There were three positive cases in Cuyahoga county (Cleveland area), which is not too far from here, and is the place where most suburbanites go to work. Two picked it up on a Nile cruise. (I wonder if the cruise industry will just die off in the next few years.)
One of the infected was an attendee at the AIPAC conference. If that person wasn't one of the two people reported positive recently, the disease is really contagious and it's pretty likely a bunch of Israel-lobby-owned people in the congress are infected too. The person is an employee of the Jewish Education center, so has been spreading the Wu Flu around Cleveland Heights since around March 3rd. It seems pretty likely that other people from Cleveland who attended that conference were infected too, so the Beachwood and Cleveland Heights area might turn into the local Wuhan, which sucks. Hopefully they lucked out and didn't get the disease.
So that's that. I'm going to work from home for the foreseeable future. It'd be a nightmare to get stuck in a quarantine zone if that came to pass, or to get stuck in the office, god forbid.
We'll soon find out if the disease spreads here like it did in China and other countries. The population density here is much lower. Not many people use public transportation and communities are pretty clean and most grocery stores and restaurants are tidy and sanitary. So if you factor in new paranoia about disease and people washing their hands and coughing into their elbow, maybe there's a chance that the warmer weather just wipes it out.
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