OK, here is my last posting about Ebola (and other bad things happening in the world of what I wont even mention), and I dont mean to sound like some Woody Allen character that Woody Allen has played. But...ya know...If so much as one.. (God forbid, God forbid), case of Ebola arises in the NYC metropolitan area..I am SO so so the hell out of here..rental car..New Mexico (a cave?) Austin? Mars? Become a Monk at a monastery in Tibet? perhaps a small modest Commune in a rural part of the world. I am sure a lot of my friends in NYC have thought about these kinds of things and variables of what ifs. ..I mean..here in NYC, we TOUCH and cough and sweat and give superficial kisses on each other in this city on a momentary basis. If someone gets it here..I mean..really-really-really... thats a very big problem. If one person gets it here, is showing symptoms, but discounts it as seasonal flu, gets on a crowded subway, where we are all smashed together..that could be 50 people instantly contracting it. Does anyone have any thoughts about this? I know that we are all resilient tough New Yorkers, but really..think about this. I, myself, certainly dont want to surrender to any would be sensationalism AT ALL. I am not a particularly paranoid person by nature, but its like..you dont even really need to sensationalize any of this or any of the other extreme turbulent things that are happening in the world, simultaneously now. Its already built in. There is no need to sensationalize. Its already there. Very serious on this one: Can anyone recommend a cool rural artists in residency, or an intentional living community for scared filmmakers? The logical side of me, which is pretty dominating most of the time, is saying, Well, if you die , you die..dont live in fear, because thats not living and its inevitable that we all go anyway at some point, blah blah and who knows, maybe it IS in fact just hyped.. But then the survivor in me is saying..this is happening and happening rather fast, and its pretty terrifying, and maybe I should flee for a bit, and think of an escape plan to somewhere, in case of what if.... and, ya know, respectfully, I just dont sense that the CDC or Obama (who I love btw), is ready for this. I think the entire government is bluffing a bit with this. This is some genuinely scary serious shit that is happening. I was cautious and a bit afraid-ish post 911 , but 911 seems almost pale in comparison to these extraordinarily (waking up in the middle of the night with butterflies) intensely challenging times we are facing. I guess, for those of us, who have no power in these various scenarios..I mean, what, all we can do is hope for the best?
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 01:01:12 +0000
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