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Yes, I've just looked. Thank heavens! What more can I say?

Except that reports of the activities of the We Wuz Robbed Party still sound more like the kind of news we might expect from the most world's newest and most unstable countries. And they're still talking of their bargain-basement Elmer Gantry and the Almighty in the same breath...

Only recently did I find that my contention about collective madness had been expressed better than I could ever put it by no less than Friedrich Nietzsche:

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

This is worse than Covid 19, but it's the combination between virus and delirium that's far more troubling. As Samantha Power put it:

“You can be shocked but not be surprised at the same time”.

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