Per the resident Ebola expert you have more to fear from a hangnail than Ebola.
We have more to fear from experts in this corrupt administration who have the common sense and intellectual abilities of a hang nail.
Yesterday a knowledgeable person from a relief agency told me of a well educated and highly regarded Liberian doctor who, along with a Liberian-American, visited one of the Ebola treatment centers.
This doctor wanted to enter the ward and refused to put on gloves or a mask, saying, "Oh, there is no danger!" The staff refused to let him in. The two men left that treatment center and went to visit one run by another agency, where they were allowed into the wards.
One of these men then went to Nigeria where he died five days later. The other man returned to Monrovia and died after four days.
"Them hangnails can be killers!"
It is a beneficial thing to acquire.
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Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!
Bring Out Your Dead
Were gonna need
a bigger cart!
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...