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Mar 8Liked by Joachim Klement

The reminds me of the Common Cold Reserch Institute which was a lab funded by the British Army and worked throught the Cold War to find a cure/vaccine for the common cold. Of course all this money was spent not to help the economy but to get an advantage over the Warsaw Pact forces by avoiding soldiers getting colds in wartime.

Despite huge effort no cure or vaccine was discovered and eventually the Warsaw Pact collapsed by itself, the lab was closed and soldiers still get colds like the rest of us.

Mind you the ending of communism helped the pedelers of "cold remedies" and "throat lozenges" expand into brand new markets.

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Mar 8Liked by Joachim Klement

It is not unusual for me to have a big sneeze while cruising down the highway. Worse than that was the bee that was flying around in my car while I was driving. That was scary!

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