Ebola

Yeah, there are a bunch of tags on this one. I could toss in some more, but what they heck.

In case you haven’t seen it, mostly because the main stream media has got a case of the “silent” on the subject, Ebola is a thing in Africa, again. It started in the former Belgian Congo and has spread, by way of a family who knew they were infected and ran anyway, to Uganda. It is about *this far* from spreading off that continent, with this far being defined as *How close is the closest international airport?”

While we’re a long way from it at the moment, so far as we know we’re a 14 hour international flight away from our first case in North America. Of course, the bearer of that glad news could be deplaning in NYC right now. Or they could be wading the Rio Grande. Or coming overland from Canada. Or Joey Jihadi who has deliberately been infected and sent to America to cough on as many people as he can.

I’m not going to do the daily duty of trying to keep you posted on this. However, I’ve finally read enough that I’m Officially Concerned (pity the WHO and CDC aren’t), and I’m going to point you to Aesop, of the Raconteur Report, who is doing the thankless task with more knowledge and flair that I ever could. Save that link, since it searches by tag and will always have the newest stuff at the top.