Dysentery. Really.
I never thought I'd see the day when I'd be reading about dysentery being a thing in my local community. It's a problem everywhere, but by U.S. standards, it's especially bad here in Portland. I suspect it's partly due to too many people emulating what they saw in training films on pornography websites. But the main cause is probably all the human feces in public places from the Rose City's huge street population. They don't call them squatters for nothing.
I guess I'm not as shocked as I might have been 20 years ago. After Covid, no health crisis is implausible. Wait 'til the bird flu jumps to humans, and Mudface Caligula and Crazy Bobby are in charge of the response. Here in Oregon the boss may be in Palo Alto, leaving Chevy Vega to run the show. Don't take those jigsaw puzzles to Goodwill just yet.
In the meantime, wow, dysentery. I guess you could think of it as kind of a historical re-enactment.
I wish the local legacy media had people like Jack on their staff.
ReplyDeleteOld white progressive YIMBY yells at clouds?
DeleteJack a YIMBY?! Hahahahaha
DeleteLocal legacy media DID have staff like Jack...but the staff of those outlets committed the sin of getting "old," going bald or making "too much money." As a result, bright, young shiny faces who don't make those big (HA!) salaries have taken over.
ReplyDeleteHow many tax professors moonlighted as quasi reporters from the couch? Those old fired reporters..... They now run the WWeek.
DeleteWhen in Potland its best to wear a surgical mask on dry and windy days.
ReplyDeleteSummer east wind—-Portland’s west hills. Not a healthy picture.
DeleteDysentery of the mind as well….
ReplyDeleteAt least Trump won’t try to get me fired during a pandemic.
ReplyDeleteCould it also be from an upstanding member of another nation that was let in, you know without checking? I know checking for disease's isn't equitable but what are the chances?
ReplyDeleteNope, you racist dolt.
DeleteIt’s the hobo fent and meth heads.
Some diseases do come to the United States when American tourists bring them back from abroad. Dysentery is home-grown, or rather homeless-grown; one-third to one-half the cases in Multnomah County strike homeless persons or persons experiencing "housing instability," as the county health department politely puts it. Dysentery has been on the rise in Oregon since 2012. Nationwide we have about 450,000 cases of dysentery (shigellosis) per year.
DeleteA guy with diarrhea was eager to tell a joke, but he couldn't hold it in!
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