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Beware the Ides of March 2022 Part Ii

Ten: A New Global Health Scare, 2003 After accumulating reports of a mysterious respiratory disease afflicting patients and healthcare workers in China, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Singapore and Canada, the World Health Organization issues a heightened global health alert. The disease became famous under the acronym SARS (for Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome). elemental forces of style at large which indiscriminate merciless whims extant ask Homer Simpson or Marge g'head and even tap a local, county, or state Sarge gent on the shoulder, cuz he or she would moost likely agree that this Month predicated on The Gregorian calendar me didst axe Mister Google, (who whiz courtesy enough prithee) to validate premise about when Time Construct came a boot re: (named after Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced it in October fifteen eighty two) from that date to present, the most widely ant queue test used civil calendar, and when brand new (involved approximately 0.002% correction knew this margin of error in length of Julian calendar year) allowing hue man accurate measurement passage as days, weeks, months...elapsed unimportant to the average Joe, (not quite five hundred years ago) returning home on his emu no matter the gender named Matthew cuz this flightless fast-running bird dinned, poe whit lorry yet (wannabe) nose tubby directed related door sill finned dog gone harassed primate hoo haint sinned graced with surname Harris, and gladly boasts being full of wind which trivia finds this barred bard (as iz his usual wont i.e. digress sing from primary col lord thread) from initial intent, vis a vis, how all life forms stretching within the bounds of quisling to an affable, convivial, and filial King Crimson (reddit in the face), yet knew everything like kin ace that comprised tome base comprise zing knowledge booking (to chase winter blues) at getaway gracefully at Bedrock Cave with proprietors of said place Barney Rubble and Fred Flintstone offered ample space to discuss preparations to cope with onset of infrequent roaring blizzard (via ominous clouds that didst trace) plus minimizing setbacks affecting the then most advanced stone age during wrathful outbursts from beige flesh toned gabbing Goddess, whose gentle giantess goodness, one could gauge which genteel manners evident also asper her page gave inside information, how to batten down hatches while tethered like a puppet on the then much younger global stage.

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