Category Archives: Contagion

Being a Good Citizen during a Pandemic

It shouldn’t take legislating public health laws to get human being to start acting like human beings again.  We appear to be headed right back to the future of the dark-ages.

Although it may be a bit overboard to require every citizen to wear a surgical mask while in public, I do think it is prudent to at least have a box of them in stock along with any other emergency kit or go-bag — just in case.   If you are too paranoid to leave your residence, masks are just a click away.  It’s too bad that Amazon holds us hostage to using UPS as its sole courier.  As I cozy-up to making more lengthy and thought-out posts, I will inevitably share with my dear readers why “Brown” is on my shit-list.

How long has it taken to undo the damage of demonizing

The Stand (1994)

This made-for-television movie was based on the Stephen King book of the same name.  Audio is in English.

http://youtu.be/Qv3gQfMgvVM

Part 1

 

http://youtu.be/O0fNNHF7ObE

Part 2

 

http://youtu.be/7994BuTTVwo

Part 3

 

http://youtu.be/NV9FyLcrXGE

Part 4

CDC Press Conference on Ebola Case in U.S.

http://youtu.be/sLMqswI3IIg?list=UUqVeMUffsoeo9idMRcse0lQ

“. . . . from each blank eye socket there peers the reptilian face of an adder; he is coming toward you as you scream, he is whispering: Trips, baby, Captain Trips . . .” (King, Stephen. The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition. New York: Doubleday, 1990. Print.)