Sometimes you just gotta take a break from fear of ISIS & Ebola!
Geez Louise! Here I am living in a wonderful town, on a safe street
and with food in the refrigerator. But all I ever do is worry about
poor Syria being invaded by ISIS, America and the Saudis http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40005.htm.
Here I am with the best medical care in the world located only six
blocks from my home -- and I worry about Ebola. According to John
Barry's fascinating book about the 1919 flu epidemic, "The Great
Influenza," viruses have a nasty habit of evolving in order to be more
contagious and thus have a longer shelf-life. And remember the bird-flu
scare and the swine flu scare? And the fact that Congress has just
slashed the CDC's budget and left us defenseless -- now that the very
agency that stopped both of those possible epidemics in their tracks is currently operating at half-speed due to budget cuts? Good grief.
Here I am, snug as a bug in a rug, but my neighbor just told me that
foam mattresses give off fumes that can ruin my life. So there goes my
foam mattress, out to the dumpster. Rats. It was really really
comfortable too.
And the Republican party has been telling me since Reagan's time that I
should be afraid -- very afraid. Of what? You name it. Undocumented
Americans, commie spies, weapons of mass destruction, drug lords,
terrorist invasions, I forget what all else.
So now the only sane thing I can think of doing today is to spend the day hiding under my (mattress-less) bed. "But, Jane, you can't do that! Remember that there might be a bedbug epidemic!" Oops. I forgot.
