I want you to think about something … logically not emotionally. This is not a scare tactic … just something you to acknowledge and be aware of. So many people are afraid that panic might set in … maybe it should. With our borders being as they are … it would be more damaging for an illegal immigrant to be infected with Ebola crossing over than for that person to be weighted down with explosives to be used as a human bomb. Have you ever heard of the duplication principle? I have .. Ive used it to teach networking. Unfortunately it could be used in a negative way. The principle is simple … take the number 2 then doubled to 4 then to 8 then 16 then 32 then 64 and finally 128. If you did this every day – after a week you have this number (128) … lets go one more week … 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4,096, 8,192 and finally 16,384. Okay thats the number after two weeks. Do another week … 32,768 – 65,536 – 131,072 – 262,144 – 524,288 – 1,048,576 & 2,097,152. Thats 3 weeks … one more week … were not even a month yet ...4,194,304 – 8,388,608 - 16,777,216 - 33,554,432 – 67,108,864 – 134,217,772 – 268,843,545. Okay add one more day … well play like its leap year and this is the month of February …. 537,687,090 … thats 537 million which is 200 million more than the population of the United States. What am I getting at? Ebola has maximum incubation period of 21 days. Lets apply this to our principle. Instead of 29 days … lets say 609 (21 x 29) days. Numbers are just that … numbers but if we were to apply the duplication principle where only one person infected will infect only one more in that 21 day period then … we would have eradicated our nation in a year and a half! Should we be concerned? Why cant we restrict flights from infected countries and why cant we close our borders? I guess you will have to ask this current administration that question but honestly … I dont think they care.
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 23:01:28 +0000
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