LOL.......yeah, I was thinking maybe there should have been a spoiler alert.
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LOL.......yeah, I was thinking maybe there should have been a spoiler alert.
I am very late to the fray on this... I don't watch 24 hour news, right now
I did council my sister not to take a superfluous trip through NYC within the last 2 weeks.
She has kids and her reason for going was not pressing & she could get her points refunded.
I do however enjoy following Chris Christie. I get a kick out of him and sometimes even agree with him.
I truly want to have 2 parties functioning well for the American people and I think he gets things done.
(even if they are not always the correct things)
I don't get how such a snafu as the terrible conditions that the nurse quarantined at Newark happened.
Who was the PR person that signed off on that?
To ignore that there is a political posturing element to Ebola entering the US is naive.
The government HAS to at least appear to be handling this situation quasi-'correctly'
Perception does have value.
That's the problem with news as entertainment....
Granted not too many years ago families used to take picnics to the guillotines.
I like this FB post. As Gilda Radner said, "It's always something…"
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...eaade8eeee88a1
It will only kill a few people. Which come to think of it were probably disposable people anyway.
hardly needs a /sarc But I'm sure the bad economy did kill people and BP as well (although wildlife mostly but people doing the cleanup were exposed to a lot) and of course ebola has killed people. Where is: "fukushima is going to kill us all?" Is there a 1918 version: Spanish flu is going to kill us all! A cold war version: mutually assured destruction via nuclear weapons is going to kill us all!
There has to be a reasonable medium somewhere.
I have to say I don't remember the last time I worried about the freakout du jour--maybe when AIDS debuted? I think the world is a pretty intriguing place and a lot less threatening than in earlier eras. At least I don't have to worry about being burned alive because someone accused me of witchcraft or about dying a wretched death from bubonic plague. I don't have to submit to an arranged marriage or work myself to death on the family farm, or in some scullery somewhere. All in all, it could be lots worse. I suspect this Ebola brouhaha will blow over when Dr. Spencer finishes his treatment and any future infections are sporadic and treatable.
Decades ago I used to worry about nuclear warfare. It actually colored my view and I remember that the world looked less bright. I guess that was during the cold war.
Since then, I don't worry about the scare of the moment. I lived through one scare mongering period and I don't want to be sucked back into that black hole.
Ooohh The Stand - one of my favorites! I actually thought of that book when the first man with Ebola showed up in the US and you saw how many people he was in contact with and how easily a contagious disease could spread when just one person is infected. It's pretty amazing to see just how easy and fast a truly contagious disease could spread worldwide in a short period of time. Not that I feel Ebola is very communicable (it doesn't seem to be) but the "potential" for rapid spread of Ebola or any disease is an interesting thing to watch happen.
Many years ago, long before The Stand, the BBC made a series, using the premise of a man, not a Westerner, because of course it had to be an apocalypse caused by Johnny-foreigner (!), arriving at a UK airport, coughing and sneezing. Then people started to die... The series was called The Survivors, and I LOVED it! They remade it a couple of years ago, with less mud and grubbiness, updated to more recent times. I watched it, but it wasn't a patch on the old series!
ETA here's a link to the wikipedia entry, it was made in 1975 and the remake in 2008
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survi...008_TV_series)