I’m guessing HomelandSecurity is offering contracts for constructing new assumptions for their predictive models, ones that would include international travelers infected with a super-nasty respiratory bug who are white Atlanta lawyers traveling to get married in Greece rather than Asian poultry farmers with muddy boots.
3 June 2007 at 7:38 am
mouse's moom says:
Surprising it hasn’t *already* been incorporated into predictive models. Although I also felt that the story was a bit over-hyped.
3 June 2007 at 9:09 am
Sammy says:
We sure heard about it here in ATL….
3 June 2007 at 10:31 am
mouse's moom says:
I bet you did! 🙂 One of the things that irritated me was the lack of actual *facts* reported. Like, was he indeed contagious while on those flights? And maybe some information about TB and that *strain* of TB, when and when not contagious, etc., etc.
‘course, I pay attention to news haphazardly even on the best days.