Lol OK “scientists”

I’m sure the continent that has gone toe-to-toe with horrifying hemorrhagic fevers for half a century has no notes for the rest of us https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1302099410084560897

I’m reading Laurie Garrett’s book “The Emerging Plague” and in it, CDC officials landing in South Sudan at the beginning of the first Ebola outbreak openly marveled about the local response.

“These people really have it together.”

Before the CDC’s best showed up, villages were under quarantine, local markets were shut down, families of victims were isolated and had people delivering food and water to them.

When you don’t have great access to medicine, you die if you fuck up.

By contrast, when you are surrounded by medical miracles and have pretty good access to them by comparison, you don’t take them seriously and question their value.

Because you don’t get sick. Or if you do, mostly you live.

Hi America. South Sudan has notes for you.

“Scientists baffled” almost never means “scientists baffled.”

Usually it means “I talked to a crank who slings brain pills and acupuncture, and HE said that he was fine with his wife sleeping around, really, and ALSO that he couldn’t explain this thing.”

“Some adjunct from South Assholia State University was the only Doctor available for content, and could not explain the epidemiological aspect. Dr. Whittingham has a PhD in Forensic Poetry from South Assholia State University.”

(Of course by South Assholia I mean Champaign Urbana)