dagblog - Comments for "Thinking Like the Plague"

I still blame them for the

Verified Atheist — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 01:06:43 +0000

I still blame them for the tulip bubble. You have no idea how much I lost…

I flew into Tokyo yesterday,

Verified Atheist — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 01:02:11 +0000

In reply to I've got to disagree. This is

I flew into Tokyo yesterday, and I noticed that while they didn't have quarantines, they did have special procedures for people traveling from certain African countries.

Letting the disease flourish

Verified Atheist — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:58:18 +0000

In reply to Thinking Like the Plague

Letting the disease flourish but hoping it stays away from you will NOT work over time.

Reading this put in mind how mass immunizations work even more effectively than individual immunizations through the process of herd immunity.

I've got to disagree. This is

artappraiser — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 07:07:36 +0000

In reply to "Plague think" is another

I've got to disagree. This is not an exclusively American thing. Here's supposedly laid back Canada for one example:

...Sierra Leone has accused Canada of discrimination over its decision to suspend visa applications for residents of Ebola-hit nations.

Immigration Canada announced on Friday it would not process applications from individuals who had been in an Ebola affected nation within the previous three months.

"The government views the decision as discriminatory, coming at a time when we are trying to ease the isolation, and not re enforce it," said Theo Nicol, Sierra Leone's deputy information minister on Saturday.

Canada's immigration minister Chris Alexander had described the move as a precautionary measure building on actions "taken to protect the health and safety of Canadians here at home"....

Con respetto, (and pulling

jollyroger — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 05:33:03 +0000

In reply to I don't think I can do the

Con respetto, (and pulling

jollyroger — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 05:30:49 +0000

In reply to I don't think I can do the

Con respetto, (and pulling the rank due me as a retired stripper), you'll need a few more months on that bike before anyone wants to take a sneak peak up your bathrobe, (as you have been known to favor for public appearances...).

But a few hundred thousand miles on the bike, and I see you with your own morning show on the new, 2017 spin off channel, "Fox Morning Beef"

Hold onto the boa!

It has to crack one up that

jollyroger — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 05:25:37 +0000

In reply to I've wondered what percent of

It has to crack one up that the evidence from Dallas, viz, you can run around shooting out projectile innoculants from both ends, pace, Rand Paul... and still infect no one, is met with utter incomprehension.

At some point, it is clear that the only potential harm avoided by quarantine is that person innoculated in the narrow window of the first onset of symptoms (fever) (following a night of quarantine called "sleep") and the consciousness of those symptoms in the newly afflicted heath care personnel.

In Yonder Peasant who is he

Flavius — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 12:40:59 +0000

In reply to Thinking Like the Plague

In Yonder Peasant who is he?Mary McCarthy brilliantly described being orphaned by her parents' death from the 1919 flu.

As for the Dutch, it used to be said (probably by the English)

In matters of commerce,

the fault of the Dutch,

is giving too little

and asking too much

It used to be called

Austin Train — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 21:56:25 +0000

In reply to Thinking Like the Plague

It used to be called "lifeboat ethics" some years ago.

Which relates to ethics in the same way a Dutch treat relates to a treat.

(Why does everyone slag the Dutch? Yes, they're taller than most, but they're generally decent folk and most of them even speak English - though not necessarily American English.)

I've wondered what percent of

NCD — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 20:45:51 +0000

In reply to Yes. The same irrational mind

I've wondered what percent of confirmed ideologues ever change their thinking, when 'objective reality' clearly contradicts their fantasy based/biased convictions.

I also wonder why, with Ebola, Europeans are far less worried about returning health care workers than Americans. MSF said some of its American workers are planning on spending 3 weeks in Europe rather than be quarantined and treated like Typhoid Marys in the US.