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Toxic Mold, or Toxic Trump?
At last, I understand what is ailing me
So I watched a documentary recently about the dangers of toxic mold. Eeewwwww. It was gross.
The thing about this type of mold is that once its spores have taken hold in a home, the stuff spreads quickly. It’s incredibly hard to get rid of. In the movie, there were sections where the homeowners used bleach, increased ventilation, applied a drying compound, fixed plumbing, and even took down walls.
The nasty goo kept reappearing, no matter what they did. They’d scrub and scrape and use a fan and everything else you can think of. The offending portion of wall or ceiling would appear to be clean. Everyone would give a huge sigh of relief.
“Whoo, we did it! We removed the dangerous toxin from our living space! We can breathe again!”
Fast forward four weeks or so and there it would be again. At first just a tiny speck of black or green, but after a few days, a stain of spreading poison growing its way across the surface. After a week, the threat of that awful moldy presence was all anyone could think about.
Doesn’t that sound exactly like what we’ve all been going through with Toxic Trump since 2015? He came down that golden elevator like a speck of ugly mold. Not particularly dangerous at first, but it made…
