|
Post by cabintom on Feb 10, 2016 7:20:29 GMT -8
While the American media machine would likely be found guilty of over hyping many issues, this isn't its only issue. I would point out that it's quite amazingly self-centered. It's true, you all help a whole lot (more charitable donations per capita than anywhere else), but you aren't the only ones helping (far from it) and you're definitely not always the first on the scene (for example see: www.bbc.com/news/health-29680393 & www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola-vaccine-from-canada-seems-to-work-in-trial-in-guinea-who-1.3175101), and, in some cases, it can be argued that American intervention has actually led to an increase in problems and suffering in certain nations. I say this while not wishing to minimize what Americans have done and are doing globally (a lot). Heck, I work for a mission organization alongside several non-governmental organizations, so I've got first hand knowledge on the subject... but I have worked alongside far far more Germans here in NE D.R. Congo than I have any other ex-pat nationality, so there is that.
|
|
leptraps
Banned
Enter your message here...
Posts: 2,397
|
Post by leptraps on Feb 10, 2016 9:43:50 GMT -8
Hello Adam:
Does that look better. My big fingers and those little itty bitty keys on the key board can cause the use of an excessive amount of Preparation H.
|
|
|
Post by nomad on Feb 10, 2016 11:02:12 GMT -8
I wonder if there are any entomologists in North Korea. If there is, I expect they are made to have that silly haircut.
|
|
ckswank
Full Member
Posts: 239
Country: USA
|
Post by ckswank on Feb 10, 2016 23:43:40 GMT -8
|
|
|
Post by beetlehorn on Feb 11, 2016 5:24:09 GMT -8
That is a new twist on the whole subject, but I wouldn't doubt it for a minute. Many of mankind's problems are self inflicted.
|
|
|
Post by nomad on Feb 11, 2016 10:21:54 GMT -8
In the Brit Sun Newpaper today, 3 UK people, 2 returning from Brazil and 1 from Colombia have returned with the Zika Virus, so it is not that hard to get infected.
|
|
|
Post by Adam Cotton on Feb 13, 2016 11:42:04 GMT -8
Indeed, because at this time of year a high percentage of Brazilian Aedes mosquitos are carrying the virus, and if you get bitten there is a consequential risk of being infected, it's the peak season right now and of course as people get infected and more mosquitos bite them they exponentially spread the virus. I was really amused by the well known BBC Panorama reporter (sorry I forget his name, he's not a Papilio ) visiting Zika patients in a Colombian hospital shown on the news yesterday wearing a face mask to protect him. Zika is not transmitted by aerosol droplets like influenza so the face mask doesn't actually help. Mind you I guess that he just didn't want to take a risk. Adam.
|
|
|
Post by jhyatt on Feb 15, 2016 13:42:23 GMT -8
Kinda off the subject as it has developed in this thread, but: Speaking of diseases, has anyone ever heard of, or does anyone ever worry about, catching a bacterial or fungal disease from handling butterflies or moths?
I recall once finding a really gorgeous Prepona sitting on very human-looking feces beside a dirt path in Peru. I really wanted the bug and was able to grab it with forceps, but I gotta tell you, I thought about it long and hard before I could make myself pinch the thing! (And no, I couldn't pinch with the forceps - I had it by the FW costa, and would probably have lost the bug fiddling with if I tried to pinch with forceps.) And I'm sure that many of the old papered things we handle are loaded with various fungal species spores. Anybody ever worry about this besides me?
|
|