I know in a crisis that there’s a tendency to make light, but this, to me, is very serious.
There are good people in and near DC.
I can’t join in the levity here.
There is a concern it might be a deliberate thing, but also, I wouldn’t take joy in a president being assassinated...I still remember some who expressed joy when Reagan was shot. I can’t wish an illness like this on anyone.
The right thing to do is hold him to account and vote him out when the time comes.
This thread makes me hinky. I see some comments like I’ve come to expect from the OTHER side. I’d hate to see people become exactly like what they abhor.
This thing IS news and it IS of concern. New cases and the weird complex nature of it? It seems like it could be bio-terrorism and that’s scary.
Lighten up...it’s just a little dark humor.
I have to say though that Obama had failed this test too. The administration seems asleep at the wheel while the whole world is starting to freak out.
Oh, come on. I think people are being very restrained — because they don’t want to get the zot.
In just the few articles I’ve read about this — by saying this I admit I need more education on the facts to rule it in or out — but this does NOT sound like a NATURAL occurrence/outbreak/mutation of disease. Like whatever the mutation it happened too quickly, and it’s too “good” at its job, even though the mutation apparently happened SO recently...
Therefore, your worries that this may be a biological attack, I don’t think are unfounded at this point.
No reason to panic at this point, IMHO — one would think that most all the precautions we take to avoid transferring illness already in our daily lives (handwashing, keeping extra distance from those who are sick, good hygiene, etc...) should keep down the rate of infection. Granted, some people will be more prone to catching this than others - healthcare workers, the uneducated and poor, and yes, politicians who are traveling, and shaking hands all over the place.
Maybe some of these things won’t matter, but I’m feeling that unless this is a biological attack or ‘superbug’ created on purpose, the results on the general population may not be as dramatic as the 1913 flu outbreak (simply due to advances in medicine, and public health — sewage, hand-washing, antibiotics, medicines, etc...).
May God bless all those who are affected by this disease, and their loved ones, and may God be with the scientists who are probably working 24/7 to figure this out...
Kinda the same thing, here.
Now finding headless bodies scattered all along the border... that's a different story.
Hmmmmm.... your FR page says you like to joke a lot.
Welcome to FR.
Welcome to neo-FR.
I agree.
It may be dark humor- but it’s not funny.