Sipsey Street Irregulars: "Their imaginations were unequal to the virulence of the pathogen." Maybe Dannel Malloy and Mike Lawlor should pay attention to the concept that things can rapidly get out of their control.

Monday, October 6, 2014

"Their imaginations were unequal to the virulence of the pathogen." Maybe Dannel Malloy and Mike Lawlor should pay attention to the concept that things can rapidly get out of their control.

How the world’s health organizations failed to stop the Ebola disaster.

Long article but some may find it worth the read. The key sentence: "Their imaginations were unequal to the virulence of the pathogen." There's a lot of that going around, particularly in the Governor's office in Hartford, Connecticut these days. I'm reminded of the "Tenth Man Theory" scene in World War Z.

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Anonymous said...: I highly recommend everyone read "The Hot Zone" written in the 1990's by Richard Preston. There is a free PDF online. Ebola is the real deal. Don't let the CDC sugar coating fool you. Horrible death with a 70% kill rate.; October 6, 2014 at 7:31 AM
Sean said...: All weekend, one moron after another got on the tube and pleaded not to stop the traffic between Africa and the US. We'll probably die of stupidity in this case, because the obvious answer to stopping the spread of Ebola is dismissed as "racist". It has already shown up here in Dallas because of this, and 50-100 are suspected of infection also. Jackass the Movie is now Jackass the Nation.; October 6, 2014 at 10:13 AM
Anonymous said...: Look If Ebola were airborne and HALF as deadly as the "great prepper & patriot panic of 2014" made it out to be there would be about ONE BILLION infected and millions upon MILLIONS of dead by this time. No matter how much the doom porn addicts want it to be, Ebola just IS NOT the start of the Zombie A-pock-E- Lips. A lot of bloggers need to grow up, change their undies and start acting like they are at least smarter than your average chimp. Come out of the doom bunkers. Stop pointing that AR-15 at the children playing outside, AND GET A GRIP. Sooner than later some dumb ass with a carbine is gonna start popping the kids next door "'cause dey's zombies wit da E-bola" and that's all Obama will need to start a major "crackdown" , and the fear mongering bullshit and doom porn being spread far and wide by some bloggers (you dipshits know who you are) will have started it.; October 6, 2014 at 12:02 PM
Anonymous said...: I read today on a usually reliable news site that the White House is not even planning additional questioning of travelers arriving from the "hot zone". That is an extreme disservice to the American population. Apparently, the chance has been missed to keep this vicious disease out of our country.

Not too long ago, European immigrants were quarantined or sent back if certain infectious diseases were suspected.

Protection of our populace and legitimate visitors appears to have been left by the wayside. It is not a racial issue. It is a major health issue.

In addition, help should be given to the health services in the affected nations. Health workers there should have access to proper protection. Spread of infectious disease is best addressed at its source, where there is a possibility of containment.

Sean is right. Why should we die because of others' stupidity?; October 6, 2014 at 3:32 PM
Anonymous said...: I disbelieve that they "failed" to stop it, I believe they Succeeded in spreading it on purpose.; October 6, 2014 at 6:36 PM
Anonymous said...: To the poster who dismissed Ebola warnings as "doom porn" , I would suggest he look into exponential mathematics and how pandemics progress. The current Ebola outbreak has already broken out of any sort of containment zone, now it is just a matter of time. Look for India to be the next "hot zone" based on the observations of the doctor who "discovered" and named Ebola.; October 7, 2014 at 8:19 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Monday, October 6, 2014

"Their imaginations were unequal to the virulence of the pathogen." Maybe Dannel Malloy and Mike Lawlor should pay attention to the concept that things can rapidly get out of their control.

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