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- What little I know about Swine Flu:
- The CDC has admitted that wearing those generic surgical masks over our noses and mouths does little to nothing in prevention of getting the swine flu. They're mostly being passed out to people to make them feel safer.
- I don't wear them because everytime I exhale it fogs up my glasses.
- It took a little time but they managed to locate Patient Zero, in a little pig farming town just North East of Mexico City. It's a 5 year old boy who has already survived it and is doing fine now. He was cured of it long before they officially diagnosed swine flu but they still had his blood samples and managed to trace him as the first human it jumped to.
- Several agencies in the United States Government are trying to rename the swine flu because the association with pigs is making people hesistant to buy pork products because they're worried they'll catch it. As if suddenly slapping a new name on it is going to make people forget where it originated.
- Ultimately this is a pointless endeavor because eating food produced from pigs does not infect people with swine flu.
- It's also kind of silly because I don't recall this issue coming up with the avian flu from when it was the big panic button and lots of food comes from birds.
- At present no one is sure why the death rate has been so high in Mexico and not anywhere else.
- I'm not saying it's pointless to wash your hands thoroughly after bathroom visits and before you eat...but it seems a bit silly that this is being used as the most effective means to not get the swine flu.
- It's kind of a pity that gas prices came down to more affordable levels given the fact that part of the reason the swine flu has gotten all over the planet so fast was from people traveling out of Mexico lately. When the rising gas prices were still a huge thing people were curtailing their travel plans.
- An American family that moved to Mexico years back, and still reside there, are apparently huge zombie fans. Was very amused they made comparisons to those kinds of films, when interviewed, in relation to the whole swine flu situation.
- During the initial investigation into the disease the head of WHO (The World Health Organization) caused a good portion of the panic & paranoia that came on early by publicly declaring there was no way in which to prevent the spread of the disease.
- H1N1 is the name that is currently being promoted to replace 'swine flu'.
- It is constantly mentioned that no one has a natural immunity to the swine flu but it's not what they mean exactly. It is stated along the same lines that there is no vaccine currently prepped for this disease. It's almost as though they view any vaccine as being the same thing as a natural immunity.
- In the news today they advised that when washing your hands you should do it for no less than 20 seconds. Singing a little song along with this is advised. Apparently Paul McCartney has a song that's about 20 seconds long.
- It seems more a matter of the power of positive thinking going hand in hand with the placebo effect...but I don't get the whole tammaflu thing, made evident in the fact I'm not sure how to spell it. Seems decidedly wonky that after pressuring everyone with the evident threat the swine flu represents, what with having no vaccines or effective treatments available to combat it, suddenly taking tammaflu is hailed as the means to defeat it.
- While I am going on about this quite a bit I'm really not that worried. I really just wanna get it, build up my little mutant anti·bodies, and get it all over with.
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10:30 AM 10/8/08 · One of the arguments for Proposition 8 is that if it doesn't pass then churches run the risk of being taxed and due to their discrimination against homosexuality they, and their officilas, run the risk of being sued. In the first, I've never understood why they were never taxed in the first place...and certainly now with the economy being such a mess I can certainly see benefits for their vast funds being directed to help others rather than largely horded.
Yeah, sure, churches use their income to help others. I don't doubt that entirely but when was the last time you were in a church that didn't look all shiny and beautiful and lovely inside? They seem to be spending much more on themselves than the people they're supposed to serve.
As to the 2nd worry, good. Being a Black American I'm well aware of the discrimination my own have had to suffer through both for being what we are as well as when we engaged in mixed marriages, both early on and to this day in some places. I don't believe, certainly can't recall, any cases where those couples even tried to bring legal action into the mix for any number of reasons...so if gay couples wanted to sue for churches refusing to do as they'd do for anyone else than I think they deserve their day in court.
You will note that unlike a lot of businesses, churches do not have a sign inside them that states "reserve the right to refuse service to any we choose to". That would be counterproductive to the purpose churches are supposed to serve.
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11:09 AM 10/1/08 · As much as I enjoy poking fun at McCain & Palin, could almost make a living off it if someone would pay me, there are other matters to be considered. That'd be the Propositions. Now I've really only heard about 2 of these so far, on the news, without doing any real research on them but one of them seems to be really key right now.
Proposition 8.
An oversimplification would be that if it passes then homosexuals will lose the right to marry. If it doesn't then they may continue and, with any luck, the ability for them to do so will be able to spread wider. More locations, more happy couples. Or, to put it another way, I think gays should have just as much right to be potentially miserable as everybody else.
I've really only seen two commercials on this particular proposition so far. One, which fortunately hasn't been getting as much screen time, makes this whole bit that if gays are allowed to marry then it will be taught in our schools and it will be in our churches and a few other vague references that personally I think would be a good thing.
The only other is in favor of it and I like how it presents itself. An older couple, old but not what I'd call elderly, going on about how they've always treated their children well and fairly. How that if Proposition 8 passes then a couple of their children's marriages will be declared invalid and how that's wrong.
I agree.
When I was a much littler me, my parents taught me about marriage. They said that when two people loved each other they formed this perfect union and made a pledge to one another of their love before the world and God. Now it's possible they meant a man and a woman but they didn't say that. Either way, they're definitely for gay marriage now...
...and frankly, I've never understood any reason as to why it was supposed to be wrong.
In my eyes there's 4 types of gay person. There are those born to it who either embrace it or choose not to live that way for any number of reasons; that's 2 right there. There's straight people, as though implying anyone else is crooked, who choose to become gay. Then there's ye olde school and lesser used anymore definition of an exceptionally happy person.
There are those of a more religious bent that say that homosexuality is evil and gays are a blight on the world or an affront against God. Personally I think they're idiots. Simply put, it would seem to me that if God was so against gay people then the Big Guy would stop making them.
Anyway, that's my 25¢ on the matter.
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9:31 AM 7/30/08 · The head of the Pittsburgh Cancer Study recently was quoted as saying that there's enough information available about cellphones to state for certain that parents should not allow their children to have them. This isn't news exactly, there's been information stating that cellphones were potentially cancer causing since shortly after they first came out...
...so then why are they still out there in increasing numbers?
Cigarettes & Alcohol.
It is an established fact that both Cigarettes & Alcohol are bad for us. One causes varying kinds of cancer and emphezima (bad bad bad breathing issues) and the other rots our livers and makes people crash their cars into each other on our roads. However, we still have Cigarettes & Alcohol and that's because they make so much money. A brief bit of American history that showed the realization of the badness of Alcohol, it was made illegal...
...ultimately it was decided that it should be made legal again given how much crime erupted to make it available again.
Strangely, this logic hasn't hit a number of other illegal substances. Like narcotics, which if you were unaware...alcohol is one of these too.
Cigarettes & Alcohol are still legal and in abundance, killing people daily, because they make money. We're killing off our atmosphere by burning fossil fuels yet that's legal even though there's healthier alternatives. There's actually fact to that urban legend about a car, that was made a couple decades back, that ran on water...but that would've stolen money from the oil industry so they killed it off fast.
It's not about what's good for us.
It's about what makes money.
Most of the people that support this stuff, that are in power positions, are going to die not too long into the distant future (possibly taking the rest of us along with them by killing the planet) and probably figure the more money they can have, before they kick the bucket, the better. Anyone left after they're gone...well, they're gone at that point so why should they care?
Let's see all that fundage keep them cool when they're burning in Hell!
*ahem*
Cellphones make money and damn the consequences.
le sigh...
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