Mao Zedong - Shooing Away the God of Epidemics

<p>This week looks a poem by Mao Zedong celebrating the communist defeat of a tiny parasite. "Shooing Away the God of Epidemics" was written in 1956 upon Mao hearing that a county in Jiangxi had eliminated all their blood flukes. </p> <div> <div> <div> <div class="block-editor-block-list__layout is-root-container"> <p id="block-ee618d12-6a39-4553-a8c9-c8bbb42f0301" class= "block-editor-block-list__block wp-block rich-text block-editor-rich-text__editable wp-block" tabindex="0" role="textbox" aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" data-block= "ee618d12-6a39-4553-a8c9-c8bbb42f0301" data-type="core/paragraph" data-title="Paragraph">#1</p> <p id="block-eded7b08-9fb1-42b3-9e3f-a7cf2b34a6fd" class= "block-editor-block-list__block wp-block rich-text block-editor-rich-text__editable wp-block" tabindex="0" role="textbox" aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" data-block= "eded7b08-9fb1-42b3-9e3f-a7cf2b34a6fd" data-type="core/paragraph" data-title="Paragraph">China’s green waters and the blue mountains are so numerous</p> <p id="block-3b676ab6-ec64-475c-b56c-489e7154446c" class= "block-editor-block-list__block wp-block rich-text block-editor-rich-text__editable wp-block" tabindex="0" role="textbox" aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" data-block= "3b676ab6-ec64-475c-b56c-489e7154446c" data-type="core/paragraph" data-title="Paragraph">but even the great ancient Chinese medical theorist Hua Tou is unable to take care of this little worm,</p> <p id="block-ac273163-7002-44ae-958f-2c38776bbb2d" class= "block-editor-block-list__block wp-block rich-text block-editor-rich-text__editable wp-block" tabindex="0" role="textbox" aria-label="Paragraph block" aria-multiline="true" data-block= "ac273163-7002-44ae-958f-2c38776bbb2d" data-type="core/paragraph" data-title="Paragraph">The thousand villages are covered in vines and peppered with their leaking shit,</p> <p id="block-c161feac-8ec1-4d70-914f-63b74b1f3d24" class= "block-editor-block-list__block wp-block rich-text block-editor-rich-text__editab