We visited the Great Huntley Oak this morning, it's always a pleasure to spend time with him. As ever, whatever troubles I bring to him, he's seen them all before, and covid's no different. At over 500 years old or more he's seen it all, he was about for the many plagues of the 16th and 17th centuries and he remembers the Spanish Flu too. Plagues aren't new, they're as old as the hills, we used to think them sent by maleficent Gods and malignant spirits, although it appears in this case, and in one way or another, we've become the maleficent Gods. In the past all we had was superstition and prayer to defend us, though today science gives us the ability to prepare for and mitigate such epidemic and pandemic plagues. I wondered why we hadn't. Even with his hundreds of years of experience the Great Huntley Oak couldn't answer that one.
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