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Now to Ebola... In the late middle ages with the epidemic of the black plague, one of the first causes was declared to be the public bath house.  these were common.  But with the pronouncement, most of these houses disappeared, and consequently personal hygiene essentially disappeared in Europe for centuries.  The ramifications of other diseases probably has never been properly estimated. Ebola manifests the big scare of 2014.  It keeps other calamities and catastrophes off the front page. It allows the bigger issues of cyber security, terrorist threats, and crime on the back burner.  It disrupts the fabric of normal business. My feeling is that with the Ebola scare, hospitals may induce and endure a climate of intense contagion awareness, causing unusual and severe protocols that will not disappear even if Ebola is effectively reduced to nothing. As you know sensible people are not in charge.  Politicians will work this scare to their demagoguery maximum; hospital administrators

This is a continuation of http://used-ideas.blogspot.com/2013/04/thoughts-part-ii.html ·          Your brain .   Your brain is the most deceitful entity you know.   It lies to you.   It purports truths that are false.   It convinces you are tired when you are not.   It tells you to stop when you should go; it tells you to go when you should stop.   In the words of some anonymous writer, "Don't believe everything you think."   All that said it is your adviser, your confidant, your most trusted ally.  But, your brain is just one part of you! ·          The Cheap War .   In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, we must acknowledge we are at war with Extremists, possibly of many types.   But for the perpetrators, it is a cheap war.   They, the bad guys, expend a trifling amount of money.   Estimate grossly the Tsarneav brothers (radicalized Islamic Boston bombers) spent about $25,000 on their little war.   The cost to Boston and the Federal Government now amoun