If you were around FR back before 2007 you might remember “Mother Abigail”, the retired CDC scientist who was tracking flu, Ebola, and the original SARS virus.
If her name doesn’t ring a bell I know that you will find this thread about her interesting.
It’s definitely one of the most unique episodes at FR
THE COMING WAVE (An Interview With Mother Abigail)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2820204/posts
“It was the Ides of March, late in the night - on the hottest conservative forum on the Internet - that she appeared.
In an obscure section of that web site she posted a cryptically titled thread, made a comment about Ebola, a comment about God and then posted an advisory about a “worldwide health threat.”
In a section that had seen only seven threads in the past seven days, she wove a strange, exotic and haunting thread for two days.
Then on the 17th of March she posted the first of 20 highly technical medical threads about the SARS outbreak - and over the next eleven days guided both lay and professionals, transformed the web site, crushed the paradigm and changed the way we interface with breaking news forever.
Oh, and there is that strange aspect of her name.
Every literate person on the Web knew and understood, not only what it meant, but the endless nuances that lay associated with that name, in this context.
She signed on as Mother Abigail...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2820204/posts
I remember that. Good Lord I’m old....