Comments on: Not a bad apple but an infected orchard https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2010/04/not-a-bad-apple-but-an-infected-orchard/ Author of THE DEBT GENERATION Thu, 06 May 2021 15:38:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Golem XIV - Thoughts https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2010/04/not-a-bad-apple-but-an-infected-orchard/#comment-135 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:25:16 +0000 http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2010/04/not-a-bad-apple-but-an-infected-orchard/#comment-135 Good point. But if you don't clean it up your alternative is a diet of diseased apples.

I say burn them and plant a new orchard.

]]> By: Tam https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2010/04/not-a-bad-apple-but-an-infected-orchard/#comment-134 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:30:13 +0000 http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2010/04/not-a-bad-apple-but-an-infected-orchard/#comment-134 'Any horticulturist will tell you when an orchard is infected you cannot prune or simply remove the odd tree. You have to tear every last tree out by the roots and burn the lot.'

well yes, but (to continue the metaphor) then you have to wait another twenty years until you can eat apples again…

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