Thursday, November 20, 2025

A Wild Profusion of Orders

  The gauze closest to the man's eye was quite bloody.  The outer wrapping, not so much, until we got about an hour and a half back towards the city. 


  Because they're going to tell us how the pandemic started, the Detective's shirt sleeves were splattered with blood.  A suspected "media person" took an ice pick to the eye.  "I don't really care how it started.  I just don't want it." The Detective tried to open a file cabinet labeled in loopy lettering, cleaning supplies.  "Who keeps their cleaning supplies in a file cabinet.  I mean I'm not the shapest knife in the drawer, but even I know you keep paperwork files in a file cabinet." He rattled the handle.  "It's locked." 

  An Asian person in a white coat came into the clinic's area.  He went to a metal locker, unlocked it, and loaded a needle with medicine.  He didn't seem to notice us.  He went into a locked door where the other Asian people from the global health org had gone with a local nurse.

  Sunlight splashed the concrete pad of a floor in the clinic as people in suits came into the area.  "We're finally here!" One woman said.  

  "My husband will be so glad to know if I do or don't have AIDS," another woman read an index card.  Part of a script segmented to stay on schedule building a bunch of PSA's.  "I hope she doesn't.  She's hot." A young man read his index card.  The last suit in was a black woman related to Lateesha, the local nurse debating whether or not to take a long-term job at the clinic.



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A Wild Profusion of Orders

  The gauze closest to the man's eye was quite bloody.  The outer wrapping, not so much, until we got about an hour and a half back towa...