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Second US Citizen Infected With Ebola In Liberia, Which Shuts Down Borders To Slow Epidemic
Update, one which many will say has been long overdue: Liberia Shuts Border Crossings to Slow Ebola Spread. From Bloomberg:
- Liberia Shuts Border Crossings to Slow Ebola Spread: Allafrica
- Only major border crossings at Roberts International Airport, James Spriggs Payne Airport, Foya Crossing, Bo Waterside Crossing, Ganta Crossing to remain open, AllAfrica.com says, citing Liberian govt statement.
- At those entry points, testing centers to be set up; “stringent” preventive measures to be announced
- New travel policy by Liberia Airport Authority on inspection, testing of all passengers to be strictly observed
- There will be restrictions on public gatherings incl. solidarity marches, demonstrations
- Hotels, restaurants, entertainment centers, video clubs to play 5-min. film on Ebola awareness, prevention
- Govt vehicles to be commandeered, as needed, to support health delivery system
- All govt facilities, public places to install/provide public access for hand-washing
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It was a few short hours ago when we reported that as part of the escalating Ebola epidemic in West Africa a US doctor, Kent Brantly had himself succumbed to the deadly virus. Moments ago we found out that a second US doctor from the same aid organization in Liberia, Nancy Writebol, has been infected with Ebola.
Writebol in a June 2011 photo from the Rafiki missionary foundation
From CBS:
Two U.S. citizens are now reported to be infected with the deadly and incurable Ebola virus in West Africa.
The first American reported to have contracted the disease is an American doctor working with Ebola patients in Liberia, who tested positive for the deadly virus, North Carolina-based Samaritan's Purse issued said in a news release on Saturday.
The second person who reportedly tested positive for Ebola is a woman employed by an aid organization in Liberia who is a married mother of two.
In a statement on Sunday, Samaritan's Purse said: "Nancy Writebol is employed by SIM in Liberia and was helping the joint Samaritan's Purse/SIM team that is treating Ebola patients at the Case Management Center in Monrovia."
Writebol's age and hometown have not been released at this time.
What is most disturbing is that the two physicians have contracted the lethal disease despite apparently taking much needed precations to avoid infection as the following photos below demonstrate.
Dr. Kent Brantly assists two ELWA Hospital staff in transporting an Ebola patient from the triage unit to the isolation unit in the rain on Tuesday July 22, 2014, in Liberia.
Dr. Kent Brantly (right) collects a blood sample from a suspected Ebola patient in the ELWA isolation ward in Liberia
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I quit my church because they kept using my money to send missionaries to Africa. They think they are helping but they are just making the problems worse. Much of the problem in Africa is overpopulation and essentially over breeding. Sending food and medicines many times strengthens the positions of the warlords that control the cities. Trying to cure epidemics just spreads them more rapidly as more people flock to an area for treatment that may run out long before they get there. How much aid have we given to Africa? Just like the war on poverty has the situation on the ground improved?
Two missionaries from my church died from disease while in Africa leaving their children as orphans. They decided helping people in Africa was more important than the welfare of thier own children. While harsh it isn't our business to help that wretched continent or any other. If you go to Africa during an outbreak of a deadly disease you deserve what you get. Ypu shouldn't be allowed back until it is certain you didn't bring anything back with you. One person on a plane entering the country before symptoms appear could kill millions of Americans because they felt they needed to help.
Churches in my area take in millions of dollars and send people all over the world to "spread the word" while families in the same neighborhood as the parish struggle. Before helping anyone in Africa a church should make sure the needs of local people are met.
@adr - you are absulutely right sir. Absolutely right.
Funny thing - talk to them about going on a mission trip downtown, or to a rural area infested with meth heads - and you don't get so many takers.
Zambia or Costa Rica sounds a lot cooler on Facebook than the ghetto does.
Touche! I've said that so many times to missionaries is all I get is a vaccant stare and mumbeling about "God leading him there." Right.
It's much more fun to go evangelize near the ocean when it's nice and warm...
Meat Trapper has a point. I notice Hollywood stars think it's much cooler [and more PR] to adopt a Malawi baby, rather then adopt one needy American baby here at home.
We abort the black babies here. Neat, huh?
Over 50% of blacks are never born because they're aborted.
Source please? Inner City? Over all?
I agree with you, and yet, today's warlord (funded by the IMF to buy weapons) is tomorrow's endebted president of the country.
It is like the whole bogus conflict metals B/S that Congress got conned into signing as a part of financial reform. The people that are hurt are miners for the purpose of making sure that money goes to one strong-man corrupt psychopath dictator and not the another strong-man corrupt psychopath wanna-be-dictator.
Thank you bankers and your toadies for making he world less safe and keeping conflict and corruption an every day occurrence.
And then have the temerity to become incensed when the locals decide to string up a couple.
I quit a church that spent about $80k/year keeping a "missionary" family in Venezuela for 2 or 3 years. I wondered what good they did and what would have happened if that money could have been better spent training and supporting dozens of local clergy.
We also had members of the congregation that would go on "missions" trips to the Caribbean. So you have 15 to 20 overweight, out-of-shape couples plus throw in some teenagers all giddy as hell for their trip to help the poor. Lump all of that travel money together and you probably have $25,000 to $40,000 easy, which would have probably been enough to have the whole church or school built down there locally.
Instead you have these pasty fools trying to lay block and frame a building. They do that for a few days and then leave. Big fucking deal. They get to brag about if for the rest of their lives.
You are absolutely right Fred. Of course, the mere suggestion of that reality is enough to get you cast out as Satan incarnate around here in Alabama.
Jesus said if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day - teach a man to fish and you feed him for life.
I teach men to trap, not fish.
But according to most, I'm a heartless, soul less bastard because I don't want to prance around the tropics pretending to help the poor.
This country and the deluded fools in it are a fucking joke.
"teach a man to fish and you feed him for life."
build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for one night.
set a man on fire, and he'll be warm the rest of his life!
How much aid have we given to Africa? Just like the war on poverty has the situation on the ground improved?
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Aid? Aid is an 'american' scheme to direct the flow of resources. There is no aid.
'Americanism' wiped out the concept of charity as it was understood.
Charity is now whatever helps the 'american' middle class, a booster to the business of farming the poor, extorting the weak.
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Perhaps the commenter meant aids.
Gotta love America. No one gives a rat's ass about the outbreak until one American dies. Then it is an international catastrophe!
And for those of you praising the christians over there doing "god's work", I would like to ask this question. If it is God's Work to fight against this horrible disease, why the f*&% did your god create it in the first place? Sounds like God pretty much hates all of us, especially christian aid workers who go to Africa. Lol.
thats exactly why Goldman is doing "Gods work" with out leaving uptown--think of all the sinners on Wall street and how little benefit gets to Africa to cause additional suffering--
It takes a while to figure it out, but Lloyd B is in fact doing gods' work. They are pagan gods (not a creator God), but they never left.
God is one of the god guys and I'm pretty sure, whoever created this, it wasn't one of the good guys.
Yep, we should all be selfish. The world would be such a better place that way. Need help? Fuck you. Die. Maybe this bug is right on time.
Call me when fellow blacks travel to Africa to help out their brothers...
"Yep, we should all be selfish."
We are ALL selfish. Some are just more aware of it than others.
SIM (Simulation) = Fake
"Dr. Kent Brantly (right) collects a blood sample from a suspected Ebola patient in the ELWA isolation ward in Liberia"
I don't see any photo credits but I hope the photographer taking the picture was close enough to catch it.
Was it taken by the same professional photographer that took the pictures of the teacher leading the kids away right outside the school at Sandy Hook while the active shooter was still busy inside?
Or was it was it the same professional photographer that just happened to catch the closeup front and rear shot of the Moncton shooter just before his deadly rampage?
Shutting the border is laughable on so many levels. This is just polical mumbojumbo to try to calm the world.
One, they can't, african borders are more porous than the Rio Grande.
Two, try forcing people to stay in a hot zone with an epidemic spreading.
Three, we are talking about Liberia here.
it would be naive to expect leaders to spoil the opportunity to practise and introduce the benefits of unlimited (supra-)government control and/or martial law
Long Airlines
Thank God all of our borders are secure and precautions are in place to make sure infected people aren't allow on planes and such to prevent the spread to our continent. Oh wait, nevermind, we're fucked.
i was having a country supper with rupert murdoch of the mossad and bill and mel gates a lovely evening in the oxbridge country sides betwixt oxford and cambridges.
tony yo blair and peter i rape kids mandelson was at the shindig as well.
anyways i asked bill and his jewish zionist wife melinda about ebola and bill says dontes sweat it tone we will be fine it is only the vaccinated schmucks that are fucked.
i said but bill what about the humanity he laughed in a vincent price kind of demonic chuckle and said it all in the georgia guide stones tone i am just a vessel just a means to a demonic zionist end.
fuck the goy the useless eaters are finished, rupert murdoch said my how we laughed.
nothing finer than an oxbridge cuntry supper
Melinda is a catlicker, not a joo
Long Chlorox.
You know you are totally fucked when the guys in full HAZMAT knock at the door
They got the director from the guy who directed ET.
Whats his name?
Jul 27, 2
So all of that testing of the Ebola virus over the years allowed them to finally get the recipe right.
Or maybe the versions of the virus that mutated and burned out were red herrings.
The word you seek is "beta"
Close the Continent. This is escalating too quickly. At the current rate, we will be to millions dead by Christmas.
In 1914 when the Spanish flu was distributed, it mysteriously popped up simultaneously in many areas isolated from each other.
Figure it out. Just another population control method.
I do not doubt it's population control. I say this as a person who cares and is not some rich cocksucker who believes he or she is able to play God. Damn them.
Next time anyone considers a vax they should also consider the S+B component...among other things
http://www.concienciaradio.com/baxter_skull_bones.htm
Yes, mother nature is murderous wench. No need to attribute to man what she does much better and on a regular basis.
"Close the Continent."
Fuck that. Close the entire planet!
migration er ah immigration the gift that keeps on giving, biowar - human race is cutting the natural barriers of seas and distance to bring every shit hole disease to everyone..except the .01% or so they think to wit:
" Because of migration, patients with Chagas are showing up everywhere from Spain and Italy to Japan and Australia. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 300,000 people are infected with Chagas in the U.S. A clinic devoted to diagnosing and treating the disease opened at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles in 2007, and, according to the CDC, doctors in New York City and Georgia are screening patients who might have been exposed to the disease in their countries of origin. "
I know this just happened today but we've already set up a donations page with an initial target of $10 million dollars, plus a new website, t-shirts, green ribbons with our mottos Liberia Strong & Ebola: Not One More
or was it Ebola Strong & Liberia: Not One More
Please donate for the children
This makes me very nervous. I have a pending business arrangement with a very wealthy Nigerian family and they are already several weeks behind schedule with the funding they committed to.
I sure hope this doesn't slow them down further.
Oi, I trust you're not 'olding your breath then mate.
Me too, fancy that!
Looks like Sandy Ebola to me.
Handy as the jews finish off Gaza.
I actually bought stuff for the bird flu.
Fool me once, cain't git fooled again.
I would like to know the kind of mask and equipment they are using because, whatever it is, it appears to be inadequate.
N95 masks are easily available but I believe, in this case, they are not enough. N100 masks would be better but I don't know if they're easily available and I don't know if they're adequate.
Time to start investigating masks and equipment?
It's time to hunker in the bunker.
A brillant method of containment is being initiated in Liberia: /s
If this doesn't spread the virus around, nothing will:
"[Liberian] President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf used her Independence Day address to discuss a new taskforce to combat Ebola. Information Minister Lewis Brown said the taskforce would go 'from community to community, from village to village, from town to town' in order to increase awareness."
AP article link:
http://hosted2.ap.org/apdefault/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305/Article...
I don't know if they were Christians or not but I would wager THEY WERE. Today's Christians have this INSANE attachment to people of color, and they pay for it. An elderly white couple Christian missionaries in Mexico two years ago were butchered for their GMC Pickup truck. They had labored for years in trying to save the souls of the Mexican people who are now gracing our humble nation. And while Haiti has left a trail of raped and butchered white Christian missionaries just a week or so ago a group of WCM from Hamilton were raped and beaten. But luckily no fatalities. And you know what? THEY NEVER LEARN.
No matter how many of their grandmothers, mothers, daughters, granddaughters, Grandpas, fathers, sons, grandsons get butchered AND raped they NEVER learn. They EXCUSE the non-white thugs. Seriously.
Is it any wonder that church attendance is on the decline among Whites?
And now these loons, medical missionaries are bringing DEATH to the White homelands, as if the invaders weren't bringing enough on their own.
Deuteronomy 17:15
Knox Bible
The king you appoint must be the man the Lord your God chooses, one of your own race; you must not let an alien, who is not of your blood, bear rule over you.
Because Jews have infiltrated the clergy.
BTW the Out of Africa has been officially debunked.
http://atlanteangardens.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/out-of-africa-theory-off...
The International Termites landed here from Mars millenia ago when the atmosphere there got too thin from the over-printing of money (thus the saying 'out of thin air').
Except in color, these Martians were identical to the earthmen, a group of bestial savages. The Martians soon invented their 'money scheme' again and went to town.
Makes sense. Kirk's ancestors are mostly European, with some ET genes -- when one of my ancestors had a great weekend with Princess Lay Ya from the Virgo Cluster. A real angel.
Hence my predisposition to warping over to the Virgo Cluster whenever possible, for an other-worldly experience. ;-)
Better be a blue bitch.
In those articles, does african mean negro or african means dwellers of the african continent?
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It means not 'american'.
No kidding. 'Americanism' started in 1776.
Somehow, these articles read like an 'american' read: that africans were forcefully negroes.
"Out of Africa has been officially debunked."
I don't know about you lot, but my people evolved from bears.
I'm confused. I thought Mexico was full of Catholics.
Mexico is still mostly catholic but now there are lots of Protestants,Evangelicals and churches like LDS. Incidentally regarding NSA, seems to full of LDS types
LDS types are partially predisposed and largely programmed for rigid and hierarchical structures. And they also love the job security that goes along with it. So the
"NSA thing" does not surprise me. They've also nestled themselves nicely into HP, where they are known as "The Mormon Mafia". They are also partial to flying United and staying at a Mormon chain of hotels: Marriott.
BTW, last year, while at Simon Black's Offshore Workshop, I heard that Mormons and some flavor of Baptists are buying up huge tracts of land in Chile and elsewhere in S.Am. Which REALLY worries the Catholic Church, as it is losing huge market share to them. No wonder they picked an Argentinian Pope, who can offer a Catholic flavor of simplicity/fundamentalism.
"Today's Christians have this INSANE attachment to people of color, and they pay for it."
Yep - and they LOVE paying for it. The single white females in particular are in a race defend black males from any criticism while first in line to pronounce judgement on white males.
Christianity has turned into a suicide cult. I know for a fact that God exists. We have a Creator - and he's not impressed by some air headed little bimbo's political correctness that's advertised in Facebook for everyone to see. And admire.
Interesting ... I have had this experience with the Anglican church where I live. I went to a Christingle service a few years ago for some reason I can't remember now, but it struck me at the time just how focused the entire service was on Africa and Africans; it was pretty astonishing really.
I remember thinking that that sort of thing was probably why church attendence was falling through the floor because nothing in the service spoke to the people of the local area or addressed any of their spiritual or worldly concerns -- it was just one long Oxfam advert -- so why bother to go?
As I live next to a level four lab, I'll just move into their basement.
Which one do you live near?
Always check their parking lot first thing Monday morning.
If it's empty you might want to call in sick and go camping. Just to be safe.
Neoliberal economics requires open borders to labor, America can thus never close down it's open door policy to anyone who can get here. A few ebola cases is a small price to pay for all the jobs they will bring.
Gosh darned goofey assed christians got no sense to be prancing around africa when there are staving children at home.
Let the globalist's military kill them for their oil instead of trying to get Christ to help con them out of it.. Oh shit wait a minute. Obama and the Washington D.C. globalists are bringing them in through the Mexican border and dispersing them to cities throughout the United States of America.
Leaping lizards, time to head for the hills.
We have EBT and WIC. I work in the hood quite often. Ain't a damn person starving I can assure you of that.
Ebola will certainly test the resourcefulness of humanity - keep your fingers crossed and hope we can defeat a virus that's 4.0 E-5 inches long...
These people are idiots for even going to Africa in the first place.
Liberals keep going there and keep failing spectacularly.
This waste of money and resources has been taking place for DECADES.
When will these people ever learn?
Apparently never, as right at the very moment I'm posting this comment, another sucker is flying coach to Africa to "change the world."
So you had to go with the tribal bullshit didn't you???? Liberals! How about Christians? Do they keep failing miserably in Africa too?
Where are the witch doctors? I bet those fuckers headed for the hills!
Just like the Western doctors may do themselves if their much exhaulted technology and knowledge doesn't keep them from getting this crap either.
Bath House: "Why must I order the border open on this particular month? Reggie and I were going on a golf tour."
Marlboro Man: "Because it must coincide with a certain bug we are developing. The timing is everything. Here, take this mask."
Short airlines...this bug shows up ANYWHERE outside of Afric and NOTHING will be lifting off of asphalt (well, with the possible excpetion Gulfstream G650's, that is...)
The Specials.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TctayGNzbTM
Spread the disease......
+1. And if they don't get a handle on ebola, many Ghost Towns will be created.
It will show up in China next. They have a lot of dealings in Africa.
There is a similarly deadly disease sweeping the US and nobody is doing anything about the Obamabola virus - deadliest plague known to mankind. First signs are a fixed rictus-like grin, a compulsion to lie about even inconsequential matters, a hatred of wedding parties and school buildings, followed by an irresistable desire to mate with Wookies.
Interesting, those symptoms sound just like those of the plague known as Christianity, except the wookie thing. Christian leaders usually prefer underage kids.
However, the symptoms for Christianity don't stop there, the other symptoms include delusions of a vengeful sky god and this belief that their god created everything...except nasty shit like this virus. They also believe that praying to this god will save them from this virus. It's widespread and those infected seek to infect all others in a Borg-like manner. No cure is known.
george, how aboout a sentence or two on the muslim psychosis, or the old bible (talmud) folks, but watch out some take real umbridge at that kinda talk.
Well, I was USA focused in my rant, but those are definitely in the same category of mind viruses.
well george I hate to break it to you but per obuma "we are the biggest muslim nation" and a few talmud types inhabit NYC to make it more populus than telaviv
You guys pay way too much attention to what comes out of politicians mouths. They're just salesmen, like preachers.
Here are the countries with the largest muslim populations:
http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top-ten/world-top-ten-countries-with-la...
In my everyday life I run into way more people who are infected with Christianity than I do those infected with Islam or Judaism. Therefore that's the strain of brain virus I seek to avoid.
Generally Christians do not believe that "praying to God will save them from the virus". Christians pray for 'gods will' to be done and then they ask for mercy. But thank you for preachin' your beliefs -maybe you can gain some followers on here. Personally, I am waiting for the facts before I attack anyones beliefs. Just show me how DNA was created and how that complex code came to be and then I'm all ears. Funny how this Doctor who has MUCH MORE of an understanding of science than you will ever have believes in god. Same goes for the director of the human genome project, a christian.
All you're doing is replacing "the unknown" with a word, "God" which stops further inquiry. It is a sham solution to a sham problem, and you, deep down, know it.
"A casual stroll through an insane asylum demonstrates that faith does not prove anything." -FN
The difference between you and a believer:
Religious: Creator ==> Nature ==> Life
Atheist: Nature==> Life
Both of you : Preach
Tell us how DNA came to be genius. Give me the facts or your beliefs. But first watch your preacher admit he doesn't know anything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12rgtN0pCMQ
replacing "the unknown" with a word, "God" which stops further inquiry...
I will agree it is replacing "God" with "the unknown", however, rather than treating these concepts as mere "words" thereby stopping further inquiry, Christianity requires further inquiry to be made. Whether that leads to insanity is a stretch. The problem of a finite creature being able to grasp the infinite is not a sham problem, nor the evidence of an incarnate God having a public presence in the time / space creation to display the degree of seriousness, reality and love with which He would shower on his children a sham solution.
The earliest witnesses to this have written that it's actually You who know this fact deep down, and You know it.
Romans 1:18-20 NASB: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse..."
jmo.
Holy mackerel! You mean closing borders helps prevent the spread of disease!?
Has anyone told Dear Leader?
All DC area golf courses will now be closed off to those outside the click.
missionaries and imperialism are closely connected
"US doctor, Kent Brantly had himself succumbed to the deadly virus."
I am not so sure this is true. This is the only place I can find right now reporting this.
alot of do gooder hero worshipers on this thread this is for you:repost :in the end it all comes down to "do gooders"..flying off to save this or that heck even off to save ol planet earth from one of it's own species, demanding equality and a" limited"
diversity (you know what i mean, abortion protestors are too diverse, as are those evil patriot taxed enough crowd)..them we can keep away from the children.
yep going across the globe, and demanding wide open "migration" or is it invasion? but little do most know how much pain and death and suffering "do gooders" are opening us up to..ebola anyone?
hiv in usa could have been contained with first cases in SF area, but even then the homo mafia would not allow the simple 1800's solution to outbreaks of infec disease youknow that high tech solution called: quarantine.
The Canadian Press reported it about 3 hours ago.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ebola-kills-senior-doctor-liberias-largest-hospital-health-120804170.html
"Dr. Samuel Brisbane was treating Ebola patients at the country's largest hospital, the John F. Kennedy Memorial Medical Center in Monrovia, when he fell ill. He died Saturday"
I think you need to go back and read the article again. Different doctor.
Why do I envision Bill and Melinda Gates with an acre wide set of dominos, both giggling as they push the lead domino to fall into the others.
Speech from the inside about the future.
This is just one of the topics.
1969
NEW DIFFICULT TO DIAGNOSE AND UNTREATABLE DISEASES
Next heading to talk about is HEALTH & DISEASE. He said there would be new diseases to appear which had not ever been seen before. Would be very difficult to diagnose and be untreatable — at least for a long time. No elaboration was made on this, but I remember, not long after hearing this presentation, when I had a puzzling diagnosis to make, I would be wondering, "Is this ... was what he was talking about? Is this a case of what he was talking about?". Some years later, as AIDS ultimately developed, I think AIDS was at least one example of what he was talking about. I now think that AIDS probably was a manufactured disease.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjc4ywQVHEQ
http://www.sweetliberty.org/nobarbarians1.htm
Today I read "The secret history of AIDs" and yeah it was.
I lived in San Francisco in 1978 and you would see very long lines of gay men
spilling out onto the sidewalk at the city venereal disease free clinic.
They tested it on them and I bet that was how. Also at the same time it popped up in NYC.
Scientists said it came from Africa, but its not the same strain in Africa. Also it didn't show up
in Africa for at least 2 yrs later.
I knew this was coming when we heard about them fooling around with Spanish Flu
in a gov lab.
Patriot Act/Senator balk -> Ft. Detrick -> Anthrax -> Patriot act Then signed.. Mil Grade.
You should read the whole thing on that link I gave...
If you lived from the 60's till now and watched it real time, it all crystal clear...
Yeah I read it and yes it has all happned and I remember it and how they got us to accept these things.
"The one that hit me "so much change that older people will want to move on."
For me its just a satanic plan of control and bondage, satan is the prince of this world. We know that.
No. Aids has been around since the 1950's - UK sailor who died in the fifties had some of his blood preserved in wax because the doctor who treated him couldn't figure out why he died. Doc figured 'maybe one day there will be a test'.
If true it doesn't mean they did not infect gay men in major cities at the same time.
I guess it's time we played
The Firesign Theatre- "Beat The Reaper"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3zZ_ih0Jpc
Things I've learned from this article:
1) Christians are dumb for their kindness.
2) God wants us dead.
3) We are all fucked.
....I'll be leaving for the family farm soon, but first more ammunition.
Good luck.
Things I've learned from this article:…
I would certainly hope it was not these "things" you "learned" from this article that motivated you to leave for the family farm with ammunition.
Whereas I would concede death is the end for all, (regardless of the fight and victories some have achieved in postponing the effects of various diseases), God’s love for humanity has always been the greatest force in the universe, (regardless of your perception that the physical death we all must experience is the worst possible outcome of our existence on the earth), the fact remains, not everyone on the earth has been guilty of “Fornication Under Carnal Knowledge”(though the likelihood may be a vast number have).
My question and observation will continue to be amazed at the desire many of the Christian faith have to sacrifice their own craving to fly to the family farm for the need to assist others caught in the grip of governments, powers, forces and others that care not a whit for them as persons to catch a glimpse of the eternality of life beyond the grave (outside the so-called “72 virgin” crap).
Jmo.
I was being sarcastic. I attend church and have a wife who has actually been to Sierra Leone to help these poor souls. I'm a little floored by the abundantly selfish sentiments here, but then again, this is how people cope with fear. I'm reading fear in these comments and rightfully so. My wife has done things for people that 99 out of a 100 would never be capable of stomaching. I respect her for that. I think the "If god is so awesome why he be tryna kill us all derka derka" are indicative of uncaring shitheads. It's these people that selflessly give and go to these places that have probably staved off a large scale culling. However, it's inevitable. I believe in God and I believe in kindness and being a caring would to others. As I said in another comment, maybe this bug is right on time. It is ZH though where the cynical are welcomed with open arms. I'm cynical to a point too. I'm here to glean info where MSM dare not go. I'm not heading to the farm yet, but I do plan on picking up more ammo. I like your comment.
Fear? Fear of what?
This situation is benign to 'americans' as it serves their narrative on closing borders. This is how this story sells to the 'american' readership on this site.
Instrumentalism.
"It is ZH though where the cynical are welcomed with open arms."
It's not so much cynicism as it is exhaustion. The news comes thick and fast around here, and most of it has very negative implications. And that's just one site. We are mentally and emotionally overloaded with one disaster after another, and the human mind can only take so much before exhaustion sets in. That's probably what happened to these doctors - they were overloaded, became exhausted, and made mistakes.
Cynicism is not cold-heartedness. It's a defense mechanism for those who've seen and felt too much.
As everyone starts to review their preps and plans in case this comes to a neighbourhood near you, please consider this:
You've prepped financially, you've prepped for food, shelter, heat, cooking, but what preps have you made so that our knowledge is preserved?
It is possible to archive epub sites like gutenberg.org. I did so back in March of 2013 and I have 44,000 books archived on a usb drive. But also take a look around your house, flea markets, garage sales etc, with an eye for manuals and how-to books that a next generation might need.
Obviously you didn't prep for an EMPulse.
Real books, in your hand will be worth a lot more than burned out computer chips or disc-drives.
What evidence do you have that USB drives and SD cards, which can be x-rayed (bombarded with radiation) without being affected or losing data, would be affected by an EMP pulse?
That's it? That's your response? Don't bother with electronics because in a situation where the plague is loose, it's an EMP that will get you?
Your name is appropriate.
Ah, I don't think it will hurt disc drives. Have you seen any of the studies on this?
For the past five years or so libraries in America have been throwing away books, not selling or giving away. Many others have gone to Africa, possible text books that are older.
Its very disturbing to see books in dumpsters but that is exactly what they have been doing.
Even more disturbing to me is *which* books are being removed from the shelves; ie, those dealing with the basic foundations of knowledge- science, mathematics, engineering, civics, etc.
Heh... I used to burn books! And for the government, no less. Summer job.
Grade school readers and text books mostly. People would donate their old copies of Dick and Jane to the National Archives, thinking ithey were somehow rare and valuable...LOL. Stuff went straight in the furnace. Burned old military training films too. Those were dangerous as they could spontaneously combust, so into the furnace they went.
Burned more books that summer than in Farenheit 451. Word.
Don't worry. National Archives kept at least 5 hard copies of everything burned, plus microfilm and scans. Never know when some scholar might need a copy of Tip and Mitten.
Yep, Got'em
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Do not be afraid. Common sense and innovation-adaptations will get us through all things.
But we must change.
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I don't understand why ebola wasn't eliminated years ago. Heck, here in the US when we encounter something we don't like, we legislate it away! It could work just as easily with ebola! Just create a government agency and post some signs around Africa:
This Is An Ebola Free Zone.
Of course this type of approach requires a brainless, compliant MSM to sell the idea to the gum chewing public that ebola has been eliminated. Wait, do they even chew gum in Africa?
They need to print up a vaccine like yesterday.
"vaccine...yesterday"
Viruses mutate.
Well then fucking print more. PRINT MOTHERFUCKER PRINT.
It could be an unpredicted effect of the Second Amendment. Perhaps if the world was a gun-free zone, it would go away. /sarc
It is indeed a great tragedy that ebola was not originally part of the US constitution.
Had it been so Obama would have ensured its eradication by now.
I am seeing more and more nut jobs coming out of the woodwork and finding their way to ZH.
True and sad. I'm to the point that I will not click on "certain" stories. I love different points of view but some of it is just beyond irrational. It's hard to learn from people who mistake wild claims or just claims for evidence or proof. Or believing small lies, even very small half truths can lead to standing atop a mountain of lies and nonsense. But I do get to sharpen my reasoning skills and It does help me exercise my points of view, turn them inside out, inspect them. I just despise group think.
Agreed. Too many unfunny people making unfunny comments that add nothing to the discussion.
HIV also came here and spread because all of you who talk about "charity" are always in such a hurry to help others to boost your fragile self-esteem, and in the process make the problem that much worse.
And of course, you will label me a racist and a homophobe, and, if you do that, I will wear those labels proudly. Sorry, your feel good propaganda isn't working anymore.
People are learning to take care of themselves, and reject the kumbaya we are the world nonsense. And more power to them.
Very MUCH Agree with the ciritcism of the Summer "missionaries", the pseudo-Christians who have to ask What Would Jesus Do. Were they Born-Again, they would KNOW that Jesus Does HIS Father's Will and they would Be Enabled To Know HIS Will also... Lots more to be done at home, for those who actually are "thy neighbor"; but no foreign travel romance or self-puffery in helping single mothers, addicts, neglected children and seniors. Not heard anything about contemporary gang miistries. Of course, that takes real witness and Guidance From God. Not something many of these divinity-schooled businessmen can bring to their flocks.
If you never saw need to ready some supplies/gear and find some means for self-sufficient living in the expected, albeit slow-motion economic collapse we are now experiencing; the ebola threat has great potential. Not likely to be an illness you will suffer with for a long time if you manifest a case. so there's that... Just a terrible way to die, that might be prevented if you make the effort to minimize your exposure by readiness and planning.
If you took action already, in anticipation of economic collapse and that expected chaos, you are very much ahead of the curve. Ability to shelter in place, limit outside interaction and shopping, avoiding crowds along with regimen of prophylactic hygeine could be all it takes to see you through. Of course, if you live in some mega-highrise buiilding, the proximity to so many wild-card persons would throw all your judicious planning to the whirlwind...
Looks to be so many whammies coming at US at once. If the ebola thng motivates you, that's a good thing. For sure you have to take responsibillity for your family and make your concerns known to extended family members. Having the assets that may be deployed to preserve you and yours seems a prudent use of them at this time.
God Bless you all!
Any doctor who goes to Liberia to treat these people is not a 'pseudo Christian" in my book. You are so filled with hate. Yuck.
There is a difference between Knowing God's Will and guessing at it. If you gotta consider WWJD you're only guessing.
Not like there's any churches sending physician teams to places w/ebola outbreaks. Are catholic charities sending physician priests and nuns into the hot zones? More likely catholic charities will be relocating ebola refugees to USA cities. Lots of great cities ready to greet them w/open arms, cities with councils who decided they would be "sanctuary cities"....
Not a hater as you suggest, but whatever.... Not like you even understood the posting.
Wonder how many missionaries there are working in Sudan and Syria, Iraq working to prevent the slaughter of Christians? Like was said, no oceans there and no easy acceptance of Americans by the natives. How many American Christians head to Haiti these days? How many working in China, undercover, while China is shutting down home churches and detaining Christians with a fervor not seen since mao. Much easier to go to "czarry The Word" to Costa Ricans... How many bringing The Word to the norco trafficante terrorized people of Northern Mexico?
Do a little research and see which charities are sponsoring illegal border-hoppers in circumvention of American Immigration law; laws which are among the most lenient of all nations. Why aren't these same groups pushing for open-immigraton to other nations rather than only the US? How about missionaries decrying the greed of Wall St and Washington DC as they Loot This Country? Where are the Real Christians on issues contrary to American Values?
I hate suicidal altruism and those who practice it.
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I think we can view this as a watershed moment, where the next step will be to declare martial law in one of these countries, as they slide inexorably into the abyss.
At some point, if it's not stopped, it will spread in an urban centre, like a cold in a elementary school, and then it's curtains.
Buy guns, buy gold, buy food…
Bye-bye!
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They don't call it martial law anymore, too well...restrictive.
Its called "shelter in place" you know safety and comfort.
lol
“Our team has followed to the letter all of the protocols for safety that were developed by the CDC and WHO,” Strickland told NBC News. “At this time we have not been able to confirm 100 percent the method of contagion,” she added.
Brantly was treating patients; Writebol was working to help doctors and other health workers get in and out of their protective gear, Strickland said. That would include spraying them down with a chlorine solution and then stripping off and disposing of every piece of gear.
Strickland said her group had to suspend outreach efforts in Lofa, in the north of Liberia, after a crowd attacked a team of health workers who came to collect the body of a person who was suspected of dying from the disease.
“There was a mob that surrounded them,” she said. Teams treating patients have stayed in place, she added.
It went on to say that 60% have died, and those treated early have a much better chance. So the Doctor and this lady have the best shot because they found it early. Really these people don't want their help, attacking people who collect the body of an Ebola victim.
you know it's getting bad, when they quote survival rates as improving with therapy, there is no drug, there is no IV no nostrum for this...but to keep the population calm, they will lie and the MSM will lie. or it will burn out as it has in the past, but things do not seem to be headed that way.
It said they give them saline solution as treatment.
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/nigerian-officials-race-stop-s...
"Unknown to the scientific expedition, a cloud of radiation from Fukoshima spread thru the jungle, activating the Obamabola virus with the ability to dissolve protective medical gear..."
OH MY GAWWWWD!!!
IT'S GOTTA BE THE JOOOOS!!!!
THEY DONE BE INFILTRATEDED BY THE MOSSADS!!!
ITS A GLOBAL BANKING CONSPIRACIES!!!
You fucking pre-pubescent hillbillies need to get a life.
I will if you will.
so I'm wondering something here, these aid workers, doctors, whatever...they understood what they are dealing with right?
I mean you don't just dive in and start caring for ebola victims the same way you would say, handing out blankets and food to the victims of a natural disaster. obviously universal precautions would be strictly observed and enforced, not to mention whatever special protocols specific to a virus his deadly requires. and we can be certain, beyond a reasonable doubt, that these protocols were being followed to the letter by those providing the care because, well, it's ebola and becoming infected leaves very little hope of survival.
which leads me to the obvious question, given it's method of transmission and safety precautions involved, how the hell did these medical professionals become infected at all?
there is something distinctly disconcerting about all this, I remember back in 2008 the whole h1n1 scare, it was all over the news, hell we were getting updates on number of cases right in our work e-mails hourly. management didn't want you within a mile of the place if you had so much as a sniffle, they were going around sending people home if they so much as coughed to loud. it was a really big deal, a full on three ring media circus.
but now here we a virus that kills 60% of those who contract it, medical professions dying from it and an entire country basically shutting down and going into self quarantine because of it and...
hey, it's really no big deal, it will all be sorted out by November.
one can only hope so...
well maybe they aren't infected, you see they are not trusted at all.
read below.
"handing out blankets"
Makes me think of the Souix and small-pox.
The Africans are correct to stop foreigners from entering.
I don't think universal precautions are enough with Ebola.
"I mean you don't just dive in and start caring for ebola victims the same way you would say, handing out blankets and food to the victims of a natural disaster."
Wasn't it the US Govt that gave Indians (oops, Native Americans) blankets from small pox victims in the 1800's?
Call us "Indians", ok. Don't call us corporations.
Sorry for all the casinos! Suckers!
OLO BENGOU, Guinea — Eight youths, some armed with slingshots and machetes, stood warily alongside a rutted dirt road at an opening in the high reeds, the path to the village of Kolo Bengou. The deadly Ebola virus is believed to have infected several people in the village, and the youths were blocking the path to prevent health workers from entering.
“We don’t want any visitors,” said their leader, Faya Iroundouno, 17, president of Kolo Bengou’s youth league. “We don’t want any contact with anyone.” The others nodded in agreement and fiddled with their slingshots.
Singling out the international aid group Doctors Without Borders, Mr. Iroundouno continued, “Wherever those people have passed, the communities have been hit by illness.”
Health workers here say they are now battling two enemies: the unprecedented Ebola epidemic, which has killed more than 660 people in four countries since it was first detected in March, and fear, which has produced growing hostility toward outside help. On Friday alone, health authorities in Guinea confirmed 14 new cases of the disease.
Workers and officials, blamed by panicked populations for spreading the virus, have been threatened with knives, stones and machetes, their vehicles sometimes surrounded by hostile mobs. Log barriers across narrow dirt roads block medical teams from reaching villages where the virus is suspected. Sick and dead villagers, cut off from help, are infecting others.
“This is very unusual, that we are not trusted,” said Marc Poncin, the emergency coordinator in Guinea for Doctors Without Borders, the main group fighting the disease here. “We’re not stopping the epidemic.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/28/world/africa/ebola-epidemic-west-afric...