Update "Buck Throckmorton" has a post up over at Ace of Spades that includes some good observations as to why baby boomers aren't panicking the way millenials are. A taste:
Maybe the Wuhan Virus is finally “The Big One.” But after decades of the media fraudulently screaming “APOCALYPSE IS IMMINENT!!!” it is not irrational for Boomers to dismiss the latest hysteria. In Aesop’s fable about “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” the moral of the story isn’t that the townsfolk should have believed the boy, the moral is that the boy shouldn’t have destroyed his credibility by falsely screaming wolf time and again.
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BTW, I've taken chloroquine as an anti-malarial on trips to India, 20 years ago. I hate the stuff. It does have an emotional effect - you become kind of bipolar, crying then raging. That may just be me though. It can be so mild you don't notice it but I think we used to say, 'Don't make any big decisions while on choloroquine'.
This is what I believe: North Korea, whose only real national contact is with China, and whose people have been extremely weakened by malnutrition and poor or nonexistent health care, probably has a raging epidemic of coronavirus. We'll hear about it sooner or later, but in the meantime, the Kim regime has got to be streaking their pants.
Related, but in a less morbid fashion, a friend of mine (with some degree of musical talent), wrote this song to describe current events. It may lighten up the dark days ahead......
My Corona
(To the tune of My Sharona)
When you gonna get to me, ah get to me
Is it just a matter of time Corona
I don't ever wanna see, don't wanna see
My temperature starting to climb Corona
Never gonna stop, climbin up, never gonna stop
Number of reported cases risin up to the top
My My My My Ah Choo!
Ma Ma Ma My Corona
I thought I just heard you sneeze, did you sneeze
Are you far away from me now Corona
Shouldn't you self quarantine, quarantine
Someone's coughing next to me now Corona
What you doing out, and about, shouldn't leave your house
Don't get closer to me, stay at least six feet
My My My My Ah Choo
Ma Ma Ma My Corona, Ma Ma Ma My Corona
I'm sanitizing everything, yes everything
I'm never gonna stop until you're gone Corona
I'll Barricade inside my house, not coming out
Stay inside until the Summer comes Corona
Toilet paper, canned food, maybe I should get a gun
Be prepared for when the walking dead come
My My My My Ah Choo
Ma Ma Ma My Corona, Ma Ma Ma My Corona
Haw!
Btw, I did read somewhere that a North Korean official who had tested positive was later executed because be broke quarantine.
bruce,
I Vietnam vet friend of mine says chloroquine affected him like chugging a whole bottle of Miralax.
Good points in the AoS article. I may have made the point already here, but humans have a strange desire for the end of the world. My theory: 'The world will end on Friday' is followed by 'At least I won't have to mow the lawn on Saturday.'
I remember having a dream about the end of the world back when I was a graduate student. I was walking across the campus on a beautiful, sunny day, and a giant alarm clock in the sky went off. Everyone started looking around, confused, wondering what was happening. I saw a priest nearby, surrounded by a group of students. I walked over and listened as the priest explained that our world was coming to an end, and that Jesus Christ was, even at that moment, returning, in fulfillment of the scriptures. God forgive me, but the first thing I felt was annoyance that I had spent all that money on graduate school, and now I wasn't even going to get my degree.
One of my earliest memories is watching 'Fail Safe' with my parents (mid 1960s), turning to get their reactions and seeing they were just as scared and confused as I was by it. I stopped trusting governments after that.
Spiny you have to take chloroquine every day for months as a malaria preventive. There are usually many reasons you get diarrhea, and it didn't have that effect on me - Whatever such problems I had came and went despite constant dose. But it does expel parasites from your system. At a constant dose you get used to it.
It did make me more bipolar though, one minute all sad and kind, the next crazy like I could do something desperate - but that was at a higher dose because I got a fever and delirium and wanted to expel the parasites before going home. As I say, Don't make big life-changing decisions while you're taking the stuff.
JeffS, I quite like your friend's song, "My Corona".
*Atishoo*
Oh, dear, I seem to be coming down with something.
Charlie Chan and Kung Flu walk into a bar.
The barman says, "Hey, no Kung Flu fighting in the bar".
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