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From: "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: idiots walk among us
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 04:30:09 -0500
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On 3/7/25 6:11 PM, WolfFan wrote:
> https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/marjorie-taylor-greene-promotes-
> measles-parties-for-kids-amid-deadly-outbreaks/ar-AA1At4JL
> 
> you can’t make this up. If someone tried to put this into the plot of a
> work of SF, any competent editor would reject it as too stupid to allow
> suspension of disbelief.
> 

You do realize that these were a thing back in the 1950s and 1960s, 
right?  So if someone is writing an SF work set in that era, it would be 
perfectly accurate.

That said, yes, of course, idiots walk among us.  Are you just now 
noticing that? :-)

-- 
Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn
"They were careless people ... they smashed up things
and creatures and then retreated back into their money
or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept
them together, and let other people clean up the mess
they had made."  --F. Scott Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY