When Alexandre Yersin arrived in Hong Kong in 1898 to investigate the outbreak of Black Plague there, he was a shabby looking French speaker who was shoved aside by the proper British authorities, who had invited some very high profile, famous microbiologist from Japan to help them with the crisis.
Yersin managed to see some of the autopsies the Japanese were doing on victims and he was astonished that they never cut into the buboes, the swollen lymph nodes which gave the disease it's name: Bubonic plague. The famous Japanese pathologist examined and sampled liver, lung, spleen but not the buboes, which Yersin went right for, when he acquired a few bodies to examine in his bamboo hut and in the buboes was the answer: they were swimming with plague bacilli.
The Japanese identified the wrong bacteria, accepted the glory and gratitude from the Brits and went home.
Yersin identified the real culprit, the true cause of the plague, and he went back to his base in French Indochina and sent off his report to Louis Pasteur, his mentor in Paris, having named the bug, "Pasturella pestis" and Pasteur promptly renamed it "Yersinia pestis," and after 500 years of pestilence, the causative agent was finally known to mankind.
That led to an antiserum, which Yersin raised in cattle back in Indochina and when plague hit there, he was ready to save the locals. He is still revered in Vietnam for his work there.
Mad Dog suspects something of the same thing is happening now, in the wake of the 2016 Presidential election. Pundits are focusing their lights on everything from Steve Bannon to Russia to gerrymandering, but they are not cutting into the buboes: The buboes in this case are those Blue Wall states, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and all those counties therein which voted Obama twice before voting Trump.
It's got to be there the answer to Trump must lie. It's got to be those counties swimming with the causative agents.
And its to whatever the pestilence is found there, the anti serum must be raised.
Mad Dog has been ruminating, more or less incoherently for the past few posts about the failure of the powers that be, and how those at the bottom of the pay scale, at the bottom of the SES scale have reacted.
Mad Dog told stories about how it felt to be a grunt in the war on cancer, and he alluded to the grunts in the trenches of fighting crime in Baltimore (as seen in "The Wire") and in a variety of other settings. The people down below eventually get angry and come to hate in an unfocused way all authority and then a guy who promises to disrupt the hold the ruling elites have comes across with great appeal.
That is why Bernie appealed to the same group.
That is why Hillary was doomed even before she opened her mouth.
We call that a "change election," but even today the liberal half is clueless; read Twitter, Facebook and the same bromides, the same old same old is washing out of the same old faucets, about how hurt people are by the offensive Trump and all who sail with him, but what they do not see is that is exactly what those folks in those flipped counties want. They want those feminists, globalists, well educated on the top of the pile Leave It To Beaver types to feel hurt.
Until the Democrats come up with an answer to all that, Trump is safe and will be re elected and the Senate and House will remain in GOP hands.
The pestilence will continue.
Yersin managed to see some of the autopsies the Japanese were doing on victims and he was astonished that they never cut into the buboes, the swollen lymph nodes which gave the disease it's name: Bubonic plague. The famous Japanese pathologist examined and sampled liver, lung, spleen but not the buboes, which Yersin went right for, when he acquired a few bodies to examine in his bamboo hut and in the buboes was the answer: they were swimming with plague bacilli.
The Japanese identified the wrong bacteria, accepted the glory and gratitude from the Brits and went home.
Yersin identified the real culprit, the true cause of the plague, and he went back to his base in French Indochina and sent off his report to Louis Pasteur, his mentor in Paris, having named the bug, "Pasturella pestis" and Pasteur promptly renamed it "Yersinia pestis," and after 500 years of pestilence, the causative agent was finally known to mankind.
That led to an antiserum, which Yersin raised in cattle back in Indochina and when plague hit there, he was ready to save the locals. He is still revered in Vietnam for his work there.
Mad Dog suspects something of the same thing is happening now, in the wake of the 2016 Presidential election. Pundits are focusing their lights on everything from Steve Bannon to Russia to gerrymandering, but they are not cutting into the buboes: The buboes in this case are those Blue Wall states, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and all those counties therein which voted Obama twice before voting Trump.
It's got to be there the answer to Trump must lie. It's got to be those counties swimming with the causative agents.
And its to whatever the pestilence is found there, the anti serum must be raised.
Mad Dog has been ruminating, more or less incoherently for the past few posts about the failure of the powers that be, and how those at the bottom of the pay scale, at the bottom of the SES scale have reacted.
Mad Dog told stories about how it felt to be a grunt in the war on cancer, and he alluded to the grunts in the trenches of fighting crime in Baltimore (as seen in "The Wire") and in a variety of other settings. The people down below eventually get angry and come to hate in an unfocused way all authority and then a guy who promises to disrupt the hold the ruling elites have comes across with great appeal.
That is why Bernie appealed to the same group.
That is why Hillary was doomed even before she opened her mouth.
We call that a "change election," but even today the liberal half is clueless; read Twitter, Facebook and the same bromides, the same old same old is washing out of the same old faucets, about how hurt people are by the offensive Trump and all who sail with him, but what they do not see is that is exactly what those folks in those flipped counties want. They want those feminists, globalists, well educated on the top of the pile Leave It To Beaver types to feel hurt.
Until the Democrats come up with an answer to all that, Trump is safe and will be re elected and the Senate and House will remain in GOP hands.
The pestilence will continue.
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