[Humour] European Pandemic Office
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-06-12 11:24:43 UTC
- Modified: 2020-06-12 11:24:43 UTC
Summary: Now that this thing called "EPO" is a collective of apartments/homes with kids occasionally running around (and unbearable workload unabated) we cannot expect the quality of the work to be high, can we? We shall see how many of these patents the courts will flush down the toilet over the next two decades...
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