Scientific
Method
by Vincent Barry
D’ja see
see the news item about the Texan in their 30s
who wanted to see if the virus was real? A
budding scientist y’cud call 'm. Oh,
I know, I know, “their” is
ungrammatical, but, frankly, the clip doesn’t
say whether “their” was a wannabe
Madame Curie who, y’know, harmful radiations
left with leukemia? Or a Galileo Galilei, whose
telescopic viewing of the sun left him blind?
Only that “they” attended a
party thrown by somebody diagnosed with COVID-19.
The thought, hypothesis really, was, according to
the Chief Medical Officer of Methodist Healthcare
in San Antonio, “to see if the virus is real
and to see if anyone gets infected.” You
know, hypothesis, test . . . . Just before
the patient died, “they looked at
their nurse and said, 'I think I made a mistake.
I thought this was a hoax, but it's not.’”
Hmm, modification of hypothesis. Scientific
method.
Return To This Writer's Story List And Biography<|>Read A Random Story From The Writers' Showcase
|
