The breezy confidence of the White House and CDC is the kind of happy talk that relies on all the links in the chain having the same strength.
—Rick Wilson, “The Uninvited Guest“
The breezy confidence of the White House and CDC is the kind of happy talk that relies on all the links in the chain having the same strength.
—Rick Wilson, “The Uninvited Guest“
Right on cue. Looks like we might have an R > 1.0 in the US; one of Eric Duncan’s nurses contracted it. At least you have a .5 chance of surviving if you contract it.
I worked for the government briefly. The government is wholly incompetent to deal with this problem. We’ve already seen their cleanup efforts which involved 2 guys in plainclothes aerosolizing the Tx Liberian’s vomit outside his apartment complex. Of course, we can’t restrict travel to/from West Africa because that would be racist. And
Restricting travel from outbreak countries is not a logical step in this bureaucrat’s mind, though every civilization for eons has seen the wisdom in what’s called “A Quarantine.”