Ebola is in the news. The worst epidemic yet. But it is time to start thinking about epidemics much more dangerous than Ebola. Look over there, a baby carriage!

Addendum (October 17, 2014)

As it happened, I was sitting in Kino Europa when this haiku formed in my mind. The twelfth Zagreb Film Festival was advertised all around the place. It is only a few days away. And a tipping baby carriage is the festival’ logo. It comes straight from Sergei Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin” (1925), of course. In retaliation for the mutiny on the battleship, which was anchored in Odessa in 1905, the Cossacks of the Tsar shot everyone on the wide stairs for which the city was famous. Men, women, and children are shot and trampled in one of the scenes. Memorably, a baby carriage careens down the bloodstained stairs. Dubbed the greatest film of all times, it stands as the symbol of the art form ever since it was first shown in the Soviet Union. And so does the baby carriage. But my haiku is much more ominous than the Cossack assault could ever be, it goes without saying.