If you missed it, the hot new blonde in scaremongering medicine might be Valley Fever. She’s raised her pretty little headline, flipped her hair back, and asked you to check her out, but we’ve got bigger problems.
Connecticut River Valley Fever.
Valley Fever is caused by a fungus “that lives in the soil and is breathed in dusty situations, whether it’s a dust storm or around construction or excavation.” It is more common in California and Arizona, and only “5% to 10% of people who get Valley fever will develop serious or long-term lung problems.”
So why have they brought it up? Philadelphia and Kansas City are playing a game in Arizona in a week, and, well?
“If you’re just traveling to the airport and to the hotel and to the Super Bowl, you’re probably going to be fine,” Perkins said. “If you’re out hiking in the desert, you might want to give some consideration to your risk for development of Valley fever.”
Mask sales must be slipping.
Meanwhile, closer to my home, we have a far more severe infection that runs 24/7/365. I’ll call it Connecticut River Valley Fever. Vermont is a nasty shade of blue, and it leaks. The septage creeps across the Connecticut river and infects neighboring towns on the New Hampshire side of the valley. They, in turn, poison the wells of neighboring towns, spreading the diseases of liberalism across New Hampshire.
Granite Stater’s make jokes about people moving up from Massachusetts, which has been a problem for decades, but this is worse. And the only cure for it is the boot of tyranny.
We’ve seen our fair share of boots in recent years, which has inspired the despots to reach for more. The only prophylactic for that is state and local governments that resist the allure of that kind of power, and is anyone reading this convinced we’ve got that?
I’m not.
