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To: Qiviut
“Given international travel, we will certainly see cases diagnosed here, and perhaps even experience some isolated clusters of disease,” they write, though noting that a West Africa-style outbreak is highly unlikely in the industrialized world.

I think they somehow feel technology makes us immune to a serious problem.

Consider the points of failure in getting a can of beans to your table, and even isolated clusters can have much broader impacts.

We are as someone once said, only a few meals from barbarity.

Not only could the spin-off effects be worse than the disease, disruption of critical infrastructure and distribution systems might have repercussions beyond any outbreak by itself.

Aside form that, I think the capacity for infection is even greater in a technologically advanced culture, not less.

Whatever the case, with the current administration and their syncophantic media, it is a given that any crisis will be utilized to the utmost to usurp and concentrate more power.

59 posted on 09/02/2014 9:37:01 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Whatever the case, with the current administration and their syncophantic media, it is a given that any crisis will be utilized to the utmost to usurp and concentrate more power.

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Totally agree. It’s all “political” with them ... every decision based on politics/keeping & flexing power .... human lives are totally expendable.


61 posted on 09/02/2014 9:51:40 AM PDT by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~W.E. Johns)
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