RE: https://flipboard.com/@wired/security-news-f9no9s7gz/-/a-FWPOHMA3RgqlNdOGOt9KHQ%3Aa%3A3199480-%2F0
SCREWWORMS.
IN THE USA. AGAIN.
The HUMILIATION!
I'm old enough to remember when we first GOT RID of #screwworms, in the 1960s. It was, truthfully and appropriately, represented as a triumph of modern science and technology, and of American boldness and initiative. Even in the right-wing circles in which I was brought up, it was celebrated. The American conservatism of that era took pride in the use of technological power to subdue the worst aspects of nature, for the benefit of all our people.
Only later, after coming over to the Left, did I reflect on the ghastly racism and arrogant exceptionalism that had motivated our malign neglect of the continuing #screwworm problem in other nations. I have always had a morbid fascination with plagues of all kinds, and I remember thinking consciously, in the 1980s, specifically about screwworms in the context of racist exceptionalism — how abysmally foolish it was to rest content with eradicating them only in the USA. We should not have stopped until all other nations had gotten all the help they might need to solve this horrible problem, and there was not a single screwworm fly left alive in the wild anywhere in the world. It was stupid to think we could be safe with anything less.
And now, because of the sociological sewer of so-called #MAGA, we are confronted with this waking nightmare once again.
What #MAGA is doing is the very opposite of making America great.
Bruce MacDonald
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