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Going Viral

The Centers for Disease Control or CDC has shut down.  CDC was a federal government funded body tasked with researching causes of disease and develop means and ways to control or eradicate the same in the interest of public health.

It is a headline I am waiting to see any day now.  What with so many things going viral these days there is just no way to control the outbreak and no dollars to fund the research.

Most viral situations these days are directly attributable to a bored public that has experienced never before seen levels of psychosomatic disorders.

As early as 10 years ago people did not know of social media and tended to be social on occasion.  Now that social has taken on its own space in society there has been a mass diarrhea of opinions and videos and banter that is simply hard to fathom and speaks volumes of the decaying human brain.

From breast feeding moms to space suit wearing grannies to four legged pets of various size, color and levels of aggression many a nonsensical act has taken on mass viewings at the expense of children dying in the toilet (literally in) or consuming dish washing detergent or lighting up the house on fire or shooting their neighbor.  All this as the parents split their pants laughing at the latest installment of viral diaries.


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