I can't think of any way that this question is on topic. It's a list-type question that is too broad and possibly primarily opinion based. I can't help but think he's trolling, after all the fuss in meta. If someone can help me to be a better person, I'd really welcome it.
I really think Ebola will be a bad thing for Africa (already is) but that we will be spared the brunt of it, if one doesn't speak from a global community POV.
> The monthly cost of running the unit comes out at around $1m, which is about $15,000 a bed. The WHO puts the costs of a 50-bed facility at about $900,000 a month. These figures suggest that a 100,000-bed operation would cost in the region of $1 billion-$2 billion a month.
Yes, but you are a trained physician. This is asking lay people.
@tchrist Yep. And is a nursing student can keep 3 out of 4 ebola patients in a small house alive with plastic bags and bleach and soap for protection, that says a lot.
@tchrist Not that I know of.
But the antibodies don't persist for very long, and even with antibodies, one might not survive a large innoculum.
> For a sense of the resources required to raise the tempo, consider that the 70-bed facility in Bong cost $170,000 to build. It needs a staff of 165 to treat patients and handle tasks like waste management and body disposal.
It's staggering to think of all these numbers. But I really think there's a lot that's still to be learned, and one of them is the actual rate of infectivity.
> ON MARCH 25th the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported a rash of cases of Ebola in Guinea, the first such ever seen in west Africa. As of then there had been 86 suspected cases, and there were reports of suspected cases in the neighbouring countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia as well. The death toll was 60.
> On October 15th the WHO released its latest update. The outbreak has now seen 8,997 confirmed, probable and suspected cases of Ebola. All but 24 of those have been in Guinea (16% of the total), Sierra Leone (36%) and Liberia (47%). The current death toll is 4,493. These numbers are underestimates; many cases, in some places probably most, go unreported.
> This all pales, though, compared with what is to come. The WHO fears it could see between 5,000 and 10,000 new cases reported a week by the beginning of December; that is, as many cases each week as have been seen in the entire outbreak up to this point.
> This is the terrifying thing about exponential growth as applied to disease: what is happening now, and what happens next, is always as bad as the sum of everything that has happened to date.
@Mahnax Well, I'm very happy for you. Enjoy these four years; take some fun courses, too. Like photography, or sculpture, or something that you've never thought of doing. It's really fun.
"Not knowing any of the pleasant facts about something." Any word for that?
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I can't find it on google.
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Keeps looking
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Anyone who has an answer they can 'Ping me' anytime :)
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I want to use a word in a sense that...Suppose we have never met any great friend/girlfriend etc. but when we meet them we think 'Wow! I was missing this all along etc'.
@tchrist ha ha ha.... shit. I should stop unknowningly taunting him then.
@Arrowfar "too much information" like when your parents tell you about something they did ... in their youth (I can't say because it would be too much information!).
@medica Wow. I feel almost responsible. Go to sleep thinking the world is in order. Wake up to a melee, blood in the streets, cats and dogs living together.
@matt Boo! Today I went out with a friend again and asked him his advice again on that matter. I have not come to a decision yet. Maybe I will ask some more friends. Anyway, we went Dutch, he did not treat me today, lol. Tmr is a public holiday.
Ah, less vs. fewer. Another arrow in the prescriptivist’s quiver of pointless pedantry.
There's even a Wikipedia article about the dispute. There is also a Language Log entry about the matter too.
According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage, a usage guide that looks carefully at ...
I knew a guy who never had kids, was in his 40s, got divorced, then married a divorcee with a 7yo daughter. He told me that all his life, he hadn't had to grow up, until suddenly he was a father.
@MattЭллен well, dunno if "sucked" is the right word. But it changed his perspective a lot, and quickly. I lost track of him shortly after that happened so I dunno how he turned out in the end.
@MattЭллен so that book propagates the myth that language is not an instinct? Luckily I already read the book that was titled the language instinct, so I seem up to date.
@IceBoy Pretty sure his story is true. It's similar to my story... I didn't feel like a grown-up until I was responsible for a baby. It's one thing to have a job and own a house and stuff. It's a whole nother thing when there is a person whose life literally depends on you.
@MattЭллен Anyway. Just for the record. This book's title "The Language Myth: Why Language Is Not an Instinct" can be taken to mean "Language Is an Instinct", so either she's basically selling Pinker's book all over again, or she is not very good at not expressing the opposite of what she means. In either case, I suppose I'm better off not reading it, right?
According to my doctor friend, my hair loss is not male pattern baldness but due to severe stress. However, even though my stress has reduced, my hair is not growing back.