Political Pandemics
copyright © 2020 by Robert L. Blau

The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Democratic Party are jointly pleased to announce the end of the political pandemics caused by two of the most virulent viruses of recent years.

The melanovirus, aka MEVID-08, is characterized by an excess of dark pigment in the skin.  MEDVID-08 once ravaged the White House and was diagnosed in 20 per cent of the major 2020 candidates
for the Democratic presidential nomination. It was deemed under control on January 13, 2020, when the last infected candidate dropped out of the race .

The chromovirus, aka CHVID-16, causes a Y chromosome deficiency in the victim-candidate.  There was a particularly severe outbreak of CHVID-16 in 2016.  Catastrophe was averted only through the Byzantine wisdom of the Founding Fathers and the pig ignorance of some 63 million voters.  Up to 50 per cent of the 2020 Democratic candidates were diagnosed with CHVID-16, but crisis was averted when the last infectee dropped out on March 05, 2020.

A third virus, judeovirus (JUVID-19), bears watching, but is currently a mere speck on the horizon.

The Republican Party reports that it never has problems like that.