06-17-2020, 01:42 PM
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I took AIDS seriously enough to avoid unprotected sex. If I hadn't been cautious about such I would be dead. I had the sort of hair (strawberry blond over dark roots) that women killed for -- without trying.
I wear a mask anywhere in which public contact is reliably possible even if I have been told that the plague is declining. Well, it isn't declining fast enough!
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.