Rage

To read this post please scroll down.

Readers! A November fund-raising drive!

It is unfortunately time for another November fund-raising campaign to support my work here at Behind the Black. I really dislike doing these, but 2025 is so far turning out to be a very poor year for donations and subscriptions, the worst since 2020. I very much need your support for this webpage to survive.

And I think I provide real value. Fifteen years ago I said SLS was garbage and should be cancelled. Almost a decade ago I said Orion was a lie and a bad idea. As early as 1998, long before almost anyone else, I predicted in my first book, Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, that private enterprise and freedom would conquer the solar system, not government. Very early in the COVID panic and continuing throughout I noted that every policy put forth by the government (masks, social distancing, lockdowns, jab mandates) was wrong, misguided, and did more harm than good. In planetary science, while everyone else in the media still thinks Mars has no water, I have been reporting the real results from the orbiters now for more than five years, that Mars is in fact a planet largely covered with ice.

I could continue with numerous other examples. If you want to know what others will discover a decade hence, read what I write here at Behind the Black. And if you read my most recent book, Conscious Choice, you will find out what is going to happen in space in the next century.

This last claim might sound like hubris on my part, but I base it on my overall track record.

So please consider donating or subscribing to Behind the Black, either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. I could really use the support at this time. There are five ways of doing so:

1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.

2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation. Takes about a 10% cut.

3. A Paypal Donation or subscription, which takes about a 15% cut:

4. Donate by check. I get whatever you donate. Make the check payable to Robert Zimmerman and mail it to

Behind The Black
c/o Robert Zimmerman
P.O.Box 1262
Cortaro, AZ 85652

You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage or shown in the menu above.

October 30, 2014 10:08 am Robert Zimmerman

“We’re not seeing “panic.” What we’re seeing is rage that the country is having a deadly disease foist on it for no good reason.”

Read it. You will feel rage also.

4 comments

Jake
October 30, 2014 at 10:26 am
As best as I can tell from the official reports, Ebola tests will show a negative result during the 21 day incubation period. So there is no way to rule out that someone who has contacted Ebola has it until the incubation period is passed and the virus is established and contagious. It seems to be that a 21 day mandatory quarantine is a very reasonable course of action. I could respect a quarantine at home if it were enforceable (meaning individuals are tested negative and allowed to transport home in a private vehicle), but given how nurse Kaci Hickox is flaunting very reasonable protocols I don’t think it would work.
wodun
October 30, 2014 at 2:14 pm
Or the doctor who claimed to have self isolated but was really riding every subway in NYC. Sure, hard to transmit but when you have millions of possible encounters, the probabilities change.
Jake
October 30, 2014 at 3:26 pm
Last week the CDC said you can’t get ebola riding on a bus and sitting next to someone who has it. Today they said you can get it if someone who has it sneezes on you: http://nypost.com/2014/10/29/cdc-admits-droplets-from-a-sneeze-could-spread-ebola/

When will the federal government put medical science ahead of politics?
Edward
October 30, 2014 at 4:12 pm
Nurse Kaci Hickox may have been a hero when she was risking her life treating Ebola patients, but she shows disrespect for Americans when she roams among us at risk of becoming, at any moment, a “Typhoid Mary.”

We can only hope that she is not infected and will not become sick, both for her sake but also for ours.

The problem is not so much that she might spread the disease, but should she become sick, then as with all the other cases, fear will spread and precious resources will be expended tracking down those with whom she has come in contact. Businesses and schools may be closed down, multiple places (not just her home) will be cleansed, and her boyfriend will be subjected to quarantine — heaven forbid that he refuse, as she has done.

She may have been a hero, but in my book she has become a goat for portraying such poor citizenship, just as Dr. Spencer did. These people should not only set a good example, but they — of all people in America — know first hand what happens to people who contract Ebola. And they are willing to risk infecting others for their own personal comfort and convenience — both of which they were willing to give up for strangers in a foreign land.

The chances of spread may be low per encounter, but add up all the other irresponsible returning doctors (I hope it is limited to only those two, but the history of those previously under voluntary home quarantine shows otherwise) and all of their contacts, and we are likely to end up with more infected Americans, each of whom has a lot of contacts to increase the spread. Isn’t that how it spread in Africa in the first place?

Rage

4 comments

Leave a Reply