Friday, October 3, 2014

When a Government Constantly Lies When It Fails...

...it will not be trusted to tell the truth in an actual crisis. In a clinch the officials will clam up and admit to nothing. It's the Obama Era; nothing different could come of it. And when politics get involved, the result will likely be disaster.

There's little margin for error in such a situation, because if infected person A contacts 15 persons B, and the persons B each contact 15 persons C, this third level amounts to 15^3, or 3,375 people, in just the third ring of exposure. This could happen in less than a day. The exponential exposure level would get to be too much to track, especially when it is several days late in starting - which is likely to be what has happened.

As Glen Reynolds said,
"Obama was quick to shut down travel to Israel, but still has not shut down travel from Liberia."
Politics trumps competence each and every day; either that, or maybe this is the crisis he has been hoping for.

4 comments:

Robert Coble said...

Ebola, Enterovirus infections from illegal immigrants, and beheadings within the borders of the Homeland: sounds like we are rapidly approaching that "crisis" that will require The One to declare martial law and remain in control for the duration of the "crisis." The Executive Orders are already in place; all that is needed is a "crisis" that will scare enough of the "low information" crowd into a stampede for dictatorship.

Black helicopters may be needed. . .

Anonymous said...

Interesting article about climate change:

Climate Change is not Settled

Steven Satak said...

@Robert: I am beginning to think you are right.

Rikalonius said...

“In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Grand Inquisitor