Good for her.
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...
I’m hearing nothing at all about Ebola from China or Russia. As huge as these counties are, both the size of continents, I would presume the ‘big E’ virus is popping up there too.
The number of people killed by this may not be that great outside Africa, but the economic damage mught become considerable as people quarantine themselves, and reduce economic activity.
I have just written to one of our Senators (here in Australia) who I have met a few times to see if there is any discussion or planning about closing our borders to these countries or quarantine measures for anyone who does come here (this would include 28 days isolation). I will be interested to see if I get an answer or what it may be. People are so wrapped up in the ISIS war that I think they are letting this slide and hope it goes away on it’s own. Any country which is not considering stopping travel from these infected countries is not taking care of it’s own people.
Thankfully she was smart enough to self quarantine and monitor her temp unlike so many others.