"Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......"
Posted on 11/03/2014 7:16:23 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
Real science acknowledges that people can make mistakes, making such a dangerous virus a zero-risk to a nation or a state means taking precautions that absolutely prevent human error
In 1968 Joan Didion published a collection of non-fiction essays titled Slouching Towards Bethlehem in which she took a look at the chaos of the counterculture in the mid-1960s. The title of the book comes from a line in a poem by William Butler Yeats titled The Second Coming:
“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
In the preface to her book, Didion explained: “...the world as I had understood it no longer existed. If I was to work again at all, it would be necessary for me to come to terms with disorder.”
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“Wash your hands!” And, if you catch Ebola, “You violated those protocols!” Which ones? Didn’t you get the fax from the CDC?
I know a liberal in the medical community and she says that she understands this stuff and there is no way to catch ebola casully. 0% chance.
Well, I remind her that as an engineer, it is my opinion that airplanes are designed to fly and there are no theoretical reasons for them to crash. Therefore there is 0% chance of a crash. She didn’t like that very much.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......
(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Thanks for the ping!
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
And when the plane does not fly as expected, it is *always* due to some mechanical or human error, is it not?
We know how Ebola is spread, and we know how to prevent its spread. Lapses in proper protocol cause healthcare workers to get it. Prolonged direct contact without PPE causes people to get it.
Ebola is not spread by casual contact; to equate that to an airplane failure is like saying that it's completely possible for the elevator assembly to spontaneously fall off a fully maintained and inspected airplane that is sitting in a hangar. The physical characteristics of Ebola do not support the mechanisms of casual spread.
The Ebola virus, of course, is just as physical and subject to the laws of physics as an airplane.
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