State Of Fear: Your Daily Dose
I have know two Americans, both missioneries, who contracted black plague, one in South AMerica, one in Africa. Both survived just fine, but both said the same thing - lucky they got in in the third world where doctors recognise what it is. In the developed world it is very rare, tho not unknown (10 - 20 per year in the US http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/qa.htm), and doctors may not recognise it and treat it properly.
I don’t know, I think I’ll put this right up there with avian flu, SARS, ozone depletion, nail fungus, metorite hazard and the like.
Could be, OCM. I’m not going to ex cathedra rule out its existence or human causation just because barking moonbats support it. Same with the stock market: Every once in awhile, just to keep you humble, the crowd is correct.
I’m 100% certain that the global warming debate is responsible for the pain in my butt.
Posted by Oink
11/14/2005 at 02:56 PM
If the Black Death of the 1300’s was a time of ‘warmer and wetter’ and it is predicted
again for the future, I guess it’s safe to say global warming started before the 1300’s
and then faded away only to return again.
Posted by piccalo
11/14/2005 at 04:56 PM
I repeat for the newbies & any OLD member who were stoned the first time. One in a long series of injections we received, as we prepared to leave Okinawa for Vietnam, was for Bubonic Plague.
I believe that Global Warming will lead to a resurgence of The Clap (gonorrhea). As the climate warms, women will wear fewer clothes, leading to more arousal, causing more
to occur, ergo—more VD! (Q.E.D.!) Whether the money spent fighting global warming would be better spent on antibiotics & condoms is something the United Nations should decide.
Posted by Oink
11/14/2005 at 05:11 PM
AAAAAAHHHHHHHH OCM, is this the cause of the colon trolling microbes I am suffering from??????
Posted by Dottie
11/14/2005 at 10:04 PM
DOT: I refuse to Google “colon trolling microbes”!
(come on OINK! Are you a man or a ... No! Reading about the Flesh Eating ones was a biiiig mistake!)
Posted by Oink
11/15/2005 at 03:11 AM
GW is caused by the excessive whining and verbal flatulence of the Euro-peons, the Gorons, the tree-huggers, radical environazis and green-pests (that is when they aren’t busy destroying coral reefs with their garbage scow, the Rainbow Worrier)
