Ah Horatio

“Ah Horatio, do our fears of the Ebola virus smother whatever virtues we once had.

“ Love thy neighbor” dismissed and “dissed” by the sound and fury in neighboring Staten Island, the  virus’s venomous rattle snake cobra poison, pitching neighbor against neighbor.

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Ideals giving way to the  fear of dying, the gang lynching andfear of the unknown. The calm voice of Henry Fonda pleading to the crowd.. Not able to shake the Staten Island  natives in their erupting hostility toward the imported Liberians from West Africa ages  ago.

Atrocities and indifference bereft the 20th century norm: Yellow badges laid the foundation for emasculating  Love thy neighbor .The soulful nature of a “Doctor Zhivago”fear of being branded an outsider  by the majority ….       power to snake bite the “love thy neighbor” into an apparition of the Magna Carte…..Marie Antoinette’s “If they want bread, let them eat cake”

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Here on Staten Island, the once proud importation of Liberians from West Africa gives rise to panic and fear, the majority taunting the minority. Bullying and teasing the former natives of Liberia, a nation modeled on  the values and Democratic virtues of our own  Republic.

Capacious fear of the unknown    permeates the network, doesn’t it?  Survival of the fittest taunts the virus, whether it exists in the in the quarantined protocols, the patient’s fever is the staging area for the Emergency rooms  across Staten Island’s teaching hospital or Bellevue across the Verrazano Narrows Bridge into the Big Apple.

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For all the talk of protocols and the good sense, the capricious virtue still has the snake bite to undermine Love thy neighbor. The strength of character, its profound  “maintain” in face of abdicating   flesh and body.

All Staten Islanders are vulnerable. But to label fears of the natives against their original neighbors from West Africa is to compound the virus’s deadliness, the human’s survival , the origin being across two oceans and land a Continent asunder.

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The imported neighbors don not have to justify their existence.  The Salem, Massachusetts witch hunt trial, the defendantwearing her guilt on  her sleeve, is not a farfetched as Arthur Miller’s “Crucible”, yet is seems to be a mirror image of the Staten Island majority,  maligning the Liberians.

Surely the virus isn’t the poison ivy of our East Flatbush origins. The blood transfusions when no  penicillin was  lacking in I the emergency rooms of that time, the fated protocol in these days of the Staten Island “Tempest”

“Hold back the dawn, Horatio”

October 17, 2014  The City that never sleeps.

“To hot to handle”

“To hot to handle” seems to emasculate wasting the natives ofSierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea outbreak of the West Africa disease to the Northern Hemisphere and the States. Particularly Texas. . The emboli virus has infected the nurse who selflessly tried to save the life of the first infected human who died  some forty days go. In his apartment, the nurse exposed to the viruswhile attending him..

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Protocols, for the embolus the virus?  The calibration of the emboli virus across the nation takes medical aggression..Antibody the Center for Disease Control. Protective “armory”,  a higher state re of consciousness, relating back to 1942 where “Emile Zola” Dr. Erlich’s Magic Bullet”  

“Where is Florence Nightingale? To rethink the protocols for destroying the virus before it metamorphoses into its  death dealing anti bodies ,attacking the immune system, blood antibodies hopefully inculcating an attack on the vrus..

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Surely the medical leadership in the Big Apple contained “Typhoid Mary”. Why couldn’t Paul de Kruef and his in  hisattack on microbes”……..the actor Robert Montgomery’ attack on malaria….yellow fever in the tropics?

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Paul De Kruef, the University of Michigan microbe hunter; he post graduate aggression into medicine was concomitant with Sinclair Lewis’s “Arrow smith”

Earler Madame Curie and her husband Pierre Radium and thorium a consequential discovery by the Polish chemist and scientist, along with her husband  won the Nobel Prize A blood plasma?.

Although it demands a rethinking about actor Robert Montgomery, his first medical role on the silver Hollywoodscene .

The actor wore his identification (“Night must fall) with theDoctor, who relentlessly attacked the malaria  virus…

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Where the virus was characterized as the malaria transmission inthe Tropics?  The dramatization of the invisible..   Emile Zola  attack on infectious diseases: high fever, sweats…..the urgency for rethinking the  “To hot to handle”

Time is the essence before our minor planet is threatened by thecontagious tropical killer.

Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia….

A cyber space fire wall…”Hold back the dawn”’

October 15, 1014 The City that never sleeps.

Octob er 14, 2014….The City that nev sleeps. The search for“Doctor Erlich’s“ Magic Bullet”” ….

Microbe Hunter Paul de Kruef

Microbe Hunter Paul de Kruef, Doctor Arrow Smith of Sinclair Lewis’s creation, Emile Zola of Devil’s Island fame, DoctorErlich of the “Magic Bullet”, Madame Curie and her husband Pierre, in the laboratory, testing antibodies into the immune system.

Florence Nightingale where are you, when the planet desperately needs you? 

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A quantum leap back to a typhoid fever coma of 30 days, the final rites for the asking, when a blood transfusion turned the death rattle, the patient’s eyes opening.

The chief nurse in her operative protective gear, Only slits for eyes, the quarantined gear covering her, protective from infectious diseases…tThe constancy shift I n the contagious stream of consciousness, a revision in the protocols

Here then is the crucible. The high stakes of crunching survival A breathtaking  emboli virus infection, sweeping from one Continent to North America..

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Hold back the dawn playing out at Maimonides, Mt Sinai, Lenox Hill, Mt. Sinai, Columbia Presbyterian , Queens Hospitals…..

October 15, 2014 The City that never sleeps