I think it is somewhat amusing (but not) when we think that mankind has everything under control and is at the height of their technological and scientific prowess.
9/11 was one of those slackjawed days, as we watched two of the tallest architectural achievements of mankind collapse to the ground under a pretty low-tech attack, with so many innocent people inside them. Another slackjaw day for me was watching on radar as Category Katrina took dead aim at New Orleans and realizing that we were looking at the real possibility of the destruction of an American metro area. Yep. More or less. And now, I'm slackjawed at the Ebola outbreak in Africa. The game is over, people. This is going to kill hundreds of thousands of people (at a minimum) before it is all said and done. And, if either of the two strains currently going at it in Africa, mutates to be air-transmissible we are looking at a world wide pandemic. Mankind has no central authority to manage resources to fight a disaster like this one. Ebola is currently killing at a rate of 80-85%. Male SURVIVORS of Ebola are spreading the contagion through their semen for AT LEAST 7 weeks after the date of their infection. It is hitting in the area of the world least able to deal with it. This guy is right on: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/opinion/what-were-afraid-to-say-about-ebola.html?_r=0 -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
