Bhubaneswar, Aug. 26 (PTI): Eighty people have died of cholera and several thousands affected by the disease in three tribal-dominated districts of Rayagada, Koraput and Kalahandi in southern Orissa.
and it sounds pretty serious ... and its effects are possibly intensely nonlinear ... the report goes on to say
"The treatment is simple, as saline drips are being administered along with antibiotics, but the people perhaps are not convinced," he said adding, they were resorting to "black magic" or depending on quacks.
so the message is pretty clear ... tradition trumps technology ... sometimes, or maybe always ...
The Iraq adventure would seem to argue for tradition as well ...
its totally random. I actually sat down to write something about leaky faucets, and this is what came out .... How did that happen?
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