Remaining a blissful
Low-Information-Voter (LIV) should be a low effort undertaking. It has not
turned out that way. I had originally thought that avoiding Fox News and talk
radio would suffice, but, alas, no, without the right wing nuts I lacked criteria
to measure my uninformedness. What is the informed High-Information-Voter’s (hereafter,
HIV) understanding of Benghazi-Gate, or IRS-Gate, or other incompetent-black-President-Gate
scandal? Indeed, what is the subject I must be informed about? As a result I
have to spend some quality time with my brilliant, inspired cohorts on the
right. Given the consistency of the right wing ecosphere, considerable
resources are expended in forming informed information. The proper informed
belief is updated infrequently, touching base with the primary sources need
only be once a week or less, and this leaves considerable time to remain
uninformed by reading history or science.
I do enjoy the fictional works of
SciFi, but a good science book will keep me improperly informed enough to be an
official LIV. Without a reading plan I wander about the online library
selecting titles in a random manner, recently my selections have been about
diseases, plagues and genetic science. These subjects require a belief in
evolutionary science, which nails me as a total LIV. A beneficial genetic
change of only one in a billion replications will happen every day because of
the large number of pathogens.
A beneficial change for the microbe
may not be beneficial for the host. There are three areas the microbe is
constantly trying to improve, first is infection of a host, second is
replication and last is escape from one host into new host. The accepted theory
is that this is purely random, recent laboratory studies indicate that
DNA is manipulated by the microbes. This is scary, over billions of years microbes
have evolved the ability to evolve on demand. This explains the extraordinary
leaps microbes and viruses have consistently displayed when attacked by medical
science, results that could not be explained by the mathematics of random
chance. Modern medicine can follow this process at the molecular level, it is
not random, instead it is an orchestrated response to the chemical soup
surrounding the microbe.
Summarizing my readings in medical
science, for microbes it is all about ecology, for humans it is all about
greed. The microbes live in a pure natural world while humans live in a made up
reality, a comfortable paradigm with good guys and bad guys. This human centric
worldview gives the pathogens a significant advantage. As a LIV I wish to
protect myself from a pandemic by providing healthcare and medicine to poor and
sick populations, while the HIV refuses to give “free stuff” to “lazy people”, which
gives an upper hand to the pathogen.
The information purveyor’s of the
right tell of restaurant owners cutting hours to avoid providing health
care. Why would I wish to buy food from sick people? Sick employees and food preparation,
to this LIV, seems a bad idea. I have noted that healthy people are more
productive, with better attendance, than sick people. These same providers of information
talk of sickness brought to America by illegal immigrants, to the highly
informed voter, sick illegal immigrants can scamper across deserts; to a
medically informed Voter, disease travels with the businessman on an airplane.
The medical science is a far more
entertaining, and frightening, story than one of illegal immigrants or lazy
people. Reality does not serve a political agenda of less government. Reality
would indicate a well funded, government supported, medical research community.
Research and history calls for a universal health care system. History shows
that the “political will” appears once 10% of the population is dead or
seriously sick. History also shows that the response is never medically sound;
it is always based on fear and bigotry. Like pathogens, politicians never miss
an opportunity.
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