Crawl, Money Ball, Worried yet?

The drive home from work yesterday was not enjoyable.  There was an accident on one of the major arteries that snowballed as people trying to avoid it wound up rerouting, clogging those roads as well.  To get home I drove 5 miles north and then back south to get about a 1/2 mile further east, past the back up.  It was a lovely commute.

What also has been lovely is the continued onslaught of precipitation.  Yesterday we got dumped on again making any chance of the property drying out before my dads dogs arrive very, very remote.

For several years elections meant endless robo-calls from candidates.  I had expressed my hatred of them many times as well as questioning the logic behind pestering potential voters with them.   If anything, a robo-call made me less likely to vote for someone.  Well this year I have yet to receive one robocall however they have been replaced by an onslaught of emails, asking for campaign donations.  I bet in the past couple months I have literally received hundreds of requests to “chip in”.

Since I am still a registered republican but on the email list for organizations like moveon.org I get it from both sides of the political fence.  However I can tell you that the requests for money are heavily weighted on the democratic side.  I can only assume the republican party is less squeezed for dough thanks to their bread and butter constituents, corporate America who are now viewed as “people” thanks to the ridiculous Supreme Court ruling several years ago.

I have not donated a penny to either side.  I have pretty much given up any hope of our corporate controlled democracy righting itself during my lifetime.  The money in our country has their hands welded on the steering wheel that controls the direction our government goes. They just are not going to let go.

So this morning the headline was a second healthcare worker that was around patient zero (in the US) tested positive for Ebola.  There are all sorts of concerning and conflicting information being thrown out there, especially if ebola is not an “airborne” virus.  There are descriptions of how the infected man sat in the normal patient waiting room for hours exposed to who knows how many people during that time period.  There apparently was no special care given initially when handling the man’s fluid samples which could have given additional avenues for cross contamination.  The more you read the more obvious it becomes that the public is not being told the truth about the ease the virus can be spread, regardless of if it is technically not airborne by definition. Lying is a staple of the media after all.

Now of course inciting panic benefits noone, hell I already heard of some people calling for more or less of a culling in infected areas. However I think there is the potential for a major issue here.  After all we are entering cold/flu season  in the United States.  The initial ebola symptoms are flu or even cold-like so how do you discern between normal illness and a deadly virus?  By the time you realize it is something more serious you could have been actively spreading ebola unknowingly to countless people.

It doesn’t take a CDC expert to see how easily this could get out of control.   Something eventually is going to happen to perform a course correction on the exploding human population.  Most of us just hope it doesn’t occur in our lifetimes.