As far as I can tell, they are operating from a place of panic, and they're doing their best to spread that like a contagion to the general population.
There's still no definitive justification for precisely what happened in the US last night but the general equities sell-off as contagion fears spread combined with what looks like some erroneous trade had what can perhaps be best described as disastrous consequences.
"The admission of inmates creates numerous risks for facility staff, for the existing detainee population, and for a new detainee himself or herself," wrote Kennedy, citing "well-documented" instances of new admittees introducing contraband and contagion into the general population.
The military, says Gonick, "uses homoerotic, aggressive acts to harm victims and act as a contagion to society in general". .
"Their interest is very much in not seeing the European recovery tank, not having contagion, and not having a general loss of confidence that hits all of the markets," she said.
Without longitudinal data it is difficult to justify favouring any one social contagion mechanism [ 34], but in general our results are more consistent with the assortive relations mechanism.
"Long before working on the theme of Aids, General Idea seized on the idea of virus and contagion," says the exhibition's curator, Frédéric Bonnet.
There is a general understanding that physicians face an increased risk of contagion from disease, an understanding refined during schooling and training".
As more people experience this inequality-generated stress — as the "new predator" — there is more stress around in general, carried from home to work to school, in a circle of contagion.
