I'm still playing my original copy, in DOSBox. And for entertainment value, it sets a steep profile to match, let alone beat.

Objectively, is there really anything to do other than to strictly and conservatively quarantine every country (and sub-quarantine cities as necessary) with a positive case?

We need the MDT-MRPQ tool that we sent back to that field base for service last month, and we'll need them at the end of next month.

Are you going to pay the consequential costs of your "advice"?

(Bear in mind - the lead time to manufacture an MDT-MRPQ tool is around 8 months. Which is why we rent them from Franco-American corporations instead of owning our own. This reduces the price of the fuel in your petrol tank.)

That said, because I'll be back to work in Africa (to fuel your lifestyle) shortly, I'll be getting a booster on my typhoid jab tomorrow. Because ... that disease didn't stop killing people with Mozart.

Good luck with the latter. Unless you live in a bat- (and mosquito-) free country. Which is pretty unlikely.

If that shit gets loose and starts infecting thousands or millions there might not be much of a choice

If that shit gets loose ... you have already lost the Conacry choice. You'd probably be safer by turning every port of entry into the Continental US into radioactive dust, and a hundred kilometres around.

Let the Hawaiians die - they've got native fruit bats and must be considered suspect.

including Guyana

Sorry, "Guinea"

That's the point - there is a natural reservoir, it's the Tai forest in the Ivory Coast.

How would that explain the 1979 outbreak of Ebola in N.Kenya/ S.Sudan in 1979?

2500 km?

Why would bats migrate from the RDC to Guinea?

Errr, because it was caught in a cargo shipping container?

(It might be an idea to read my previous - last 15 minutes - posts in this thread.)

Do I sound unconcerned? Of course I am. It's the same risks that I am exposed to in searching for oil to fuel your lifestyle.

Do you sound concerned? [I shrug] It's the same risks (etc) but they strike at your home. [Shrug.]

Welcome to the globailsed economy, where any organism anywhere in the world, be they plutocrat or bacterium, can exploit a homogeneous global target audience.

So major cities throughout the world are under direct threat and likely acting early rather than latter in cutting off sources of infection would be far safer.

Shrug.

We were receiving cargo onto the boat less than 48 hours out of Guyana, less than 2 weeks ago. Since then 1/4 of the crew will have crew-changed to (mostly) Louisiana, another 1/4 to Europe, another 1/4 to various places in Africa (including Guyana and Liberia), and half of the Philippine labourers will be lining up for their crew change.

Stable door is open. Horse is over there [points at horizon].

but if something this virulent ever learns to spread like the flu there will be no more overpopulation worries.

... for about 3 generations.

Unless a Reston style variant decides to transfer to humans. Then we're pretty fucked.

Even then only for usages of the word "fucked" that include a mere 75% mortality.

We're humans ; we'd make that up in a couple of generations. 40 years. No, 50 years. No, maybe as little as 60 years.

Actually, stepping back the human population by (say) 75% might be one of the best moves a "Mad Scientist" (or "Rogue Government") could make for the species. Might be death for you, or for me (I was handling equipment 2 days out from from Liberia just 2 weeks ago), but on average, that's not likely to be a bad price.

I predict a low posts count.

Prediction fulfilled - even including this reply to a (spit) AC.

And I work in the area. But I've been watching it for a couple of months now.

But a show of force is never a bad thing.

Are you Ukranian, Russian, Afghanistani, Vietnamese, or Korean (either side)?

Speaking as a geologist, I realise that I have a slightly different meaning of "never" to most people. But I've never heard of "never" being a phrase for "not in the last week".

i agree. unfortunately, that's "un-American".

Why is it unfortunate that an article about French employment practices should be un-American.

Oh wait - do you actually, like, live in that hell hole? Stop reading the internet and get back into the cotton fields!