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Panic among the pigeons

18 March 2020

5:32 AM

18 March 2020

5:32 AM

Life is a risky business. Danger is everywhere. In New York, even the pigeons are a threat. A friend recalled a graduate school class in which he was told that some 20 people each year die from diseases contracted from pigeon dung. Twenty people! Why hasn’t Mayor de Blasio confiscated all the pigeons? Banned people from walking on the same streets where the pigeons congregate? Enforce a regimen of ‘social distancing’ among the birds?

As of this afternoon, there are about 5,000 reported cases of the Wuhan flu in the US.

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