Most of us enjoy a good spooky story or movie, but when current affairs become spooky that is cause for real alarm! It surprises many to learn one-third of the world’s population has been infected with tuberculosis. I was in my early twenties when an X-ray revealed I had TB as a child and the infection had caused a small cyst to be formed around it in my left lung. I was told at the time such a thing was not that unusual, especially considering the unhealthy living conditions many of us oldsters were subjected to when we were young. These unhealthy conditions did not always discriminate between rich and poor, and sometimes even the wealthy died of “consumption.” But like increasing cases of leprosy being reported among illegal aliens, the third world disease of TB is once more threatening America. And while the most virulent form of the disease is presently rare, absolute quarantine is essential to avoid the threat of Typhoid Mary’s.

We are being “assured” by our government that things like this recent case of virulent TB are not a threat, but when was the last time you believed anything any government agency told you? More likely, if you are like me, you didn’t trust our government saying that China poisoning pet food was not a danger to the food being imported for humans to eat. As to TB, I have visited clinics housing the infected and believe me they are not all places like that of Doc Holliday where you want to end your days.

In the category of “you can’t make these things up” the news both in America and worldwide declares such imminent threats due to politics and religion makes it appear the lunatics are running asylum earth. The leaders of nations act and sound like lunatics, and if you have ever visited an insane asylum, by whatever euphemism, you will have witnessed behavior that makes your skin crawl and the word “spooky” is appropriate. This is now the case with world leaders; some seeming to be afflicted with such madness to the point of Hannibal Lecter though lacking his brilliance.

With the recent news about another man being quarantined for carrying a deadly strain of TB and the thought of all of us eventually being required to wear surgical masks everywhere we go, things are spiraling out of control to the point where we have passed from alarm over so much bad news to the spooky stage. Now spooky is not a term one usually associates with clinical psychology and serious discussions about current affairs, however it is one that suggests itself when considering some manifestations of human behavior. Take Caesar Bush for example. I have stopped seeing him as a “What, me worry?” fool and now see him as a dangerous mad man, one that now makes dangerously mad statements such as if you do not support his wars and immigration plans you are not a patriot! These are the words of a mad dictator, not those of a sane President of the United States representing We the People! My own form of madness takes the turn of telling Caesar and those in Congress that refusal to secure our borders and expel illegal aliens amounts to TREASON! I leave it to readers to decide which is the spookier.

No one knows how many carriers of the virulent form of TB are crossing our borders illegally by the thousands daily. But if an order comes down to border patrol agents to wear surgical masks, I suppose most of us would get the hint. The fact is that one would be a fool to trust our government to tell us the truth about anything. Given Korea, JFK, Vietnam, 9/11, Caesar Bush’s wars and the sheer madness of the proposed immigration “reform” why should we believe anything anyone in government tells us? But when things like the corruption and chaos in our government pass from the merely dangerous to the spooky, now that is really scary!