiotics in a hospital. And that was just in one winter, 1962, in Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania.

We are returning to Stone Age in our thinking about vaccinations and communicable diseases. It’s not gonna take long for the new pandemic to take hold and of course, for the first quarter of a million deaths, it’ll just be a “hoax”. And it will be “under control”. And “decreasing”.

And tgen a celebrity will die. Think of Rock Hudson in the AIDS epidemic. That was a milestone and suddenly…it was real. I lost nearly thirty percent of my practice to that disease. I’m glad I’m semi-retired before this one coming. Hold onto your hats.