I saw a bird in the sky
Everybody is talking about this bird flu business. The H5N1 virus pandemic.
The approach of most governments seems to be to cull all the birds on a precautionary radius around any place a contaminated bird appears.
The reason I had not posted anything about this before is because I had my doubts. Well, I still do.
I can understand how deadly this disease can be to humans if it mutates.
I can understand that all the efforts to contain the virus have failed.
But culling every bird in a radius of a few kilometers?
I can’t avoid to think about Planet of the Apes, people started taking apes for pets because all other pets had died of a strange disease, wasn’t it?
No, I don’t believe the story was prophetic in the sense apes will rule the planet, but I truly believe the alarm about mankind whipping off entire species from the face of the planet is of matter right now.
Will our grand children see birds in the sky?
I don’t know if that is the right approach or not. Some among you can tell me if this isn’t done there will be no birds and no grand children.
I hope that if there is intelligent life elsewhere in this Universe the day will not come when they look at Earth as we look at Rapa Nui today.
I remember once asking if there were people on other planets. Grandpa told me if this is such a big Universe it would be a huge waste of space if we were alone.
When I asked why don't they come here he told me maybe they can't, after all we can't go searching for them either.
But we want to I said. Don't they want to visit us? Maybe they don't.
How? Don't they want to fly? Maybe they don't have birds, said grandpa, maybe they don't even think it is possible to fly.
The approach of most governments seems to be to cull all the birds on a precautionary radius around any place a contaminated bird appears.
The reason I had not posted anything about this before is because I had my doubts. Well, I still do.
I can understand how deadly this disease can be to humans if it mutates.
I can understand that all the efforts to contain the virus have failed.
But culling every bird in a radius of a few kilometers?
I can’t avoid to think about Planet of the Apes, people started taking apes for pets because all other pets had died of a strange disease, wasn’t it?
No, I don’t believe the story was prophetic in the sense apes will rule the planet, but I truly believe the alarm about mankind whipping off entire species from the face of the planet is of matter right now.
Will our grand children see birds in the sky?
I don’t know if that is the right approach or not. Some among you can tell me if this isn’t done there will be no birds and no grand children.
I hope that if there is intelligent life elsewhere in this Universe the day will not come when they look at Earth as we look at Rapa Nui today.
I remember once asking if there were people on other planets. Grandpa told me if this is such a big Universe it would be a huge waste of space if we were alone.
When I asked why don't they come here he told me maybe they can't, after all we can't go searching for them either.
But we want to I said. Don't they want to visit us? Maybe they don't.
How? Don't they want to fly? Maybe they don't have birds, said grandpa, maybe they don't even think it is possible to fly.
posted by DCveR at 10:37 PM
11 Comments:
that conversation with your grandfather was just precious! i think there are UFOs. i've even seen a few. i actually wouldn't doubt if we've been visited for a while now.
my dad told me that our family were really aliens, except for mom- i remember being really worried that she would not want to come with us when it was time to "go back"
this bird flu thing, i think it can totaly wipe out someone- the birds the humans, its going to be a mess- the kind of things that are happening in today's world, in terms of terrorism, technology advances, deseases, its deffinitely beginning to resemble more and more an Isaac Asimov novel than real life.
Strange, I'm not at all worried. I imagine my immune system is invulnerable. Nothing like a little birdie flu is gonna stop me. I've got too many reasons to live through it.
maybe it's good they don't have the fowl creatures; birds sort of creep me out ever since i saw that hitchcock movie.
Sounds like your grandpa was a very wise man:)
bees knees: Of course you must have seen a few. Well, at least on I must have seen, the one that dropped you off here... :)
ale: Sci-Fi writers usually use their books to say things that society wouldn't listen to otherwise. I think that is why you find so many religious, political, ethical and environmental issues on sci-fi books.
viking: I wouldn't trust my immune system to be invulnerable to this one. Nor anybody else's for that matter.
cadiz: I know some people look at birds as the rats of the skies. And yet I can't imagine a world without birds.
isa, isae: He was. Actually they both were, in different ways.
My grandfather's a good enough guy but we've never had a profound or touching conversation like you and yours, and there certainly were never any words of wisdom. You're a lucky man, Dcver.
One time he sneezed and his dentures flew onto the truck floor by my feet. I enjoyed that.
chill daddy: Never had the feeling of having a profound conversation with him though. Everything seemed simple, natural and logic. Same with grandma, when she was telling this herb could be used for such and such or this bird is called so and so it all seemed to be in it's rightful place. Now I look back and see I really was lucky. Still am.
Bird flu, wheather changes... ins't this all the result of the "intelligent" behaviour of the species called Homo sapiens ?
We are all soooo sorry and concerned about the tragedy and, especially, about our own personal necks but really: we just reap what we sow...
BB
Dcver, your granpa was like my granpa, and your granma like mine too.
Hahahaha, I like chill daddy's granpa who sneezed his dentures out...my granpa used to be the only granpa who can 'remove his teeth'. Something to brag about!!!
I like to think that there are other worlds, and creatures we can't see.
Ha. There will always be birds in Guyana, darn little raucous things, singing and squawking at all hours, chirping and burping.
We have the rainforests to protect them and hide them.
That is, if the Brazilians don't come and burn down our forests like they're doing to the Amazon. [Sorry Viking, but it's true...]
ariadne: At least we are only allowed to wreck one planet.
GG: Hope you are right. Hope there will always be places where nature can escape Man's greed.
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