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Games We the People Play

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Ah, Teddy, calm down. Let us not cross into conspiracy theory. Take a long toke on your e-bong. We have a couple more games to consider. So, Carla, what do you draw from this game, Pandemic. What should we be doing?

Carla:

Well, I didn't know that. But it does show that you can make a buck off just about anything. But my game puts you in the middle of a solution; you feel like you're serving mankind. (I had a flash) My cousin Vinny was a contact tracer for awhile. But he had to give it up.

Tony:

And why's that Carla?

Carla:

He was hitting on some of the women. One of them called the cops. She's disappeared, can't be, ahem, contacted.

Tony:

I gotta pal, a real goombah, did contact tracing for six weeks before he realized it wasn't skip tracing, like he thought. He got Covid-19 trying to bring someone into custody. That was his reward for being the Good Guy for a change.

Me:

That leaves just you, Tony. You want to tell us about your game.

Tony:

Yeah, sure, sure, Me. Well, I looked into the government's games, and I gotta tell ya I was none too happy. I member back in the '60s they were stockpiling anthrax and all kinds of nerve agents all over the country. People would see these pyramids and think, Whatta we got f*ckin pharaohs buried here?

Me:

Er, Tony. Think we can keep it from conspiracy theory?

Tony:

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