Saturday, November 14, 2020

Trump the 21st century Typhoid Mary


The now escalating covid infections and deaths in America, greatly worsened by Trump's delay, denial, denigration and superspreader events, brings to mind the saga of Mary Mallon, A.K.A. Typhoid Mary. Between 1900 and 1915 Mallon (1869-1938), an immigrant Irish cook, infected 53 persons, 3 of whom died, from typhoid fever. She was an asymptomatic carrier, who infected the unsuspecting in a number of homes and institutions which employed her. First quarantined from 1907 to 1910, Mary went right back to servant cooking and infecting more close at hand. Her second quarantine lasted for her remaining 33 years.

Compared to Trump's infection and death stats, Typhoid Mary was an amateur. We don't need to quarantine Covid Donald for 36 years like his contagious mentor.....just the last 72 days of his catastrophic stint as hired spreader of the worst pandemic in a century.

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