The helicopter is a helicopter. After about a week, it arrives and if it spots you, it follows/observes you for nonspecific reasons.
The helicopter is also extremely loud, drawing zombies from a huge distance to you. The best way to deal with it is by being inside, so it doesn't spot you. Then it'll just fly around and not do much.
Measles is insanely infectious. Covid has a reproductive number around 4 to 5 depending on urbanisation etc. Measles is generally estimated around 15 in the general population, but numbers go all the way to 200 for children in schools (as in 1 kid infects 200 kids).
The measles vaccine is not perfect. It's only about 97% effective after 20 years, meaning that if you had the shots, you still have about a 3% of getting measles.
In Canada (and basically everywhere) measles vaccines are given at age one.
And Alberta is full of complete fucking idiots who never got vaccinated. And those absolute morons tend to cluster is "crunchy suburban mom" clusters as well as "far right conspiracy nutcase" clusters.
What ALWAYS happens is some unvaccinated kid gets measles, spreads it to other unvaccinated kids, and you get a small local outbreak. Some random unlucky 3%ers might get caught up, or some even less lucky babies, but generally that's the end of it. That's what used to happen, because overall immunity was high, and importantly, the parents of the unvaccinated kids were vaccinated.
Now, the unvaccinated kids from the 90s are having kids. So when a small local outbreak happens, the sick kids bring it home. The parents spread it outside, to their also-unvaccinated friends and THEIR unvaccinated kids, and we've got not one outbreak, but a whole bunch.
And that's where the trouble starts, because 97% immunity is actually damned low. That's 126000 people in Alberta who can get sick, and that's much higher than the number of unvaccinated idiots (thank god). But now we've got tendrils of measles reaching out anywhere, finding new pockets of unvaccinated idiots where it can pop up.
And there's a fifth problem. And ironically, that's the problem that nobody gets measles anymore. If you asked your great grandmother what you should do with a kid who has ten thousand little red bumps, she'd tell you to lock that kid in the bedroom, slide food under the door and keep them away from your other eleven children. If you ask your 28 year old neighbor, she'd probably tell you to rub crème on the poor kids irritated red skin.
People don't recognise measles anymore. It's not a scary disease like it used to be. Nobody knows anyone who lost sight or hearing thanks to measles. Nobody knows anyone who lost a child to measles. I don't even know anyone who knows anyone who has seen measles. And that's great... Unless your collective health depends on it.
It's not still running, it's being decommissioned. But doing that are people, and those people technically work at the powerplant. The phrasing is pretty bad.
Chernobyl on the other hand just kept running for another 14 years.
I don't understand how you can be in charge of one of the most powerful expeditionary militaries in the world and conclude you don't need an armored, tracked self-propelled 155mm howitizer from what you see happening in Ukraine.
You got it the wrong way around. The UK didn't scrap them and then give them away.
The AS90 was supposed to stick around till the 2030s, and when the Ukraine war kicked off, the UK donated their active materiel to Ukraine. They did it specifically because that's the kind of equipment that's needed.
highlighting the current infrastructure’s inability to support heavy military machinery like tanks, which can weigh up to 70 tonnes—nearly double the load European roads and bridges are typically built for.
That's uhhh, not really really how the limits on roads and bridges work. It's just how we simplify it, because you can put "Max 30 tons" on a streetsign, but you can't put "Maximum road pressure graph over a given area, with horizontal forces and overall load between supporting points, excluding second order effects from multiple load points" on a streetsign.
You can very obviously move an 80 ton tank-transport over a bridge, because we can also move 3 seperate 30 ton trucks over a bridge. We can move 60 ton cranes over roads and bridges without even worrying about any special rules. We just can't move an entire line of 60 ton cranes over a bridge at 90 km/h and then all slam on the brakes at the same time.
We've got very normal traffic rules for dealing with 100 ton transports, and even 150ton transports here in the Netherlands. And none of them involve "never go over a bridge" because that's completely impossible. You just need to space the vehicles sufficiently. Yes, that will probably mean closing the road, but if we're at war, that seems entirely possible.
Blackstone is a private equity firm though, not healthcare.
Still a CEO, so high partial credit.