{"id":7065,"date":"2014-10-14T08:23:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T07:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=7065"},"modified":"2014-10-14T08:24:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T07:24:44","slug":"ebola-a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2014\/10\/ebola-a-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola. A question."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/071014-MATT-web_3064092a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7066\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/071014-MATT-web_3064092a-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"071014-MATT-web_3064092a\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/071014-MATT-web_3064092a-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/071014-MATT-web_3064092a.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I am not getting hysterical about EBOLA. Someone posted a brilliant statistic about the number of people who are killed by flu every year in comparison which put it all into perspective and as this article states brilliantly &#8211; it&#8217;s not all about us &#8211; at least it shouldn&#8217;t be. <a href=\"http:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/100618\/one-powerful-illustration-shows-exactly-what-s-wrong-with-media-coverage-of-ebola\">Brilliant article her<\/a>e.<\/p>\n<p>BUT<\/p>\n<p>Yup you knew there was going to be a BUT.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watching the news this morning they said air passengers will be screened from Paris and Brussels coming through London as both these cities are hubs for West African travellers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh and Glasgow have numerous daily flights from here \u2013 so why aren\u2019t we screening under exactly the same criteria?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not hysterical.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PS Cartoon nicked from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/matt\/?cartoon=11042428&amp;cc=11004897\"> The Daily Telegraph&#8217;s genius MATT.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not getting hysterical about EBOLA. Someone posted a brilliant statistic about the number of people who are killed by flu every year in&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[1424,1426,1425,1358],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}