Comments on: Which Airports Will Give Wings to the Next Pandemic? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/07/26/which-airports-will-give-wings-to-the-next-pandemic/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: floodmouse http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/07/26/which-airports-will-give-wings-to-the-next-pandemic/#comment-33789 floodmouse Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:20:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=38637#comment-33789 " why is this a surprise worthy of an article?" Was that a rhetorical question? If not, the answer is that having a model to mimic real-time traffic lets the Center for Disease Control (or whatever other agency) make a contingency plan for dealing with potential epidemics. Personally, I'm extremely interested in hearing about anything that might impact my health. ” why is this a surprise worthy of an article?”

Was that a rhetorical question? If not, the answer is that having a model to mimic real-time traffic lets the Center for Disease Control (or whatever other agency) make a contingency plan for dealing with potential epidemics. Personally, I’m extremely interested in hearing about anything that might impact my health.

]]> By: Iain http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/07/26/which-airports-will-give-wings-to-the-next-pandemic/#comment-33788 Iain Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:49:10 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=38637#comment-33788 Makes sense, Everybody wants to go to Hawaii, nobody wants to go to (anynamehere) BUT (anynamehere) employs 16000 people in a fly in fly out camp. Who gets the high hits on random? Human desire is an important factor. So why is this a surprise worthy of an article? Makes sense, Everybody wants to go to Hawaii, nobody wants to go to (anynamehere) BUT (anynamehere) employs 16000 people in a fly in fly out camp. Who gets the high hits on random? Human desire is an important factor. So why is this a surprise worthy of an article?

]]> By: Erin http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/07/26/which-airports-will-give-wings-to-the-next-pandemic/#comment-33787 Erin Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:38:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=38637#comment-33787 When disease strikes, by the time you know it avoiding specific airports will be a moot point. That is not remotely what this model is good for, or aiming to accomplish. :-/ When disease strikes, by the time you know it avoiding specific airports will be a moot point. That is not remotely what this model is good for, or aiming to accomplish. :-/

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