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In #Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death," the Prince builds a wall to keep out the plague that is killing the poor people he doesn't care about. In his castle, his rich friends party except when the clock strikes the hour & they freeze, realizing that time has passed & they are one hour closer to death than they were.

Attacking public health (this idiotic freeze on #NIH) is an attack on everyone's health. #MAGA's too. No wall can keep out #cancer or #dementia. Vaccines & research sometimes can.