Posted on 07/31/2016 8:43:19 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Summary: Nobody should be careless about getting Zika. But allowing a panic to deflect attention from the most important issues is no help either.
These are Microcephaly Kids. Their Moms probably didn’t have Zika.
As you can see, they’re terrific people. I want to be with them.
If God were to send me one, I would probably learn to “wag more, bark less” from them.
The most highly regarded American reporter, Sharyl Attkisson, reports that while Zika has been associated with increased incidences of microcephaly births, there is little evidence that the Zika infection itself directly causes the microcephaly birth defect. An insecticide that people were drinking may be the cause.
The image below is repeated in most Zika stories. It conveys a sense of suffering. The viewer is probably unaware that the placement of the image in the stories unconsciously links fears of having imperfect children with the crying and sense of suffering.
A perfect, beautiful child crying would convey a very different “left brain” message.
FULL POTENTIAL: Emory University’s Down Syndrome Center — Showing what a child with an extra chromosome can do
Fr. Mitch Pacwa, speaking to Presentation Parish “On Redemptive Suffering”, remarked that “Down Syndrome babies are here to teach us tenderness”. Societies that protect the most innocent are moving towards greater compassion.
But young people in America today know that they may have brothers and sisters who were killed before they were ever born, and that it could have been them. How does that knowledge affect their understanding that life is precious?
Since Roe v. Wade in 1973, American society has become increasingly vicious in attitude and action, against the unborn, the elderly, the disabled, defenseless school-children and now, with the popularity of the sucker-punching “knockout game”, in random, senseless attacks against total strangers.†
Did this increase in violence across the board just arise spontaneously, without precedent, or did our treatment of the most vulnerable portend it?
When protection of innocent life in the womb was first under open attack in the late 1960s, specious excuses were made that “abortion will reduce child abuse against ‘unwanted’ babies”.
Abortion was supposed to reduce child abuse against “unwanted” babies
John Willke, MD, Abortion: Questions & Answers—Why Can’t We Love Them Both?
When I was 3 years old I saw my mom on TV. She was speaking to a man about how she killed her baby and regretted it. As she told her story and how she became a pro-life speaker, I watched and listened. My grandma didn’t think I was old enough to understand. When my mom picked me up that night I asked her why she killed my brother or sister and why she didn’t kill me. My mom said she was in shock that her 3-year-old would ask these questions. She answered them the best she could for me, and as I got older I learned more. — Three-Year-Old Sister of Aborted Baby: "Mom, Why Didn’t You Kill Me Too?"
More than 85% of children in utero diagnosed with Down Syndrome today are subsequently aborted.
Every Life Counts (Ireland)
An outreach where parents of children who were diagnosed with a terminal condition can share their memories, their joy, their pain, and their love.
These little saints, capable of returning our love but incapable of personal sin, were sent here by God to teach us to love one another!
Those who are killed before birth will be rewarded by God as if they had fulfilled their mission to teach us tenderness for one another.
(They can still intercede for us, if we will just ask them.)
Then I watched while the Lamb broke open the first of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures cry out in a voice like thunder, “Come forward.” I looked, and there was a white horse, and its rider had a bow. He was given a crown, and he rode forth victorious to further his victories. When he broke open the second seal, I heard the second living creature cry out, “Come forward.” Another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given power to take peace away from the earth, so that people would slaughter one another. And he was given a huge sword. – Revelation 6:1-4
When he broke open the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the witness they bore to the word of God. They cried out in a loud voice, “How long will it be, holy and true master, before you sit in judgment and avenge our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?” Each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to be patient a little while longer until the number was filled of their fellow servants and brothers who were going to be killed as they had been. – Revelation 6:9-11
See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of My heavenly Father. – Matthew 18:10
Monsanto strikes again.
What a wonderfully evil company that is.
In so many ways, we try to build a perfect, safe society, filled with perfect, happy people.
And our efforts seem to breed more and more trouble, with people growing steadily more and more unhappy.
Social engineering and eugenics come in many flavors. I’m not a fan.
Remind me of the dangers of DDT again.
Anyways, my son, a single father, had an appointment to update the kids’ medicaid. My brother’s ex-wife worked there at the time. She asked my son if he knew who she was. He asked her “Aren’t you the one who sent my mom a letter telling her she should get an abortion when she was pregnant with me?” Way to say it son!
Looks to me like the politicians (Dems in particular) are hopping on the Zika bandwagon .... great way to siphon off more taxpayer money. Facts don’t matter, just stampeding the public with fear, confusion, followed by the usual money grab.
The placing of larvicide into drinking water is stupid to begin with. Larvicide should be placed into swamp water. It is the governmental officials who did evil. Monsanto is not evil. In case you don’t know, it is not smart to place gasoline into the drinking water. Yet gasoline if fine for most cars. Long live GMO crops. Long live Monsanto.
A more sinister way of looking at it is that RATS want to treat our water with mosquito killing poison. Then they will blame the virus rather than their treatment method. And folks will be afraid to have babies, so they will poison their bodies with birth control insecticide. Etc.
They drink the swamp water.
Remind me of the dangers of DDT again.....To what? Skeeters? That’s good.
If you mix swamp water with gasoline do you get swamp gas or do you have to drink it first?
There is a big group of countries using DDT to kill mosquitoes. To combat malaria. No reason we all shouldn’t be doing the same to combat Zika.
I had questions about zika-related microcephalies, too. One report showed that the rate was similar in nearby areas but with lower rates of zika infection.
However, I heard a very convincing interview by John Batchelor with Donald G. McNeil Jr., who recently wrote the book “Zika: The Emerging Epidemic.” He pointed out that the virus, related to yellow fever and dengue, was discovered in Africa around 1940, and was considered the cause of just a mild infection. He then traced its spread around the globe from Africa to Asia to the Pacific Islands to South America. During this trip, it mutated several times, and a mutation as it arrived in South America caused it to be more neurotoxic.
One especially convincing case was a Finnish woman who was infected while traveling in Central America. Most healthy people clear the virus from their system in about two weeks, but she remained infected. She was also pregnant, and because of her infection, she underwent weekly ultrasounds to check on her fetus. It started showing signs of microcephaly, and then over the passing weeks became obviously microcephalic. She had an abortion at 21 weeks, and the autopsy showed the child’s brain was heavily infected by the virus.
Zika is real, and could be a real problem for those who live in areas with the carrier mosquitos. The sexual transmission of the disease is also alarming.
The uneven sheaves of humanity were not meant for utopia, and pursuing it necessitates cruelty.
If what you say is accurate, it is a crime against humanity to hold the Olympic games in Rio and put the entire world at risk. What do you think?
Well, there are several Latin American countries and our own Puerto Rico where government officials have said their women shouldn’t get pregnant for two or three years. Think about that.
Unfortunately, your comment about the Olympics is just a sidebar to something as drastic as no babies for three years. You’re right about the games, especially since there is known sexual transmission. That means you don’t need those specific mosquitos to spread the disease, just a lot of fit young people from around the globe.
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