The Cure for Covid: Coke Is It!
The biggest taste you’ve ever found!
Coke is it!
The one that never lets you down!
Coke is it!
The most refreshing taste around!
Coke is it!
Coke is it!!
Mid-80’s Coca-Cola advertising jingle
I was tending to one of my patients last Thursday when I got the sniffles. By the time I sent the little girl on her way, her fractured forearm freshly splinted, my leaky nose had been joined by a scratchy throat.
I did the responsible thing: I handed off my remaining patients to another physician, hung up my stethoscope and high-tailed it out of there.
That’s where my stethoscope should stay, in the learned opinion of one of my American colleagues. Disturbed by a blurb I published last month — Let The Unvaccinated Care For The Unvaccinated — he offered up helpful career advice on (anti)social media: “You should hang up your stethoscope and become a taxidermist.”
To which I retorted, rather symmetrically: “Get stuffed.”
The satirical slant of my short essay had escaped him, evidently. “Satire”, British activist Maajid Nawaz once explained, “is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant…
