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Hype - Hype - maybe NOT - this time!
FYI - what separates a Real Killer virus from the ones that the media have annointed is largely based upon ONE fact - it's ability to be non-selective in it's lathality on a population - i. e. - it kills EVENLY - NOT largely the weak, elderly, young etc! THis may be what we have - as initial reports seem to indicate that very healthy individuals are victims at teh same rate.
Ft Detrick - home of (USAMRIID) - (http://mrmc-www.army.mil/) and the hopelessly misdirected CDC as well as the WHO - have for many years been very concerned about a global virus - not necessarily bioterriorism - that could in fact take the human species "back to the stone age. " If SARS is that foretold event - the media due to it's being so easily misidrected and hopelessly unimformed - they'll not get this story correct until there is mass panic and it'll be to late. The next 2 weeks will tell the tale with the Toronto mess. More to follow - but if you were smart - you'd buy at least 5-6 gallons of bleach - and all the fae masks you can get your mit's on. They're going to make the fuel crisis seem like child's play.
If we had world travel in the "dark ages" - the black plague would have been even more devastating. In case you forgot - here's some data on how it got to Europe - AND YES it was VERY Infectious!
The Black Death: Bubonic Plague
In the early 1330s an outbreak of deadly bubonic plague occurred in China. Plague mainly affects rodents, but fleas can transmit the disease to people. Once people are infected, they infect others very rapidly. Plague causes fever and a painful swelling of the lymph glands called buboes, which is how it gets its name. The disease also causes spots on the skin that are red at first and then turn black.
Since China was one of the busiest of the world's trading nations, it was only a matter of time before the outbreak of plague in China spread to western Asia and Europe. In October of 1347, several Italian merchant ships returned from a trip to the Black Sea, one of the key links in trade with China. When the ships docked in Sicily, many of those on board were already dying of plague. Within days the disease spread to the city and the surrounding countryside. An eyewitness tells what happened:
"Realizing what a deadly disaster had come to them, the people quickly drove the Italians from their city. But the disease remained, and soon death was everywhere. Fathers abandoned their sick sons. Lawyers refused to come and make out wills for the dying. Friars and nuns were left to care for the sick, and monasteries and convents were soon deserted, as they were stricken, too. Bodies were left in empty houses, and there was no one to give them a Christian burial. "
The disease struck and killed people with terrible speed. The Italian writer Boccaccio said its victims often
"ate lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors in paradise. "
By the following August, the plague had spread as far north as England, where people called it "The Black Death" because of the black spots it produced on the skin. A terrible killer was loose across Europe, and Medieval medicine had nothing to combat it.
In winter the disease seemed to disappear, but only because fleas--which were now helping to carry it from person to person--are dormant then. Each spring, the plague attacked again, killing new victims. After five years 25 million people were dead--one-third of Europe's people.
Even when the worst was over, smaller outbreaks continued, not just for years, but for centuries. The survivors lived in constant fear of the plague's return, and the disease did not disappear until the 1600s.
Medieval society never recovered from the results of the plague. So many people had died that there were serious labor shortages all over Europe. This led workers to demand higher wages, but landlords refused those demands. By the end of the 1300s peasant revolts broke out in England, France, Belgium and Italy.
The disease took its toll on the church as well. People throughout Christendom had prayed devoutly for deliverance from the plague. Why hadn't those prayers been answered? A new period of political turmoil and philosophical questioning lay ahead.
FYI - what separates a Real Killer virus from the ones that the media have annointed is largely based upon ONE fact - it's ability to be non-selective in it's lathality on a population - i. e. - it kills EVENLY - NOT largely the weak, elderly, young etc! THis may be what we have - as initial reports seem to indicate that very healthy individuals are victims at teh same rate.
Ft Detrick - home of (USAMRIID) - (http://mrmc-www.army.mil/) and the hopelessly misdirected CDC as well as the WHO - have for many years been very concerned about a global virus - not necessarily bioterriorism - that could in fact take the human species "back to the stone age. " If SARS is that foretold event - the media due to it's being so easily misidrected and hopelessly unimformed - they'll not get this story correct until there is mass panic and it'll be to late. The next 2 weeks will tell the tale with the Toronto mess. More to follow - but if you were smart - you'd buy at least 5-6 gallons of bleach - and all the fae masks you can get your mit's on. They're going to make the fuel crisis seem like child's play.
If we had world travel in the "dark ages" - the black plague would have been even more devastating. In case you forgot - here's some data on how it got to Europe - AND YES it was VERY Infectious!
The Black Death: Bubonic Plague
In the early 1330s an outbreak of deadly bubonic plague occurred in China. Plague mainly affects rodents, but fleas can transmit the disease to people. Once people are infected, they infect others very rapidly. Plague causes fever and a painful swelling of the lymph glands called buboes, which is how it gets its name. The disease also causes spots on the skin that are red at first and then turn black.
Since China was one of the busiest of the world's trading nations, it was only a matter of time before the outbreak of plague in China spread to western Asia and Europe. In October of 1347, several Italian merchant ships returned from a trip to the Black Sea, one of the key links in trade with China. When the ships docked in Sicily, many of those on board were already dying of plague. Within days the disease spread to the city and the surrounding countryside. An eyewitness tells what happened:
"Realizing what a deadly disaster had come to them, the people quickly drove the Italians from their city. But the disease remained, and soon death was everywhere. Fathers abandoned their sick sons. Lawyers refused to come and make out wills for the dying. Friars and nuns were left to care for the sick, and monasteries and convents were soon deserted, as they were stricken, too. Bodies were left in empty houses, and there was no one to give them a Christian burial. "
The disease struck and killed people with terrible speed. The Italian writer Boccaccio said its victims often
"ate lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors in paradise. "
By the following August, the plague had spread as far north as England, where people called it "The Black Death" because of the black spots it produced on the skin. A terrible killer was loose across Europe, and Medieval medicine had nothing to combat it.
In winter the disease seemed to disappear, but only because fleas--which were now helping to carry it from person to person--are dormant then. Each spring, the plague attacked again, killing new victims. After five years 25 million people were dead--one-third of Europe's people.
Even when the worst was over, smaller outbreaks continued, not just for years, but for centuries. The survivors lived in constant fear of the plague's return, and the disease did not disappear until the 1600s.
Medieval society never recovered from the results of the plague. So many people had died that there were serious labor shortages all over Europe. This led workers to demand higher wages, but landlords refused those demands. By the end of the 1300s peasant revolts broke out in England, France, Belgium and Italy.
The disease took its toll on the church as well. People throughout Christendom had prayed devoutly for deliverance from the plague. Why hadn't those prayers been answered? A new period of political turmoil and philosophical questioning lay ahead.
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