More doom and gloom. They forecast death rates that high for swine flu, pine flu, nine flu, bird flu and every other kind of flu. They scared us with hanta virus, banta virus, panta virus and now ebola virus. They are hoping to see cars full of dead people and half of the world’s population wiped out like in Stephen King’s The Stand, or Omega Man, later remade as I Am Legend. This is wishful thinking along the lines of global warming climate change disruption. Tuberculosis is a bigger threat to any of us on a personal level. It comes in quiet, incubates really slowly, and is a bitch to cure, so it has a good ability to spread. And you can get it on the subway or in an airplane and not know it for several years.
I will be damned if I am going to get worked up over a media distraction that with a death rate of 50% has only killed a little over 3000 people. Islam kills that many people every fifteen minutes and we aren’t hearing anything about that. That’s because Islam is more selective than the randomness of epidemiology.
And ask yourself, who is it that is telling me all this stuff? NPR, ABC, CBS, NBC, NYT, CNN, all the same people that tell you global warming is settled science and Obama was born in the USA. Then ask yourself why they are making such a big deal of it when women are getting their heads chopped off in workplace violence incidents, and an election is coming up, and we are 16 trillion dollars in debt with nowhere near 16 trillion dollars to pay it off, and we are borrowing 1 trillion dollars every year to pay back part of the 16 trillion which is now 17 trillion, and Hillary is going to be a historic first women president.
Tell them to go F themselves, keep your hands clean, and don’t get too close to sick people. You will be just fine, and six months from now when they are talking about some other major event like the gang violence in the inner cities from the new immigrant children, you may wonder what you were all worried about in the first place.
The 1918 Spanish Flu (killed about 40 million)
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/society/sflu.html
Ebola has been doubling every 3 weeks since January, like clockwork or the national debt. It is just now reaching notable figures. The Black Death and the Justinian plague are things you can’t relate to until they happen. Just trying to collect and treat the sick is spreading the disease. If the numbers get big enough, even the effort to count the sick and bury the dead will break down and there will be no treatment or even feeding of them and it might as well be 1348 or 542 AD. We are almost as powerless against viruses as they were against bacteria.