Diversity and Disintegration

Steyn On-line ^ | July 21, 2017 | Mark Steyn

[Twotone]

The most important determination the media make is deciding what category a story falls into. For example, NPR recently ran a report asking the following:

How Did Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Pop Up In Spain?

Oddly enough, despite the headline, the reporter doesn't seem that interested in answering the question. What follows is a public-health story:

The disease is a tick-borne, Ebola-like virus. Because it's a lesser-known illness, it is often misdiagnosed. So there aren't very good official statistics on the number of cases in many parts of the world.

It's normally found in North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. But in 2016, two cases cropped up in Spain.

Last September, a 62-year-old man in Madrid died after being bitten by a tick while walking in the Spanish countryside. Doctors determined he had contracted Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, which causes headache, fever, nausea, bruising and bleeding. In severe cases, patients experience sharp mood swings and confusion as well as kidney deterioration or sudden liver failure.

Up to a third of patients die, usually within two weeks of contracting the disease.

[Tennessee Nana]

so a Castilian chauvinist contracts a contagious Crimean-Congo condition ???

Caramba !!!

[Rummyfan]

Running for re-election in November, Hodges said the city must embrace the discomfort of transformation, a theme of her campaign, and work tirelessly to create "One Minneapolis" that "works for everyone," and where everyone contributes to making the city work for everyone else.

The mayor is a loon who blithely endangers the lives of her constituents. Dump her!

[RicocheT]

Steyn at his best. He starts by musing how an obscure African killer disease pops up in Spain, wonders if it’s from the unrestricted EU immigration policy and points out our unrestricted immigration has given us the gift of a diversity hire Minneapolis Somali cop who shoots with little provocation a woman who called 911.

Twotone, a big thank you for posting this wise and thought provoking gem from Mark Steyn. I had just read it on his Steyn Online web page and was delighted to see you put a link to his article here.

[Twotone]

Once upon a time there was a Mark Steyn ping list. Maybe we need to get that going again.