[ExI] Extropy behavior
Joseph Bloch
seculartranshumanist at gmail.com
Wed Mar 4 23:26:03 UTC 2009
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:54 PM, John Grigg <possiblepaths2050 at gmail.com>wrote:
> Actually, you could transmit various diseases by the up-close act of
> hugging. And so the Japanese version of this will have the huggers wearing
> medical face masks! lol
>
And indeed, some "divine hug" faith-healing whackaloon managed to cause a
measles epidemic in Australia recently by just such a method.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Measles-outbreak-linked-to-Amma-faithful/2006/05/05/1146335903781.html
Joseph
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