Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.

… and not so much as an escape either, but rather as an acceptance of their shorn lot and curse, and as a movement towards a tribunal, where no trees or other life existed and where they would be forced to contemplate the stark searing stare and voice of Almighty God all day and all night, pounding out their flintless existence upon rocks, into huddlesome shelter, and cupping the occasional drops of rain in their hands as a glorious nectar given them by Almighty God, yea though that water be only their tears, forever and ever, until death them do part, or until a sign of blinding light lifted their cataracts.

Even if Congress cannot pass Medicare for All – they are destined to make a serious effort in passing BidenCare – which is a “public option” where citizens can opt into Medicare.

The general who turned the tide at Alamein was not, prior to his arrival in the Middle East, one of the very top brass; but he was a soldier, not a detergent manufacturer.