Though I realize that you might find the subject lines, which will identify the topic, annoying because you don't want to think about this anymore.

It's an event and it's current. One might even say it's ongoing. There are new and different reports in the news to bear this out. It fits the parameters of this board.

Do we really-really want to start carping on repetitive themes, like the evils of taxation, the backwardness of Islam, and the moral bankruptcy of the left? Whatever would we talk about? The weather and everyone's health?

"My aunt died of influenza: so they said. . . . But it's my belief they done the old woman in. . . . Why should she die of influenza? She come through diphtheria right enough the year before. I saw her with my own eyes. Fairly blue with it, she was. They all thought she was dead; but my father he kept ladling gin down her throat til she came to so sudden that she bit the bowl off the spoon."