Your top (U.S.) news story of the day? http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20140929-dallas-county-health-officials-cdc-team-headed-to-dallas.ece?hootPostID=b260717dd73ff15c9eaa34b0cb970876
and here's a live traffic shot of roads leading out of Dallas: http://goo.gl/hb3ffA (Not really. That last part is my dark humor showing.) On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, here is your top news story of the day which probably won't be > mentioned on any news program. > http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/09/commentary-health-workers-need-optimal-respiratory-protection-ebola > > This story pretty much commits the journalistic sin of "burying the > lead" which in my opinion is THIS: > CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Disease Treatment and Policy) declares > that "Being at first skeptical that Ebola virus could be an > aerosol-transmissible disease, we are now persuaded by a review of > experimental and epidemiologic data that this might be an important > feature of disease transmission, particularly in healthcare settings." > Earlier in the article they said, 'We recommend using "aerosol > transmissible" rather than the outmoded terms "droplet" or "airborne" > to describe pathogens that can transmit disease via infectious > particles suspended in air.' > > Holy crap. > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 > > > > -- > Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs > look like photographs. > ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
