Posted on 12/14/2004 11:15:37 AM PST by ex-Texan
Well, I guess it's time for another one.
You can view the postings as annoyances or warnings; I'll take the latter.
Essence of murrlap...
Yes. Humans, pigs, ducks and chickens all live under the same roof.
Very practical in some senses, as fuel is expensive and refrigeration nonexistent.
The peasant grows rice, and vegetables, eats the pigs, ducks, chickens and catfish from the pond. The pigs, ducks chickens, etc. get leftovers and human waste (Which is also used to fertilize the rice, and veggies).
This creates a virtual closed loop. the plants capture energy from the sun, which feeds people, people byproducts feed the animals, which are partially recycled through the people, animal wastes end up in the pond which feeds the catfish which feed the people and animals, the pond water and waste products fertilize the fields.
Round and round it goes.
An ideal system for maximizing the number of pathogens that can adapt to more than one host. In effect every player is eating the other players feces, either directly or once or twice removed.
The problem comes when a pig is infected by both an avian flu strain and a porcine flu strain. A pig cell unfortunate to be infected with both ends up with a soup of genetic material from both in its walls. Some mixing and matching of the DNA/RNA happens.
Voila! A new flu strain!
A few of these new strains can infect humans, a few of those are lethal...
It happens every year, like clockwork.
I take this seriously, but I'm retired from nursing, so I don't have many of the same concerns I used to...
Anyone here can laugh if they want to, but I think some of the herbal remedies will help, should H151 go pandemic at some point.
At least, that is the typical excuse from China these days. 'Nuff said.
Warnings? LOL! :^)
How about the recent warning that the coming reversal of the North & South poles will result in serious problems?
Or the giant asteriod warning?
And please don't smoke while using hair spray.
Warnings? Ooookay.
- Here's one for you:
Warning: Living in areas that may be flooded by tidal waves may be hazardous to your health. - Please install coastal seimic recorders to reduce the risk of serious injury or death.
You're strange.
It's okay Flake. - I know. 8^)
Okay, that's it. - I just laughed so hard I was choking!
And Watergate don't bother me...
Even Nick Danger is dead meat now?
I think he's beyond strange. Really strange.
I still have my N-95 masks.
Yeah. Sadly.
The bird flu thing is a huge hazard, imho.
The hostility to Supernatural Christianity is incredible--even by some "Christians."
Hard for me, though, to know how much of it is hostilty to the Christian issues--I think a lot--and how much is to me personally--though the latter is probably largely because of the former???
Anyway--I just hate to roll over and play dead and let the evil forces driving such rebellious mentalities have a field day of writing the rules of discourse.
Thanks for your kind posts.
Basically comes down to secular humanism. Very different from what I believe as a Traditional Catholic.
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