Thoughts Out Of Season

This is a post I had written several weeks ago. Well Breaking News: CNN reporting that a child has been found after being lost in the woods for 3 days. Incredibly the child told authorities A BEAR! kept him company the entire time! Since the inception of the National Park System was established more than 140 years ago our parks have grown from 1 to 450. They represent millions of square mile of scenic beauty, quiet, and escape into solitude. You can also swim, hike and disappear. Disappear? That's right, disappear into thin air. Not only adults but especially little children many of whom all it takes is a parent to bend and tie their shoe, look up and the child is gone. Not just gone but disappeared. Calling the child's name frantically, running in circles, screaming, nothing works. I means how far can a 3 year old child go so quickly? How about if I were to tell you 5 miles away, up a shear cliff, dead and stuffed in a tree? Or there you are walking down a clear path on...

There are a few frightening facts about this epidemic of Ebola virus:  It can stay alive and infectious out side of the body. Why is this frightening? A patient with Ebola vomits, urinates, coughs into his hands and touches an object like a doorknob, that object is now infectious and can cause illness in the next person to touch it The virus is contained in all body fluids including saliva. Does that mean a sneeze, a cough, kiss can transmit the virus? It has a mortality rate anywhere from 50-90% It is incubating and replicating in one of the poorest regions on earth where the most rudimently medical supplies, including doctors and nurses are in such short supply as to be almost non-existant leading to unchecked spread of the disease. The incubation period is anywhere from 2-22 days meaning that someone already infected can show up at an airport looking healthy. He's allowed to fly Beijing. 5 days later the guy  starts to feel sick and makes his way to the hospital c...