{"id":11030,"date":"2021-02-25T18:55:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T23:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=11030"},"modified":"2021-02-25T18:56:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T23:56:46","slug":"life-in-a-plague-reality-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/11030","title":{"rendered":"Life In A Plague Reality Show…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m out for my evening walk as I’m desperately trying to stay active in some limited fashion while trying to avoid the plague, and and I’m thinking that either this plague or social isolation is going to get me, one or the other, and suddenly I realize Firesign Theater only played the last half of that show Beat The Reaper…the part where one lucky contestant has to guess what fatal disease they have, and Beeeet The Reaper!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But the first half is a dozen lucky contestants get to run through a spray mist of some deadly disease and race to get the vaccine. 12 lucky contestants, but only 6 doses of vaccine! But it’s okay dear friends, because the odds of actually contracting this weeks’ disease is only 50-50. Last week it was Ebola and almost all our lucky contestants managed to Beat The Reaper.<\/p>\n

Let’s have a big round of applause for this week’s lucky contestants! (music plays) Who knows what this week’s racers will have to face. Maybe they’ll make it to the shots in time! They’ll only find out when they get to the vaccine station and try to grab a seat before the others do. Maybe the rest won’t even catch the disease!<\/p>\n

(Clock music plays…)<\/p>\n

Oh I’m sorry…you didn’t Beat The Reaper. But aren’t they a swell bunch of contestants. (music plays) Let’s let them see the consolation prize, brought to us here on Beat The Reaper by our favorite sponsor, Ralph Spoilsport coffins…the World’s Largest New Used and Used New coffins here in the city of (deep breath) emphysema.<\/p>\n

Let’s just look at the extras on this fabulous coffin…star studded mud guards, chrome fender dents, wire wheel spoke coffin dollies, two-way sneeze through air vents, sponge coated edible coffin handles, fully factory equipped satin cushions from our fully factory equipped satin cushioned factory. Yes dear friends it’s a beautiful coffin with doors to match! Birtch’s Blacklist says this coffin was Stolen, but for you dear friends complete price: only two-thousand-ninety-five hundred dollars in easy monthly payments of twenty dollars a week twice a week and never on Sunday! (music plays…audience applause)<\/p>\n

Why isn’t this a reality show we can watch now? It’ll be a ratings hit!<\/p>\n

Oh wait…<\/p>\n

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