Ebola and Wolves

What bothers me about the current flap over Ebola quarantines is the "boy who cried wolf" effect. Basically, imposing clearly unnecessary quarantines risks setting a trend where people ignore all quarantines, needed or not.

Rockets

This article appeared the day before SpaceShip Two blew up. It's very prescient writing. Apollo ( Read more... )

A late post today, because this morning I was conducting disaster recovery testing for my bank. I find that very ironic, considering the current flap over Ebola. I also find myself in deep agreement with the comment that resiliency and the ability to handle outlier events is not efficient from a bottom line perspective of a single entity with ( Read more... )

Thought #1 - Ebola

The writer Elizabeth Moon is dead-on (pardon the pun) about Ebola and the US response thereto. Her six lessons are:

1) A stitch in time saves nine. the time to prepare is before the excrement hits the air-moving unit.
2) Hubris kills. Incorrectly thinking you're ready can be worse then not being ready.
3) Privatisation is no ( Read more... )