by Nymarya » Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:45 am
Yes, King's is good. I love hot food but I can't do the hot, I get medium. <br><br>One time a Korean co-worker brought me some of her granny's recipe. She had it in tupperware. I wanted to open it and take a taste and she said "Don't, not here!" I did anyway, just opened one corner. We worked in one big room with cubicles and a service window...about 10 second after I opened it, all the way across the room at the window a customer said "Eww, what's that smell?" <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :D --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif ALT=":D"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> Personally I love the smell of garlic but I know I'm in a minority.<br><br>Why do I think bird flu is BS. OK, first they tell you that there is no way to tell which virus will mutate, or how. But then for like what is it now, TWO YEARS they keep telling you bird flu, which last I heard has killed 57 people worldwide (probably more people die of having a coconut fall on their head), is going to sweep the world and kill millions, and oopsie poopsie we seem to be short on vaccines and meds even though every few weeks someone else pulls the fire alarm about it.<br><br>Meanwhile of course we hear that labs in several cities--Seattle being the only one I can remember offhand--are actually working with the 1918 virus, not of course that there's any chance it could get out mind you (nudge nudge wink wink), they're working on it to see...what? Why it was so virulent so they can use that knowledge to fight bird flu, or so they can genetically tinker with bird flu to make it more lethal?<br><br>And then there was SARS, which never made any sense to me; I welcome anyone's explanation of what that was about other than a test to see how people would react. Again, more people probably died of coconutothunkocephalopathy (or Thunk! Syndrome).<br><br>And finally, there is the large number of microbiologists and other scientists who have died odd deaths or disappeared over the last several years. What was THAT about? Were these people who had done some work that would enable them, when this epidemic gets going, to realize what they had inadvertently been part of and blow a whistle? Or were they asked to participate somehow and said no, so they had to be silenced? Or were they simply experts who would be able to expose the official story and thus had to be preemptively removed?<br><br>To me the repetition of BIRD FLU BIRD FLU BIRD FLU means that when people start getting sick and dying from SOMETHING, everyone will think it's a natural organism that mutated. Possibly there won't be any independent scientists of stature left to contradict that, or at least willing to after they contemplate what has happened to their colleagues.<br><br>Think of how much energy is going to be expended discussing issues like vaccine...when it might not work anyway...stockpiling drugs like Tamiflu that might not work anyway....people who are handed prescriptions for a course of antibiotics that costs 100 bucks they don't have--sorry, it all went for gasoline and natural gas, the prices of which have skyrocketed, and their company has no health insurance, or doesn't cover meds....<br><br>Consider also that between the antiterrorism laws, executive orders and whatnot, people can be forcibly quarantined (and shot if they resist), forcibly vaccinated (and who's to say what's in that vaccine, remember you can't sue the makers if it's worse than the disease, or if...lookee!...it has an RFID chip in it too) in an epidemic you can kiss the last of your civil liberties goodbye like Dinah Shore with a big old smoocheroo.<br><br>Unfortunately most Americans think their health is the responsibility of their doctor, hospitals, the drug companies, public health agencies...when actually peoples' health is a profit engine for these institutions, not a value in itself. A profit engine, or a reason for a self perpetuating but hideously inefficient bureaucracy (ever applied for SSI? Please--do so, for the heuristic value of the attempt. It's a nightmare. Or check out the crazyquilt that is the Medicare drug benefit. It was designed by Rube Goldberg working overtime on mescaline with Franz Kafka.)<br><br>I may or may not be right about my analysis of what's going on. But I know that in the end keeping my lungs working (I have asthma, and nearly died several years back from double pneumonia which left my lungs tetchy at the best of times) is MY responsibility. Whether I'm going to be hit with a genetically reengineered virus made from the 1918 flu bug, chlamydia or mycoplasma, bird flu...*I* have to keep my lungs working efficiently, keep myself hydrated and nourished. I have to avail myself of whatever in allopathic or alternative medicine can facilitate this goal and avoid everything that interferes with those functions.<br><br>We all need to do this, and if you have a loved one who is part of a vulnerable population--elderly, suffering from any kind of pre-existing pulmonary ailment, AIDS and other immune suppressed, children, or you have inadequate health care, or you can't afford bottled water, supplements, organic food, let alone nebulizers, etc....please start thinking NOW about what you will need to provide yourself, and how you can obtain it.<br><br>Last, don't be afraid to be obsessive about minimizing your exposure to other peoples' secretions. If people make fun of you for wearing a mask or wiping down a shared phone before you use it, screw 'em. This is your life, and that of your loved ones.<br><br>Like the people down South found out after Katrina, the gubmint not only ain't gonna bust their butts to keep you alive, they may just do their best to kill you, if not by having created this bug to cull the herd, by deliberate inaction or incompetence.<br><br>Fool us once, shame on them. Fool us twice...shame on us.<br><br>Edited for diction. <p>=======<br>Oh, I enjoy an egg myself, yes. They don't make good pets, though; you can never get them in at night. <br> ~Doctor Pratt (played by Peter Sellers), "The Wrong Box"</p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=nymarya>Nymarya</A> at: 9/18/05 11:50 pm<br></i>
