U.S. BOMBS ISIL TARGETS IN SYRIA

U.S. BOMBS ISIL TARGETS IN SYRIA

SLIP-UPS AT BIOTERROR LABS FUEL FEAR

WHO: EBOLA OUTBREAK COULD LAST FOREVER

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(All the News That Nobody Else Will Print)

The headlines in Tuesday’s edition of the USA, September 23, 2014, each a worthy headline with a story to tell…..of course. Scanning the headlines this morning it suddenly hit me, not like a ton of brick, rather a strong wind, which of these headlines simply did not belong? Like I said, “each headline had its own story to tell,” and each headline definitely affects people over a wide range…..so which headline was troublesome to me.

 

Before I answer that poser, let’s take a quick look at who is affected by these headlines, who stand to make money and what kind of an impact will remain long after this date in history. It seems kind of comedic to me that these three headlines were bunched together on the same page…..probably done so either to catch reader’s interest or maybe it was done in the name of journalistic space…..(money saving news space verses advertisement income).

 

Whatever the reason, let’s take each topic on its own merits in reverse of how I have them…..Ebola outbreak could last forever. The World Health Organization, (WHO) warns that if the world doesn’t get the Ebola outbreak in West Africa under control quickly, the disease could become a permanent health fixture in the region.

 

Of course there are those scientists and doctors who dispute that dire scenario, but most agree that the virus could circulate for years if it’s not stopped soon. The idea that Ebola could become endemic in West Africa, spreading routinely, rather than in sporadic outbreaks is not a prospect that has been contemplated.

 

There could be 20,000 cases by November, with thousands more each week, the report says. About 70% of those patients who get Ebola are dying from the illness, and there is concern that without a massive increase in the response so far, Ebola will be impossible to stop.

 

Ebola is not new; the virus has caused more than 20 outbreaks over the past 40 years, mostly in remote villages in central Africa. Some outbreaks were severe, but public health officials were always able to put a stop to them…..even without effective treatment, or vaccines.

 

(SORRY…..I SLIPPED UP) SLIP-UPS AT BIOTERROR LABS

That’s right, everybody slips up, makes a mistake, and is credited with a do-ever, right, well actually no, oh sure, if you hang a door wrong, drop paint on the floor, or make a God-awful meal, you’ll be granted another chance. But when you make a mistake in handling stuff at a bioterror laboratory and you lose infected animals…..well, that might be a different story.

 

This is like a 1960s space movie, in May of this year inside the Rocky Mountain Laboratories (scientists wearing spacesuit looking protective gear search hours for a mouse infected with an Ebola like virus that had escaped its cage.)

 

Also in May, at St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital in Tennessee, a lab worker suffered a cut while trying to corral infected, escaped ferrets, the infectious virus, a strain of avian influenza…..”get along little doggies.”

 

According to U.S. Representative Diana DeGette D-Colorado, “as long as we keep having an ad hoc system of oversight in this country, we’re going to keep seeing more and more incidents.” Well gee, Diana, will people need to die before things are changed?

 

These viruses are dangerous to workers, and human lives outside of the workplace, “these are high-containments,” said Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy R-Pa. The Center for Disease Control, (CDC) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture jointly run the Federal Select Agent Program that oversees laboratories working with viruses, bacteria and toxins called “select agents” because they’re deemed to pose serious threats to people and agriculture and could be used as bioweapons.

 

BOMBS OVER SYRIA

Oh boy, “here he goes again…..up on the old soap box crying the ills of war.” Nope not this time, sorry, but bombing Syria is nothing new, or really secret, it’s simply the way that the United States does its foreign policy stuff. This move is little more than a phase…..kind of like growing pains; the action is simply the first step in a three or four step program to getting U.S. boots on the ground.

 

According to Rear Admiral John Kirby, Pentagon press secretary, “the U.S. military and partner nation forces are undertaking military action against ISIL terrorists in Syria using a mix of fighter, bomber and Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles, given that these operations are ongoing, we are not in a position provide any additional information.”

 

Sounds like a page right out of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney’s press releases early in the attacks on Iraq…..and the dastardly search for those infamous weapons of mass destruction. Like the old man said one time…..deny, deny, deny…..and cloudy the waters whenever possible.

 

SCALE OF IMPORTANCE

Let me see, how would I rate these three headlines for September 23, 2014…..well, Syrians will die because of coalition bombs, young people, old people, women, children…..and even pets. For whatever reason, it seems to be a sad commentary of our world today.

 

The Ebola outbreak, and the possible danger that the virus can bring to people, 70% fatality rates, the disease needs to be confronted, and conquered, of that I have no doubt. But don’t send any of that stuff to American biolabs, they’ll botch the works up, and we’ll have infected rodents chasing us around.

 

Of course the bacteria slip-ups and the Ebola dangers will affect more people than dropping some bombs on Syria ever will. I say that the American government…..at least, concentrate on battling the Ebola virus, and putting our bioterror laboratories in order before we all come down with the screaming heebie geebies.

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!