Cartography
Oct. 17th, 2014 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pen_gruntHistorical cartographers of ye olden days really did modern times a disservice, because I'm pretty sure people STILL think Africa is the size of the U.S. or smaller. Which, of course, it is not.
I just reminded someone today that banning all travel from "Africa" to curb the "spread" of Ebola is as useful as banning all U.S. travel if something were going down in Brazil.
Africa is huge, man. They don't even realize. A friend was telling me that it took him 10 hours on a normal, commercial jet to fly from Cairo to Nairobi a few years back. That's not even half the span of the continent north-south. (It takes an hour LESS to fly from Minneapolis to London.)
People need to stop freaking out, already. Do they even science?
I just reminded someone today that banning all travel from "Africa" to curb the "spread" of Ebola is as useful as banning all U.S. travel if something were going down in Brazil.
Africa is huge, man. They don't even realize. A friend was telling me that it took him 10 hours on a normal, commercial jet to fly from Cairo to Nairobi a few years back. That's not even half the span of the continent north-south. (It takes an hour LESS to fly from Minneapolis to London.)
People need to stop freaking out, already. Do they even science?
