{"id":10233,"date":"2025-08-13T14:23:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/?p=10233"},"modified":"2025-08-13T14:23:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:23:33","slug":"the-plague-next-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/the-plague-next-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plague Next Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I am already seeing widely scattered stories on various media outlets about a\u00a0growing epidemic of a mosquito-born illness<\/a>\u00a0in the Far East, especially in China \u2013 apparently in regions way outside of where the chikungunya virus is normally endemic. The usual\u00a0international medical orgs<\/a>\u00a0regard this with grave concern \u2026 and these developments send mine and other bloggers and commenters who possess sensitive antennae and long memories into twitching nervously. It\u2019s all too familiar \u2026 it\u2019s hideously reminiscent of how the Covidiocy crept up on us with soft little cat feet. And then the various big media outlets took the bit in their teeth \u2013 likely in a frantic effort to grab audience share by scaring the snot out of those who normally don\u2019t think much about such matters, but whom are horribly gullible when it comes to believing what they see on TV and read in the scorching headlines.<\/p>\n

Panic sells big-time, almost more than sex does.<\/span><\/p>\n

And a panicked populace demand that their leaders and governments to \u201cdo something! Anything!\u201d Which an unfortunate number of political leaders will do, especially when they get a naughty thrill out of letting their inner authoritarian out for a sanctioned romp \u2026 and there we were, a little short of five years ago. We went from\u00a0\u2018two weeks of lockdown to flatten the curve and prevent overwhelming hospitals!\u2019<\/em>\u00a0to damn near three years of horrors; varying degrees of house arrest, social isolation, a perfect storm of destruction for small businesses, bars and restaurants, plexiglass shields at the grocery store, directional stickers on the floors, those stupid useless cloth masks everywhere, interfering Karens lecturing you about standing too close to another person or daring to walk on a beach in the open air, and the worst of it \u2013 a useless and likely dangerous vaccine for what ought to have been seen as only slightly more dangerous than the yearly reoccurring flu.\u00a0(Too many people were told to get the vaxx or be fired. I can\u2019t see that employers \u2013 corporate or government \u2013 will ever apologize for that. Because that would mean admitting they were wrong, and THAT will never happen. Not in this world.)<\/em><\/p>\n

I can only hope that perhaps spraying for mosquitos and telling people that perhaps long sleeves and window screens are the best suggested defense against chikungunya, and that maybe the media and public health authorities won\u2019t loose their damn minds over this new proposed epidemic \u2026 but too many in the news media got their jollies fomenting panic, and too many authority figures in governments in the USA and elsewhere discovered that they loved-loved-loved exercising their newfound authority and bossing their citizens around. Will they try it all again? Or are we all at a point where most of us will stand up and tell them to fold their health-n-safety dictates until it\u2019s all sharp corners and shove it up where the sun never shines. Discuss; will they try it again? And will it succeed in any degree?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I am already seeing widely scattered stories on various media outlets about a\u00a0growing epidemic of a mosquito-born illness\u00a0in the Far East, especially in China \u2013 apparently in regions way outside of where the chikungunya virus is normally endemic. The usual\u00a0international medical orgs\u00a0regard this with grave concern \u2026 and these developments send mine and other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic","category-health-and-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10234,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233\/revisions\/10234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}