So there's this from David McCullogh's The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914:
"[Dr.] Gorgas' analogy to explain the violent wave effect of yellow fever - the apparent absence of the disease followed by a sudden, vicious outbreak - was the exhausted fire wherein concealed embers lay in wait for fresh supplies of fuel. The arrival of several thousand non-immunes would be equivalent to heaping on dry kindling: nothing much would happen at first; then the disease would catch; the carrier mosquitoes would infect ever more victims with the deadly parasite, thereby creating more diseased blood for still more mosquitoes to feed on. Unchecked, the disease would flare into a monstrous geometrical progression of death, taking hundreds, possibly thousands, of lives." (421)
I've been reading this book because (1) my son gave it to me for my birthday last year and (2) I decided to make it part of my Daily Devotional Reading project (now in its 1,381st day).
Then there's this:
which I just picked up from Better World Books (my favorite online bookstore: great selection, price, and they do good things with their profits--check them out HERE) because I had happened to find the one copy of John Porcellino's King-Cat Classix that Half-Price Books had (and I wasn't even looking for it), read it and wanted more.
And then of course there's this:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/11/health/one-month-later-these-maps-show-how-quickly-covid-engulfed-the-us-again/index.html
Yep.
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