How To Stop Ebola

[WilliamPitt]

Last edited Fri Oct 24, 2014, 10:09 AM - Edit history (1)

Don't do this:



If you don't get it, I recommend "The Big Lebowski" the next time you go movie-shopping.

[MineralMan]

1. Given the fact that the newest patient went bowling,

this is in pretty poor taste, I think, Will.

[WilliamPitt]

3. Um

That was the point.

[MineralMan]

4. I realize that. I don't see the humor, however.

Perhaps others will, though. My opinion remains the same.

[WilliamPitt]

5. YMMV

Thanks for the kick, as ever.

[seveneyes]

2. Dude!

We can lick this thing!

[JayhawkSD]

6. Not funny. Ebola is killing people.

And the death of thousands is not a joking matter.

[WilliamPitt]

9. "Ebola is killing people." So is cancer

and AIDS and Parkinson's and diabetes and cigarettes and fracking and oil...

...and, by the bye, so is the very computer you're scolding me with: when you're done with it and chuck it, it will wind up in a town in China, where it will be rendered for its parts and then burned, the toxic waste from which will kill children, but only if they're lucky enough to die without being born with horrific birth defects from the pollutants from the computer you used to scold me. Look it up if you don't believe me; dealing with discarded American computers has become a cottage industry in dozens of Chinese communities, and the process is laying waste to the populace where it's being done. Thanks to the thing you used to scold me.

Are you wearing clothes? Like as not, the tag at your neck has the name of the kid who died to make your shirt.

Ever give a beloved a diamond? Have you any idea of the bloodshed involved in dragging that rock out of the ground?

Got a cell phone? Do you have any idea how much butchery is involved in controlling the mines needed for the basic components involved in your ability to send a text?

Welcome to being an American.

All I have is gallows humor with my left hand, and my effort to change all this with my right hand.

Go scold someone else. Thanks.

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. ROFL!

You'll get the usual "Not funny!" flack from the harumphers, but damn, son, you got me rolling.

Am I the only one who thinks it's awesome that the ebola doc went (e)bowling?

[marions ghost]

8. Thx for the black humor

...often needed in times of stress and fear, whether the fear is rational or not.

Ask soldiers, medical professionals, teachers in a gun-toting society, pilots, morticians, war correspondents, etc--anyone whose job involves a high level of stress and danger.

Humor = a perennial coping mechanism. Does nothing to detract from the seriousness of the situation.

Here's how they fared on the S.S. Ebola:

"They dubbed the ship the S.S. Ebola, bellied up to the bar to spend $200 vouchers, and shared wild rumors for several days at sea. But when passengers of the Carnival Magic stepped ashore in Galveston on Sunday morning, their vacation smiles soon faded to frowns of wary bemusement at the phalanx of television cameras there to greet them.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ebola-cruise-ship-20141019-story.html#page=1




http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/oct/20/ebola-read-about-disease-now-buy-merchandise