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2014-10-19 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-10-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Affirmative action kills?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-10-19 04:01|| 2014-10-19 04:01|| Front Page Top

#2 What's with that yellow (non-infected) chunk (province?) in the middle of Liberia? They just lucky or is that a reporting black hole?

Posted by AlanC 2014-10-19 08:17|| 2014-10-19 08:17|| Front Page Top

#3 The greatest threat to the U.S. seems to be the bumbling/incompetence of the current administration. They don't seem to be able successfully organize a one person parade. On the other hand, it might be a scarier thought if they were competent.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-10-19 08:28|| 2014-10-19 08:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Transnational politics breeds transnational plagues?

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-10-19 08:56|| 2014-10-19 08:56|| Front Page Top

#5 At what point do they hammer in to every african that they should immediately report any animal bite from one of the potential EBOLA species?

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-10-19 16:06|| 2014-10-19 16:06|| Front Page Top

#6 People, become calm. Panic will not suffice.

Liberia as it was is no more. Liberia will be reborn through the grace of God and ebola survivors who have become immune. This will take six months to a year. During this time, occasional patients will end up in other countries. They will have to be managed well to minimize further infection.

Unlike the Fukishimia exponential disaster, in this disaster the dangerous particles cannot be callously dumped into the sea. These dangerous particles will be neighbors and relatives; sick and miserable and loved.

If right now, you do not have hand sanitizer, bleach, gloves, and a months supply of medicine, food, and water, then get them not just for yourself, but also to enable you to comfort the ill.

Posted by rammer 2014-10-19 20:35|| 2014-10-19 20:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Well said, rammer. Here's a first person account from an American doctor now in Monrovia, about the situation there. It's actually quite heartening, it seems to me:

Doctor details life in Ebola-torn Liberia

Posted by trailing wife 2014-10-19 21:56|| 2014-10-19 21:56|| Front Page Top

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