Posted on 05/31/2014 5:14:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
MERS is very scary. This week, while avoiding the term global health emergency, the World Health Organization announced that the deadly viral infection was both serious and urgent. So far, there have been 571 confirmed cases of MERS; 171 of those people died from the disease.
There's one place, however, where the mood about MERS isn't scaring everyone. It's also the place where the infection was first reported in 2012 and where almost 500 recorded cases have been found so far: Saudi Arabia.
And the skepticism about the virus has taken a strange turn in Saudi Arabia, where people have begun kissing camels in response to MERS.
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On Twitter, photographs of men kissing and stroking their camels have been accompanied with comments disparaging MERS:
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Jim Morrison:
Close your eyes.
We’ll see the snake; see the serpent appear.
His head is ten feet long and five feet wide.
He has one red eye and one green eye.
He’s seven miles long.
Deadly.
I see all the history of the world on his scales, all people, all actions.
We’re all just little pictures on his scales.
God, he’s big, he’s moving, devouring consciousness, digesting power.
Monster of energy.
It’s a monster.
We’re going to kiss the snake on the tongue.
Kiss the serpent.
But if it senses fear, it’ll eat us instantly.
But if we kiss it without fear, it’ll take us through the garden, through the gate, to the other side.
Ride the snake... until the end of time.
It’s the camels’ fault for not wearing veils.
Oates and Super Mario had a son?
Harry Reems.
A legend.
Hajj and MERS - hope in our time.
Are the depths of depravity nothing less than a bottomless pit for these perverted desert savages?
Great song. I saw Maria Muldar. She’s Italian from New York and she was into Appalachian music.
Send your camel to bed…
Let’s slip off to a sand dune, real soon
And kick up a little dust
Only stunned:-)
Like the music from “The People’s Court” (Taken from “Debbie Does Dallas”)
My only question is why don’t they just kiss the pretty ones?
How about a musical on this subject? Say, “Camel-lot”?
HISS
Those poor camels...
I’m not Saudi.
Ping...
Joy. Another super bug that is going to kill us. Let me add this to my list...
SARS
Bird Flu
H1N1
Swine Flu
Cat flu
Monkey flu
dog flu
reptile flu
Newt flu
Spotted tree frog flu
owl flu
Worm flu
Slug flu
Octopus flu
E coli
Strep A
Strep B
Strep C
Super Strep
Hobo Spiders
Necrotic flesh eating bacteria
Transfat Flu
16 ounce soda flu
salt flu
Dolphin unsafe tuna flu
Whale flu
Twinkie Flu
Black Rage
Ghetto PTSD
MERS
Sorry, I’m just not getting worked up over this one. 500 people in a world of 7 billion? I will be more concerned when the democrat and liberals start bending over for the right for people to marry their camels.
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