Today is World Refugee Day (not joking) and ABS is proud to be a resident of Florida because our state is pretty much the national leader in settling refugees who bring with them the disease diversity that was so lacking before this saintly legislation was drafted and passed in 1980
Prior to this act, we Floridians had been sad witnesses to our state's collapse in the World Disease Diversity statistics and we were falling way behind the rest of the other countries located in Holy Africa - a continent that was humming along fabulously and was well on its way to prolly having discovered the wheel by now if Europeans hadn't gone there hunting the exotic African Kings and Queens who were, under their own power, flying in circles around the pyramids.
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In any event, we Floridians, who up until now have only been able to point with pride to the billions we will spend restoring swamps to their natural pestilential state -In a five-year update from the U.S. Corps of Army Engineers released Wednesday, federal officials estimated that the cost of the massive restoration effort launched in 2000 and expected to cost $8 billion has doubled to $16.4 billion. And that’s in today’s dollars.- can now also point with pride to how it is we are restoring to its once healthy state our Diversity in Diseases; diseases such as Tuberculosis, Measles, Whooping Cough, Mumps, Scarlet Fever, and Bubonic Plague, diseases that were in danger of being wiped-out here owing to the plague of white racist science but were being thoughtfully preserved in Holy Africa by Witch Doctors, Shamanism, and jungle juju.