"Emerald City,...Day 70"
"...Fire Sale!"
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Oh phooey. The New York Times doesn't give a hoot about a hundred thousand lives. Every year 600,000 Africans die of tuberculosis. When was the last time the NYT mentioned this? I guess They Were Not Us.
ReplyDeleteThat said, obviously this is a horrible tragedy. It's just that it's not the only one, nor even the biggest. And I say this knowing I could be killed by it.
Z
"...phooey",...really my old friend?
ReplyDeleteIf you lived here in this, and saw it everyday. You might not be thinking about Tuberculosis in Africa sad as that is.
I checked my zip code for my 'hood's count.
Approx. 1,500 cases 148 dead. This City has a 10% death rate for it's infected. That would be One Hundred Forty Eight Hearses slowly rolling by my window.
My home blocks have more perished than some whole city's.
The Emerald City is breaking 21,000 Deaths as I write to you.
This is the U.S. KIA body count of the first five years of the Vietnam war. We suffered that number in just two, and three quarters months here.
I hope you'll understand that this is traumatizing for us.
Our head of state is insane, and almost never mentions the deaths specifically. No one is leading us in mourning there is no united effort to contain the Pandemic.
So we separately grieve here.
I mourn for Africa, and elsewhere, but my house is burning down too. If your neighbors had died basically in front of you,...the last for me on Thursday in the building across the street.
Mr. Lopez who ran the hardware shop across the Parkway.
Your first thought would not be to dismiss it. Instead thinking about worse death in a tragic reality in another country.
As always it depends on where you are what you see, and how it affects you,...I don't live in Africa. I only know my war.
I hope you understand.
Sorry Sidney. I shouldn't have been so flippant. You're in the global epicenter, and I should have remembered that. People are dying here too, but not in anything like the same numbers, so the sense of threat is less great, for now.
ReplyDeleteAlso I should have got my facts less muddled. It is malaria, not tuberculosis, that kills Africans in the hundreds of thousands yearly. Which is strange, because there are effective treatments for that.
Tuberculosis also is a real global threat, and getting worse, because we're misusing the antibiotics that should be reserved for medical purposes. They feed them to livestock, giving the bugs tremendous opportunity to mutate. This is incredibly stupid, and is bound to have seriously bad consequences. It scares me.
Z