{"id":3505,"date":"2024-10-27T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=3505"},"modified":"2024-10-20T15:42:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T22:42:23","slug":"covid-and-the-evolution-of-man-by-bryan-grafton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2024\/10\/27\/covid-and-the-evolution-of-man-by-bryan-grafton\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Covid and the Evolution of Man&#8221; by Bryan Grafton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <br>The Covid wreaked its havoc upon mankind. Face masks were required for everyone\u00a0 now but the widow Mrs. Cornelia O\u2019Connor had gotten her Irish up and refused to wear one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cYou sure you don\u2019t want me to get some masks for you when I\u2019m out,\u201d Nicole, her next door neighbor in the apartment complex, asked her. \u201cYou should wear one all the time like I do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cYa mean like you do when you&#8217;re having loud muffled sex with your masked boyfriend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nicole ignored that remark but she didn\u2019t give up trying to save Mrs. O\u2019Connor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThe Covid and all its variances have gotten even worse, Mrs. O\u2019Connor. Booster shots are required every four months now ya know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cI don\u2019t care if they\u2019re required every day, I ain\u2019t getting one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cYou have to get one, it&#8217;s a way of life now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cYou mean like farming, alcoholism, and drug addiction. I swear Nicole that if you don\u2019t take that mask off every once and a while it\u2019ll grow right into your face.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nicole never took it off, not even when she was having loud muffled sex with her boyfriend, who always wore one too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Now despite mankind&#8217;s attempts to crush the Covid, Mother Nature took her own course and Mrs. O\u2019Connor picked up on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cLooks like that mask of yours has grown right into your face Nicole. You better have it checked out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cI already did and the doctor said that was perfectly normal. That my body was growing its own immune system. That skin would eventually grow a flap over my nose and mouth protecting me.&nbsp; Said it was something called \u2018evolution\u2019. Whatever that is?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Now Nicole wasn&#8217;t the brightest bulb that had ever been screwed into a socket but the mask did prevent her from getting the Covid. It didn\u2019t protect her however from getting pregnant, though she thought it would.&nbsp; She showed Mrs. O\u2019Connor her&nbsp; baby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWhat\u2019s this?\u201d Mrs. O\u2019Connor asked her,&nbsp; \u201cLooks like your baby&nbsp; was born with her own built-in flesh mask.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cShe was. All the babies are being born that way now the doctor said. It\u2019s that thing called evolution. Whatever that is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\" class=\"\"><br><em>Author is a retired attorney who started writing for something to do in his rusting years.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Covid wreaked its havoc upon mankind. Face masks were required for everyone\u00a0 now but the widow Mrs. Cornelia O\u2019Connor had gotten her Irish up and refused to wear one. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cYou sure you don\u2019t want me to get some masks for you when I\u2019m out,\u201d Nicole, her next door neighbor in the apartment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2024\/10\/27\/covid-and-the-evolution-of-man-by-bryan-grafton\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-Ux","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3506,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions\/3506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}