Ain’t the interweb wonderful. It was called “Rover.”

https://prisoner.fandom.com/wiki/Rover

He always wound up being chased down and captured by the weather balloon things as I recall.

AesopFan: That’s all right. Patrick McGoohan (the star) and the show’s writers couldn’t figure out what was going on either. The final episode was such a disappointment to viewers (me too) that in McGoohan’s words:

When they did finally see it, there was a near-riot, and I was going to be lynched. And I had to go into hiding in the mountains for two weeks, until things calmed down.

I think Lenny was probably smarter.

huxley – I confess to only watching a few episodes of the show, and never did figure out what was going on, but I knew enough even then to know your reference is on target today.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/dimartino-how-venezuela-went-from-a-rich-nation-of-immigrants-to-a-hungry-nation-of-refugees

It was February 7, 1956 when the Vera Cruz Vessel sailed from the port of Vigo in northern Spain. Among its 800 passengers was my grandfather, Vicente Novo. Like everyone on that ship, he left everything behind in his homeland to pursue his dreams in a more prosperous country. In this land of opportunity, he and the other passengers found jobs, started businesses and raised families – all while sending money back to their hungry families in Europe.

But this newfound land of opportunity wasn’t the United States of America. It was my home country: Venezuela.

It’s hard to believe now, but in 1950, Venezuela was the fourth-richest country on earth. Tragically, over the course of the next six decades, Venezuela was transformed from a prosperous nation of immigrants to a devastated and poor land full of people in need of refuge.
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There’s a saying in Venezuela that before socialism took hold of our country, “We were rich but we didn’t know it.” Many Venezuelans who initially supported socialism and those who didn’t vote at all have now recognized that truth the hard way.

My family’s story, and that of millions of other Venezuelans, should serve as a warning to all those who believe America is too prosperous and powerful to fail. Socialism can and will destroy this country – unless voters curb the recent wave of popularity it’s gained in the United States and prevent radical leaders from getting elected.

The next time someone tells you that “America isn’t Venezuela,” remind them that we Venezuelans once said something all-too similar.

If this is wrong info, please let me know. But my reading of the Covid death rate is as follows:
The newest CDC numbers appear to be 0.4% IFR (infection fatality rate). This is their recent “best estimate” which is “scenario 5” in their list of scenarios.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html
For the estimated death rate of 0.4%, look for the cell in Scenario-5 that says “Overall: 0.004” and has a label of “Symptomatic Case Fatality Ratio”

Note that this number is ONLY for cases in which there are symptoms! Because (obviously) people with mild/no symptoms cases don’t die, and because these are judged to be about a third of the cases, many sources are adjusting the 0.4% number down to a death rate of 0.26%.
When you consider that 85 to 95% of the death cases involve co-morbidities, the 0.26% death rate falls even lower if your are under 50, not obese, not diabetic, ….

Thus, my question to the 9th “Circus” is: Where is the emergency?
Why is it safe to go into a CostCo or Walmart with masks and social distancing but not safe to go into a church with same

Similar to why Muslims today, and Nazis of the past, hated Jews and blamed Jews for all problems. They feel, with their hearts, and even their hearts of hearts, that it’s the (dirty) Jews.

Here’s a terrible 1 in 5 in the UK story:
https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Antisemitism/One-in-five-English-people-believe-COVID-is-a-Jewish-conspiracy-survey-629187

Today’s Dem leaders want their voters to hate Trump & Reps just like Hitler and Nazi leaders wanted their supporters to hate Jews.

Trump-hate today is, emotionally, identical to Nazi Jew-hate of the ’30s.

The left is railing how Trump should have done more in the beginning, but completely forgetting that China and the Who said it wasn’t human to human transmissible, that he was being impeached under false pretenses (this morning they reported how that impeachment is a negative), that he was a racist and xenophobic if he blocked travel. With the biggest assumption that somehow the rate of death and infection would have been different, while ignoring how Cuomo and others moved sick people into the elder care facilities.

They truly have the memory of a gnat, and he anger of a bear with thorns in their feet, with the understanding of things that only Lenny Small in mice and men could have