{"id":8985,"date":"2014-10-25T10:03:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T14:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/?p=8985"},"modified":"2014-10-25T10:03:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T14:03:21","slug":"there-goes-my-trip-to-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2014\/10\/25\/there-goes-my-trip-to-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"There Goes My Trip to Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We got an e-mail at work yesterday informing us that, pursuant to a CDC-issued Level 3 travel warning, we are not allowed to travel to Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone. Or at least, not on the company dime. Apparently there is also a Level 2 travel warning issued to &#8220;&#8230;travelers to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, urging them to protect themselves by avoiding contact with the blood and body fluids of people who are sick with Ebola.&#8221; I&#8217;ll keep that in mind. I&#8217;m not a doctor or a contagious disease expert (or even an MBA), but I&#8217;d think &#8220;avoiding contact with the blood and body fluids of people who are sick with Ebola&#8221; would be a good idea no matter where your Halloween party is located. Like, &#8220;sorry, but if you&#8217;ve got the Ebola, no apple-bobbing for you.&#8221; On the bright side, travel to Nigeria has now been downgraded to Alert &#8211; Level 1. So if you&#8217;re headed there for Thanksgiving, you should be good to go.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s good news for you if you happen to need a heart transplant.  Previously, the protocol called for a still-beating heart to be removed from a donor and then put in a cooler full of ice. This meant donors had to be in one of two categories: Chinese prisoners (such as the one that Dick Cheney no doubt had harvested), or the brain dead. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/10\/24\/7064353\/doctors-transplanted-a-dead-heart-and-it-worked\">But Australian doctors have found a way around that<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Two months ago, doctors in Australia transplanted a &#8220;dead heart&#8221; \u2014 a heart that had stopped beating inside a donor&#8217;s chest \u2014 into a 57-year-old woman, reports the BBC. The operation, which has been deemed success, was unlike any other, because for the first time, it didn&#8217;t involve a brain-dead donor who&#8217;s heart was still beating.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This shows us two thing: first, you don&#8217;t gotta write good English to publish stories at &#8220;The Verge,&#8221; and second, you no longer need to get your heart transplant from a brain dead Republican, and can instead opt for a dead Liberal. <\/p>\n<p>Big news yesterday as we got our first area Costco. Previously, you&#8217;d have had to drive to Kingston, ON. This would be great for me, were it not for the fact that my union worked out a deal for BJs (perhaps I should say, &#8220;at&#8221; BJs) which is like Costco in that you have to pay for the privilege of going there to spend money. We not only get a reduced rate, but we get a 15-month membership instead of 12. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d prefer to go to Costco, because it looks like they have some good shit, their gas is even cheaper than BJs, I hear they treat their employees well, and they have really big Teddy bears. So hopefully the union will reach out to them and at the very least ignite a bidding war.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a particularly pleasant-looking day out there today, but I&#8217;m gonna try and cut the grass one last time and get ready for winter. Not a pleasant thought, really, but the snow could fly at any time now. I really should get the storm windows in and see if the heat still works, too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got an e-mail at work yesterday informing us that, pursuant to a CDC-issued Level 3 travel warning, we are not allowed to travel to Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone. Or at least, not on the company dime. 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