The plague that’s airborne and has killed at least 124 people in Madagascar is now blamed on “dancing with corpses.” This is the time of year when the dead are wrapped in sheets and paraded through the streets while others dance around the bodies.
The local tradition is said to be one of the major causes of the spread of this disease. Since it’s airborne, anyone coming close to the corpse of a person who has died of the black death could themselves, catch the infection. Health officials suspect it’s no coincidence that the outbreak coincides with the time of year when families customarily exhume the remains of dead relatives, wrap them in a sheet, and dance with them through the streets in a sacred ritual, AFP reports.
“If a person dies of pneumonic plague and is then interred in a tomb that is subsequently opened for [the ritual], the bacteria can still be transmitted and contaminate whoever handles the body,” said Willy Randriamarotia, Madagascar’s health ministry chief of staff.
Some locals believe the whole plague is some kind of a government conspiracy, and say they have no intention of forgoing the ritual known as “famadihana.” They say they will continue to dance with the dead and intend to honor their ancestors. “I will always practice the turning of the bones of my ancestors — plague or no plague. The plague is a lie,” Helene Raveloharisoa told the wire service.
Josephine Ralisiarisoa firmly believes the country’s cash-strapped government is just exaggerating the problem to get money ahead of an election next year. And it isn’t that anyone is putting this past a government to lie for profits, but health officials have even warned tourists, a source of money, to stay away from Madagascar for their own health. “I have participated in at least 15 famadihana ceremonies in my life. And I’ve never caught the plague,” she told the AFP.
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Can we send all of our snowflakes there? A lot of problems solved.
Brings new meaning to the dance term “jitterbug”
HAHAHAHAHAHAH Too soon?
I was in an urban environment in full blown SHTF.
Houses near me were looted.
Great majority of people were still good and helped one another.
I got very sick with stomach problems and skin rashes in SHTF.
At night it was a different world and you had to be armed and ready at all times. Violence did happen. There was a loose association of neighbors helping each other with security but if you needed supplies you either turned to the government or family.
The pigs dont go away in SHTF they clamp down very hard.
Forget about the roving gangs with camo gear trope from the movies. None of that happened. It would be a good way to get shot actually. I never picked up a long arm in the entire SHTF. Only handgun and lead sap.
I would like to have a submachine gun it would be the best for SHTF. You have to keep it totally concealed.
And above all look and act just like everyone else.
You gonna need a shit ton of bottled water. All the natural water sources were contaminated with broken sewage pipes and garbage and rotted seaweed in SHTF.
And again I lived through this shit in real life so I dont have to guess anymore.
urban environment in full blown SHTF.
Detroit?
Peurto Rico.
But this is Acid Etch still spewing the SOS.
In SHTF you had to be VERY careful what came out of your mouth.
And forget about the great escape from the collapsing city trope if you didnt bug out long before the event happened YOU ARENT GOING ANYWHERE.
TRUST ME, SHTFPLAN
LISTEN TO ME: FORGET ABOUT BUGGING OUT THAT IS FUCKING ABSURD. PLAN TO BUG IN
AND IF YOU PLAN FOR YOUR ASS TO BE SOMEWHERE ELSE THEN YOU NEED MOST OF YOUR PREPS THERE ALREADY
PLAN TO STAY WHERE YOU ARE AS PLAN A
I HAVE LIVED THIS IN REAL LIFE
I BUGGED OUT IN SHTF AND RETURNED HOME LATER
IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO BUG OUT ARE YOU 100% SURE OF WHAT YOURE BUGGING OUT TO??????
YOU BETTER THINK THIS STUFF THROUGH VERY CAREFULLY
Napalm. Problem solved.
Let’s call it Liberia.
Sacred ritual? Okay, okee-dokee. Then I got a new one for those idiots. A brand-new sacred oh-so holy a ritual. Blockade. No one comes out/off that island. I’ll not stop those people from doing what they want. But they’ll not come near me or mine. When about a half year is over – firebomb the damned place to oblivion. Wait a decade or so and then open the blockade.
Blcokade / quarentine. I swear the people have no survival sense. they did this same bullshit during the Ebola outbreak, just let everyone in the infected zones to run rampant and spread their shit all over the place.
Ebola spread like wildfire in muslims countries. They seem tp have a practice of washing the dead and qrapping them in cloth. I have read that the corpse of an Ebola victim carries 100 times the viral load of a live victim. The bodies are incredibly infectious.
They were probably grace robbers who got caught so they pretended this was a “ritual”
God what a bunch of idiots. Bout half of this world needs wiped out. Mostly brownish be fine with me.
Second that!!
Coyote: True, very true and yes brownish even more so and the darker, well, you know the answer to that one…
Digging up the dead, handling their rotting flesh, dancing around with them… what could possibly go right?
Sounds like fun! I would really have to be drunk to do that!
They deserve whatever they get. Might depopulate the island. Oh well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt2g7kyY4QU
I really dig 80s chicks!
And this year’s Darwin award goes to……the whole island of Madagascar.
And to that i say GOOD! Will thin that shallow gene pool faster!
Wth are wrong with people???! Dancing with the dead? You guys d serve whatever comes your way!! Geez
You have to be pretty effign messed-up sick in the head to do that. Aside from disrespect for the dead it goes under the category of desecrating one’s remains. For those who engage in this despicable practice it’s just as well they don’t believe the spread of the plague to be true. This way they’ll drop dead from not believing the facts/truth, and the less idiots on the planet the better.
You think it’s disrespect for the dead. They think of it as honouring the dead. Different societies have different ways of honouring their ancestors. The Madagascaran way seems crazier, and a lot less hygienic than most.
Let’s see, Leviticus 21:11 and Numbers 19:11 both say not to touch dead bodies. God told us how to avoid bacterial contamination (the books quoted read like a microbiology lab manual at times) – but do these monkoids listen? No! Most of Africa is about 500 to 1,000 years behind the rest of the world, and the divide is increasing daily.
I call dibs on Nancy Pelosi!
Not sure if she’s actually dead, but looks close enough.
Laughed out loud at that one! Too funny…???
Anywhere as beautiful as Africa but is filled with squatters sitting on the land and behaving like this, should just be cleared of people. They have given up their right to exist there by behaving like animals.
Hand Africa over to Jews, Northern Europeans and Asians: watch that continent flourish. Its current condition is just going to lead to plague after plague.
I wonder if the ones that have immigrated out to new countries (like the USA) will start up with this once they have a few deceased relatives stacked up?
it’s full of WIN!!!!
These third world nations do not only dance with the dead they also like to eat the corpses. That is the real reason that these plagues spread like wildfire in these primitive regions.
These are PAGANS. Many of their practices and rituals cause DEATH.
They are unsanitary people from the TURD world. Ever visit TURD world countries?
You should, so you know how disease and death spreads.
The Third World is NOT a geographic location.
Any place these low-IQ apes infest will become the Third World.
That is sickening. No wonder the disease is continuing to spread. No way to fix a low IQ except to try and breed with better stock than yourself. I don’t see that happening in Madagascar, or any part of Africa, anytime soon.
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers – Mary Jane’s Last Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowSGxim_O8
Ironically, sjw’s have claimed that imported diseases traveled ahead of early explorers, on several continents.
Or, did they catch the diseases, and bring them home.
It is recorded that aboriginals were prone to self-extinction, and the reasons why. They saw the habits of those people, and still got blamed for it.
Today, Westerners are also blamed for introducing these diseases.