Why Has Plague Erupted In Madagascar?

I think of it as global redistribution of stupidity:

The deadly plague sweeping Madagascar may have a particularly gruesome cause — a local tradition of dancing with dead bodies.

Health officials suspect it’s no coincidence that the outbreak — which has infected more than 1,100 people and killed 124 since August — coincides with the time of year when families customarily exhume the remains of dead relatives, wrap them in a sheet, and dance with them through the streets in a sacred ritual, AFP reports.

“If a person dies of pneumonic plague and is then interred in a tomb that is subsequently opened for [the ritual], the bacteria can still be transmitted and contaminate whoever handles the body,” said Willy Randriamarotia, Madagascar’s health ministry chief of staff.

The globalized nature of modern transportation and the international interconnectedness it produces creates a sort of a redistribution of Darwinian Selection. It doesn’t matter that we are smarter than them, or that we understand germ theory. We will still get the plagues these idiots produce. This one won’t get us, unless that plague picks up some serious antibiotic resistance, but imagine if that was a SARS outbreak, or a new flu strain. ITZ coming.

Meanwhile Vault-Co linked to this article:

… That scenario was part of a pandemic simulation held during the World Bank’s annual meeting in Washington this month. It’s not the kind of event that people would typically associate with the World Bank. But it’s the fourth such exercise the bank has helped organize in the past year, reflecting what experts say is the growing awareness outside the traditional global health sector of the increasing threat and economic disruption posed by a global pandemic.

The chaotic and “horrendously inefficient” early response to the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa that killed more than 11,000 people was the catalyst for the simulations, said Tim Evans, senior director for health, nutrition and population at the World Bank.

“We realized that people were just making it up as they were going along, including us,” Evans said, referring to the Ebola response…

Outbreaks of life-threatening infectious diseases are spreading faster and with more unpredictability than ever.

An unusually large plague outbreak in Madagascar has killed 106 people since August. About 70 percent of the cases are the more virulent form of pneumonic plague that spreads by coughing, sneezing or spitting and is almost always fatal if untreated with antibiotics.

In Uganda, officials are on high alert because of a recently reported outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus that has killed one person and may have exposed hundreds more at health facilities and during traditional burial ceremonies. Marburg is a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola and is among the most virulent pathogens known to infect humans.

Some sort of pandemic will be a feature of the Apocalypse. Everybody is beginning to realize that something is in the air, and these things are picking up. It is important to understand that when it hits, everything that the authorities tell you will probably be a lie, either because they will not know what they are talking about, or because where they do know the truth, it will be so terrifying that they will feel as if they have to lie.

I can still remember seeing on the evening news after 9/11, where Christine Todd Whitman announced that the air around Ground Zero had tested perfectly safe. She sent thousands of First Responders onto the pile, and condemned them to lifelong health problems, rather than honestly warn them, and let them take measures to protect their health – all because she feared that if she had told the truth, people would have panicked.

When ITZ happens, recognize this, and assume everything is a lie. You’ll live longer.

Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because in a world of lies, truth is invaluable