The fear of the day.

[figment1986]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Not surprised. With all the antibiotics and antibacterial stuff around these days the bugs and germs are constantly mutating and becoming stronger.

We're not helping ourselves by sanitizing our lives. What ever happened to the old adage "God made dirt, so dirt don't hurt"?

if we got exposed to the weaker stuff.. we might be more immune to the stronger stuff... yet we kill the weaker stuff...

Originally Posted by Disneyphile

We're all gonna die someday!!! Yikes!!!

Yes... whether our faults by making the big bug... or natural stuff... we're doomed!

[Betty]

There's this organism or amoeba or whatever the heck it is that lives in warm, fresh water. It gets into your system - perhaps through the nose when your child jumps into the water at Lake Elsinore - and then dies from it a week or less later!

[Not Afraid]

The Amazon has some really nasty things that crawl up various and sundry orfices and don't make nice. I still swam in it.

[€uroMeinke]

Today I fear that some of my dreams may come true

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Betty

There's this organism or amoeba or whatever the heck it is that lives in warm, fresh water. It gets into your system - perhaps through the nose when your child jumps into the water at Lake Elsinore - and then dies from it a week or less later!

This happened at a lake near Phoenix just this summer. Ick!

Seriously, though, and without trying to go into the man made global warming debate again, this is how I regard the whole global hysteria.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by alphabassettgrrl

Well, if you're not afraid you might not watch the news. The news will save us all.

Of course they give solutions to things that actually only affect about 6 households in the entire LA area but make everybody paranoid about them.

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

But.....it could happen to YOU!

Thank god I don't live in LA! I am safe!

[Capt Jack]

it can happen

if you really want to know how I know.
( a bit of a downer)

Spoiler:

the mentioned super-staff infection is what did in my late wife. her immune system was already heavily compromised due to a failed liver. this said same staff was the last straw. there was nothing they could do to stop it and believe me they tried everything.

I was exposed to it repeatedly. never showed the remotest sign. while dangerous, its not something to worry about unless youre already immune compromised in one way or another. for the most part a good healthy person would fight it off probably without ever noticing.

the biggest problem is, its incredibly easy to spread

[alphabassettgrrl]

Jack, that's awful. It's true that staph is nasty, even when it's not drug-resistent. And that the latest round is resistent.

Compromised immune systems can be trouble- a guy we used to know was having chemo for lymphoma. He got a fungal infection and it literally killed parts of his face before they got it under control. Bad scene.

But it's also true that news in LA relies heavily on scare tactics. We joke about the "newest danger sweeping the Southland- is your home at risk? Find out tonight".

[Capt Jack]

oh, Im just down the road is san diego. we get the same here. spinach, plumbing hooked into brown water, ecoli, rats...blah blah.

why else would someone suffer through a news report but for the bad news?
except for the weather, most times I'll pop into a news site somewhere, make sure the world isnt going to end in the next 10 min and right back to a life already in progress.

somehow, I dont feel less for missing out on it

[alphabassettgrrl]

I gave up watching the tv news a long time ago. I get my news now from the 'net and from public radio (on those few days when I'm in the car). I read newspapers sometimes, too. Once in a while I watch to laugh at "StormWatch 7000".