Chuck Bryant

Right, that also produces a one-of-a-kind telltale rash that tells you, supposedly in plenty of time, that you have this disease that needs to be treated with a simple course of oral antibiotics.

Yeah, and it has to be probably in the country.

They don't thrive well in the city.

Right.

So it doesn't make a good biological weapon.

No.

And then, again, people who subscribe to this conspiracy theory say, well, they can't all be winners, but maybe it was just something they were experimenting with and it wasn't very good.

Trust me.

I mean, we've done enough research on stuff our American government used to do and continue to do that it's not the most outlandish thing in the world.

No, it's not, and that's also why Chris Smith, the representative from New Jersey, shouldn't just be dismissed out of hand because it's entirely plausible.

Yeah, it's not just a complete wacko idea.

The other reason Chris Smith shouldn't just be dismissed out of hand is because he is a true Lyme warrior.

He introduced other legislation called the TIC Act, and of course he had to make TIC an acronym.

An acronym, not an anachronism.

What's it stand for?

Ticks, colon, identify, control, and knockout act.

He was really grasping like a tick on a blade of grass with that one.

But the point is... But knockout's not one word unless you use it as knockout.

That's what he's saying, I guess, because it's one word.

So it's really the Tickos Act.