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Previously on "First US Ebola case diagnosed in Dallas, TX"
If the UK stops flights from infected areas all that will happen is that many fewer people will get connecting flights.
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its the volume of infected that will decide our fate. 0.001% of population infected its under control.
2 % and we are screwed there won't be a hospital bed left.
The magazine Dallas Weekly had a real gaffe last week with one of the most poorly timed covers in memory. Just as the city is cleaning up and sterilizing the places where Ebola victim Thomas Duncan visited after returning from Liberia, the magazine published online their latest issue, featuring the sure to be infamous cover and headline " 'Taste of Africa' Comes To Dallas."
The issue was not only published online, but an email blast was sent out announcing it. That email went out on September 25, and was also tweeted from the Magazine's account.
Obviously the issue was designed and scheduled before news broke of the Dallas Ebola victim. Duncan arrived in Dallas on the Sept. 20 and went to the hospital on the same day the issue went out. He was not diagnosed until five days later. Even so, the timing is amazingly unfortunate and darkly hilarious.
In other news a flight to Newark was greeted by men in Hazmat suits as a passenger took ill with flu like symptoms.
Really good to see such diligence but I fail to see how practical this will be as we head into flu season.
They could just ban normal passenger flights out of the affected regions. Then it would give those travelling by road time to get ill before they get to the airport.
If this was a game of plague then about now you would be losing. Obviously starting it in Africa was good. The next step is to get it airborne and surviving extreme cold. Then mutate it. The get it Cross border.
It crossed border way too soon and now the yanks will take it seriously and get a vaccine sorted out. Probably only a few thousand deaths.
Its interesting to read about how the Black Death made it to Europe from east asia via trading routes such as the silk road. That was in the 14th century, now we have container ships the size of skyscrapers and thousands of aeroplanes buzzing around the earth each day.
If this was a game of plague then about now you would be losing. Obviously starting it in Africa was good. The next step is to get it airborne and surviving extreme cold. Then mutate it. The get it Cross border.
It crossed border way too soon and now the yanks will take it seriously and get a vaccine sorted out. Probably only a few thousand deaths.
Pandemics, nuclear wars and the death of the internet.
If this was a game of plague then about now you would be losing. Obviously starting it in Africa was good. The next step is to get it airborne and surviving extreme cold. Then mutate it. The get it Cross border.
It crossed border way too soon and now the yanks will take it seriously and get a vaccine sorted out. Probably only a few thousand deaths.
Same works for AIDS. It sounds like a helpful thing to have. Maybe all those marketing types busy rebranding air miles to avios and such tulipe could be put to some use after all?
I hear only good things about Saatchi Masius, but my sources may be a tad biased.
Maybe Africans there would take Ebola more seriously if it did not sound so nice. Ebola, ebullient, Eeee! Bolare!! Oh! oh! If they renamed it Grimdich it would be better.
Same works for AIDS. It sounds like a helpful thing to have. Maybe all those marketing types busy rebranding air miles to avios and such tulipe could be put to some use after all?
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