On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 20:09:24 -0600 "Kestrel"
 writes:
> > > I imagine there will be an even bigger push to anihilate the 
> poor
> > > prairie  dog now...
> >
> > only by the fools
> > news here has been pretty clear the 'dogs were infected by a 
> handler, not
> > in the wild
> >
> > If being PLAGUE of the Black Plague sort carriers (which many 
> colonies
> > are) hasn't caused them to be off'd, this won't imho
> 
> That's true... though hysteria and humanity seem to be well matched 
> these days

=cough=
a species wide & long trait, I fear
> 
> > OTOH, there's a moral here for innoculations (the Dad, who had his 
> small
> > pox innoculation, got only minor case)
> 
> I've read a few articles about a worrisome decline in parents 
> innoculating
> their children agaisnt the things we were innoculated against -- on 
> the
> theory that innoculations are dangerous, and if no one has the 
> diseases
> anymore there shouldn't be a problem with their kids getting them, 
> so why
> get shots. And as a result (a painfully obvious one you'd think) 
> the
> incidence of childhood measels, ruebella, polio etc etc are on the 
> rise.
> Ignorance abounds (and astounds)

Read an insert in the paper that had newsgroup messages regarding
innoculations.

It's like organic (pesticide free) farming in the midst of farming
country -- too often you're unconsciously depending upon the vigilance of
others to keep your own crop pest free (e.g. your neighbor's application
killed the bugs; your neighbors' innoculations keep the diseases out of
the mainstream -- only, as you've noticed, the latter ain't working that
way. PLUS it's preparing fertile ground for these old bugs to mutate....
imho; and, of course, all those parents REALLY suffered from being
innoculated. =sigh= I think they should have a *good* risk assessment
class in every gradeschool, and remedial classes every year or thrice
later....).

HUMANS!

> > Ma Nature is still out to GET us, and she's got infinite 
> patience,
> > tygress
> 
> 

they whistle while they work, tygress


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