The Val Echo Issue 1511

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OUT OF THE BUBBLE

consequences and might be best avoided; can we call it the Rihanna principle?

Talking of mass panic and hysteria, the race for second place in the US election kicked off at the Iowa Caucus and descended By Ben Pryor into the kind of acrimony that makes the Donald’s Twitter finger twitchy. Due to The coronavirus continues to wreak havoc, a coding error, the results app declared with reported cases and deaths continuing almost everyone the victor. In the end to rise as it spreads to other Asian countries Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg and the world. Medical science is reporting (pronounced Boot-edge-edge rather progress towards a vaccine, but the than the butt gag we’re all trying to avoid timeline is months. Thankfully, the fatality making) tied with 11 delegates each. rate remains small and the disease broadly Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren finished survivable, if highly unpleasant. With third and Sleepy Joe came fourth, which the preponderance of recent pandemics is only a good result if a five-a-side team crossing to the human population from the is playing soggy biscuit. The Donald animal kingdom, at some point we might was busy making the State of the Union conclude a policy of eating anything that’s speech (which Nancy Pelosi tore up when been born, irrespective of how exotic or he finished) and being acquitted at his where it’s been since, comes with unwanted impeachment trial. A two-thirds majority


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