I ear the earlier threads about Duncan’s supposed death earlier today, and it only came from one source (Israeli, if I remember right).
I have no idea whether this source is reliable, or not. But, it does lead me to question why it has not been “called out” by our press, if it is untrue.
If we can no longer trust the media to keep us informed, then I am more worried about “societal panic” than from reading all the reports about folks with the flu getting isolated and quarantined.
We have more to fear from an irrational public panic than the we do from the disease itself - the former has the potential to bring our “just-in-time” complex system to collapse, if regular people who drive the trucks, run the assays, man the emergency rooms, child-care-centers, public transportation, and emergency room support systems all freak out and stay home, while trying to stock up to hunker down.
I can understand, therefore, why CDC, etc. need to downplay the problem, but in order to control the public, they then have to control the media, and we are left in the dark, vulnerable to rumors, charlatans, and opportunists - not knowing what is truth, and what is hype.
Think about how complex, but how fragile, our modern metroplex systems actually are - they all run on trust, and when that fails, it looks like a mad-max world out there.
Nicely written and it echos many of my thoughts this evening. The press has been way too quiet and stories are left to the imagination. Something is afoot and it is not good. This administration is absolutely corrupt and is controlling information. It is unimaginable the dangerous waters we are traveling at this point in our history.