Just talking to some folks I know who are going to Mexico for a miracle cure they read about on the interwebz.
For the record their "malady" is mild athsma made worse by the not one, not two, not three, but FOUR ozonators they have running in their home. Just walking into their home makes my eyes water and gives me a wracking cough. Again, something they read on the intertoobz told them these gizmos would cure all their ills. Never mind that I've given them data showing just how irritating ground level ozone can be to respiratory tissues (also never mind how lethally toxic it is in even small concentrations). Medical geniuses, these.
But that's not the reason I'm doing the
They are dead set on going to Old Mex for their "miracle cure" (which could easily be handled by turning off the ozonators, getting some decent A/C filters, and get the inhalers they refuse to use because it's a "big medicine conspiracy!") I keep telling them to stay north of the border for their own safety. I just showed them this story on Fox News...
!!! WARNING !!! Do not follow the link if you are in any way squeamish. It is very, very graphic.http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/world/2010/04/24/drug-lords-gun-police-officers-mexico/Their response? "Oh, those people are just after the police. They won't hurt us,
we're Americans. (my emphasis -Brad) Besides, the hospital told us they have security that can handle anything. They wouldn't tell us that if it wasn't true."
Keep in mind these are the same folks who went to Mexico for cheap dental work and ended up in the local ER with a massive mandibular infection... where they discovered the implants she'd gotten weren't quite the surgical stainless they were claimed to be. Who did they blame? The local ER. Claimed they were making the whole thing up to get more money. (Never mind the huge lump on your jaw and the rust in your mouth. Sigh...)
Sometimes you just have to let idiots be idiots. Doesn't make you shake your head any less, though.
Brad