Posted on 03/24/2020 9:36:36 AM PDT by Rebelbase
The birds are singing their songs for us, but we’re not listening to them.
I read that book when I was about 14, and even then, I thought she was crying wolf. But thanks to her, I’m sure, we have the EPA, who ban everything.
Rachel Carson is singularly responsible, whether she intended it or not, for the deaths of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa.
The pesticides she decried in her book were at the time, and perhaps still remaining, the only effective treatment against mosquito-borne malaria and other diseases. Nets, which are the current alternative treatment, are of course ineffective if one happens to be outside, and not particularly effective inside.
While it may be true that many other species than the target mosquito are affected by such powerful poisons, it remains also true that the choice is between species other than Man, and innocent and unprotected native populations.
A hard choice, but one in which we may have decided the wrong way.
I would remind all of us that Nature has a solution for any problem Humanity faces, but we may not find Her solutions to our liking, or even our ability to survive. We are currently attempting to survive under some of those restrictions.
And of course, had the media not gotten involved, we wouldn’t have been forced into quarantine, run out of TP and hand sanitizer, and would most likely all have barely even noticed this flu/cold or misunderstood the dynamics.
It targets people with poor respiratory systems. I think my son had it early this year and no one knew what it was.
Ignorance is bliss, but it isn’t always a blessing.
Afternoon, y’all. Maybe the universe just wanted us to have more naps.
His mother was beside herself with worry because he has bad lungs, thanks to my stupidity...I smoked when I was pregnant. He then, at the age of two and a half, was hospitalized with acute bronchitis, and every cold he’s ever had has settled in his chest. He fought this thing for a month, and was too sick to give me updates.
Looking back, and from comparing symptoms, I think it was COVID-19. Just my thoughts on it. But I’m thankful that he once again survived my inexperience and ignorance as a mom.
It would be nice if I could nap with a cat once in a while. But lungs. And birds. *sigh*
I hope your Nap-With-A-Cat was restful.
It was. I dreamed that DP had a pet platypus, and it got under the fence and into a neighbor’s pond (the Carters on our east have a ceeeement pond ...), and he and Tom were going to the neighbors to try to catch it, and Tom was in his underwear.
I don’t know what Jake dreamed, but he was purring.
My mother smoked when she was pregnant, too. Russ and I have perfectly fine lungs. Maybe it was poor genes on his father’s side.
I might guess Jake's dream was the same as yours.
(Record this one, Darks. It could go viral.)
nuttin mush.
watsnoo witchoo?
I suspect so, as his dad had diabetes, though it was the mesothelioma that killed him. Too many years below decks, surrounded by asbestos.
I know, its late and why am I up? I’m on my way back to bed. I had a thought that nagged me so I had to check it out, and now you know.
So I’m going back to bed, now, and will play Mahjong for another little while, now that I’ve finished reading. See all y’all tomorrow!
(I do hope its not quite so gloomy then.)
Oh, yes, and it was the Pertussis that started the damage on my lungs, at the tender age of 18 months. But I lived to tell the tale...my second Christmas in Alaska Territory and I was almost to sick to see Santa and get my first orange. I can’t even begin to think of how expensive that orange was...Or the thrill of Santa making a visit to my bedroom! Poor sick me! :o])
According to an email I have from Notify NYC - COVID-19, all New Yorkers can now get 3 free meals a day from more than 400 meal hubs M-F.
No wonder the poor are still getting sick.
QUIT INVITING THEM TO CONGREGATE WITH FREE STUFF MAYOR PUTZ!!!
Sorry. I get a little excited at massive government stupidity.
Just dang, ArGee.
I hope you have a good night. It’s clouding up here, may storm again.
Jake influencing the human servant units again?
Maybe.
I don’t see a platypus or Tom in his skivvies being Jake’s kind of thing. He likes birds, though.
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