There is the possibility of more wide spread anti-government riots.
Riots result as curfew and forced quarantine decreed.
Now, imagine Ferguson with Ebola.
Only make that say....Philadelphia.
75,000 people under quarantine with a DEADLY DISEASE is not good.
I think there may be a couple that won’t want to be there
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
The Ferguson residents threw urine at police. Imagine ebola tained urine. Much more clashes between residents and cops in Liberia and the cops might decide they don’t want to become infected. Morons there looted an ebola clinic and ran off with bloody bedsheets. Morons in Ferguson and morons in W Africa. They’re all the same.
Look and learn from this example, in that this is how governments typically behave with an epidemic. Usually late and ineffective, it is still enforced with arms. And while in the US it would be a tidier affair, it would have several of the same elements, that is, late and ineffective.
Bring Out Your Dead
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...