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 Germ warfare: Surviving the flu
I’m becoming anti social and intentionally so (and besides seeking out the company of my four legged friends-pets), I’m avoiding others these days. Yonder and long ago, I used to be an outgoing and gregarious guy, mingling with my fellow global citizens. Not anymore, that’s changed. I have stopped socialising. By socialising, I mean going out with others to an overcrowded (smoke free) restaurant with sneezing and wheezing, obese, slobs coughing, slobbering or burping loudly in my face, without even using a napkin to cover their overstuffed snouts while telling me while masticating to “get back into the markets”. I also avoid having a coffee at “Starbucks” or in an insulated, perfectly protected air -conditioned environment, free from airborne disease, but full of bad air and body odor with my financial advisor admonishing me to invest in this and sell that before the next financial bubble. Also, I stay away from people who have become willingly blinded to this endless economic mess and wars we are all mired in, like in Pakistan, Afghanistan or Iraq where the major western nations are bogged down and can’t get out of, because big oil won’t let them leave. In fact, I am doing everything to stay away from other people and avoid them like the plague. Mainly, because they can literary make me and maybe you and your family too, mortally ill. Only an apparently harmless level of being exposed to other people’s media induced mindlessness and conversing with these types about their personal problems (divorce or sexual dysfunctions), professional (sudden dismissal or thoughts of suicides at work), health (flu and other human ailments ) and financial problems (debt), can cause prolonged aggravation or maybe even slow brain cell degeneracy. In addition to this, those around you can also, transmit terminal diseases like swine or bird flu or worse zombiefication . In other words, along with second hand tobacco, compulsive cell phone use, eating fast food, overexposing yourself to the sun and city air, socialising like talking face to face with potential human carriers of H1N1 pandemic (including politicians) can eventually kill you. So just stay home! That’s why, I am surprised governments have not yet issued an advisory or world wide warning, telling the population not go out of their homes and not to mix or mingle with other human beings at work or in public places. So while we wait for your city to be quarantined and “locked down”, I fear not so much the flu, but that my neighbourhood and others are infected with social ills like: rampant corruption at all levels of government, mob run cities, financial fraud on a historical level, crumbling infrastructure, closing schools, or marauding drug gangs in the local “ghost mall”; all this happening in a world consumed and contaminated by greed and violence. My doctor’s diagnosis? I have a terminal case of advanced and perhaps incurable socialitis. What are its symptoms? It causes a deep exististencial malaise and has side effects like mass media induced paranoia accompanied by hysteria among the population . But really folks, I’m not sick just yet with the flu disguised as the common cold, but I am so very sick and fed up with the “war on drugs” which has been won, by the mobsters and drug dealers and cartels in Colombia and Mexico. I am sick of the endless “war on terror”, which was lost by the west long before 9/11, to the radicals and religious fundamentalists, who have become suicide bombers and heroine producers, instead of being goat herders and farmers in central Asia . And now in the midst of the greatest depression since 1929, we have thanks to our good and great leaders “the war on the flu ” has been declared without any legislative authority or constitutional legitimacy. For this new and ruthless germ warfare, world governments are armed with massive doses of public relations firms spinning and spewing out tons of propaganda and anti viral vaccines on the home front in the name of “public health”. They have at their disposal powerful weaponry, like platoons of overzealous state bureaucrats enslaving their citizenry, just as you line up at the local flu shot centre. They have phalanxes of WHO –big pharmacy controlled “health professionals” and lawyers to get you take the shot. They also have plenty of surveillance cameras and private security units which wherever you may go, make sure you will stay away from the“off limits” to the public, and officially designated “contaminated no go zones”. Among all this human pestilence which surrounds us, the only thing spreading faster than the flu is fear, panic and mutual distrust and disgust. This may lead to collective madness and more social diseases propagated by the criminal minds now in power.
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 Michael Werbowski, a contributing columnist to MWC News, is a freelance reporter who specializes in environmental issues. He graduated from the University of Leeds, UK and wrote his MA dissertation in post-communist studies on the topic of EU enlargement to the nations of "new" central Europe.
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