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Quarantine

Take our mayor, please.

Calvin Trillin

June 10, 2009

Mayor C. Ray Nagin of New Orleans and his wife have been placed in quarantine after another passenger on their flight to China exhibited flu-like symptoms.      –The Associated Press

Our laws on quarantine are strong, But China’s are much stronger. Not strong enough, it’s said at home. They’d like him held much longer.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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