>What if the reporter had put poison on ihe microphone, or worse?
that was my first thought.
my second was that it was to get a DNA swab for a custom poison (probably aerosol).
Highly fuckin sus'
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ides-of-March
Ides of March, day in the ancient Roman calendar that falls on March 15 and is associated with misfortune and doom. It became renowned as the date on which Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 bce and was further immortalized in the tragedy Julius Caesar by English dramatist William Shakespeare. In the play, a soothsayer warns Caesar to “beware the Ides of March.”
The term Ides derives from the Latin word iduare (Latin: “to divide”), with the full moon serving as the division point in the middle of each month. In the ancient Roman calendar, months were divided according to the lunar cycle into three groups of days. The Ides corresponded with the rise of the full moon in the middle of the month, the Kalends corresponded with the new moon at the beginning of the month, and the Nones fell on the quarter moon phases in between. Depending on the length of the month, the Nones fell on the fifth or seventh day, the Ides on the 13th or 15th, and the Kalends on the first. The Romans honoured Jupiter, the sky god and chief deity of ancient Rome, when the full moon phase occurred (on the Ides) by holding feasts and sacrifices. Furthermore, since the new year originally began in March in the ancient calendar, the Ides of March marked the first full moon of the year, portending great significance. The Ides of March was also notable as a day for settling debts.