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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates
I cannot understand why NHS staff are going to West Africa when we are told that the NHS is in such a dire situation partly because of a shortage of nurses and doctors? Quite agree that all travellers should be in quarantine for the duration of the incubation period.
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The whole Ebola thing is a crock of media horse manure ... it has a catchy name like West Nile Virus ... "Oooo, West Nile Virus" say folks who have no damned idea what the Nile is, or where it is, and couldn't find "west" even if the sun set there every day ... come to think of it, it does.
Hundreds are dying from Ebola ... somehow this seems more "tragic" (one of the most overused words in the media vocabulary
) than the tens of thousands who starve to death on that unfortunate continent, or are massacred by whatever group of goons can get together enough AKs and machetes. We can conveniently forget about those things and concentrate on the new, designer issue, "Ebola". Ah well, as soon as the fad wears thin, the victims of Ebola can die ignored, along with the starving, the child soldiers, and thousands of women who are brutally raped and murdered. This rant is getting a little too serious; time for a humorous interlude:
BBC News - US woman accidentally shot dead by son, two, in Idaho Wal-Mart
(Those of you who don't find humor in this, feel free to express yourselves in conventional clichees of outrage.)
I particularly like the comment about videos and witnesses confirming that this was an "accident." Lucky for the two-year-old, eh. In Texas, there would be calls for his arrest, conviction, and execution. In Oklahoma, he would have been lynched.
What the hell was she doing with a loaded handgun in her purse ... obviously with a round chambered and safety off. Maybe there was a sale on; and she was determined to get the good deals at gunpoint.
Ah well, it turns out that there was no real problem. She had a valid CCW permit and the weight of the Second Amendment backing her up ... not to mention the NRA.
Enough of this ... I think I'll pour myself a stiff one and watch the latest episode of "Hillbilly Handfishing", a stunning tv tour de force straight from that part of the States where the most popular Hallmark greeting card is "Happy Birthday Uncle Dad" and folks think "The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms" is a local convenience store.