Monday, March 30, 2020

The Remedy Worse Than the Disease



I sent for Ratcliffe, was so ill,
That other doctors gave me over,
He felt my pulse, prescribed his pill,
And I was likely to recover.

But when the wit began to wheeze,
And wine had warm'd the politician,
Cured yesterday of my disease,
I died last night of my physician. 

 -Mathew Prior, 1714



 So, thinking of the current state of affairs, is the cure worse than the disease?
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