I was hoping someone would come in and tell me everything is going to be ok.
We have troops in Africa building hospitals. We will have 17 hospitals completed in the next month. But by then we will actually need 170 hospitals. And that's just buildings. Who's gonna staff them? The small companies making experimental medicines and vaccines are working around the clock, but it's a race, and the virus is spreading exponentially while they progress linearly. By the time leaders are so scared that they are willing to do something previously unthinkable in scope, that unthinkable action still won't be enough to stop it, because it will have grown. So that has me wondering about how I can prepare. Can it really get that bad here? I think of Katrina. But that's probably not the right model. On the other hand, everything is fine right now. And I've got plans for the holiday weekend. |
I think we're going to have a regular The Stand going on.
I think there is much they're not telling us. But all the cool kids are getting iBola...eBola is so yesterday. (A little levity never hurts.) |
I think the populace here is smarter (Jesus fucking Christ, my phone autocorrected that to "white"...) So you'd see a lot of people in face masks and gloves, and nobody leaving dead bodies in the street. So maybe preparing would mean stocking up on those. Large portions of our workforce can telecommute, so I bet anyone who could, would.
I think it would be more of a "everything grinds to a halt" scenario, rather than loss of basic necessities like in Katrina. Personally, I really wonder whether we're truly out of the ZMapp drug, or whether we're just keeping it for ourselves. |
On the other hand, we've got plans for the weekend too... Although Minifob IS a little sick. ;)
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The bright side is that fewer people will be great for the labor market, the pressure on scarce goods, and maybe even reduce the progress of global warming. |
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Plus, what if one of those millions of people is somebody I care about, or me? |
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Here's an interesting video. It's about H5N1, but talks about pandemic. http://www.ted.com/talks/laurie_garr..._flu#t-1017244 |
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The UK Government has announced screening of passengers at the two main London airports, Heathrow and Gatwick, and the Eurostar rail terminal in London.
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Daily Telegraph It's worth noting, that the British nurse who was repatriated to the UK having been infected by Ebola in Sierra Leone, made a full recovery. William Pooley plans return to the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone |
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Fun question, who beheaded the most humans this year Saudi Arabia or ISIS? hint: Saudi Arabia |
Wow. Good points.
Wagging the dog, like. This is very interesting to me. |
Ebola is bound to slip its leash here (has already done so) and turn up all over the continent in minor outbreaks. It's inevitable, given that there are really no constraints on travel. The more important issue is whether/when it will undergo an antigenic shift, as it passes through many more thousands of humans than it ever has before, and take on different characteristics.
It could become less virulent; it could become a nightmare, infecting millions via airborne transmission. It could fade away as SARS did. In the meantime, carry on. Has anyone noticed that Marburg virus has resurfaced in Uganda? |
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