| | Sorry for not posting in a long time. My torrid love affair with Naomi has taken up most of my time I found out she as hot after all. One thing lately has really got me fired up and it is Asian bird flu. I mean really. Can we stop with the media fear already. Oprah ran a series and nearly sold the country out of the current vaccine used to treat it. That is just great. You just caused it to mutate years sooner than it would have naturally. Pat yourself on the back Oprah.
Our countries obsession with the disease of the week is to the point of Ad nauseam like everything else in this country. Remeber SARS, of course you don't. Well let me refresh. Severe acute respiratory syndrome, better known by its acronym SARS, is an atypical form of pneumonia. There were a total of 8437 cases of disease, with 813 deaths. Wow, that was something to get worried about wasn't it. South Park even made fun of how ridiculous it was to be worried about SARS. How about there are around 600,000 deaths due to heart disease every year (in the US).
Remember Monkey Pox. Yes, it was called Monkey Pox and you were all scared shitless for a couple of months. As of June 11, a total of 54 persons with suspected monkeypox had been reported in Wisconsin (20), Illinois (10), Indiana (23), and New Jersey (1). Monkeypox had been confirmed by laboratory tests in nine persons. At least 14 of the people with suspected monkeypox had been hospitalized for their illness; there have been no deaths related to the outbreak. NO DEATHS.
West Nile, still ongoing every year. Some old lady dies from west nile in the midwest and its a epidemic. MAD COW is another favoret of the media and it must be killing tens of thousands of people world wide by the way they talk about it. I reality only 148 people have died from MAD COW in the 10 years between 1994-2004. KILLER BEES (Africanized Honey Bee) where also supposed to take over North America in the last few years and remember they attacked in swarms of thousands of bees at once and could kill people on a whim. Not to worry you alarmists killer bees have been living quietly in the US for over 30 years.(sorry for the .......ists words i have come to love these words Saddamists, obstructionists, extremists, islamofascists, fascists, fundamentalists)
Oh and my favorite, the anthrax scare. The 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States occurred over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001 (after the September 11, 2001 attacks). Letters containing anthrax bacteria were mailed to several news media offices and two US Senators, killing five people. FIVE PEOPLE!!! I killed five people just now, while writing this blog.
For a comparative analysis, In 2001, there were 30,242 suicides, hell if you look at that number for 2001 you are 10X more likely to kill you self that year than having a terrorist kill you much less than any other panic inducing pandemic. If you shot your kid in an accident it wouldn't get near the press coverage than if he got anthrax. All I am asking is that you worthless baby factory fat body mothers who have nothing else in your life to do but watch TV and eat bon bons, look at the statistics every once in a while. You are not going to get Asian bird flu. You don't even know where Asia is. So stop worrying about it and put down the cheesecake which is responsible for the way you are actually going to die. Heart disease, morbid obesity, and TYPE II diabetes.... just like your idol Oprah. You are not going to die in a terrorist attack either. No one is going to bomb Carpet World, The Yarn Store, or Boarders. And if they did, It would be a lot less painless than severe coronary failure. You should be so lucky to go out in such a memorable way. Also the media needs to stop referring to a 7 person TB outbreak as an epidemic. The Black Plague was an epidemic. A TB outbreak is an after dinner mint. Just for fun I would love to see what you all can come up with as far as pseudo epidemics.
I did see a rainbow the other day and that made me gleeful.
Later Ryan |
