Ebola and other Epidemics, Inadequate Healthcare Threatens Millions

[Ed Anger]

We got a company memo this morning confirming that if we get quarantined for Ebola we will be paid for the duration.  LIBERIA HERE I COME

A bunch of useless middle management types at my company keep scheduling 'Pandemic Response' meetings.  Ridiculous.

When I worked for <Redacted> Inc., when the swine flu thing hit, we got a truck of supplies to keep the building up and operating in case of a pandemic.

A truck full of gloves, hand sanitizer and some food and water in case employees were stuck in the building. Like we would be able to keep them in there if the shit hit the fan. 

I WOULDN'T STAY EITHER

[Caliga]

I miss those meetings, a chance to watch management panic and come up with harebrained ideas for what Security should do, nod in agreement and then go do what we were going to do anyway.

It's like you work at my company or something!

[Caliga]

Don't you actually work in Health Care?

Sort of, but not really.  A more accurate description of my company's sector would be real estate.

[Caliga]

When I worked for <Redacted> Inc., when the swine flu thing hit, we got a truck of supplies to keep the building up and operating in case of a pandemic.

A truck full of gloves, hand sanitizer and some food and water in case employees were stuck in the building. Like we would be able to keep them in there if the shit hit the fan. 

I WOULDN'T STAY EITHER

Swine flu 

My fondest memory of the swine flu 'epidemic' was a swine-flu themed porno I was with a hot redhead.

[jimmy olsen]

When I worked for <Redacted> Inc., when the swine flu thing hit, we got a truck of supplies to keep the building up and operating in case of a pandemic.

A truck full of gloves, hand sanitizer and some food and water in case employees were stuck in the building. Like we would be able to keep them in there if the shit hit the fan. 

I WOULDN'T STAY EITHER

Swine flu 

My fondest memory of the swine flu 'epidemic' was a swine-flu themed porno I was with a hot redhead.

On topic, a Grand Imam died of Ebola in Mali and received a traditional burial before it was realized what he died of. This could be the start of a major outbreak there.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/11/12/363515587/mali-quarantines-nearly-100-to-try-to-stop-ebola

[Eddie Teach]

Maybe it's time for humanity to switch to cremation as the default. 

[CountDeMoney]

On topic, a Grand Imam died of Ebola in Mali and received a traditional burial before it was realized what he died of. This could be the start of a major outbreak there.

It is the will of Allah.

[Monoriu]

Maybe it's time for humanity to switch to cremation as the default. 

Cremation is the default option in HK. 

[Grey Fox]

Cremation has become the default around here. Caskets are too expensive.

[Martim Silva]

Maybe it's time for humanity to switch to cremation as the default. 

Over my dead body.

Burials are vital to reasonably preserve remains, especially bones, and those actually give tons of useful info about people of a certain time period - diets, bodyweight, average age at time of death, tooth problems, common diseases... the works.

Losing the ability to study past skeletons would be a major loss for future achaeologists. And even if we now have records of what we do, there is a good chance most will be lost sometime in the future (some millennia from now or so) and also that future researchers could be looking for something in our bones that we now don't even know of its existance.

So I am totally opposed to cremation, on scientific grounds.

[Syt]

Maybe it's time for humanity to switch to cremation as the default. 

Over my dead body.

That's the general idea, yes.

[Tonitrus]

Maybe it's time for humanity to switch to cremation as the default. 

Only if it involves a viking ship floating out to sea.

Or like King Arthur...floating out to sea with three hotties.

[Ed Anger]

I will be buried with my coffee cans full of silver coins.

[Jacob]

I will be buried with my coffee cans full of silver coins.

Quarters are not actually silver, you know.

[grumbler]

I will be buried with my coffee cans full of silver coins.

Quarters are not actually silver, you know.

Then they won't kill him when melted down into bullets, and no burial will be necessary.