What is the United States military good at? Well, besides blowing things up and breaking things, they are also good at statistics. Sort of like baseball, everything is counted and re-counted and analyzed. Statistics rule! In the military they log accidents and disease in what is called the Defense Medical Surveillance System. They have been […]
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What is a pandemic? Follow The Patents And You Will Understand.
Pandemics and plagues have been around for thousands of years. A plague in the Greek city of Athens occurred in 430 B.C. and killed 75,000-100,000 people. No one really knows what the disease was but it caused panic in the population. The historian Thucydides observed people’s behavior and noticed that people who survived the disease […]