Re: idiots walk among us

On Mar 8, 2025, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote
(in article <vqh2n1$2tjk$1@dont-email.me>):

On 3/7/25 6:11 PM, WolfFan wrote:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/marjorie-taylor-greene-promotes-
measles-parties-for-kids-amid-deadly-outbreaks/ar-AA1At4JL
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you can’t make this up. If someone tried to put this into the plot of a
work of SF, any competent editor would reject it as too stupid to allow
suspension of disbelief.

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You do realize that these were a thing back in the 1950s and 1960s,
right? So if someone is writing an SF work set in that era, it would be
perfectly accurate.

not around my parents. they were epidemiologists. Tropical disease
specialists, which is why the family spent a lot of time in Africa and the
Caribbean. someone suggesting a measles party would have been invited to go
outside and play with the hippos.

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That said, yes, of course, idiots walk among us. Are you just now
noticing that? :-)

i didn’t think that even MTG was _this_ stupid.