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<p class="MsoNormal">Eric writes:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“I have wondered whether trump in the presidency was like an adjuvant in a vaccine. Just having the antigen leaves room for highly variable responses, because if you don’t manage the inflammatory response that initiates the immune response,
you have only a weak control system. Trump was so awful in so many dimensions that he triggers inflammation in those who would have remained asleep under Clinton.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The mask protests like this one..<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/08/19/mask-wars-unrest-flores-pkg-dlt-vpx.cnn">https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/08/19/mask-wars-unrest-flores-pkg-dlt-vpx.cnn</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">..strike me as something that M. Night Shyamalan could not even invent. Say the guy at 1:40.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I should be thinking of these folks as my fellow citizens? Really?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is it just me or is maybe the “inflammation” getting a little out of control? For example,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the other day I was driving down a narrow part of the road in my residential area and pulled off to the side to let a car pass that was coming the other way. He (white middle-aged man) was not signaling, but as soon as I spent five seconds
off the side to let him pass he started screaming at me and waving his fist out the car window. Apparently I had dared to block his driveway. Is it really that hard for some people to get through their day?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It increasingly seems to me that maybe there is just all this crazy just below the surface, and all that can be done is to keep the inflammation down.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Marcus<o:p></o:p></p>
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