Poor countries, where most potential pandemics start, rarely have the health facilities or vaccine-making capacity to combat a serious outbreak on their own; they rely on external help and vaccine imports.
I realise how much I rely on external narratives to get me through the day – work, novels, films, gossip, Twitter, news, whatever.
I rely on Bill Lombardi to help me out when he can".
"I rely on carers to help me with my personal care - morning, noon, afternoon and night-time.
"I rely on relatives to help me feed my children," she said.
The agency will rely on external advisers to help with this process, he said, since "NASA will probably not be able to assess itself," and because expertise in such matters lies with outside experts and within high-risk industries that have previously mastered such problems.
For businesses that rely on external data to help make decisions or just know what is going on, this is a potential goldmine but one that requires a lot of refining in order to extract the most valuable nuggets and to make the nicest ingots.
Why you can't rely on external metrics to drive you to success, you can seek external help when you need a pick me up.
I wonder, though, will the new generation of high-tech planes rely on external devices like the iPad?
Helping your children learn to manage themselves, rather than rely on external orders, could pay big dividends in adulthood.
