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the zika mozzie and the zealed bigots...
For all of the self-congratulatory stories we tell ourselves about moral progress and human betterment, sometimes we in the post-Christian West end up advocating some truly barbaric, inhumane positions.
One of the more effective ways of calling out our ethical incoherence - by making the wider implications of what do brutally clear - is satire.
The most famous example of the genre is Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick from 1729 (or Modest Proposal, as it is more widely known), in which Swift suggested that Irish poverty could be alleviated if Irish parents sold their children to the English gentry as food.
I offered some Swiftian "modesty" just over a week ago, demonstrating where the dark logic of the mounting calls for more abortion in Central and South America in response to the Zika leads us.
Recall that a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Zika virus a global emergency, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, which actively promotes the view that "access to abortion is a matter of human rights," was putting pressure on countries in Central and South America to change laws that protect prenatal children from violence.
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read more about stupid morality: http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2016/02/22/4411297.htm
This is the stupid morality coming near you from imbeciles who mean well...
Scientists say they have confirmed that the Zika virus sweeping Latin America and blamed for severe birth defects can also trigger a dangerous neurological disorder.
In a study published in the medical journal The Lancet, a team probed Zika's suspected role in a 2013-2014 outbreak in French Polynesia of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) — a rare condition in which the body's immune system attacks a part of the nervous system that controls muscle strength.
Research into patients who fell ill with GBS, supported by blood tests, proved that the mosquito-borne virus was the culprit, the researchers said.
They found a 20-fold increase in the number of GBS cases during the Zika epidemic, and 90 per cent of the patients struck with the debilitating syndrome had been infected by the mosquito-borne virus the week before.
- By Gus Leonisky at 1 Mar 2016 - 11:53am
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caring for them...
All the kids with deformity due to zika should be sent to the do-gooders for care...
and the olympic record goes to zika...
Australian authorities are not taking the threat of the Zika virus seriously enough ahead of the Rio Olympics, a former chief health officer says.
Key points:Yesterday, 150 international doctors, scientists and researchers wrote an open letter to the World Health Organisation (WHO) calling for the games in Rio de Janeiro in August to be moved or delayed due to the virus, which is linked to serious birth defects.
To press on with the Games in Rio, the second most affected city in Brazil by the Zika crisis, would be "irresponsible" and "unethical," the letter argued.
But the United Nations health agency rejected the call, saying that having the Games in Rio as planned would "not significantly alter" the spread of Zika.
Charles Watson, who is now a professor of health sciences at Curtin University, agrees that the Games should be postponed, but said he doubted they would be due to commercial interests.
"My feeling is that it's unlikely at this stage that this will happen ... but if that's true, Australia should take steps to make sure that Zika virus introduction here is either prevented or the harm is minimised when it actually gets here," he said.
"I think we've got a lot of work to do in Australia."
Professor Watson warned the virus could easily spread to Australia.
read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-29/rio-olympics-poses-'unimaginable-risk'-of-spreading-zika:-expert/7456530