INFLAMMATORIES

In revisiting my childhood, one of the things that stands out is disease. No, not brainworms, which can turn a grown man, an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, for instance, into a gibbering paranoid loony, but perfectly pedestrian deadly diseases that before widespread vaccination affected most children. Measles, chicken pox, and mumps. Had measles twice. Currently nowhere near Texas, a state I'm avoiding like the plague because it's filled with trouble-making chowderheads. But just in case, I've asked my regular care physician to include an antibody check in my yearly series of bloodtests.

Avoiding Texas is everybody's first line of defense.
Sadly, Texas often comes to you.
Life is not that easy.

We're lucky that smallpox has been eradicated. Otherwise Texas would be ground zero.
JFK Jr. is spiritually a Texan, as any review of his qualifications will tell you.
He is the absolute paradigm of chowderheads.

Vaccine misinformation, public-health conspiracy theories, chemtrail conspiracy craziness, AIDS denialism, and the berserk assertion that vaccines cause autism. Besides being a "rehabilitated" long-time drug user, environmental nutball, and nutritional apocalyptic.
With a pet worm.


"Worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died."


The best that can be said about him is that he is gustatorily inquisitive and adventurous.
On the other hand, he seems to have a thing against caffeine.
Which on a personal level offends me.
Pity the worm died.

In any case, his nonsense about autism, AIDS, chemtrails, as well as his support for Donald Trump, are all utterly detestable and condemnable. He is therefore an exemplary Texan.

The word 'mumps' originally meant grimacing, and whining, barking, or mumbling like a beggar or San Francisco street person due to painful swelling of salivary glands on both sides of the mouth, as well as testicular pain which often occurs.
In the case of most people it only lasts for a few weeks.
Not several years. Over two decades.

There's a vaccine against mumps. Have your children vaccinated.
Or they'll end up being spiritual Texans.
You wouldn't want that.



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