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The Economics of Ebola
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Reports on some websites are that Sawyer denied having been in contact with ebola when he arrived in Lagos, despite having been with his sister when she died of it weeks earlier, and that he was obstructive with the quarantine procedures that the hospital put in place for him. I don't know if that's accurate.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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///the hand washing so little of an inconvenience, that I might as well, don't you think?
I'd suggest to the school now that they get those hand sanitisers you get as you enter each hospital ward.... and everybody has to line up outside the room and squirt their hands before every lesson.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I'd suggest to the school now that they get those hand sanitisers you get as you enter each hospital ward.... and everybody has to line up outside the room and squirt their hands before every lesson.
They already have those all over the place - not every classroom but lots of other places. We've had them since swine flu.
If ebola takes hold in Nigeria, I doubt they'll be letting Nigerian students back to school without spending 21 days in a non-infected country first. They did something like that with swine flu - I can't remember if it was students from the far east, or students with siblings at another school that had got it, or what category of students exactly, but I know we had to provide work remotely for them to do online until they were allowed to come back for the new term.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Reports on some websites are that Sawyer denied having been in contact with ebola when he arrived in Lagos, despite having been with his sister when she died of it weeks earlier, and that he was obstructive with the quarantine procedures that the hospital put in place for him. I don't know if that's accurate.
But that is exactly the problem with quarantine solutions, someone is always important enough / can pay a bribe to get round it - even before you get into a panic situation where law and order has broken down.I think....0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »To be fair, if half the population is wiped out I don't think anyone will care....
Half the current population might do. :beer:30 Year Challenge : To be 30 years older. Equity : Don't know, don't care much. Savings : That's asking for ridicule.0 -
Something I heard today that once again confirms how awful Ebola is. People going into hospital in Africa with a fever being delighted that they 'only' have Malaria.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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Possible case at Gatwick tonight.
72 year old female on a flight from Sierra Leone, fever and vomiting, then death in hospital.
Could be a million other things as well of course.....“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
Gatwick case has fortunately proved negative, though the poor person died (according to Sky News).Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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vivatifosi wrote: »Gatwick case has fortunately proved negative,
Well that's good news. Although a shame someone died of course.
I do rather suspect the current outbreak will spread to developed nations though.
Although I also think it'll be more easily contained in a developed country, I hope it at least serves as a wake up call.
One day there will be a pandemic with high mortality rates that isn't as hard to catch as ebola....“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »If it even got close to being here, I'd expect to see far more hand washing, plus people walking around London wearing masks Japanese style, and possibly disposable gloves on the tube.
I'm not saying you've done this too, but I do want to point out a misconception about the face-masks in Asia. People in the UK and Australia I speak with tend to think that they're worn to keep the person safe from others. Actually, they're generally worn because the person wearing it is sick (e.g. they have a cough or a cold) and they don't want to transmit their germs. It's an excellent practice, IMO.
I think it's quite telling that the assumption is that the person is being selfish rather than selfless - what does that say about us?
(Then again, given my anecdotal evidence of "what people think", maybe I'm the one making assumptions.
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