wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0014

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"Swine Flu Song" by: "PutnamPig"

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Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

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Intro

I discovered I could write/assemble a book in a week, spend a month revising it and it could be out for sale before school started.

If you'd like to help me out and get a nice book to read for your trouble, you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ https://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=7503026 ]

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I just ran across something (a couple of weeks ago as you hear it but this morning as I write this,) about our friend the swine flu.

Its [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/group/coping/forum/topic/show?id=1535194%3ATopic%3A16493 ] on the Disability Resource Exchange run by one of the sponsors of the MSB series of my shows: Rudy Sims.

I'll get back to Rudy later because he's a great guy and an inspiration. He's sparking of lots of ideas in my febrile little brain. :-)

---- "Wicked Eyed Mule" By: "Maria Daines http://www.maria-daines.com/

Before you get the idea that I don't take swine flu seriously, I do, and I don't.

"All,"  not some but "all," flu viruses begin their existence, mutating in the guts of Chinese ducks.

Swine flu, Spanish flu of 1918, Ethiopian large intestine flue of 1714 (I just made that one up, :-) it doesn't matter. They "ALL" begin life pullulating in the gut of Chinese ducks.

Get rid of Chinese ducks and the flu would be eliminated and we'd have to become prey to something else, like Bolivian hemorrhagic fever (BHF), also known as black typhus, Ordog Fever, or Machupo virus, or the Marburg virus or maybe to the Ebola virus. (They're in Wikipedia, look 'em all up if you wanna gross yourselves out.)

It doesn't matter.

Something going to have our number.

We just happen to be susceptible to something in Chinese duck poop.

And despite the thousands of little tragedies it causes every year, things could be a lot worse.

---- "Too Late"  By: "Maria Daines http://www.maria-daines.com/

The article goes on about hygiene (very important) and contagion (how to avoid catching all of the nasties out there.)

---- "Business Ain't Music" By: "Maria Daines http://www.maria-daines.com/

We should heed the advice to avoid people. Good luck in a school. Its like swimming in a cess pit of germs, disease and infection. 

---- "Pay For This" By: "Maria Daines http://www.maria-daines.com/

Frankly, there are so many ways to "cease to be", to ring down the curtain and join the choir invisible, to [expletive deleted] snuff it that its a wonder that we're alive in the first place.

---- "So Many Ways I could Kill You" by: "Madsumo" http://www.madsumo.com/

Outro

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