syphilis

 

here's an artists depiction of the varmint above. I had no desire to show you the effect that it causes because well, you might be eating. Looking at these images makes me want to throw up on an empty stomach.

there is not so much a famous person from history but his mother. The mother of Oscar Wilde had syphilis so long that she died from syphilitic madness - having the disease so long that it actually rots you brain. I once recorded a court case and one of the defendants had the madness. He smiled at me from the dock for 3 months. Didn't even acknowledge the guilty verdict - just kept smiling.

which brings me to now. Apparently after watching the news today there is an outbreak of syphilis in Australia. That begs the question, not only why now but also how now? Surely in this time of people keeping away from each other would negate the spread of such an illness. It's a sexually transmitted disease.

but even saying that I am in two minds. Part of me thinks that the only way to contract this would be by persistence and dedication. Then I think the only way to contract this is to positively abandon persistence and dedication. 

don't think about it - just do it. Looking around people behaving in a myriad of ways - its a metaphor for now. Some people are positively defiant about complying

good luck with that.

anyway, really. How did this happen? Especially now. I don't know if you've noticed but we kind of have this massive pesky disease going on right now.