The Eleventh Plague, the Plague of Hiccups

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A commentary on Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro being stricken with uncontrollable hiccups (e.g. https://www.fr24news.com/a/2021/07/jair-bolsonaro-hospitalized-after-10-days-of-hiccups.html) presenting a false verse from the Book of Exodus in the King James Bible, in which the god of the Israelites strikes the Pharoah's Egypt with a plague of hiccups following the plague of boils. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagues_of_Egypt)

On first hearing this news I started to feel sympathy, but then I said to myself “Wait, this is Jair Bolsonaro, the invulnerable Übermensch who doesn't need to wear a mask for COVID and bravely licks door knobs with his apostles.”