THE COMMING PLAGUE
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12/10/96

BY PAUL A.L. HALL

1. PLAGUE TRIGGERS. Things and events cause certain of man’s microbial predators to come into existence. These are called "Plague Triggers". The theory is that viruses and bacteria will mutate into strains that adapt to human carriers and when conditions are right, they will proliferate on a massive level, resulting in the death of the hosts on such a level that the infection grows into plague proportions and can dispense with a good 20 to 30 percent of any given population.
2. ESTUARY OVERPOPULATION. There is a tendency for populations to spring up and concentrate in coastal areas and in particular in swampy marshlands and at the mouths of rivers ("estuaries", if you will). More studies need to be done on this, but the indications are that since ancient times when early civilizations sprung up along river valleys, overpopulation of estuary areas have been sociological disasters.
3. HOMELESSNESS AND LACK OF SHELTER. The common misconception of success is that it must be obtained by causing others to fail first. In fact we see a world in which, from ancient times, causing others to fail and hence become less resistant to disease, has affected the well-being of everyone, from the wealthiest aristocrat to the lowest pauper. I am not using this article to argue about who’s to blame for poverty but merely to state the obvious: that poverty and malnutrition is the breeding ground for disease and ultimately for plagues. And, as illustrated in Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale, "The Mask of the Red Death", plague is sort of thing that even the very rich will not be able to shut out. Unless:
4. -- Unless, perhaps the very rich seize the initiative and set up "watchdogs" and task groups, as it were, over the common good. Of course I doubt that that would happen, hence this article’s title.
5. Arbitrary laws favoring pecuniary systems over human need is forcing more and more people out on streets with no ability to make shelter from the elements. Regardless of what drove them to destitution, be it a paper money system which could fall apart at any time, or, as some would have it some sort of collective insanity, whatever it is the mechanism is in place to breed the most horrendous pestilence that history has ever seen.
6. Everything must have a price and economic units must be earned to pay for needs in a world that increasingly allows gouging and overcharging and encourages it instead of passing enforceable laws against it. Ways must be developed to measure the scale of any given segment of the population’s earning power and then the expenses of necessities available to those persons. Laws must be put in place governing the scales of prices for food and shelter to conform reasonably to the purchasing power of the average human being.
7. MALNUTRITION. The human being is the most complex organism but also very resistant to death. This is the ideal situation for microbes to exist in human carriers until they can mutate and become plagues. Almost everyone suffers from malnutrition of some sort. You may think not, but, in fact, there are essential nutritional elements missing in almost every diet in existence on the face of the Earth.
8. LOWERED RESISTANCE TO DISEASE AND IMMUNE DEFICIENCIES. Because of lowered resistance in those with acquired immune deficiencies and the non-resistant elderly, commonly used systems such as public transportation venues and other things such as public water supplies act as places of contamination and transmission of "germs on a roll".
9. INBREEDING AND ETHNIC CLEANSING DELUSIONS. The ideal offspring with the strongest resistance to disease and psychological disorders are those with genetically disparate parentage.
10. GENETIC DETERIORATION AND SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENTS. The genetic code is not written in stone. It is actually very soft and is re-written by the environments and actions. Surroundings that have nothing to do with the real universe result in aberrations in genetic stability. The genetic code and hence the person is altered by a man-made world.
11. ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESSES OF COMPLEX ORGANISMS. Most complex organisms cannot survive environmental illness. Man is more resistant, but eventually will succumb to the ravishes of a hostile synthetic environment. This promotes disease and triggers diseases that proliferate into plague proportions.
12. PROLIFERATION OF VERMIN RESISTANT TO ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION. Certain alternative complex organisms which are oblivious to sanitation and other disease prevention tactics will become vermin in the man made systems where their natural predators cannot survive. The common examples are mice, rats, roaches and houseflies.
13. INABILITY TO DECENTRALIZE CENTERS OF POPULATION. Misconceptions of wealth and grandeur together with inaccurate and inefficient economic systems and unreasonable prices which prohibit the common acquisition of land and facilities are forcing the poor into urbane centers and the middle classes into suburban conglomerations from which decentralization is neither sought after nor thought of as needed.
14. Sleep Depravation.  Findings in sleep research is beginning to point to the extreme sleep depravation imposed on many developed nations in particular is resulting in increase in disease.
15. FALSE IDEALS AND RECALCITRANCE. The ideals of mankind will always be flawed. It is possible to step back and survey the whole picture and do something about it, but there will always be the need for improvement. There are times when such improvements are not permitted by the denizens of the urbane structures. Almost everyone but the very wise is sure in his or her own mind that he or she is right and it’s the other who must therefore be wrong. It is not so much the error that is so bad but rather the resultant refusal to do anything to rectify it that is the plague waiting to happen.

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