3 Days Before the Outbreak, I Noticed Something No One Else Took Seriously

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• AN

  @Antonio-x9l2i · 1 month ago

  "the first thing you need to understand..."  Eye rolls

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• RE

  @rembrandtshadows · 5 months ago

  Good story.  I can attest that this happens a lot more often than you would think. Back in 2005, I was part of a Citizens Emergency Response Team. We were asked what we most feared.  I listed a major hurricane in New Orleans (katrina), a major hurrican in South Florida (three near misses but two on the west coast), a pandemic (COVID kinda sorta), a mass casualty event in DC like a dirty bomb (not yet), and some form of civil unrest (current Administration). The CERT was discontinued in 2008.  I have argued for preparedness and not resilience since that day. That argument fell on deaf ears at the Federal, State, and local level and continues to do so. I live in Prince William County Virginia and have a background in EH&S, training, respiratory protection, as well as working with occupational medical doctors. My first job, even before graduating college, was abating an encephalitis outbreak in Ventura County, California.  I learned a lot about public health then.

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• JA

  @Jacksonphillipstcg · 2 weeks ago

  Watching from Knoxville tn usa 😊

• GO

  @godbeloved9961 · 4 months ago

  all this time she never thought to pepareat all.

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• SU

  @susanmazei1834 · 5 months ago

  Tilting at windmills story.  Rings true that no one would listen to her and sorry to say wouldn't even if she was a certified scientist.  Well thought out story.

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• MI

  @michelek7672 · 5 months ago

  Very suspenseful. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 x 5000

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• BR

  @brianbraie2746 · 2 weeks ago

  Good story! Thanks 😊

• DA

  @danashelley9711 · 5 months ago

  Thank you for a great story with a great main character ❤❤❤

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• AD

  @adamb503 · 6 days ago

  Also, she is a middle school teacher but her class on ecosystem dynamics and keystone species sound more like a college level course than something for middle schoolers.

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• KI

  @kinkmedic · 5 months ago

  Excellent story. Great pacing. Very cool use of the signals nature gives us but everyone ignores.

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• JO

  @johncannan5984 · 5 months ago

  Excellent story. <br>Thanks for helping me get through another boring day at work. Put on my ear buds and go!!

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• MI

  @michelelyons9410 · 5 months ago (edited)

  the thing about the birds rings true. &nbsp;Way before &nbsp;high tech &nbsp;weather instruments, &nbsp;farmers used to tell the weather and season by watching birds. &nbsp;Old time farmers could tell &nbsp;the weather, &nbsp;if a storm was &nbsp;due, how bad it would be, &nbsp;if there was drought &nbsp;coming, &nbsp;or if there would be snow, and if it would be deep or light,, &nbsp;if there were dangerous predators in the area, &nbsp;or &nbsp;large insect swarms, all kinds of things by watching birds &nbsp;and the sky. &nbsp; All of these things have scientific &nbsp;reasons behind them, &nbsp;a lot of which we are only &nbsp;just looking at today.<br><br>this was an excellent story, well thought out and plotted. &nbsp;Problem is that most of the structures we have in place to &nbsp;act as warnings, &nbsp;do not react quickly or efficiently. &nbsp; The &nbsp;main character of the story did all she could, but no one who could do anything &nbsp;listened or took action. &nbsp; &nbsp;Humans have instincts and pattern recognition, &nbsp;and most people ignore both. &nbsp; Unfortunately that is why most people who do notice things choose not to say anything, because they know it will be futile. &nbsp; I really liked this &nbsp;story because it &nbsp;showed how regular people reacted and worked together. &nbsp;I liked how &nbsp;the story was not the end of the world apocalypse, but more along the lines of the zombie outbreak happening, but finally being overcome and handled by authorities.

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