As a rule, I try to avoid reading idiotic non-science based pandemic stuff by MAGA people, on Twitter and the like. [“I blame our public schools, here.” Heh.]

But the author of this piece did a wryly-understated take-down of the would-be conspiracy theorists — on last week’s monkey truck crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike system. It is a fact that a woman contracted pink eye, after touching one of the cages, in a Good Samaritan fashion… helping to move the cages off the highway.

But from that thin gruel, Q-Anoners have spun up a tale that Bill Gates is attempting a real life version of the movie “Outbreak” — as a favor to (wait for it!) President Xi, in China. Uh-huh. Here’s the very droll send up of this nonsense:

…While concerns around the ethics and safety of animal experimentation are legitimate, the chances that the CDC purposely crashed a monkey truck in order to re-enact a more than 25-year-old movie — on behalf of Bill Gates and China seems… highly unlikely….

Well… that’s a smile. [Personally, the Q-theory sounds more like the original… Jumanji to me.]

Onward — now just above zero on the thermometer (after minus seven around 4 a.m.), and only minus 12 — on windchills. With the sun shining, that’s… progress.

Progress.

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