Guest guest Posted December 19, 2003 Report Share Posted December 19, 2003 Fri, 19 Dec 2003 10:53:04 -0500 WC Douglass Pox Americana Daily Dose December 19, 2003 ************************************************************** Developing death in the name of life Strange things can happen in the wake of a war. In the more than two years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States, there has been an unprecedented tide of legislation and regulation against our personal liberties and freedoms, including some nullifications of privacy and personal property rights that would have Jefferson and the other framers of the Constitution rolling over in their graves. And all in the name of national security. But even scarier than that... According to New Scientist, we've also been developing DEADLY VIRUSES. No, this isn't an excerpt from the latest Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum thriller. I'm talking about real scientists funded by your tax dollars whose sole goal is to produce ever-more deadly strains of pox-type viruses - ostensibly so that we can figure out ways to combat them. Some of these viruses (among them not only the cowpox and monkey-pox you may have heard of, but also new mouse-pox and rabbit-pox varieties), are so well engineered that they have proven themselves to be 100% lethal - even among subjects who have been vaccinated and fortified with antiviral drugs. While this may seem vitally important to some in the new post-9/11 world (especially to the Fools on the Hill), it scares me more than a little. Why? Because weaponized viruses and other agents of biological warfare have a nasty habit of falling into the hands of the wrong kinds of people. How else do you think someone - a crazoid who's still at large, by the way - was able to paralyze our nation's capital with innocent looking envelopes of weapons-grade anthrax in the autumn of 2001? If this can happen, clearly the security at our bio-warfare labs leaves something to be desired. I look at it this way: It's most certainly far easier to steal already-developed biological weapons than it is to make them from scratch. So why are we doing the hardest part of terrorists' jobs for them? ************************************************************** To start receiving your own copy of the Daily Dose, visit: http://www.realhealthnews.com/dailydose/freecopy.html Or forward this e-mail to a friend so they can sign-up to receive their own copy of the Daily Dose. ************************************************************** Drowning on dry land When will these people learn? I mean, didn't it make national news when a female runner died after consuming too much liquid during last year's Boston Marathon? Didn't we all hear about the 18 frat brats who were kicked out of a New York college last March after forcing a pledge to drink so much water he vomited and died? Haven't we all heard of water intoxication? Obviously not. Just a few weeks ago, another fraternity hazing ritual ended tragically, as a young pledge was forced to drink so much water that he ended up in critical condition at a local hospital, water flooding his lungs -deadly pulmonary edema. And here's the disturbing part of the story: The fraternity that forced this young man to undergo the potentially deadly water torture had only just been reinstated - after a 3-year suspension for hazing! Thankfully, after some tense hours at the hospital, the young pledge eventually cheated pulmonary edema out of yet another waterlogged victim to make a full recovery. The lesson here is simple: Humans aren't fish. We don't need to gulp gallons of water each day to stay healthy. In fact, we can exist quite easily on not much more than the water we get from our food (the right food, that is - like meat and fruit). And pass this along to your grandkids - especially if they're college-aged and hoping to pledge for a fraternity (or sorority): Three Greek letters on a sweater aren't worth drowning on dry land for. Not watering down the truth, William Campbell Douglass II, MD ************************************************************** Copyright ©1997-2003 by www.realhealthnews.com, L.L.C. 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