Posted on 07/16/2018 8:59:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Years ago, Tom Wolfe published a funny piece dealing with the reappearance during the Summer of Love of diseases never seen in the modern epoch. Wolfe's overall term for these disorders was, if I recall correctly, "The Crud." Doctors were unfamiliar with these conditions and in some cases uncertain as to how to treat them. Some of those children of nature ended up with chronic disorders.
This served as a life lesson for the counterculture, most of whom resumed bathing. But now, fifty years later, we – at least those of us in California – are about to receive another such lesson, this one more drastic and widespread.
[SNIP]
The prince of these epidemic diseases was cholera. Currently unknown in the industrialized West (most doctors have never seen a case), cholera was a filth-based disease caused by human and animal waste and nothing else. Originating in the Ganges delta, cholera spread across the planet until, in the 19th century, it was a standard feature of urban life. Cholera epidemics were chronic, breaking out wherever sewage mixed with drinking water. Cholera was an oddity among diseases in that it often progressed with no visible symptoms. An individual showing no symptoms at all could suddenly collapse at noon and be dead by sundown.
Cholera still exists in the Third World. According to the WHO, the most recent pandemic broke out of South Asia in 1961 and reached the Americas by the 1990s. "Cholera is now endemic in many countries."
We will also point out that the city of San Francisco is a sanctuary city, or, in the words of the ordinance itself, "a City and County of Refuge." That is, San Francisco has put out the welcome mat for tens of thousands of third-world illegals.
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They love their filth.
Can you imagine some call by the city council to get Chorea shots? That would kill off the tourism industry within weeks.
Cholera it likely to be the tip of the frozenshitberg.
It's a "civil right" to them, after all.
San Filthcisco. Spread the meme!
The insane homeless, messing themselves on nearly every sidewalk downtown, couldn’t have anything to do with this. No.
“San Francesspool” is what a friend of mine calls that city.
Seems it’s literally true.
You can avoid reality, but you can not avoid the CONSEQUENCES of avoiding reality.
— Ayn Rand
Love Tom Wolfe, RIP. His documenting of the “Radical Chic” and Leonard Bernstein and the Manhattan elite’s infatuation with the Black panthers is a priceless look into liberal snobbery!
like a good cholera epidemic followed by a good dose of Typhus.
Immigrants may have brought the disease, but it is being spread by good-old Americans and their progressive policies - drug addicts and the mentally ill.
Amazing to think that people could literally be risking contracting cholera stepping out of their multi million dollar condo!
“The city has made itself a magnet for refugees from countries with no modern sewage systems and no tradition of personal hygiene – the same countries in which the WHO asserts that cholera has become “endemic.””
The Streets of San Fran aren’t full of fecal matter and piss because they are a “sanctuary city”... they were full of excrement and urine long long before the left embraces open borders.
SF 50+ years of making excuses and justifications for everything from pedophilia by electing Harvey Milk to the embracing of the mental disorder of homosexuality as just a choice to be celebrated to the Sanctuary City nonsense today...
SF has been a shithole for my entire life.. what is permitted is what will continue.. SF finally passed the tipping point of being able to cover up all the nonsense and realities of their policies.. because they tolerated them so long they can no longer be contained to the tenderloin or the wrong side of market.
~or Typhoid or any number of parasitic and bacterial enteritis that comes from fecal contamination.
You said it! I read “Radical Chic” back in 1970 and to this day I go to New York magazine website and reread it, it is not dated in the least in describing the pretentiousness of wealthy urban liberals. The names have changed but the myopic hypocrisy remains the same.
Tom Wolfe had a gimlet eye for not only physical detail but for plumbing the mindset of the liberals who attended that infamous party to meet Black Panther thugs.
The Panthers would be replaced by the Palestinians and Israel defiled with Nazi imagery.....and you know, today’s wealthy lefties are even nuttier than their 1970 predecessors, by far.
My boss, a doctor, worked at SF General.
He said its cuz dudes are eating out each other’s BUTTS.
Sorry...!
Can you imagine some call by the city council to get Chorea shots?
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