My brother in law, who goes to USC, contracted mumps. Which was crazy to me because isn’t mumps a rather obscure disease? I mean, didn’t it kind of go extinct in the 1950’s? According to my pediatrician, an outbreak of mumps has occurred in Downtown Los Angeles. Upon further research, I have found that an outbreak of mumps has also occurred in Berkeley. I don’t mean to jump to any unscientific conclusions but both Berkeley and downtown Los Angeles are at the center of the “occupy movements” in California.
Could the occupy movements be more than a mental disease in our country?
Could the occupy movements be more than a mental disease in our country? I mean, what other obscure diseases are afflicting the occupy protesters and could we become afflicted also?
According to my research, there is an outbreak of tuberculosis at the Occupy Atlanta site. Occupy Wall Street in New York has had to make up a name a name for a disease that they are calling Zuccotti Lung which is comprised of coughing and wheezing. STD’s are of course running rampant. There was nothing about the Los Angeles mumps outbreak when I looked which means there are more diseases out there that aren’t common knowledge. There is even a guy who had been dead for two days in one of the tents which begs the question, “how bad does it really smell there?
You can’t say that the people of Occupy Wall Street aren’t aware of the hygiene problem. There are feeble attempts to hand out condoms and hand sanitizer but in the wake of the unsanitary conditions it is like throwing sewing needles at King Kong. Speaking of needles, they can however give clean needles to heroin addicts. There are even people such as Jordan McCarthy, 22, who has been assigned to be part of the Occupy Wall Street sanitation (I know) crew. Jordan seems astounded that the ladies and gentlemen who are occupying Wall Street might be less than hygienic. He complains that they urinate in bottles and throw their scrambled eggs and orange peels outside of their tents instead of garbage cans. I mean, just because you don’t shower doesn’t mean you’re unclean, right? All I can think of is that someone as naïve as Jordan might be rube enough to be fooled into being part of the Occupy Wall Street sanitation team. Talk about being an unsung hero. That man is Sisyphus in the flesh: every time you’d pick up a used hypodermic needle or a hot dog bit there’d be ten to take their place. His attempts to clean up the area must be about as useful as giving a breath mint to Larry King to take away the smell (Larry King really is touting a new breath mint with his wife Shawn: the commercial is the funniest thing I have ever seen.)
Whoever convinced Jordan to be part of the cleaning crew is wasting their efforts hanging out around Occupy Wall Street. They must be the best salesman in the world. What could the pitch possibly have been? “Hey, Jordan: you know how New York usually only smells of blue cheese and urine? Now it smells like a Democrats sphincter. How about you try to do something about it? I think you’re just the man to clean it up. There will be no pay. Really you will be doing nothing to change anything: actually it will be a lot like the Occupy movement itself only if you accomplished something everyone in America would appreciate it.” Jordan’s response probably is “Uhhhh—could I just clean up after the Tea Party?”
I hope the diseases don’t spread around to us, the people Obama houses in General Population: I was never vaccinated. One thing this teaches us is that we human beings have a lot more in common with indoor cats than we think: like them, we constantly stand on the precipice of losing our ability to be tame. We are one month of living outside from becoming feral. So I would reconsider my summer plans of going on that one-month camping trip in the Everglades. You might never come back: with all your teeth, anyway.
Tags: Communicable Diseases, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, STD
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The main point, that opposition, protest and dissent, revolution in America, might be better served if there was a “manifesto”, a mission and goal, a cause and effect, with a rational, possible and manageable solution, while not weakening the “troops” with mental and physical issues?
OWS is founded within the idea of American “Freedom’, as you point out, poorly executed, but beware, not over. Because Americans perform poorly, this may not be adequate, nor should it be, to suppress dissent, not suggesting for a moment this was your point.
Consider the idea that there are no paradoxes, only things which we don’t understand well enough to see the logic with unifies seemingly disparate forces. “Adams and Jefferson, almost polar opposites, were both right.
Jefferson was right that we need change, ‘regular revolution’, freedom, and the supremacy of the individual over the tyranny of government… the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many; the tyranny of the majority; permanent revolution; each generation is supreme.
Adams was right that we need order and structure, stability, control, and the advancement of the greater good… the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few; majority rules; what holds today can be depended upon tomorrow.
And in the final analysis would one really want to have advised Mother Theresa to stay out of the slums of Calcutta because the poverty of material, health and spiritual things is often, paradoxically, more than a mental disease…and probably very dangerous??
An infinite amount of dirt must often be sifted through to find a few diamonds. We need “heroes” who will risk navigating uncharted territory.
In a very narrow but imperative sense, the health and safety of citizens, your point was spot on. Some wished you had gone farther, deeper and more introspectively.
This is a failure of good people doing nothing, radical progressivism doing everything and the twisted and torture ideologies of political correctness (PC) causing the Cloward and Piven desired end game tactic of “chaos.” Remember the strategy of “overwhelm” the system?
Continue to challenge us, that is your strength.
Your comments about fellow human beings who are out of work, who feel disenfranchised and who are trying to have their voices heard over the roar blasting from corporations and billionaires by engaging in peaceful protest reveal who the actual disgusting, smelly, filthy, diseased person in this situation is.