Gary Farber

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• Heteromeles commented on Today is officially cancelled
  Um, Zika's not pandemic influenza, so no. I'd recommend reading David Quammen's Spillover if you want a more nuanced (if sadly Zika-free) take on the issues of pandemic diseases. I'd also recommend reading Hot Earth Dreams if you want my take on it. It's a bit too long to post here. One thing to note is that it's perfectly normal to worry about whether this year's new disease is The Big One. Wasn't it Ebola last year? In any case, they generally aren't, at least until they are. Regardless, I'm somewhat mildly more worried about MERS right now than Zika,...
• Greg. Tingey commented on Today is officially cancelled
  Yes / No / Maybe It was obvious, that horrible as Ebola is, it was never going to be a global pandemic. Something that an especially stupid & arrogant US congresscritter(?) should have realised when he demanded a returning nurse be quarantined ... Because Zika is spread easily by mosquitoes, like Yellow Jack & Malaria, it has a much greater potential for this. OTOH, it seems to "target" pregnant women, if you see what I mean. Um...
• Arnold commented on Today is officially cancelled
  Not something that I have been following closely across the Global 24 Hrs News Media, BUT, from the Experts thus far interviewed on the news media it does look as if the main FEAR could be if the disease gets spread by a sexual transmitted vector to Africa and a cross transmission to their 'local ' mosquitoes and such like bugs - LOCAL since Africa is a HELL of a BIG place - and from these very charming insects onward to, say, Italy and its mosquitoes which might spread via climate change to South of France and ..Eeeeq ! Say...
• Gerald Fnord commented on Today is officially cancelled
  A gentleman, in the positive sense of the word—for one thing, he never firgot tgat Adams and Eves were continually spinning and delving.... I must admit that Mmy most recent thoughts of him were in conteast to the perpetrators of the Late Hugo Unpleasantness, in that he was an object of their opprobrium both for his viewpoints and for putting the lue to the notion that those solely determined whom he would assist....
• Gerald Fnord commented on Today is officially cancelled
  Uggh: firget-->forget tgat-->that Mmy-->my conteast-->contrast lue-->lie Clumsiness and bad vision can imitate illiteracy....