Ebola & Updates
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Well that certainly inspires confidence.
It's interesting to see how the government and the media are playing the ebola stories, lots of media attention about how rapidly it's spreading and 'uncontrollable' it is and yet we have this instance of reported cases being denied by government officials.
It's almost as if governments want to scare the public while still seeming in control of things.
So the old preacher that Spain brought in Madrid and who costed more than one million Euros, died this morning. The strange thing is that till this morning, this old preacher was going well. No problem. He was recovering.
LIARS!!!!
http://canada.gotnewswire.com/news/spanish-priest-with-ebola-dies-in-madrid-hospital-reuters
In the Islands they are preparing a protocol for people that work in airports or ports in vue of Ebola. The situation here can be risky: there are, lately, many boat people that are arriving at the coasts. Not just here in the Canarian Isles but at the Spain Coasts (Cadiz). Boat people that come from West Africa.
LIARS!!!!
http://canada.gotnewswire.com/news/spanish-priest-with-ebola-dies-in-madrid-hospital-reuters
In the Islands they are preparing a protocol for people that work in airports or ports in vue of Ebola. The situation here can be risky: there are, lately, many boat people that are arriving at the coasts. Not just here in the Canarian Isles but at the Spain Coasts (Cadiz). Boat people that come from West Africa.
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Keyhole said:
I have no idea what you're referring to here. My post was only to share what I saw. Many assumptions were made, which has led me to regret sharing in this forum.
What "signs" are you talking about? Again, i was sharing an experience, but instead of the content of my post being addressed, I instead get accused of "escapism."
I am trained in psychology. There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with *occasional* escapism. Still, I deny I was "escaping" at all, but rather doing something I enjoy. I understand some of you have issues with video games, and some of those issues are very well founded. However, I find it more than annoying that I'm assumed to somehow be avoiding reality by taking a 30-minute break to play a game. If I were in the habit of spending hours upon hours with online video games, rather than the half an hour once a month that I typically do, I might agree with you.
Not really.
However, I guess I have to explain this this is known as humor, but unless you're old enough to have heard this phrase on TV over and over again in past years, you probably won't get it.
Alkhemist, if you will take a breath here (and everybody else, for that matter), just notice that what people are saying to you is out of concern. And that concern is based on some things the Cs said recently that strike a deep chord in those who see that time is rapidly running out for everybody here on the BBM.
Now, if you had prefaced your story with: "I don't do this very often, in fact, maybe only half an hour at a time when I've been concentrated for a long time, and then only once ever two weeks, or two times a week, or whatever," I think the anxious concern FOR YOU would not have been so intense.
Oddly enough, this is a variation of the principle discussed in a study that was shared in the cognitive psychology thread: psychological study - "To change attitudes, don't argue — agree, extremely" https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,35582.0.html
I think it should be a lesson to everyone here that unless the person is asking for a mirror, it really isn't polite to make assumptions and give dire warnings. Just ask for details and fill in the blanks with facts given.
Now, having said all that, I DO think that what is going on in that video game is furiously interesting. We do need to keep our fingers on the pulse of all kinds of things: it's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it.
Now, if you had prefaced your story with: "I don't do this very often, in fact, maybe only half an hour at a time when I've been concentrated for a long time, and then only once ever two weeks, or two times a week, or whatever," I think the anxious concern FOR YOU would not have been so intense.
Oddly enough, this is a variation of the principle discussed in a study that was shared in the cognitive psychology thread: psychological study - "To change attitudes, don't argue — agree, extremely" https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,35582.0.html
I think it should be a lesson to everyone here that unless the person is asking for a mirror, it really isn't polite to make assumptions and give dire warnings. Just ask for details and fill in the blanks with facts given.
Now, having said all that, I DO think that what is going on in that video game is furiously interesting. We do need to keep our fingers on the pulse of all kinds of things: it's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it.
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Laura said:
Thank you, Laura, I appreciate the support.
Part of my irritation today is due to, believe it or not, the death of Robin Williams. It was a personal tragedy to me (I've been a fan of his genius and his enormous generous heart since the 70's), and today I have seen many thoughtless comments online about what I knew to be a wonderful human being. It's been the latest in a long line of sad world news that I attempt to keep up with daily.
As a person with depression myself, I have learned to take care of myself to avoid going down too far down that deep, dark road. Part of taking care of myself means taking "meaningless" breaks once in a while to allow the emotions to become centered again. I had felt that this would be a good place to share about my attempt to find some temporary peace, as well as to share my frustration at how even that was taken away. And more importantly, I wanted to make others here aware of how insidious the control system has become.
I check the transcript section for new info from the C's daily, and have for years, but I didn't join this forum until recently. I, too, have a feeling that things are ramping up quickly. I have studied all the transcripts, read the Wave series, and most of the pages on the website. I've read several of Laura's books, and I check SOTT daily, as well. But I'm feeling myself wishing there were more sessions being done regarding questions about current events rather than personal questions. I'm longing for more of the guidance that they offer.
We have a small group here that meets at least once a month in order to keep us all up to date on the REAL news. My mate and I hope to be in a position to help others when the SHTF, but we're not sure how we're going to be doing that yet. We've been wondering if we're in a safe place (Lancaster, PA) or if we should bug out.
Any suggestions along this line would be most welcome.
Alkhemist said:
I just had the feeling that it was as much the global situation as anything with Robin.
Alkhemist said:
I understand this well. I have to pace myself too, and conserve energy. When I start getting brain overload, I watch detective stories or read Agatha Christie.
Alkhemist said:
I understand this. I think EVERYBODY is on edge about now. Check the last few posts in this thread:
http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,33168.0.html
Alkhemist said:
We understand how you feel.
Alkhemist said:
You might wish to join FOTCM because there is a lot going on.
StormCloudsGathering posted the following on his FB page, which I thought was an interesting observation:
angelburst29
The Living Force
This article appeared on the Before-its-News website (which I generally view with a grain of salt) but found it contained some quotes on the mock drills during the H1n1 scare of a few years ago, that might be implemented during an Ebola epidemic.
The Ebola Crisis Just Went From Bad to Worse
_http://beforeitsnews.com/healthcare/2014/08/the-ebola-crisis-just-went-from-bad-to-worse-2457784.html
Wednesday August 13, 2014
Under the category of “I told you so”, a political contact, Jatto Abdulqudir, of who I dubbed Patient Zero, Patrick Sawyer, has died. I had previously expressed the fear that Sawyer’s boarding of two airplanes with multiple connecting flights raised the likelihood that hundreds of thousands would be exposed on the same day to the Ebola virus (www.twtitter.com/hniman).
This one fact represents an emerging picture which serves to demonstrate that the Ebola containment efforts are failing miserably and we are in the beginning of an emerging pandemic. Further, this article will make it clear that health officials ranging from the World Health Organization to the CDC are negligent in their duty to protect the public in the midst of this Ebola outbreak.
America’s Future Amidst An Ebola Outbreak
Some will say that the seven West Africa nations are made up of third world countries and subsequently, their quarantine and containment procedures are primitive and this accounts for the high Ebola transmission rate to medical personnel. However, among the infected health care workers are two Americans doctors whose knowledge is not primitive and they should have been well trained on proper quarantine and containment procedures. The high infection ratio of dead patients to dead medical personnel is alarming beyond words and nobody is talking about this in the mainstream media.
The high rates of medical personnel contracting Ebola has sent a shockwave of panic through West Africa as several ofSierra Leone’s frightened nurses have walked off the job and the medical units fighting Ebola have been profoundly crippled.
In applying the lens of common sense, we should be asking “When a healthcare worker who gets sick and dies, won’t that lead to even more fear on the part of other healthcare workers and their survival instincts takeover and walk off the job? Why would America be any different when an Ebola outbreak occurs in this country”?
Medical Ethics In the Treatment of Ebola Are Nonexistent
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it is perfectly “ethical” for unapproved and largely untested vaccines to be used in the treatment of Ebola. If WHO is correct, then why are U.S. taxpayers paying out billions of dollars to support the FDA and the CDC and their “safety” testing procedures?
Recently, I wrote an article which stated that it was becoming my professional opinion that we had more to fear from the new generation of hastily prepared vaccines than we did from the Ebola itself. That fear is becoming realized with the recent WHO announcement that essentially is telling the public that all safety protocols are now being ignored with regard to the release of these voodoo vaccines brought to you be Monsanto (Texmira) and GSK.
If we lift the covers up and take a peek, it will become evident that the real goal in this crisis is to maximize profits realized from vaccines and if the new WHO vaccine policies are willing to put lives at risk in Africa with the use of untested vaccines, then why should America be any different when it is our turn? The public should also be mindful that there is a financial incentive to make the vaccines mandatory in the near future.
History Speaks Will America Listen?
During the H1n1 scare of a few years ago, we know that law enforcement officials in several states practiced a DUI roadblock kind of scenario in several states in which they were equipped with mock vaccine testing equipment to tell whether someone, or not, had been given the new vaccine against the virus. The roadblock consisted a large van for processing, a couple of buses and chase cars on the flanks to run down people who tried to avoid the checkpoint. According to my well-placed sources in Colorado, this was rehearsed over and over. These law enforcement officers were told that their families would be collected by DHS and protected in isolation against the spread of the pathogen and any resulting rioting. A highly decorated State Trooper from Kansas, Greg Evensen (Ret.), stated on my show that these families would be not held for safekeeping, they were to be held hostage to force the law enforcement officials to do the bidding of the powers that be.
The bidding that Greg Evensen was speaking of was the fact that if you did not demonstrate that you had the vaccine, you would be given two choices, immediate injection with the vaccine or your car would be impounded and you would be sent to a medical FEMA camp by one of the busses present at the scene.
At one point during the H1N1 scare, I thought the public’s reaction to forced vaccinations, which began in many hospitals, forced the government to abandon its plans to launch the program. In the present time, I think that this was a beta test designed to put the mechanisms into place and to condition the public that this will someday happen.
I recently contacted two of my sources in law enforcement, who beta tested the H1N1 vaccine roadblocks, to ask them if they had done any drills with regard to the outbreak of Ebola. I was told that they had not. However, one source stated that a recent DHS memo reminded the officials that they were to remain current on their containment and interdiction procedures with regard to any virulent outbreaks and the need to subsequently vaccinate the public in order to prevent the further spread of a pathogen.
The sum total of what we are looking is this. The short-term goal according to my DEA source is to make money off of the vaccine. The emerging long-term goal appears to be the lockdown (i.e. martial law) the country by using fear and the natural course of Ebola spreading.
Ebola Vaccine to Be Manufactured by Criminal Drug Company with Felony Record; Rushed to Market with Near-Zero Safety Testing
_http://www.globalresearch.ca/ebola-vaccine-to-be-manufactured-by-criminal-drug-company-with-felony-record-rushed-to-market-with-near-zero-safety-testing/5395830
Wednesday August 13, 2014
While the world of conventional medicine lines up to profit from the Ebola panic, there is no mention anywhere in the mainstream media of the criminal corporation behind the Ebola vaccine.
GlaxoSmithKline, now being celebrated by the pro-pharma press, is the same company that also has a proven criminal record of bribing physicians and knowingly distributing misleading information about the safety of their drug products.
Just two years ago, GSK plead guilty to felony crimes in the United States and was forced to pay an historical $3 billion fine for committing those crimes. After paying the fine, GSK was then exempted from normal rules regarding criminal enterprise, allowing it to continue conducting business with the federal government.
“Global health care giant GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK) agreed to plead guilty and to pay $3 billion to resolve its criminal and civil liability arising from the company’s unlawful promotion of certain prescription drugs, its failure to report certain safety data, and its civil liability for alleged false price reporting practices, the Justice Department announced today,” says a U.S. Department of Justice press release.
It goes on to explain, “GSK agreed to plead guilty to a three-count criminal information, including two counts of introducing misbranded drugs, Paxil and Wellbutrin, into interstate commerce and one count of failing to report safety data about the drug Avandia to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).”
As Natural News reported in 2012:
A roughly nine-year federal investigation has exposed GSK’s rampant abuse of the law by illegally marketing drugs, forging drug safety data, bribing doctors to promote dangerous and expensive drugs, ripping off Medicare and Medicaid, and lying about the effectiveness and safety of drugs. And all this deception has generated tens of billions of dollars in profits for GSK over the years, while thousands of patients who used the drug products involved have suffered horrific side effects and even death.
Criminal drug company to spearhead Ebola vaccine with U.S. scientists
Now this same company that admitted committing multiple felony crimes is going to lead the development of the Ebola vaccine.
As CNBC reports: (1)
“A clinical trial of an experimental vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus is set to start shortly, according to British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, which is co-developing the product with U.S. scientists.”
Vaccine to be “rushed through” with very little safety testing
We also know that the vaccine will not be tested for anything other than short-term side effects. This is all part of the “rush to market” for Big Pharma to profit from Ebola as quickly as possible.
As CNBC says:
A company spokeswoman said on Sunday that the trial should get underway “later this year”, while GSK’s partner the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) said in a statement on its website it would start “as early as fall 2014″, implying a potential September launch of testing.
A headline in the Daily Mail declares “World Health Organisation says vaccine could be ‘rushed through’ for 2015.” (2)
That same story goes on to report, “the WHO said a potential vaccine for the Ebola virus is being tested on humans and could be ready for widespread use by early 2015.”
Doing the math here, if the Ebola vaccine clinical trials start in September of 2014 and the vaccine is manufactured and distributed to the public by “early 2015,” this leaves virtually zero time for observing vaccine side effects.
Manufacturing the vaccine in large quantities, after all, takes many months. If this vaccine is to be available to the public in early 2015, they will have to start manufacturing it as early as October 2014, roughly just one month after the vaccine trials begin.
Zero liability; total immunity for faulty products
Keep in mind that in the United States, vaccine manufacturers have zero liability for the damage and death caused by their products. Due to a literal Act of Congress, all vaccine manufacturers are able to abandon all safety testing and knowingly sell faulty, deadly products with zero risk of liability.
This was all set up by design to make sure vaccine manufacturers could enjoy record profits while having zero liability for producing faulty products that harm children and adults. This is the reason why mercury is still used in flu vaccines which are injected into children — a fact which I have scientifically proven in the Natural News Forensic Food Labs using ICP-MS instrumentation.
This total immunity means there is no incentive for adequate safety testing of an Ebola vaccine. The company has the same liability (zero) whether they test the vaccine or not. Their goal is to SELL the vaccine, not to make sure it’s safe and effective. Time spent on conducting rigorous clinical trials with long-term observations simply isn’t part of the “Sell! Sell! Sell!” business plan of today’s vaccine manufacturers. Their current business slogan? “Every pandemic is an opportunity for profit.” And with blanket immunity from all product liability, who needs safety testing?
The Ebola Crisis Just Went From Bad to Worse
_http://beforeitsnews.com/healthcare/2014/08/the-ebola-crisis-just-went-from-bad-to-worse-2457784.html
Wednesday August 13, 2014
Under the category of “I told you so”, a political contact, Jatto Abdulqudir, of who I dubbed Patient Zero, Patrick Sawyer, has died. I had previously expressed the fear that Sawyer’s boarding of two airplanes with multiple connecting flights raised the likelihood that hundreds of thousands would be exposed on the same day to the Ebola virus (www.twtitter.com/hniman).
This one fact represents an emerging picture which serves to demonstrate that the Ebola containment efforts are failing miserably and we are in the beginning of an emerging pandemic. Further, this article will make it clear that health officials ranging from the World Health Organization to the CDC are negligent in their duty to protect the public in the midst of this Ebola outbreak.
America’s Future Amidst An Ebola Outbreak
Some will say that the seven West Africa nations are made up of third world countries and subsequently, their quarantine and containment procedures are primitive and this accounts for the high Ebola transmission rate to medical personnel. However, among the infected health care workers are two Americans doctors whose knowledge is not primitive and they should have been well trained on proper quarantine and containment procedures. The high infection ratio of dead patients to dead medical personnel is alarming beyond words and nobody is talking about this in the mainstream media.
The high rates of medical personnel contracting Ebola has sent a shockwave of panic through West Africa as several ofSierra Leone’s frightened nurses have walked off the job and the medical units fighting Ebola have been profoundly crippled.
In applying the lens of common sense, we should be asking “When a healthcare worker who gets sick and dies, won’t that lead to even more fear on the part of other healthcare workers and their survival instincts takeover and walk off the job? Why would America be any different when an Ebola outbreak occurs in this country”?
Medical Ethics In the Treatment of Ebola Are Nonexistent
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it is perfectly “ethical” for unapproved and largely untested vaccines to be used in the treatment of Ebola. If WHO is correct, then why are U.S. taxpayers paying out billions of dollars to support the FDA and the CDC and their “safety” testing procedures?
Recently, I wrote an article which stated that it was becoming my professional opinion that we had more to fear from the new generation of hastily prepared vaccines than we did from the Ebola itself. That fear is becoming realized with the recent WHO announcement that essentially is telling the public that all safety protocols are now being ignored with regard to the release of these voodoo vaccines brought to you be Monsanto (Texmira) and GSK.
If we lift the covers up and take a peek, it will become evident that the real goal in this crisis is to maximize profits realized from vaccines and if the new WHO vaccine policies are willing to put lives at risk in Africa with the use of untested vaccines, then why should America be any different when it is our turn? The public should also be mindful that there is a financial incentive to make the vaccines mandatory in the near future.
History Speaks Will America Listen?
During the H1n1 scare of a few years ago, we know that law enforcement officials in several states practiced a DUI roadblock kind of scenario in several states in which they were equipped with mock vaccine testing equipment to tell whether someone, or not, had been given the new vaccine against the virus. The roadblock consisted a large van for processing, a couple of buses and chase cars on the flanks to run down people who tried to avoid the checkpoint. According to my well-placed sources in Colorado, this was rehearsed over and over. These law enforcement officers were told that their families would be collected by DHS and protected in isolation against the spread of the pathogen and any resulting rioting. A highly decorated State Trooper from Kansas, Greg Evensen (Ret.), stated on my show that these families would be not held for safekeeping, they were to be held hostage to force the law enforcement officials to do the bidding of the powers that be.
The bidding that Greg Evensen was speaking of was the fact that if you did not demonstrate that you had the vaccine, you would be given two choices, immediate injection with the vaccine or your car would be impounded and you would be sent to a medical FEMA camp by one of the busses present at the scene.
At one point during the H1N1 scare, I thought the public’s reaction to forced vaccinations, which began in many hospitals, forced the government to abandon its plans to launch the program. In the present time, I think that this was a beta test designed to put the mechanisms into place and to condition the public that this will someday happen.
I recently contacted two of my sources in law enforcement, who beta tested the H1N1 vaccine roadblocks, to ask them if they had done any drills with regard to the outbreak of Ebola. I was told that they had not. However, one source stated that a recent DHS memo reminded the officials that they were to remain current on their containment and interdiction procedures with regard to any virulent outbreaks and the need to subsequently vaccinate the public in order to prevent the further spread of a pathogen.
The sum total of what we are looking is this. The short-term goal according to my DEA source is to make money off of the vaccine. The emerging long-term goal appears to be the lockdown (i.e. martial law) the country by using fear and the natural course of Ebola spreading.
Ebola Vaccine to Be Manufactured by Criminal Drug Company with Felony Record; Rushed to Market with Near-Zero Safety Testing
_http://www.globalresearch.ca/ebola-vaccine-to-be-manufactured-by-criminal-drug-company-with-felony-record-rushed-to-market-with-near-zero-safety-testing/5395830
Wednesday August 13, 2014
While the world of conventional medicine lines up to profit from the Ebola panic, there is no mention anywhere in the mainstream media of the criminal corporation behind the Ebola vaccine.
GlaxoSmithKline, now being celebrated by the pro-pharma press, is the same company that also has a proven criminal record of bribing physicians and knowingly distributing misleading information about the safety of their drug products.
Just two years ago, GSK plead guilty to felony crimes in the United States and was forced to pay an historical $3 billion fine for committing those crimes. After paying the fine, GSK was then exempted from normal rules regarding criminal enterprise, allowing it to continue conducting business with the federal government.
“Global health care giant GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK) agreed to plead guilty and to pay $3 billion to resolve its criminal and civil liability arising from the company’s unlawful promotion of certain prescription drugs, its failure to report certain safety data, and its civil liability for alleged false price reporting practices, the Justice Department announced today,” says a U.S. Department of Justice press release.
It goes on to explain, “GSK agreed to plead guilty to a three-count criminal information, including two counts of introducing misbranded drugs, Paxil and Wellbutrin, into interstate commerce and one count of failing to report safety data about the drug Avandia to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).”
As Natural News reported in 2012:
A roughly nine-year federal investigation has exposed GSK’s rampant abuse of the law by illegally marketing drugs, forging drug safety data, bribing doctors to promote dangerous and expensive drugs, ripping off Medicare and Medicaid, and lying about the effectiveness and safety of drugs. And all this deception has generated tens of billions of dollars in profits for GSK over the years, while thousands of patients who used the drug products involved have suffered horrific side effects and even death.
Criminal drug company to spearhead Ebola vaccine with U.S. scientists
Now this same company that admitted committing multiple felony crimes is going to lead the development of the Ebola vaccine.
As CNBC reports: (1)
“A clinical trial of an experimental vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus is set to start shortly, according to British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, which is co-developing the product with U.S. scientists.”
Vaccine to be “rushed through” with very little safety testing
We also know that the vaccine will not be tested for anything other than short-term side effects. This is all part of the “rush to market” for Big Pharma to profit from Ebola as quickly as possible.
As CNBC says:
A company spokeswoman said on Sunday that the trial should get underway “later this year”, while GSK’s partner the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) said in a statement on its website it would start “as early as fall 2014″, implying a potential September launch of testing.
A headline in the Daily Mail declares “World Health Organisation says vaccine could be ‘rushed through’ for 2015.” (2)
That same story goes on to report, “the WHO said a potential vaccine for the Ebola virus is being tested on humans and could be ready for widespread use by early 2015.”
Doing the math here, if the Ebola vaccine clinical trials start in September of 2014 and the vaccine is manufactured and distributed to the public by “early 2015,” this leaves virtually zero time for observing vaccine side effects.
Manufacturing the vaccine in large quantities, after all, takes many months. If this vaccine is to be available to the public in early 2015, they will have to start manufacturing it as early as October 2014, roughly just one month after the vaccine trials begin.
Zero liability; total immunity for faulty products
Keep in mind that in the United States, vaccine manufacturers have zero liability for the damage and death caused by their products. Due to a literal Act of Congress, all vaccine manufacturers are able to abandon all safety testing and knowingly sell faulty, deadly products with zero risk of liability.
This was all set up by design to make sure vaccine manufacturers could enjoy record profits while having zero liability for producing faulty products that harm children and adults. This is the reason why mercury is still used in flu vaccines which are injected into children — a fact which I have scientifically proven in the Natural News Forensic Food Labs using ICP-MS instrumentation.
This total immunity means there is no incentive for adequate safety testing of an Ebola vaccine. The company has the same liability (zero) whether they test the vaccine or not. Their goal is to SELL the vaccine, not to make sure it’s safe and effective. Time spent on conducting rigorous clinical trials with long-term observations simply isn’t part of the “Sell! Sell! Sell!” business plan of today’s vaccine manufacturers. Their current business slogan? “Every pandemic is an opportunity for profit.” And with blanket immunity from all product liability, who needs safety testing?
Again, I sincerely apologise for any assumptions made on my part. I am also new to this forum and have only recently attempted to start participating more and saw this as an opportunity to offer my advice and share information. When seeing the first post 'I am PISSED' - I made the assumption that you were 'running away', when in reality you may have not been, and it was not my place to comment on whether you were or not. I have tried to help - when maybe I don't yet possess enough knowledge to do so. The last thing I intended was for you to regret posting on here. So I am sorry Alkhemist.Alkhemist said:
I think if you had explained the situation a little more, I may not have not been so inclined to comment on your activities. As Laura said it was out of concern for you Alkhemist (even though I didn't approach it correctly). Me being eager to "help" jumped in and gave advice when it was probably not welcome - which is something I am notorious for IRL, essentially breaking others free will - a lack of knowledge and external consideration on my part.Laura said:
Alkhemist said:
I think I may have not explained this very well... In short, I was suggesting that - Even though you tried to take a break from the negativity of Ebola, you ended up being faced with the same issue of a virus worse than ever on your game!
This was the 'sign' that I was talking about. And maybe the universe was trying to tell you something like "Hey, don't forget about this virus!!". Just something that came to my mind that I though worth sharing...Alkhemist said:
I am sorry, I didn't understand what was meant by this... I thought you were referring to me specifically. I am only twenty years old, so I actually haven't come across that phrase before
Laura said:
Thankyou for pointing this out Laura, I previously assumed that everyone who posted on this forum was automatically asking for a mirror - which I was obviously wrong about. I agree that it is not polite and it is not considerate. I will try to keep this in mind when I choose to post in the future - a valuable lesson to learn. :)
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Keyhole said:
Apology accepted, though it wasn't really necessary. I think we're all a bit high-strung these days if we're researching real events at all. I was more or less venting in a place that I thought was full of people who could relate.
Yes, I could have explained a bit more, but think about it. If my intent was merely to vent and to share, I really didn't expect a response geared toward "fixing" me. ;) I understand you were trying to help, however, and I can't fault you for that. I was a counselor in my profession, and I've learned that a good rule of thumb is to not offer advice unless it was expressly asked for. The reason is because it can be seen as an insult to some, or even as controlling to others. (Again, I know you were only trying to help.)
I think I may have not explained this very well... In short, I was suggesting that - Even though you tried to take a break from the negativity of Ebola, you ended up being faced with the same issue of a virus worse than ever on your game!
Interesting thought, but in my case, I don't think so. I'm a rabid researcher, and have been known to spend hours upon hours reading the most vile, negative stuff on the internet that you can imagine just so I can begin attempting to sift out the truth from the lies. Sometimes it interrupts my sleep, as well, so breaks are necessary for my mental health.
Regarding the phrase, "We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming"] ....
I am sorry, I didn't understand what was meant by this... I thought you were referring to me specifically. I am only twenty years old, so I actually haven't come across that phrase before
This was something we heard fairly often on TV in the 60s and 70s when there was a "test" from the Emergency Broadcast System. This phrase has since been occasionally adopted by comedians as a way to admit they were sidetracking.
Laura said:
It's a good lesson to learn, actually. :P Not everyone needs or wants a mirror at all times, but it is possible to point out possibilities to people without seeming to accuse. Verbal qualifications are very helpful on forums like this, such as, "I'm not saying you're doing this, but...." or "This is only a thought that just occurred to me (not an accusation), but...." This helps take the bite out of being a mirror for someone who's having a thoroughly crappy day.
