I remember, back when Pestilence showed up, thinking that Famine and War would surely follow, most likely in that order.
Now War is having a little romp in one corner of Europe... and, while disruption of Ukraine's agriculture is surely reducing the next crop, Tsar Vladimir's shipping blockade is already preventing the previous crop from going to places where it's needed, notably the poorer parts of Africa and Asia.
The ensuing regional outbreak of Famine will lead to further mass migration (facilitated, no doubt, by various government-sponsored transnational organizations)....
Latest thing in the headlines: monkeypox. Hmmm. Monkeypox. Monkeypox*.
Ah, right. Famine will make people more susceptible to various flavors of Pestilence, and drive people, including infected ones, to migrate to places where there's promise of food, bringing Pestilence along with them. Refugee resettlement programs will hastily spread them everywhere, because it's so much better to move people around than to try to help them in situ.
(Those desperate masses trudging northward through the Darien Gap? Some of them trudged all the way from Africa and Asia; apparently they have the miraculous power to trudge on water. Expect more of this, especially after our tax dollars dollars conjured out of thin air go to building a highway through the Gap.)
And, looking back to yesterday evening's post: Famine brings War, which only makes things worse. Round and round it goes....
* (Does best impression of Petey Otterloop pondering a wasp on a manhole cover, while being unable to dig up the strip in question.)
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