{"id":5525,"date":"2014-12-25T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2023-11-14T21:02:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T03:02:06","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-december-25-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=5525","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for December 25, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Pathogenic Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/h2>\n

Many of the worst human diseases were created by proximity to animals. Cattle provided the pathogen pool with tuberculosis and viral poxes like smallpox. Pigs and ducks gave humans their influenzas, while horses brought rhinoviruses and hence the common cold. Measles, which still kills a million children a year, is the result of rinderpest (canine distemper) jumping between dogs or cattle and humans. Moreover, cats, dogs, ducks, hens, mice, rats, and reptiles carry bacteria like Salmonella<\/em>, leading to often fatal human infections; water polluted with animal faeces also spreads polio, cholera, typhoid, viral hepatitis, whooping cough and diptheria.<\/p>\n

Culled from: The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh, so it’s the HORSE that gives us the common cold? \u00a0I never did trust horses – not since they kicked me in the chin and bit my back when I was a child. \u00a0Seems like I had very good reason. Hmmph.<\/p>\n

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Garretdom!<\/h2>\n

Here’s another shocking article from the Chico (California) Courant newspaper, originally published on December 9, 1865, showing the institutionalized genocide of our forebears.<\/p>\n

Chico Courant (Chico, California)
\nSaturday, December 9, 1865<\/h3>\n

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CAUGHT THE DEVILS. \u2013\u00a0The Humboldt Register gives an account of the routing of the gang, and killing of over fifty of the red devils who murdered Ballew on the Humboldt road.\u00a0 According to the Register\u2019s account, Lieut. Osmer is entitled to promotion, and his men to a medal each for their bravery and tact in ferreting out the Indians and wiping them out when found.\u00a0 The Indians were found 100 miles north-west of Dun Glen, and did not discover the approach of the soldiers until within two miles of their camp.\u00a0 Lieut. Osmer\u2019s command, was, \u201cCome on, boys!\u201d and they pitched in without any \u201cred tape,\u201d and with an energy irresistible.\u00a0 The Indians were well armed.\u00a0 One soldier, named David O\u2019Connell was killed, and two painfully wounded.\u00a0 A portion of the plunder taken from Ballew\u2019s wagon was recovered.\u00a0 Lieut. Osmer and his command may redeem the character of the regular army for Indian hunters.\u00a0 Pitch in and wipe out the last vestige of the red rascals.<\/p>\n

From the collection of The Comtesse DeSpair<\/em><\/p>\n

More of our\u00a0Racist past<\/a>\u00a0can be seen at\u00a0Garretdom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Fetus Du Jour!<\/h2>\n

And now, the moment many of you have been waiting for: the final installment of Fetus Du Jour. Here’s the last of the 1930s fetuses that I photographed at the Museum of Science and Industry. And he’s the most miserable looking of the lot. \u00a0Which only goes to support my theory: the closer you get to being born, the more miserable you become! Non-existence Is Bliss! \u00a0I think I need to make a shirt with that on it…<\/p>\n

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