The Best Way to Beat a Virus is with Innoculation

The always-​​estimable Neo-​​Neocon describes Con­gress in epi­demi­o­log­i­cal terms

Con­gress has become like a virus that has fig­ured out how to pen­e­trate the defenses of the CBO scor­ing and over­whelm what­ever truth it used to offer.

I really hate to see Neo, one of my absolutely most-​​fave blog­gers, the apple of my eye, expe­ri­enc­ing increas­ing unease, even anx­i­ety, as the Amer­i­can Raft-​​of-​​State approaches Obama Falls.  I think one of her main wor­ries is that our cur­rent lead­er­ship doesn’t mind if we go over because if we do every­one will be equal.  There won’t be big rafts, or small rafts, or fancy rafts, or crude rafts.  Just kindling.

Nia­gara Falls as seen by peo­ple whose lead­ers come to the US for heart surgery

So — what to we do to allay this anx­i­ety?  Well, I have an idea (really).  Let’s use Neo’s virus model. Just from a dif­fer­ent angle.

Right now the soci­ety most of us knew and val­ued is gone in the places where the beau­ti­ful, the priv­i­leged, and the pow­er­ful hold sway.

But they are still enough afraid of us that they are putting on a good show.

So let’s use Neo’s virus par­a­digm to our advan­tage.  Let’s be the vaccine.

Of course, I may be a lit­tle late to this pic­nic.  I under­stand that one of the books on the top of the sales list right now is Rules for Rad­i­cals. And I don’t think it’s being bought by bud­ding Obamatons.

Let’s be Amer­i­cans.  Let’s be the Amer­i­can virus vaccine!

Fever Dreams

I had a virus once: pneu­mo­nia.  Almost died from it, but for a while there is was pretty cool.  In fevered delir­ium you get some great dreams and hal­lu­ci­na­tions.  I vis­ited other solar sys­tems and talked to some really inter­est­ing aliens.  From what I remem­bered it was a great experience.

Now I have a pneu­mo­nia shot.  I won’t get it again.

Amer­ica had a pretty good run but she got sick and the virus which sick­ened her has her all fevered-​​up right now.

It’s kind of ironic because if we are going to be the vac­cine we are going to have to adopt at least one of the favorite memes of the virus peo­ple, which is to be part of a larger group.  But our larger group must be one of honor to our coun­try and per­sonal respon­si­bil­ity and refusal to let a virus into our lives even if the virus will tem­porar­ily give us some free stuff.

I liked my fever dreams but they weren’t real and they weren’t healthy.  No more fever dreams for Amer­ica.  Vac­cines, UNITE!

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Tags: congress, Health Care, Virus