A little tidbit nobody is talking about, but it could be huge:
Scots nurse Pauline Cafferkey has been discharged from a London hospital after being treated there for a third time since contracting Ebola.
The 40-year-old from South Lanarkshire was flown to the Royal Free Hospital on Tuesday after being admitted to Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
The Royal Free said she had been discharged and was “not infectious”.
She already had one known re-emergence of the virus, though this was less specific as to whether it was a third re-emergence or just a post-infection complication. Her last re-emergence was called a complication. Another article noted she was taken to the only hospital with the quarantine facility required for an active Ebola infection, and the hospital was emphatic that you can only catch it if a patient is symptomatic, implying the lack of symptoms is the reason they are saying that in her case it isn’t infectious. If it was a re-emergence, as is implied by the “not-infectious-now” caveat, then it would appear that her first relapse was not an anomaly. You can be treated and go asymptomatic, be released, and then relapse again and again.
Bear in mind, if true, the virus inside her has been through this procedure three times already, so it is not at all unlikely it is still hidden away in there somewhere, waiting to emerge a fourth time, and each subsequent re-emergence is probably a stronger variant than the last time, with better defenses to human immunity. It could be doing the same thing in Africa right now somewhere, but the guy who keeps getting sick isn’t telling anyone for fear of what people would do to him.
If that makes it into the gay population, watch out, because it is already documented as residing in semen. You’ll have seeders, who will hide their status and not come forward for fear of being quarantined, and they will spread it unimpeded. As time goes on, just as that staph evolved in the gay population to spread faster and easier, so to would such a strain of Ebola. A persistent infector, that eventually picked up a Reston-like airborne aspect, would be quite potent indeed, and it would devastate any population which routinely associated with gays – namely liberals in big cities.
There are a myriad of bad options going forward, and each will be absolutely awful, but nature is like Yin and Yang. As awful as any option is, it will eventually produce the next Renaissance, and the worse the option, the greater the Renaissance. When the harshness comes, endure it with hope, because although it will seem the end of the world, it will just be the seed of the beginning.
It does loom, doesn’t it? I am scared, but I’m also hopeful, for the first time in a long time.
Also, vindicated. Suddenly everyone is getting on board. I’m swimming in a pool of K.
Then there is the Trumpening.
The modern push for casual sex enrages me because one can logic one’s way from axiom that casual sex decreases the likelihood of happiness in life. As Progressivism evolved from the Protestant Reformation onward, it eventually attained the characteristics of a suicide cult, which is what we have in today’s Progressivist embrace of open hedonism (which includes homosexuality, gender-bending idiocy, and tomorrow’s push to normalize child-adult sex and perhaps even sex with animals.) To the True Believer, anything goes. Every thing anyone wants to do is good, and any intolerance toward such people is…intolerable. Judgement is blasphemy in this cult.
History is littered with places where the once-thriving populace was wiped out by disease or completely replaced by a wave of foreign invasion (not always militarily.) We must assume that shifting beliefs, technologies and mores stripped the locals of the virility that animated their past success.
Success driven by high IQ comes at a cost. Belief resides in the brain’s seat of emotion and sense of self; all people (bright and stupid) begin with belief. Bright people are actually just better able to rationalize, with their higher IQ, beliefs that directly conflict with common sense and observed reality. I think this is why Western nations, largely populated by people with higher IQ’s, let Progressivist belief in democracy and equalism blind them to the logical consequences of these pathological premises.
Our civilization is in mortal peril due to endemic rationalizations of utter folly.
Perhaps? nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/11/what-its-like-to-date-a-horse.html
Really? http://www.salon.com/2015/09/21/im_a_pedophile_but_not_a_monster/
They aren’t even hiding it anymore.
If I recall correctly, the Black death had a similar affect in Europe when it raged – that is it emptied the cities. There were several reasons, the obvious – greater human contact means much greater chance of contagion, but also there is a shift of labor needs. Remember, food comes first (ok clean water first, then food). Then anything else like clothes, houses and iphones. So as population decreases hit, locations needing labor for food production are favored over locations where there is primarily food consumption.
An interesting question about the Ebola virus is will it become more deadly? or less? by becoming chronic, will the versions that kill the host become less common in favor of long term status. Some virus/bacteria has done that.