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“The basement’s flooded and the computers are down.” “Loss of essential services and/or infrastructure failure!” Medical perspective: Again, seems like we are unnecessarily steeping ourselves in mystery here: What it actually means: Loss of essential services / infrastructure failure He is Zeus, and probing, hard-hitting questions are his lightning bolts. What it sounds like it means: When Anderson Cooper brings the thunder. What it sounds like it means: This one is really sad.
Medical perspective: “Isolate and evacuate,” which is the official tagline of hazardous spills. What it actually means: Hazardous material spill What it sounds like it means: What the leaders of every other government in the world secretly whispered into their headsets on November 7th, 2016.