http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/11/11/zuccotti-lung-sickness-occupy-wall-street/
“Zuccotti Lung” Sickness Sweeping Through Occupy Wall Street




So this phrase now exists:


With wintry weather poised to swoop into the cramped
outdoor quarters of Occupy Wall Street protesters, it may not be long
before more campers catch what’s being called “Zuccotti lung.”
That’s what demonstrators have dubbed the sickness that seems to be
spreading among them at an unpleasantly high rate these days: “It’s a
real thing,” Willie Carey, 28, told the New York Times.



Other words and phrases in the article: “respiratory viruses,” “norovirus,” “winter vomiting virus,” and “tuberculosis.”


Doctors are trying to circulate through the park, treat the ill, and
inoculate the still healthy. But progress has been uneven because many
of the Occupy Wall Street people are feverish cranks who think that
vaccinations are a “government conspiracy” to undermine the 99%’s
glorious vanguard. Sexually transmitted diseases are of course also
spreading, and some protesters are even suffering hearing damage from
the drum circle. One wonders how much of this is really necessary for
creating the “vibrant brand of urbanism” that the Washington Post laughingly declared Occupy centers have become.
You’d really think either the professional activists who are behind the protests or the closet ACORN activists
who are pitching in would have stocked the medical tents with
penicillin. Maybe there’s a working group or five on it, or maybe Chavez
can send them some.
Rape and rape coverups
haven’t been enough to get officials to intervene in the Lord of the
Flies dystopias that various protesters have set up. But if Occupy
Oakland is getting shut down on account of people dying
– in that case by gunfire – then having a convulsing, vomiting petri
dish in the center of Manhattan might finally force Bloomberg’s hand.
And while all those crimes and dangers might seem substantive to us, obviously the Occupy movement’s real is messaging. That’s why “framing is everything” liberal leading light George Lakoff has written a guide to protesters who want to reach Middle America. It repeats almost verbatim the notoriously incoherent and anti-scientific drivel
that constituted his previous work, but who knows? Maybe the protesters
can reframe their rape cover-ups as “community solidarity,” and their
anti-vaccination craziness as “freedom from health.” Convinced yet?