Monthly Archives: March 2020

North Fork Virginia March 19, 2011

March 19, 2020 – 5:57 pm

In March 2011 I drove down to the North Fork of Virginia to visit my ailing friend, Barbara Mosely. Her husband, she, and I walked in the late-winter sun and I mentioned I might take a dip in the river. I did so and felt the cold of a passenger who had abandoned the Titanic […]

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Moi Pendant Les Temps de le Peste

March 18, 2020 – 6:25 pm

In 1947 Gailliard published Albert Camus’ LE PESTE or THE PLAGUE. The novel tells a tale of the Bubonic Plague hitting the Moroccan city of Oran. The citizens first notice dead rats in the streets and then people exponentially succumbed to the deadly epidemic. The Prefect at first slow to understand the enormity of the […]

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Etaples France 1917

March 17, 2020 – 6:32 pm

Accoriding to Wilipedia the major UK troop staging and hospital camp in Étaples in France has been theorized by researchers as being at the center of the Spanish Flu. The research was published in 1999 by a British team, led by virologist John Oxford. In late 1917, military pathologists reported the onset of a new […]

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Wash Your Hands

March 16, 2020 – 5:09 pm

99% of men at a Yankee game refrain from washing their hands after a visit to the Men’s room. There was something macho about this lapse in cleanliness so far from godliness. As a Red Sox fan I was no different from these Yankee cocksuckers. Covid-19 has converted me to frequent hand-washing. My fingers no […]

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Masque Of The Red Death

March 16, 2020 – 3:47 pm

Two weeks ago I was tramping off Mount Kilimanjaro. The Kili Initiative team were happy to be back in Marangu. I got on the internet and checked the news outlets. Italy was shut down 100% and the Pope wandered the streets of Rome blessing the faithful, but the virus resisted all measures. I felt fine […]

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