Wussy! Health Care

OK, listen up all you wussies out there. I know that we mistakingly bred an entire generation of candy ass sofities… And in turn they bred and created a generation of even softer pansies… But seriously, let’s get real here for a minute…

If you all don’t start butching up a bit and suck it up and start living on the edge just a little bit, we’re lost. And I’m nopt talking sort of lost here, I’m talking lost as in we could be conquered by a tribe of wheelchair-bound pygmies because we’re too scared of our own shadows and hiding under our beds.

Wait, what?

You heard me, we’re becoming so damned wussy over here that we won’t even be able to hold ourselves together in the face of even the most pathetic threat. Don’t believe me? Look at health care.

Why are we having health care rammed down our throats? Because a growing number of spineless ninnies with very loud mouths are crying that they shouldn’t have to take care of themselves. They are whining and sniviling and begging for somebody to coddle them because, well, it’s just too damned hard to take care of themselves.

Ah, personal responsibility sucks, doesn’t it?

But why are we here to begin with?

It’s easy. People are a bunch of Wussies! They are so scared that if they stumble they mightget a boo boo… And so they have enlisted the help of the government to pad the ground so that no person will get an unnecessary owie… Of course, an unfortunate side effect of that is that they also opened up door for the government to mandate that we pad ourselves as well – but that’s ok because it’s for our own good, right? In fact, because we shouldn’t have to make the decision ourselves, we had the right to take a personal risk that might potentially cause an owie taken away from us completely.

Is this the life we want to live? Is this the legacy we want to leave in our wake? Are people 100 years from now going to look back at us and wonder how in the hell their ancestors could have been such a bunch of terrified Wussies that they were willing to hand over dominion over their own bodies to the government?

Think about it…

Wussy! H1N1

To say that there is a little bit of swine flu fear mongering going on out there right now would be a glaring understatement, would it not? So it got me thinking… Are we to blame for this?

What do I mean? Well, has our culturing and nuturing of the wussy society made us so soft that the flu now has the ability to kick us in the ass? I think so, but then again I’m biased… After all, not only did I not wash my hands as a child, I survived time aboard an aircraft carrier – perhaps one of the most germ-ridden places the planet has ever known. As such, I don’t often get sick. Or when I do, it comes and goes in a day or two and I’m proud to sport a stronger immune system as a result.

But apparently I am an anomoly in these days of bubble children and anti-bacterial soap in every purse. So again I ask, have we inadvertantly created a population of wussies with allof our germaphobe paranoia and overprotection? Worse yet, have we been testing life – more specifically the idea that life will addapt to survive – and creating super tough mega bugs?

Evolution and genetic mutation is a bitch. If we try and wipe out flu bugs (or any other potential illnesses) by obsessively washing our hands with anti-bacterial soap, vaccinating against things every single year and hiding under our beds every time somebody shows signs of a cough and a fever, what is going to be left? Yes, we will have knocked down the wussier bugs, but what will be left will be real nasty and we will not have the natural defenses in place that big and nasty’s weaker brother may have given us.

Whoops.

Here’s an inconvenient truth… Life will go on, no matter how much we may try to snuff it out… And yes, even the flu bugs are life. Trying to snuff them out just ensures that the weaker strains fail while the real monsters grow stronger.

Yes, I know that the truth is a bitter pill to swallow, but we are to blame for this – and to be honest, if the H1N1 knocks off a bunch of people, it just helps the rest of us grow stronger.