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It should have started in Halifax; not Liberia; those are decent people; they’ve gone through enough bullshit; in the name of the United Nation’s interests.
Halifax is nothing BUT bullshit. —Diabolus
This article appears in Aug 14-20, 2014.
19 Comments
From what I’ve gathered about Ebola, and what media will never disclose, you may get your wish soon enough if it’s true that this disease can be air borne.
To wish Ebola on anyone is pretty nasty, OP. You’ve got bigger problems than just a big ol’ hard-on of hate for Halifax.
Yeah, because annoying hipsters, fucked up traffic, incompetent politicians, swarmers, self-entitled college pukes and lousy pizza parlours are the moral equivalent of conflict diamonds, child soldiers, FGM, slavery, poverty and corruption on a biblical scale, and a rising islamofascist movement.
OP, nobody deserves Ebola. Not the folks of West Africa, not the good burghers of H^lif^x.
Klyde – this particular strain of Ebola is not transmittable by air. Read Richard Preston’s superb book “The Hot Zone” for a superb look at how the U.S. military dealt with an air transmittable strain of Ebola in an animal lab in Maryland. The strain was only present in lab monkeys and could not infect humans, but we are sitting on a true Pandora’s box of disaster and mutation.
You do realize ebola is code talk for zombie epidemic, right?
Ivan- The zombie virus is actually transmittable by air. Oh well, see you at Terminus!!!
Max Brooks had it begin in China, but Africa is just as good. I was just telling SOBova the other day that 18 months down the road when we’re squatting around a pitiful fire in the ruins of a looted mall, we’ll look back on this and kick ourselves for not realizing that we were watching the downfall of civilization in real time.
And about flippin’ time, too, sez I.
I’ll start the bbq!
I’ll bring the pot marshmellows.
I make a pretty mean post-apocalyptic Rat au Vin.
“It’s a rat, what been run over by a van” – Pvt. Baldrick – Blackadder Goes Forth.
so, o.p. thinks that we should have that shit here hey. well i volunteer them to be the first to get it. like that, shithead.
If it happened here and a bunch of white people got sick then there’d probably be an ebola cure by now.
All the same thanks for wishing me diseased and dead, in retort I do hope you die in a fire on christmas and painful warts cover your genitals for a year before the fire happens.
“If it happened here and a bunch of white people got sick then there’d probably be an ebola cure by now.”
Isn’t that what folks said about HIV years ago?
One bright side. It appears to be cutting a wide swath through the number of Nigerian princelings and wives of senior army officers currently under indictment at The Hague who need my help to get the millions of Krugerrands and uncut diamonds in safety deposit boxes in Lucerne, because I haven’t received a fax in weeks.
OMG- I just looked into Ebola and its not that thing you can get from not washing your lettuce.
Shits getting serious.
Airplanes. Stay away from the airplanes and airports. Not a guarantee, but a good measure.
And it should start with the OB as the first victim in Halifax since they want it so bad.
ivan, 18 months down the road when you are squatting, you can thank your lucky constellations that I stockpiled toilet paper, which I MAY dispense a square at a time.
Your generosity is most kind, GDM, but for me, Oprah’s Book Club will finally serve a useful purpose.
GDM just outed herself. She’s really Sheryl Crow. You blew it when you mentioned the one square of toilet paper.
you would have to be listening outside the bathroom door (who am i kidding, i have kids and dogs, i haven’t had a closed door poop since 1970) to hear the FWAP FWAP WHIRRRRRRRR of the roll feeding a massive poof of cushiony pooh protection into my waiting hands.