Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for April 18, 2023

I sense George Carlin inspiration in this one.

There was a lot of confused thinking going on at the time, especially as AIDS was seen as a ‘gay disease’. Diseases do not work that way, but shades of Medieval thinking that bubonic plague was a disease of the immoral. Lead later to the catastrophe in Sub-Saharan Africa. When I was in South Africa in the mid 2000 on a UK Foreign Office mission to support SA schools, we were told that in some communities 45% of the population had AIDS. And that misinformation was leading to heart breaking stories like the belief that sex with a virgin would cure it… Will not repeat the stories I was told of where that lead, but they are at least as bad as you can imagine and probably worse.

Level 4 containment?

Ironically, one of the words he is retreiving is “muffin”…

The Ladies’ Church Muffin Club? They’re the top!

(≖_ʖ ≖)

I’m more interested in what the Ladies Satan Worshippers Club is having for lunch

Hey, lots of church ladies have great muffins, er, I mean ‘make’ great muffins…

Strikes me as rather far-fetched; but I do like blueberry muffins if you have any, ladies!