No matter what I will not, repeat will not write about A/H1N1 influenza. Seriously, how much news of that kind can one human being take? I do not want to be a guinea pig and discover it on my own. Thank you...but no... thank you!
Schools are closed, lines in pharmacies are getting longer and everyone is waiting for some sort of apocalypses. As far as I remember it is not 2012 when Maya predicted the end of times... We still have few years, guys! So, cheer up!
I have been through that sort of total hysteria only once before. It was back in Washington in 2003 when sniper terrorized local population. If you lived in DC at that time, you would remember. We started every single day reading Washington Post with headlines like:"sniper strikes again" or "going to a gas station makes you a next target", etc. Goes well with your peanut butter and jelly toast, doesn't it? My personal favourite was when one of the articles advised you to go outside only if you absolutely had to, and, if you did, you had to walk in zig-zags from tree to another tree in order not to become a target. Fancy that?
Now imagine all 600 000 of DC residents doing that... add Washington metropolitan area and you have over five million people running up and down the streets in zig-zags...You get the picture. ;)I am afraid if we had actually done that, they would have had much more work to do at National psychiatric institutions...
I also remember how we were afraid of white vans. Because sniper allegedly drove white van when he was in search of his next victim. Oh boy... that was really fun. I bet every white vehicle in DC area was reported to police as a potential suspect. Don't get me wrong, I was one of those people pointing to a white car and yelling to my friends: "here... here it goes, is it him?" It was usually followed by a discussion of where exactly he could strike next and whether NW Washington was a safe area at all... :).
I guess no matter where we are, we all react in the same way. We try to control our emotions, but deep inside we need a bit of drama to carry us through these short and chilly November days. And that is fine with me. Otherwise, I will not have anything to write to you on this unremarkable second day of November.
Stay warm, safe and happy regardless of anything they tell you.
Schools are closed, lines in pharmacies are getting longer and everyone is waiting for some sort of apocalypses. As far as I remember it is not 2012 when Maya predicted the end of times... We still have few years, guys! So, cheer up!
I have been through that sort of total hysteria only once before. It was back in Washington in 2003 when sniper terrorized local population. If you lived in DC at that time, you would remember. We started every single day reading Washington Post with headlines like:"sniper strikes again" or "going to a gas station makes you a next target", etc. Goes well with your peanut butter and jelly toast, doesn't it? My personal favourite was when one of the articles advised you to go outside only if you absolutely had to, and, if you did, you had to walk in zig-zags from tree to another tree in order not to become a target. Fancy that?
Now imagine all 600 000 of DC residents doing that... add Washington metropolitan area and you have over five million people running up and down the streets in zig-zags...You get the picture. ;)I am afraid if we had actually done that, they would have had much more work to do at National psychiatric institutions...
I also remember how we were afraid of white vans. Because sniper allegedly drove white van when he was in search of his next victim. Oh boy... that was really fun. I bet every white vehicle in DC area was reported to police as a potential suspect. Don't get me wrong, I was one of those people pointing to a white car and yelling to my friends: "here... here it goes, is it him?" It was usually followed by a discussion of where exactly he could strike next and whether NW Washington was a safe area at all... :).
I guess no matter where we are, we all react in the same way. We try to control our emotions, but deep inside we need a bit of drama to carry us through these short and chilly November days. And that is fine with me. Otherwise, I will not have anything to write to you on this unremarkable second day of November.
Stay warm, safe and happy regardless of anything they tell you.
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