Wasting Away: by Radrook
Oct 28, 2022 6:00:18 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Oct 28, 2022 6:00:18 GMT -5
Wasting Away: by Radrook
It was the year 2024, and the USA border once again had been assailed by thousands of immigrants attempting to enter the country illegally. Once more the government was perceived as dragging its feet, and this infuriated members of certain groups, which began taking the law into their own hands.
Suddenly, hundreds of immigrants began to be ritualistically murdered by such groups as the skinheads and the KKK, while certain Americans, seething with xenophobic animosity, cheered them on. In the Southern USA, the hatred ran rampant. Encouraged by the lax law-enforcement, the KKK began going on its once-traditional rampages directed at blacks, but now targeting undocumented immigrants which they sometimes doused with gasoline, and set on fire on their flaming wooden crosses, while they fervidly chanted political slogans.
Their ranks swelled and the incidents increased, despite the protests of civil rights groups, and the disapproving declarations of the United Nations. Meanwhile, fanatical leaders boasted about their methods and some began claiming, boastfully, that not even God himself could prevent their progress.
That’s when it suddenly began to occur. A very gradual, but steady decrease in physical weight of those involved. At first, the affected ignored it. Many, in fact, considered it a blessing since they had been either obese, or semi obese, and weight-loss had been a lifelong losing battle. Understandable, since doubled chins and grotesque pot-bellies were dramatically reduced, and buffalo butts began to shrink. In fact, some who had been morbidly obese were no longer bed-bound, and were greatly enjoying their newfound freedom.
But once they had attained the ideal, recommended weight for their height and bone-structure, and the down-spiraling of weight continued unabated, then they did become extremely concerned. They also became very intensely aware of the unusual number of deaths of relatively young people, who had not been obese, had been eating as usual, but who had been inexorably transformed into veritable, walking skeletons.
These unfortunate individuals, could still be occasionally observed at the hate-rallies, their pale, gaunt faces etched with intense animosity, still scowling hideously while cheering weakly and hoarsely whenever news of yet another murder of some immigrant was enthusiastically announced. Occasionally, they might be observed stumbling mindlessly down dark alleyways or along almost deserted streets, grabbing desperately onto lampposts and door lintels, or leaning up against parked cars in order to steady themselves against the vertigo caused by malnutrition.
Eventually, they would all manifest the same desperate expression on their cadaverous faces. An expression typical of those suddenly having encountered some sort of invisible, hideous beast intent on devouring them, and an expression of hopelessly facing an inevitable, inexplicable doom that had singled them out, for what they viewed, as some unjustifiable and inexplicable reason.
“It’s these damned immigrants, I keep telling ya. The bastards cross our border and purposefully bring disease in order to kill us white people off slowly, so that they can take over our country,” the formerly-morbidly-obese, skin-headed young man, who had been gradually reduced to a mere 129 pounds from his former 250, shouted to a seething crowd of frenzied Americans who agreed wholeheartedly, that the weight-loss was due to some clever, illegal-immigrant sabotage.
This, of course, did not go unnoticed by the medical profession that had been desperately struggling to stem the tide of people arriving ill at their emergency rooms.
“Do you notice the anomaly, doctor Salazar?” Doctor Abdul Hamed, an Immigrant from Jordan asked his colleague while they were attending to the emergency cases arriving in record numbers at the San Diego Medical Center.
“All these people who are experiencing weight reduction at an accelerated pace, are of the same mind,” he said nervously as he carefully reviewed the medical l records on his computer. He had personally used the patient social security numbers, to investigate, and had discovered that they all shared the same racist, extremist political views.
“Yes, I have noticed,” doctor Salazar, an immigrant from Mexico, responded in a disgusted tone of voice. Some of his family had been the victims of the violence, and he could not help but take the whole matter personally”
“Strange isn't it?” Dr. Hamed continued, “It’s as if there is a positive correlation between their illness and their emotions.”“
“True! Statistically, it definitely indicates much more than a mere coincidence.” Dr. Salazar responded.
“By emotions, do you mean their constant hatred, I assume” Dr. Hamed, said
“Yes, the constant hatred,” Doctor Salazar responded.
“You know, Hamed, I attended church recently, and Pastor De La Vega focused his Sunday sermon on this very phenomenon. He blamed it all on their unrelenting murderous hatred. He claimed that the human organism had a limit on how much intense hatred it could harbor safely before it began to break down. In short, he claimed that their own hatred was eating them alive from the inside out like some hidden parasite,” Dr. Salazar stated while shaking his head. “No he isn’t of the medical profession, he added, “but perhaps it’s something that we should seriously consider as viable explanation. After all, the psychosomatic nature of some illnesses is a fact. Even more significant, nobody else in the USA is experiencing this consumption phenomenon. Only them. ” he added.
“I also found a positive correlation between the intensity of their hatred and how rapidly they lose weight. The most fanatical among them can lose a pound a week, instead of the few ounces which the less fanatical ones are losing. Strange how they seem to blame the immigrants though instead of themselves, isn’t it?” Dr. Hamed added.
Finally, after many urinalysis and blood tests, ruling out infections, it was assumed that the constant hatred was indeed the cause. Based on this assumption, psychiatric treatment was initiated, and they began getting positive results. Gradually, some patients, who had taken the counseling to heart, began regaining their health as the intensity of their hatred diminished. Unfortunately, the most fanatical among them, continued to die in large numbers rather than concede that their ideology was literally and inexorably driving them to an early grave.
“Did you speak to Mrs. Weston lately?” Dr. Hamed asked the registered nurse as he was making his morning rounds at the hospital.
“Yes, she is still losing weight at an alarming rate, doctor. Approx. a pound a day, and is now being fed intravenously.” the nurse, responded in a tired voice. The sudden influx of so many patients had placed a heavy workload, and they were understaffed for the sudden emergency.
“Was she informed about the correlation that has been found between the fanatical hatred and the disease?” Dr. Hamed continued.
“Yes doctor, she was repeatedly informed,”“ the nurse responded. “But, like most of these fanatics, she just stubbornly refuses to believe it. She still blames the undocumented migrants for introducing some kind of viral disease on purpose. All she does is rant and rage all day in her extremely weakened condition, and this has led to several cardiac arrests caused by heart arrhythmia. She had to be defibrillated three times already when she lost consciousness in the middle of one of her intense racist diatribes.”
“How long does she have?” doctor Hamed asked.
“I would say two more days, at most. It all depends on whether she continues with her agitations or stops them.” she responded.
That Sunday, as Doctor Salazar was attending Church, the pastor once again focused on the anomaly that was killing so many young people.
“Notice that 1 John tells us that God is Love! ” he said opening the large, black, leather-bound King James Version of the Bible to the book 1st John, and reading the scripture.
“It tells us that God is love, and Genesis tells us that God made man in his image. That means that man’s original essence was also love. Now, if man becomes hatred instead, then it is tantamount to take a sledgehammer to his own essence. Such constant, emotional, and satanically-inspired sledgehammering of the intended human essence, can have very dire consequences. These are the consequences, my brothers, a preternatural parasitic, ravenous hatred that voraciously gnaws away the haters until the haters can hate no more.”
Meanwhile, as he had been speaking to the congregation from the pulpit, a thousand more perished as they succumbed to the mysterious ailment. It was only when the plague had no more haters left to ravenously devour, that it finally seemed to vanish back into the bottomless depths from whence it must have been summoned.