At least according to the LA Times. I’ll tell you, you’d think the media would be saturated with awful things to be throwing at us all day, but apparently not. Well, “the media” isn’t fair, it’s just this one paper, but the point remains. There aren’t enough terrorists and nuclear weapons to kill us all, I guess.
What’s our first flavor? It’s disease! No, we’re not talking about bird flu or mad cow disease. We get to revisit an old friend, TB. It seems that scientists have a “virtually untreatable” strain of tuberculosis, one that’s resistent to “five classes of antibiotics” apparently.
“The time to act is now to prevent a new pandemic,” said Dr. Marcos Espinal, executive secretary of the World Health Organization’s Stop TB Partnership.
Damn, and here I thought we were just about done with pandemics. But nope, we’ve got to worry about this one now. Is “pandemic” the new buzzword or is it just me? Apparently “epidemic” isn’t strong or scary enough now, so we’ve upgraded.
I’m not a “I hate the media” type of guy, but I almost have to agree with Rush that it seems they won’t let even good news fly. You see, general cases of tuberculosis have been going down annually, but there’s even a bad part to that.
“This decrease is one of the smallest declines in more than a decade,” suggesting that efforts to control the infection have reached a plateau, he said Thursday in a telephone conference.
Incredible. But don’t worry, in case you think you might not get tuberculosis, we’ve got global warming to kill everyone, as well. As the LA times warns us, the ice sheets are melting way too quickly.
…the researchers say that with the warming climate, melting ice sheets in Greenland, the Arctic and Antarctica could inundate coastal areas around the world.
Maps released with the studies show extensive coastal areas in Florida, New Orleans and Cape Cod, Mass., that the researchers say might one day be submerged.
Now, no one’s denying that global warming exists. It’s happening, we can see it, we can track it. But seriously, why terrify everyone with doomsday stories? I agree we need to work on our CO emissions, that greenhouse gases are a problem and we need to fix them, but I really don’t see what telling us that the coasts are going to be swallowed and death and destruction are coming will do.
So hold onto your hats, folks. It looks like we’re all in trouble.
[tags]disease, death, global warming, disasters, catastrophes, media, propaganda, armageddon[/tags]
