essay: #08 A DANCING MATRIX

Damn picture.
Gives me the chills.
Fucking 21st Century Plague Armies.

Disposal of human-matter.
Reads like a horror story.
Armageddon, if you must.
Eco-bioterrorism mutated with rage.

Bacteria and super-viruses.
'Superspreaders.'
Layman's lingo:
People infected with disease who pass onto inordinate number of others.
Sweet Jesus.

SARS.
MARBURG.
EBOLA.
AVIAN FLU.

ON THE MOVE...

Strap on the face-mask.
Nothing personal intended, you understand.
Sidestep Quarantine Station #200
Halting the Spread of the Inevitable.

damn.
Exotic pathogens hi-jacking our immune systems.
Clocking the Frequent-Flyer-points.
Extreme makeover-artists infiltrating
The flesh and blood of our pestilent ways.

1918 Spanish Flu kills 2 million.
1957 Asian Flu, estimated 2 million +
1968 Hong Kong Flu, 34,000.
2005 AIDS, 15 million and rising.
2005 Marburg, 200 and rising.

"Menacing as bioterrorism is, the danger from naturally evolving diseases are far greater. While we watch out our front door for terrorist germs, killer microbes such as the SARS virus are sneaking through our backdoor. The sheer number of pathogens is rising, and their diversity, reproductive vigor, and ability to mutate are daunting." New Killer Diseases.

A friend says:
"Hey, it's okay!
It's all part of the pattern."

Population Control.
Global warming.
Humanity.
A DANCING MATRIX.
In the Garden of millennial-eden.

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