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Maybe the boar identified as a lion...

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Jul 22, 2023Liked by eugyppius

I hope for the sake of the German people that they take this seriously and wear their masks, but not the blue ones as everyone knows that lions hate the blue ones.

Can Drosten please be paged for an anti-lion potion?

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Jul 22, 2023Liked by eugyppius

Expert these days means idiot. For example this from a US Congress committee:

jim jordan: when the government told us the vaccinated could not transmit it (covid), was that a lie or a guess?

debbie birx: “i think it was hope”

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Jul 22, 2023Liked by eugyppius

I spit my coffee out when I saw the pic of the armored vehicle! Omgosh. This is funny!

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Between the age of 5 and 10, I read several books with illustrations of lions, and since then, I've seen many movies with the MGM opening titles. Setting false modesty aside, I believe these experiences have endowed me with considerable expertise in the field of lionology, and I must therefore add my voice to that of expert veterinarian Michaela Ebeling.

Not only is this definitely a lioness, but we can be near certain that it is carrying a new deadly strain of Covid. It has clearly escaped from the Potsdam-Mittelmarkt district by now, and nothing short of a general lockdown in Germany can address the gravity of this crisis. AfD members and voters should be placed in detention indefintely as a precautionary measure, since they are a potential source of assistance to the lioness.

Since the lioness belongs to a protected species, it can on no account be shot or molested in any way. German citizens will have to stay home and stay safe on a permanent basis. Brussels can periodically review the need for an extension of safety policies beyond the German borders. The German borders will, of course, remain open to all seeking asylum, including lions.

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Jul 22, 2023Liked by eugyppius

All of those scared should stay home and leave the rest of us alone.

This works. Equally well for covid, lions, Alzheimer presidents,, soccer hooligans, asteroids, ufos and random penguins.

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Jul 22, 2023Liked by eugyppius

It would seem that our beloved Authorities became so profoundly addicted to their Fear Crack-Pipes during the Great Pseudo-Plague (and the intoxicatingly thrilling highs of unfettered power it granted them) that they're now suffering agonising withdrawal symptoms. They appear to be in 'Cold Turkey', replete with hallucinations of marauding monsters, so frantic are they to get everyone terrified again and returning to their plague-bunkers in self-imposed isolation.

Unfortunately, the poor souls appear instead to have prompted a bored shrug and a yawn from ordinary people, who may in their behaviour if not yet their conscious thinking be signalling "Oh bog off, you silly, self-important panic pornographers; we're sick of your swivel-eyed hysterics and we're wise to them."

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I’m waiting for your minister of health to opine that the lion is carrying a deadly strain of felinepox, a newly discovered relative of monkeypox, that could threaten the whole world if Germany doesn’t close its borders and completely shutdown until this critter can be caught and the entire country jabbed with now underdevelopment vaccine that’s part of Operartion BlitzVax!

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It's ManBearPig! I'm Super Cereal!

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This is better than anything that's come out of Hollywood in half a century. Just glorious.

But please. Tell me. Germany managed to produce you. How did it also produce so many of *them*?

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Jul 22, 2023Liked by eugyppius

Well, I think that a bit of social distancing would allow the lioness to eat only one German at a time. So please practice. Has a task force been set up by the way? Has the imperial college published any model of expected casualties from the lioness if we don’t lock down? Any track and trace app available?

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Well at least we are comforted, lioness or boar, by the general overall compliance of the German citizenry to follow the mayors orders.

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Jul 22, 2023Liked by eugyppius

Have they no pride?

...I'll get my coat...

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Jul 22, 2023Liked by eugyppius

Do you have big wild cats in Germany or in Europe? Cougars/Pumas/Mountain Lions have attacked and killed people in the US. It's rare, but it happens. Alligators have killed a few people in Florida this year. They just photographed an Eastern Coyote ( a coyote-wolf hybrid) in the neighborhood I grew up in suburban Philadelphia. They've returned to the area and have killed some pets. And, of course, because we're crazy in the US, we do occasionally hear about a lion or tiger on the loose in some neighborhood...or bears playing on the backyard swing set or trampoline.

It could happen. There's still hope. :)

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It's not a cold or flu, it's a deadly virus....too. It's not a horse, it's a zebra. Or, if you are an African doctor, it's not a zebra, it's a horse. Perspective, ever important.

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Jul 22, 2023Liked by eugyppius

God help Germany if it ever has to go to war against Russia. In its current state, it will fare considerably worse than it did the last time around.

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