Posted on 05/19/2016 9:23:59 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Disease is the absence of health. Although many diseases still have the potential to end our life we have found ways to combat them and avoid the deadly pandemics of the past. History tells us between 75 and 200 million people died in Europe during the middle years of the 14th century. It took just six years to sweep across the continent and reduce the population by at least 1/3.
Those who survived were emotionally and financially destroyed.
Because of modern medicine and a clearer understanding of the how and why of epidemics we are at much less risk of a world-wide deadly pathogen pandemic. We can make our lives safer by building stronger buildings and safer cars; and we can rely on careful procedures to reduce our risk of premature death. Here in America we have always been relatively safe from most diseases and accidents but today we find ourselves threatened by the worst disease in human history; the disease of Socialism.
It is clear that some of the illegal aliens who are sneaking into our country are bringing deadly diseases with them. Small pox, Chicken pox, measles, scabies, TB, Cholera and an assortment of other dangerous, communicable diseases can be found in the holding facilities that house these people.
Nevertheless, while only some of these individuals are infected with physically threatening diseases, all are carriers of the far worse disease of Socialism. We can eventually cure illegals with the aforementioned physical diseases, keeping them quarantined until those around them are safe; but Socialism will strike down each and every American. Socialism will make no exceptions...
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Disease is the screw up of ease.
But American socialism is better; we always do it better. Our gulags will be kinder, our secret police less intrusive and our leaders less rewarding to their cronies, right?
Not to dispute your main point, but...
Those who survived were emotionally and financially destroyed.
you will be assimilated for not believing!
Insightful definition.
“Disease is the absence of health
Disease is the screw up of ease.”
Look no further than the latest pictures of Bill Clinton.
He did make a technical error there. In 14th Century Europe, most farms were very small, family farms. The plague not only killed off many older people who had wealth, but that wealth went to younger people. Farms were consolidated, and produced crops in enough abundance to sell at the market, but this also meant a need for more labor.
Added up, younger people looking to use their inherited money, more efficient farms, greater employment, more food in the markets. And this even resulted in the wealthy having so much wealth that they began to fund artists and scholars.
So what followed the 14th Century plague? The Renaissance of the 15th-17th Centuries. In all fairness, Europe had begun to exit the Dark Ages in the 12th Century, in large part because of the Crusades. But the plague pushed it into overdrive.
It should also be noted that the plague of the 17th Century, created a similar effect, propelling society into the Industrial Revolution.
His picture is what you see when you look up the word in the dictionary.
“It should also be noted that the plague of the 17th Century, created a similar effect, propelling society into the Industrial Revolution.”
If you were a peasant and survived, you could stay a peasant with enough land to feed your family, or you could move to the city to pick up the jobs vacated by the plague victims.
If you were in the small middle class and survived, you got to keep what the rest of the family who were plague victims left behind.
If you were nobility and survived, you were in trouble, because most of your servants were dead, and new servants cost more because there were fewer of them available--one of the reasons why Africans were brought to Europe in the 1400s, though that didn't work out too well because they kept dying themselves, until someone got the brilliant idea (yes, I'm being sarcastic there) of sending the Africans to the warmer regions of the New World where they could work as slaves and be less likely to die.
Logically, shouldn’t di-sease be eternal health?
OBotulism
:-)
It’s dinitiate, dicellerate and difinalize that we need to be concerned about.
Liberalism is the deadliest.
Socialism is a biological weapon of mass destruction invented by the British, however they destroyed themselves during testing.
And if the grid goes down for a year we will see a major cleansing of Socialism. Those that survive will be those that don’t count on the govt for their welfare and safety.
#8 We need more plague! : )
Monty Python-Bring out your dead!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs
The truth of the matter is that with a few exceptions, plagues tend to cull the “bottom of the social pyramid”: the poor, the sickly, the elderly. And most importantly, the stupid. People who engage in high risk behavior.
A good recent example was the African ebola outbreak. After a family member died, their cultural tradition was to wash and otherwise mess around with the body. And many of these people died because of it, despite warnings from the authorities not to do so.
The most important change to all of this happened during WWII, with the introduction of hygiene education to the general public.
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