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Letter: Messes of our own making

By Michael McClafferty, Vancouver
Published: February 1, 2019, 6:00am

Five weeks of government shutdown, another school strike in our fair city and now our county (Meriwether Lewis must be relieved he was not the namesake) makes national headlines for hosting an outbreak of a disease that was officially declared eliminated in the early 2000s. It’s called adulting, and everyone from our national leaders to our local civic leaders to our fellow neighbor needs to get their you-know-what together ASAP.

And if we don’t, when that big once-every-300-years earthquake strikes, it will barely be noticeable amidst our idiotic man-made messes.

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