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The Hearse Song:
mad – http://www.upsidebackwards.info
10/4/08
“Don't you ever laugh as the hearse goes by,
For you may be the next to die.
They wrap you up in a big white sheet
From your head down to your feet.
They put you in a big black box
And cover you up with dirt and rocks.
All goes well for about a week,
Then your coffin begins to leak.
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,
The worms play pinochle on your snout.
They eat your eyes, they eat your nose,
They eat the jelly between your toes.
A big green worm with rolling eyes
Crawls in your stomach and out your eyes.
Your stomach turns a slimy green,
And pus pours out like whipping cream.
You spread it on a slice of bread,
And that's what you eat when you are dead.”
~Unknown
A study published earlier this week presented new evidence that the AIDS VIRUS has been circulating throughout the human population for at least 100 years, decades longer than the 1930 origin period which scientists had formerly postulated. This places the emergence of AIDS at the end of the 19th Century, with a new and enhanced strain of immune deficiency sprouting up in the early 1980’s. It was during this decade that world health authorities formally recognized the outbreak of this deadly disease, primarily evident in the gay and African American community. Of course there is a great deal of evidence which indicates, in some form or fashion, that AIDS is a bio-engineered method of population reduction and HIV is a diabolical hoax perpetrated by the pharmaceutical industry in order to sell medication and spread the disease by breaking down immunities, but I digress.
The boom in the “AIDS industry” (over 25 million killed!) can be seen as nothing short of a pandemic, likely originating with the unbridled tactics of sexual procreation and promiscuity inherently associated with the horned Greek god of Pan. According the World Heath Organization a pandemic is the emergence of a disease that is new to the population and which the active agents cause serious illness in human inhabitants; spreading easily and sustaining itself among biological hosts. Natural diseases such as cancer and others are not considered pandemics as they are not communicable nor is it infectious or contagious. A pandemic level virus can be spread in a variety of ways, most notably through the sharing of blood or bodily fluids, the passing of bacteria through the air or highly unsanitary conditions. Rats, gnats, ticks, fleas, mosquitoes and flies are all potential carriers of plague and serious illness.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) classifies diseases of this kind as follows:
Interpandemic period:
Phase 1: No new influenza virus subtypes have been detected in humans.
Phase 2: No new influenza virus subtypes have been detected in humans, but an animal variant threatens human disease.
Pandemic alert period:
Phase 3: Human infection(s) with a new subtype but no human-to-human spread.
Phase 4: Small cluster(s) with limited localized human-to-human transmission.
Phase 5: Larger cluster(s) but human-to-human spread still localized.
Pandemic period:
Phase 6: Increased and sustained transmission in general population.
Throughout history there are multiple accounts of mind-boggling plagues and viral infections responsible for the death of millions of people. Perhaps the first account of these widely dispersed diseases stem from the time period of ancient Sumeria, roughly 5000 years ago, with the report of an “evil wind” stated as casing the innumerable death of livestock and a high mortality rate amongst the human population. Likewise in the Mesopotamian creation epic of the 'Enuma Elish’, we are told that the god Marduk uses and “evil wind” to battle against Tiamat whom he defeats to form the lands of the earth and craft humanity from her disemboweled corpse. The control over disease and infection would seem to be within the power of the “gods” even from the earliest times.
The Bible is no stranger to disease with report of plagues sent upon the people of Egypt during the Exodus; consisting of rivers turning to blood, a rain of frogs, infestation by lice, gnats and flies, death to livestock, boils on the skin, hail and fire raining down from the skies, locusts, excessive darkness and the death of all the firstborn children of Egypt. These destructive epidemics are blatantly stated as having come directly from Yahweh and the figure of Moses who holds the powerful serpent staff (in Thoth/Hermes fashion) of the burning bush. Plague is also associated as being punishment for attempting to steal the Ark of the Covenant and is often portrayed as directly implemented by God as chastisement for standing against the Israelites.
Likewise, recent reports have been published indicating that in the ancient Middle East roughly 3500 years ago, the Hittites of Anatolia sent “cursed” rams and sheep into rival territories in order to sicken a population through tainted meat and animal bi-products. Biological warfare has been around for thousands of years, most widely noted through Spanish invasions of the Americas which purposefully spread poisonous smallpox and various sexually transmitted diseases among the Native American populations, slaughtering hundreds of thousands without firing a single shot. Up to 95% of the indigenous population of the Americas, more than a million Indians were wiped out by a calculated and demented biological warfare campaign burning like wildfire amongst a highly susceptible and unprepared tribal people.
Of all classical diseases the most historically recognized outbreak stems from the 14th century and isn’t all that ancient. It’s a bacterium known as Yersinia pestis which causes bubonic plague, referred to in medieval times as the Black Death when it was spread by infected fleas and rats, and the more dangerous pneumonic plague, transmitted from one person to another through coughing or sneezing. Only five hundred years ago the Black Death killed up to seventy-five million people worldwide and destroyed two-thirds of Europe’s entire population! The epidemic was so widespread that the dead lined the streets, mass graves were common place and the Catholic Church engaged in a wide variety of bizarre cathedral designs which utilized the bones of thousands of newly deceased priests and parishioners (as the time period of the Black Death roughly coincides with the epoch of witch burning Inquisitions and Catholic extremism, it isn’t so difficult to imagine that some strains of the plague were in fact concocted as biological experiments by insane human hands in the basements and dungeons of many a torture chamber).
Of course history tells us that the plague was spread by rats and unsanitary conditions, but it’s quite possible that this epidemic was a form of biological warfare in the name of “God” and used as punishment against the wicked. While the Black Death affected both rich and poor alike, it was usually the very young or very old who suffered the most, or those who already had a history of sickness and ill health. Two hundred years later this dreaded pathogenic disease returned to kill another 280,000 during the Italian Plague (1629-1631), then spreading country to country to become the Great Plague of Seville; the Great Plague of London; The Great Plague of Vienna; The Great Plague of Marseille, and finally the Great Plague of Moscow. Respectively, during this one hundred year period of communicable travel, the Black Death had revived itself and claimed the lives of another one million civilians.
The first account of bubonic plague didn’t arise in the 14th Century however but is believed to have stemmed from an outbreak which arose in Egypt (541 -750) and spread into Constantinople like a tidal wave killing as many as ten thousand people a day, cutting down nearly half of the human population. The Black Death was once considered as being responsible for the Plague of Athens (430 B.C.), one of the factors which contributed to their loss in the Peloponnesian War, though it is now believed that this was likely an intense outbreak of typhus, measles and smallpox.
Aside from the Black Plague, there have been a variety of major epidemics throughout recorded history which have utterly decimated entire cultures. Typhoid fever is extremely transmittable and volatile, killing millions of people over the millennium. Smallpox and measles have been responsible for the death of tens of millions, and the killer disease of Cholera has killed many tens of millions more over the centuries. Cholera racked up seven official pandemics beginning with Bengal in 1816. From there it traveled to China and the Caspian Sea before slowing down in 1826. Three years later it was back with a vengeance in Europe and then leapt across the Atlantic Ocean to America in 1934. The disease hit Russia in 1852 killing over a million people; then it hit Africa three years later before arriving in Germany, then back to Europe, then back to Russia. etc, etc. Every time Cholera seems to be under control a new outbreak of the disease rears its ugly head.
Influenza, or the flu, is another lethal disease which has become more treatable in the modern era, though it too has claimed the lives of millions over the past few thousand years. The first documentation of this virus is believed to originate from the third and forth centuries B.C.E., though most modern interpretations for the pandemic begin in Africa around 1510 A.D. First sprouting up in this region it quickly spread throughout Europe and has shown no signs of stopping in the past 500 years. The worst outbreak was the Spanish Flu of 1918, which killed between fifty to one hundred million people in only a year and a half! Many hold the Spanish Flu and the Black Death as being the two most disastrous pandemics in human history and causing the most fatalities. To put it into perspective, the Asian Flu of the 1950’s in the United States killed around 70,000 people and is considered a “mild” epidemic by comparison. Yellow Fever kills an estimated 30,000 people a year so is considered even more “milder” still.
In recent years we’ve been threatened by reports of Avian Flu and SARS, which have so far possibly due to early preventative measures, had a very small rate of human mortality. However, other diseases such as Ebola is the horrible stuff that nightmares are made of. The Ebola strain, known as hemorrhagic fever, was first reported in 1976 and has a 90% infection rate and 83% mortality rate. The Ebola virus causes complete failure of all internal organs that brings forth a “liquidizing” process making the infection nearly impossible to treat. Death often occurs within a period of days or hours, though thankfully this disease has been considered extremely hazardous and the area of outbreak is instantaneously quarantined upon first report. Like AIDS, it's believed to have originated amongst African chimpanzees and apes, though probable that these were just the most likely candidates for initial viral experimentation.
Throughout the annals of religion, in particular the Judeo-Christian religion, the scribes have imagined a wide variety of demonic forces which we hold responsible for the emergence and spreading of such fatal diseases. While there are dozens of demonic entities associated with bringing forth plague and sickness from around the world perhaps the most notable comes from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the Biblical Revelation. The White Horse is associated with pestilence and due to his bow which holds no arrows, and the shining crown on his head, some believe that he represents sickness coming in the form of peace.
The White Horse is most closely allied with the seven veils of plague and seals spoken of in the tale of Revelation, including painful sores upon the body, oceans dying out and turning to blood, the fire of the sun burning men where they stand, periods of great darkness and despair, earthquakes, hailstones and poisons of all variety which will cleanse the earth in the “great purification”. Both the Old and New Testament God seems content with striking down all non-believers in the fury of end times.
Though it’s only killed 100 to 200 people annually over the past century, many scientists believe that the Plague is reemerging in a new strain that’s rising up again throughout the African continent. With a world population hitting upwards of 6 billion people, how would we deal with a contagious new super pandemic which claimed the lives of 100 million in a few years time? What if it's untreatable and gets away from us before we’re able to lock it down? In the modern age is it possible that a plague outbreak could claim more lives than the Black Death? Who can we blame and should “God” be held responsible? How much hand sanitizer is too much sanitizer? Does that doorknob look clean to you? Did Billy Bob wash his hands before serving me my taco? Reads like the first pages of a horror novel.
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