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Ebola Comes To America

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Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,

If the worst Ebola outbreak in recorded history reaches the United States, federal law permits "the apprehension and examination of any individual reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease".  These individuals can be "detained for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary".  In other words, the federal government already has the authority to round people up against their will, take them to detention facilities and hold them there for as long as they feel it is "reasonably necessary".

In addition, as you will read about below, the federal government has the authority "to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill".  If you want to look at these laws in the broadest sense, they pretty much give the federal government the power to do almost anything that they want with us in the event of a major pandemic.  Of course such a scenario probably would not be called "martial law", but it would probably feel a lot like it.

If Ebola comes to America and starts spreading, one of the first things that would happen would be for the CDC to issue "a federal isolation or quarantine order".  The following is what the CDC website says about what could happen under such an order...

Isolation and quarantine are public health practices used to stop or limit the spread of disease.

 

Isolation is used to separate ill persons who have a communicable disease from those who are healthy. Isolation restricts the movement of ill persons to help stop the spread of certain diseases. For example, hospitals use isolation for patients with infectious tuberculosis.

 

Quarantine is used to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill. These people may have been exposed to a disease and do not know it, or they may have the disease but do not show symptoms. Quarantine can also help limit the spread of communicable disease.

 

Isolation and quarantine are used to protect the public by preventing exposure to infected persons or to persons who may be infected.

 

In addition to serving as medical functions, isolation and quarantine also are “police power” functions, derived from the right of the state to take action affecting individuals for the benefit of society.

"Isolation" would not be a voluntary thing.  The federal government would start hunting down anyone that they "reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease" and taking them to the facilities where other patients were being held.  It wouldn't matter if you were entirely convinced that you were 100% healthy.  If the government wanted to take you in, you would have no rights in that situation.  In fact, federal law would allow the government to detain you "for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary".

And once you got locked up with all of the other Ebola patients, there would be a pretty good chance that you would end up getting the disease and dying anyway.  The current Ebola outbreak has a 55 percent percent mortality rate, and experts tell us that the mortality rate for Ebola can be as high as 90 percent.

Once you contracted Ebola, this is what it would look like...

Sudden onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. That is followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function and internal and external bleeding.

The "external bleeding" may include bleeding from the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and just about every other major body cavity.

So how is Ebola spread?

Well, medical authorities tell us that it can be spread through the blood, urine, saliva, stools and semen of a person or animal that already has Ebola.

If you are exposed to the disease, the incubation period can be from anywhere from two days up to 21 days.  But the average is usually about eight to ten days.

In other words, you can be spreading it around for over a week before you even know that you have it.

There is no vaccine for Ebola and there is no cure.

Not everyone dies from the virus, but most people do.

Needless to say, this is about the last disease that you want to catch.  And the doctors that are treating Ebola patients in Africa are going to extreme lengths to keep from getting it...

To minimise the risk of infection they have to wear thick rubber boots that come up to their knees, an impermeable body suit, gloves, a face mask, a hood and goggles to ensure no air at all can touch their skin.

 

Dr Spencer, 27, and her colleagues lose up to five litres of sweat during a shift treating victims and have to spend two hours rehydrating afterwards.

 

They are only allowed to work for between four and six weeks in the field because the conditions are so gruelling.

 

At their camp they go through multiple decontaminations which includes spraying chlorine on their shoes.

But despite all of those extraordinary measures, multiple doctors have already gotten sick.

For example, one of the doctors leading the fight against Ebola, Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, died on Tuesday...

A doctor who was on the front lines fighting the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has died from complications of the disease, Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday.

 

Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan fell ill early last week while overseeing Ebola treatment at Kenema Government Hospital, about 185 miles east of Sierra Leone's capital city, Freetown.

 

He was treated by the French aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres -- also known as Doctors Without Borders -- in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, up until his death, spokesman Tim Shenk said.

And two American doctors that went over to Africa to help fight the disease are now battling for their own lives...

Dr. Kent Brantly, who was treating victims of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, is currently being treated in an isolation unit in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, the AP reported Tuesday.

"I'm praying fervently that God will help me survive this disease," Brantly said in an email Monday to Dr. David Mcray, the director of maternal-child health at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. The Texas-born Brantly, 33, completed a four-year medical residency at the hospital, the AP said.

 

Brantly's wife and two young children left Liberia to return to Abilene, Texas, days before he began to show symptoms of Ebola. They are being monitored for any signs of fever, a City of Abilene spokeswoman told the AP.

 

A second American, aid worker Nancy Writebol of Charlotte, N.C., is also stricken with Ebola, according to CBS/AP. Writebol had been working as a hygienist to help decontaminate people at an Ebola care center in Monrovia.

This is not like other Ebola outbreaks.

Something seems different this time.

But instead of trying to keep things isolated to a few areas, global health authorities are going to start sending Ebola patients to other parts of the globe.  For example, one German hospital has already agreed to start receiving Ebola patients...

A German hospital has agreed to treat Ebola patients amid widespread fears of a possible outbreak of the deadly disease in Europe. Over 670 people have already been killed by the disease in West Africa with doctors struggling to control the epidemic.

 

A German hospital in Hamburg agreed to accept patients following a request from the World Health Organization (WHO), Deutsche Welle reports. Doctors assure that the utmost precautions will be taken to make sure the disease does not spread during treatment. The patients will be kept in an isolation ward behind several airlocks, and doctors and nurses will wear body suits with their own oxygen supplies that will be burned every three hours.

Will Ebola patients also soon be sent to hospitals in the United States?

And of course there are many other ways that Ebola could spread to this country.  For instance, all it would take would be for one infected person to get on one airplane and it could all be over.

Federal authorities seem to have been preparing for such an outbreak for quite a while.  As my good friend Mac Slavo has pointed out, "biological diagnostic systems" were distributed to National Guard units in all 50 states back in April...

The Department of Defense informed Congress that it has deployed biological diagnostic systems to National Guard support teams in all 50 states, according to a report published by the Committee on Armed Services. The report, published in April amid growing fears that the Ebola hemorrhagic fever virus might spread outside of West Africa, says that the portable systems are designed for “low probability, high consequence” scenarios.

 

Some 340 Joint Biological Agent Identification and Diagnostic System (JBAIDS) units have thus far been given to emergency response personnel. The systems are “rapid, reliable, and [provide] simultaneous identification of specific biological agents and pathogens,” says executive officer for the DOD’s Chemical and Biological Defense group Carmen J. Spencer.

Let us certainly hope for the best.

Let us hope that this latest outbreak fizzles out and that we won't even be talking about this by the end of the year.

But experts are warning that if a major global pandemic does break out that millions upon millions of people could die.

If that happens, many people will go crazy with fear.

And we got just a little taste of some of the paranoia that an Ebola epidemic in America would create in Charlotte, North Carolina earlier this week...

A corridor of Carolinas Medical Center – Main’s Emergency Room was roped off on the first floor, near the entrance Wednesday.

 

A security guard was posted outside, to prevent anyone from crossing the line.

 

During a 4 p.m. press conference Katie Passaretti, who is an infectious disease specialist with CMC, said precautions were put into place when patient was brought in Tuesday night.  The patient was traveling from Africa and arrived at the hospital around 11:30 p.m.

 

Around 3 a.m. the security precautions were put into place at the hospital, Passaretti said.

 

Passaretti said they determined the patient did not have Ebola.  The patient has been discharged home.

It is not too hard to imagine forced quarantines and people being rounded up and shipped off to Ebola detention facilities.

In fact, if Ebola were to start spreading like wildfire in this country, many people would actually start demanding such measures.

For example, one member of Congress is already proposing that citizens of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone (and any foreigner that has recently visited those nations) be kept out of the United States...

In a letter addressed to Secretary of State John Kerry and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Alan Grayson, a Florida Democrat, proposed that citizens of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, as well as "any foreign person who has visited one of these nations 90 days prior to arriving in the United States" be kept out of the country. He urged the secretaries to "consider the enhanced risk Ebola now presents to the American public".

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If you think that is all a little far-fetched since we have been reassured that there is no risk to the US... it's already here...

 

As NBC News reports, Emory University Hospital in Atlanta said Thursday it was preparing a special isolation unit to receive a patient with Ebola disease within the next several days.

“We do not know at this time when the patient will arrive,” Emory said in a statement. The university also did not say whether the patient was one of two Americans battling Ebola infection in Liberia – charity workers Nancy Writebol and Dr. Kent Brantly.

 

“Emory University Hospital has a specially built isolation unit set up in collaboration with the CDC to treat patients who are exposed to certain serious infectious diseases,” the hospital said. “It is physically separate from other patient areas and has unique equipment and infrastructure that provide an extraordinarily high level of clinical isolation. It is one of only four such facilities in the country."

 

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Thomas Frieden said he doubted Ebola could spread in the United States. "That is not in the cards," he told reporters Thursday.

 

"If and when that happens...every precaution will be taken to move the patients safety and securely to provide critical care en route and to maintain strict isolation upon arrival in the United States," she added.

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What do you believe will happen if Ebola comes to America?

 

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Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:18 | 5030311 Yes_Questions
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Great Photo at the headline, Tylers!

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:20 | 5030324 wolfnipplechips
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Run to the hills.

And BTFE

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:23 | 5030339 Divided States ...
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there’s something going on here in regards to this Ebola thing, it makes no fuckin sense.


 


-Many of the reported people who contracted the virus are doctors and foreigners helping out in those developing nations. Some actually went back to their home country like the Canadian guy who quarantined himself after he arrived into the country in Victoria British Columbia. Looks to me like it was planned to get these medical ppl to be infected.

 

 


 


-AIDS and Ebola has some similarities as to how it attacks the host (see http://www.rense.com/general17/aidsandEbola.htm)

 

 


 


-MH17 carried a bunch of people who were AIDS researchers/advocates going to Australia

 

 


 


http://news.yahoo.com/flight-mh17-victims-left-lasting-contributions-aid...

 

 


 


-Dept of Defense recently put a HOLD on a small Canadian BC-based biotech by the name of Tekmira (TKMR) who is the closest to developing a drug for Ebola. Now why would the DoD put a hold on a drug that cured 100% of the primates it was tested on when an outbreak is happening...makes no fuckin sense. And coincidence that the Canadian doctor actually went back to Canada close to TKMR’s home office. See below

 

 


 


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2710666/Fast-track-Ebola-drug-...

 

 

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:25 | 5030364 IridiumRebel
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"In fact, if Ebola were to start spreading like wildfire in this country, many people would actually start demanding such measures."

Here's your "State of Emergency" for ceasing the Constitution.
Obama for Life!

#wearefucked

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:27 | 5030373 Save_America1st
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more WHO, CDC, government scumbag psy-op hype to freak out the sheeple to control them even more. 

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:35 | 5030406 Almost Solvent
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What do people in Guinea eat for breakfast?

 

Ebola cornflakes.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:36 | 5030417 Bad Attitude
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Two thoughts: First, Dear Leader is not a leader, his indecisiveness will prevent early containment of any Ebola outbreak in the US. Second, best watch/rewatch The Stand for a quick primer on how the federal government will contain any outbreak.

Forward (over the cliff)!

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:08 | 5030594 Four chan
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its here in atlanta, our government brought it here. to stop we the people once and for all.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:17 | 5030639 chumbawamba
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If the outbreak does spread, even a little, I'm sure Michael Snyder will breathlessly report about it in increasingly hysterical language.  Good old Mike, he sure does love the fear mongering.  There's no catastrophe that Mike won't overblow and exploit for increased page views.

I am Chumbawamba.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:26 | 5030651 Pinto Currency
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http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/07/a-link-between-ebola-outbreak-and-us.html

 

"... The epicentre of the current Ebola epidemic is the Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. BeforeItIsNews claims the hospital houses a US a biosecurity level 2 bioweapons research lab. That claim is unconfirmed, however, this we do know.

Analysis of clinical samples from suspected Lassa fever cases in Sierra Leone showed that about two-thirds of the patients had been exposed to other emerging diseases, and nearly nine percent tested positive for Ebola virus. The findings, published in this month’s edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases, demonstrates that Ebola virus has been circulating in the region since at least 2006—well before the current outbreak, reports Global BioDefense.

According to GBD, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases has been operating in the area since 2006, supposedly working on "diagnostic tests."

Author Randal J. Schoepp, PH. D. reports that because the USAMRIID team just happened to be working on disease identification and diagnostics in the area, they had pre-positioned assays in the region to address the ebola outbreak:

We had people on hand who were already evaluating samples and volunteered to start testing right away when the current Ebola outbreak started. 

The laboratory testing site in Kenema is supported by the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center-Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System. Other contributors to the work include the Department of Defense Joint Program Executive Office-Critical Reagents Program, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Cooperative Biological Engagement Program, and the DTRA Joint Science and Technology Office.

Metabiota Inc., a non-government organization (NGO) is also involved in the testing. It lists among its partners, the Department of State, Biological Engagement Program and the Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Advisors to the NGO include Admiral Gary Roughead, former US Chief of Naval Operations.

Oh, and about Robert Parry, the virologist that I quote above who was in Sierra Leone, BioMed Central reports, that:

He is currently managing a consortium of scientists who are developing modern diagnostics for several biodefense pathogens.

... "

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:43 | 5030785 Yes_Questions
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well, if it was terribly contagious, they'd wear protective equipment, including boots, gloves, a full body suit and face and eye protection.

 

 

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 22:59 | 5031058 Never One Roach
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Please post the airlines, flight numbers, etc these Ebola peeples will be using to fly across the globe. Somehow, my gut tells me I'd rather fly at a different time and on a different plane.

The "gut feelings" a person gets are an early warning mechanism that subtly signals to you, for example, why walking down a dark alley at night might be harmful to your health [ask that USC Chinese grad student, for example].

How will they detox these planes?

The moar I think about it, the moar..."WTF?!"

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 23:32 | 5031144 Georgiabelle
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The word here is that the patient is being flown on a private plane into a small airport in Cartersville, GA, which is northwest of metro Atlanta. Hartsfield-Jackson Airport is not involved in any way, or so they are telling us. I hope that's the case, but I have zero trust in anything any government entity says anymore.  

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 23:55 | 5031213 CheapBastard
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Don't worry. The flight attendant merely has to spray the seats with some Frebreeze! Remember, as the post above says, "it's not terribly contagious."

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 02:45 | 5031510 zhandax
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If you are still flying after they released the TSA terrorists on the airports, you deserve what you get.

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 17:51 | 5046072 TheReplacement
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Have to add that it is not airborne but those medical workers still keep getting infected despite all the protection against physical contact. 

2+2

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 22:10 | 5030905 SantaClaws
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Hahahahaha, that kills me.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 22:13 | 5030910 SantaClaws
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Hahahahaha, that kills me.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 22:45 | 5031024 Save_America1st
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simple...guinea pigs in a blanket

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:40 | 5030421 kaiserhoff
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Hard to see this killing millions unless it goes air born.  The numbers in Africa are tiny given the time frame.  Still, it will get here.

Worst effects are likely to be in prisons, nursing homes, and ... hospitals.  Hospitals could become useless for months, even years.   That's one way to keep costs down.  This would also be another AIDS for gay men.   You go, Bath House.  Show us it ain't all that.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:50 | 5030488 IridiumRebel
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The Reston version is airborne, yet only affects monkeys. There are 5 known versions of it and one is in fact airborne so it is possible this thing has mutated. I believe this is why they want the new cases flown to CDC.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:58 | 5030538 kaiserhoff
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Yes, viruses are constantly exchanging genetic material and mutating.  The potential is definitely there.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 23:52 | 5031209 willwork4food
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Please stop. this is not funny anymore.

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 08:30 | 5031972 dontgoforit
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Metro Atlanta has around 7 million people and one of the busiest airports in the world from which a pandemic could spread to every city on every continent.  Yeah; this makes sense.  Bring it to Emory where it can get out and get busy.  Moronic at least; demonic at worst.

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 00:03 | 5031235 The Chief
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Given the media manipulation, we have absolutely no way whatsoever of knowing if the number of affected are 1,500 or 15,000...or 150,000 for that matter. No way. Further, we have no way of knowing if its airborne or not but must assume it is.

Notice how no one asked US if we wanted to bring infected people into OUR country. Notice how that just happened on the sly? What say you, Georgians?

Good brothers in Georgia, who shall you hang first for this treason? Last I checked, the good people of Georgia are a bit rebellious and it isn't a good idea to try to pull something like this on them. God's speed, Georgia. You are ground zero.

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 12:05 | 5033016 zapdude
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Nobody asked me if I approved flying ebola victims to Atlanta.

When things get ugly here, you're on your own -- that snow & ice storm in January irrefutably proved that fact.

Will stop at Walgreens on the way home and stock up on respiratory masks and latex gloves.

Oh, and a few more rounds of 5.56x45 at CheaperThanDirt would be good, now that I think about it.

BTW, this is also where they film "The Walking Dead" show.  Life imitating art?

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:33 | 5030721 lostintheflood
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i don't get this,

"Nigerian health officials are in the process of trying to trace 30,000 people, believed to be at risk of contracting the highly-infectious virus, following the death of Patrick Sawyer in Lagos"

where did they come up with 30,000 people?  is that what they get when they extrapolate out from patrick sawyer?

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:46 | 5030796 Day_Of_The_Tentacle
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I don't know and have no source - but I think they may be trying to cover specific areas (like e.g. his departure gates and their neighboring gates etc.) of the 4 airports, he traveled through as well as contacts of contacts that he had meetings and other documented contact with. Just guessing though. 

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 23:58 | 5031223 CheapBastard
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"...trying to trace 30,000 [Nigerian] people..."

 

That's easy; just look in their internet cafes.

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 00:43 | 5031320 Four chan
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30000 yeah right. that is straight up bull shit.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:41 | 5030438 Stuck on Zero
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In addition, as you will read about below, the federal government has the authority "to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill"

Unless, of course, Ebola strikes gays or other protected members of humanity.  In that case the government will just let it all go  ...  just as it did with AIDS.

 

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:24 | 5030668 Manthong
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Central Americans invading with or without Ebola should be put up in suites with phone service and flat screen TV’s.

ILLEGALS GET SUITES WITH FLAT-SCREEN TVS...

It the least we, as a nation with unlimited resources can do.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:23 | 5030664 MeMongo
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Truly hate to say it again ,but ......

Captain Tripps......bitchez

Agenda 21, de-population, or such just take your pick!

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:30 | 5030699 stocktivity
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I'd demand it too. What the fuck choice is there? Let them walk freely because we're the land of the free?

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 00:49 | 5031326 IridiumRebel
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I'm fine with quarantining people but not the Constitution.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:53 | 5030824 logicalman
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What better way to finish the destruction of the world and leave a few standing.

Wouldn't be surprised if the plane tickets weren't already bought.

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

Oh, and if fluke doesn't supply enough crises, then create a few.

 

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 18:01 | 5046118 TheReplacement
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So yeah, imagine being one of the 300,000,000 or so preselected survivors.  There will be cholera everywhere.  Critters will come out and gnaw on the corpses and it and/or ebola will get into mosquitoes and bats and lord knows what else.  You won't be able to eat meat and if meat gets a bite of you then you will probably die.  Let us not forget all the riot types who would be looking to storm the gated sanctuaries to get at their betters.  If this is deliberate it is not well thought out.

 

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:42 | 5030440 walküre
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It doesn't make sense but to try and spin this as conspiracy to spread the disease into the Western world is far fetched. The medical personnel could have contracted the virus outside their work just like ordinary Africans. It does happen. There are a couple hundred of those foreign aid workers on the ground and a few got sick. That alone is tragic but it doesn't mean they're deliberately getting sick.

The virus is spreading faster than they are projecting and who knows how many patients are not treated at a hospital. Also, the way this virus gets transmitted seems to be different and Africa's cities are overpopulated.

By the end of the year tens of thousands in Africa will have died from this and there's nothing the world could do to prevent it.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:54 | 5030502 JohnG
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http://www.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/emory-healthcare-to-treat-ebo...

Agence France-Presse interviewed Dr. Peter Piot, a discoverer of the virus and head of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who said there was little risk of pandemic.

“Spreading in the population here, I’m not that worried about it,” he told AFP.

“I wouldn’t be worried to sit next to someone with Ebola virus on the Tube as long as they don’t vomit on you or something,” he said, referring to London’s underground train system. “This is an infection that requires very close contact.”

Ebola is spread through contact with bodily fluids.

THE FUCK YOUR NOT.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:55 | 5030517 walküre
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They're all saying it's not airborne

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 22:42 | 5031012 btdt
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_disease Recent research

In late 2012, Canadian scientists discovered that the deadliest form of the virus could be transmitted by air between species.[144] They managed to prove that the virus was transmitted from pigs to monkeys without any direct contact between them, leading to fears that airborne transmission could be contributing to the wider spread of the disease in parts of Africa

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:23 | 5030670 chumbawamba
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Given a sufficient number of complex facts, a conspiracy or multiple conspiracies, some even entertwined, could be extrapolated.  It doesn't mean there is.  It doesn't mean there isn't.

I am Chumbawamba.

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 08:33 | 5031977 dontgoforit
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But given the current political leadership it sure is fishy, isn't it?  The sixth seal is open.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:37 | 5030750 Bad Attitude
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"It doesn't make sense but to try and spin this as conspiracy..." - walküre

No conspiracy, just incompetence. When Ebola makes it into the wild here in the US, it will be because of regime incompetence. Everything the Obama regime touches turns to shit. Why would the handling of an epidemic be any different?

Forward (over the cliff)!

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 23:05 | 5031076 Never One Roach
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I have no fear of this thing at all.

 

However, just in case I added to my stock of dried beans, canned beans, rice, water, duck tape and some more Zombie ammo by Hornady. Hornady claims it's been proven "to stop Zombies":

 

http://www.hornady.com/ammunition/zombiemax

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 07:11 | 5031773 Urban Redneck
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"There are a couple hundred of those foreign aid workers on the ground and a few got sick."???

Over 10% of the fatalities are healthcare workers, and they're rapidly closing in on 100 deaths., but yes, technically only a "few" work in foreign aid, like the Liberian-American banker who died in Lagos.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:25 | 5030679 Buck Johnson
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I agree, something is not right and this seems like a epidemic that may have been allowed to happen.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 22:12 | 5030909 teslaberry
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i see what you did there alex jones. a bunch of monkey on this site must have upvoted you. 

 

EBOLA CONSPIRACY WEAPONS!. 

 

SHUT UP. EBOLA IS NOTHING AND EVERYTHING SAID ABOUT IT IS HYPE. PLAGUE HAS MOSTLY BEEN DEAL WITH BY AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE GERM THEORY OF DISEASE. 

 

20,000 PEOPLE COULD DIE AND IT OWULDN'T BE A PROBLEM. THE SPANISH FLU KILLED 20,000,000 IN TWO YEARS. IN EUROPE AND AROUND THE WORLD. 

 

TRY THAT SHIT.

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 13:03 | 5033436 Cheduba
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Agreed, this is very convenient timing for an Ebola outbreak to be overhyped by the media at a time when the global financial markets are so close to collapse.

Portugal bankruptcies,  Chinese rehypothecation, reconfiguring of the gold and silver fixes, bilateral agreements moving away from the dollar - it appears the elites are desperate enough to fall back to control by our primal instinct of fear (see CDC admissions of over hyping the swine flu, after it was out of the media's attention of course).

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:29 | 5030378 lordbyroniv
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I remember after reading Stephen King' THE STAND thinking if everyone died....it would be...well....

 

like my version of 

 

HEAVEN !!!

 

heres to Ebola !!!!!

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:55 | 5030832 logicalman
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Only works if you are one of the very lucky.

If not, well................

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:32 | 5030392 junction
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You will know the Ebola situation is bad when Obama cancels a golf vacation trip and then seals himself up in Camp David with his family, his hanger-ons, his drug connection and his teleprompter.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:12 | 5030612 NidStyles
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So in your version Reggie isn't there?

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 23:43 | 5031181 Urban Roman
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hangers-on

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 22:09 | 5030901 BaghdadBob
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"Ebola comes to America" - would the MSM blame that on Putin as well?

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:20 | 5030317 ninja247
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Not "if"; but when.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:23 | 5030327 IridiumRebel
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It's coming. Prepare.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:21 | 5030333 Compwiz4u
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Emory University Hospital in Atlanta is getting an Ebola patient?? I do not understand why this is happening. Are TPTB trying to create a pandemic as the financial system collapses?

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:27 | 5030372 JohnG
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CDC HQ is literally right across the street from Emory.....huge medical campus.  That said, I'm two hours from there and a bit worried.

My father was a CDC epidemiologist.  He's very unhappy about this.

Because we have a much more developed public health system, modern sanitation practices, and the infrastructure to contain an infection, we are probably ok.  Until we're not.  According to my dad, and he should know about this. 

 

 

 

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:57 | 5030526 JohnG
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Yes.  You are right.  It's just stupid to purposely bring it here.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:48 | 5030809 DirkDiggler11
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I live right by Emory University and I'm not worried one damn bit about this patient. What does however worry the hell out of me is the thousands of travelers coming in through Hartsfield Jackson Airport in Atlanta everyday. How long do you think it will take for a case to show up there ? A week ? A month ? We'll find out soon enough.

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 00:18 | 5031263 Blankenstein
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Good point.

 

Nigerian officials were unable to check who might have been exposed on the two ASKY flights, as the airline inexplicably had failed to provide passenger lists. ASKY did suspend all service to Liberia and to Sierra Leone - See more at: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/30/minnesota-widow-on-her-...

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 00:57 | 5031348 kumquatsunite
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And that is counting on everyone, doing everything, exactly right. Right?

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:33 | 5030394 XitSam
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Yes. Everything is prceeding according to plan.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:28 | 5030691 crazybob369
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Rhetorical question?

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:43 | 5030789 DirkDiggler11
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No, it's just that this strain is being transmitted in ways they don't understand, more likely won't admit, it's airborne. Why would you bring just one patient to Atlanta ? It's not like they are helping relieve the burden in a certain area and say taking 20 to 50 patients. When "hospitals" in developed countries are taking one patient, that means they are studying the disease to find out how it has mutated and is getting away from them.

Too many talking heads all over the media saying the same thing, "no risk in the developed world cause we have IV fluids. BULLSHIT. This fucker is already out of control, they just don't want to start a world-wide panic.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 22:01 | 5030867 logicalman
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On the 'bright' side, this strain seems to be 55-60% lethal.

An improvement on the advertised 90% for previous outbreaks.

Not trying to trivialise, by the way.

As for not trying to cause a panic.....

if TPTB think a panic will further their agenda, guess what?......

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 01:02 | 5031355 kumquatsunite
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I, personally, (chaw!) don't think it's airborne. They are just refusing to state that having third world workers hose down the docs with a piss-ant stream of liquid from a plastic container on their backs, doesn't get the job done. (see pics: the workers hosing down the docs in their suits have plastic containers like the weed killer/lawn guys use. They also seem to believe that the third world workers doing this to the docs are doing the right kind of job when obviously they aren't. 

The big problem...is probably the number of people on the planet. In 76 when they had the first outbreak, documented, we were just over 4 billion. Now we are 7 billion and have that fun international travel.

And if the CDC says, that it's not very contagious, then they should put there kids to work caring for these patients, eh?

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 07:18 | 5031790 Urban Redneck
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Because the expert docs who actually went to Africa and witnessed this poor decon job first hand either have no idea WTF ebola is about or they're suicidal...

The problem is not the healthcare workers.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 22:00 | 5030862 Implied Violins
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Why else would they pay couriers to bring sick kids into the country and then send them all over the place? This smells of conspiracy, in the worst possible way.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:30 | 5030385 dobermangang
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Iowahawk has some great tweets on Ebola coming to America:

 

 

"Let's all pray this Ebola thing isn't a replay of the horrifying 1995 Macarena epidemic."

"Hey gals - if you've been thinking about sending me nude selfies, might as well do it now before the Ebola hits."

"And the neighbors laughed when I stocked up on those surplus WW2 flamethrowers. "

"Ebola - doing the job that American viruses won't do"

"Starve a cold, import an Ebola"

Doctor: "We don't see many cases of Ebola here."
Patient: "I'm not surprised, at these prices!"

https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:36 | 5030414 XitSam
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10 Weapons You Won't Believe Are Legal  --  #1 Flamethrower

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Media/Slideshow/2013/03/28/10-Weapons-You-...

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 22:11 | 5030894 logicalman
Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:21 | 5030336 Rusty Shorts
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FWIW, here's some video I shot while in West Africa not long ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAaOYjHb9K0

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:24 | 5030352 LetThemEatRand
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The small tree at 22 seconds looks like a face, and the large tree looks like a lioness with wings.   Must have been a cool trip.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:45 | 5030465 jimmytorpedo
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Rusty Shorts:

  You didn't shoot that video.

--Obama

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:53 | 5030506 walküre
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Noticed the "Forward" paint job and what looked like a holy Obama portrait?

Naturally pretty girls at 5:09. Don't trust African condoms.

Outside the resort is the reality of Africa's "progression".

Would you go back?

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:08 | 5030566 Rusty Shorts
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.

 

"Noticed the "Forward" paint job and what looked like a holy Obama portrait?"

 

 - the long boat flying the Union Jack?

 

 

"Would you go back?" 

 

Yes, been back several times. spend most of my time in the bush surveying for entomology specimens and maybe a gold nugget or three. awesome place indeed...in more ways than one

 

 - R.S.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:11 | 5030613 geekz_rule
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cool.. thanks for sharing it man

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:24 | 5030354 lcs
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Alarmist claptrap aimed at doomsters.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 22:05 | 5030889 IridiumRebel
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I'd say this is that place.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 22:23 | 5030945 Arkadaba
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lol

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:25 | 5030360 Beard of Zeus
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"Something seems different this time"

 

No shit.

 

It feels as if people in the US and Europe are being prepped for a mass die-off.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:29 | 5030380 i_call_you_my_base
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This disease is not that easy to contract, you have to exchage spit or blood, like aids. If it comes here, just don't touch anyone or anything and you won't get it. The reason doctors are getting infected is because they are coming in contact with the infected and their fluids. The influenzas are much worse.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:53 | 5030484 buzzsaw99
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this thing spreads quite easily. it is almost unheard of for an aids doctor to get sick with aids. ebola patients ooze the infection from every pore of their bodies. sweat, saliva, feces, urine, nasal mist, etc., aren't that big a problem with aids but a huge problem with ebola. if this thing goes airborne nothing will stop it.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:56 | 5030520 i_call_you_my_base
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I'm not saying it's good, I just don't think it's going to cause armageddon. Humans are doomed, but it probably won't be ebola that does it.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 22:03 | 5030876 Arkadaba
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I agree. By saying that transmission is not airborne, I would assume in order to get infected I would have to swap some bodily fluids with someone. That does not seem to be the case with this virus based on the infection of medical personal and some of the precautions being proposed. 

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 01:16 | 5031375 kumquatsunite
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The suspicious, from the things I've read, is that sweat is the culprit. We don't connect with this idea because of our recent mass use of air conditioning, which is an Extremely new event, even in the West. As a kid, no one had air conditioning.

In the third world countries, they are hot and people leave sweat everywhere. There's your bugaboob in the ebola equation.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:34 | 5030732 darteaus
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You must work at the CDC.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:35 | 5030733 FredFlintstone
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The CDC advised that crew members on a flight with a passenger or crew member who is “ill with fever, jaundice, or bleeding” and has been traveling from or has recently been in an area at risk for the disease should follow these precautions:

  • Keep the sick person separated from others as much as possible.
  • Provide the sick person with a surgical mask (if the sick person can tolerate wearing one) to reduce the number of droplets expelled into the air by talking, sneezing, or coughing.
  • Give tissues to a sick person who cannot tolerate a mask. Provide a plastic bag for disposing of used tissues.
  • Wear impermeable disposable gloves for direct contact with blood or other body fluids.

 

Sounds a little easier to acquire than you suggest.

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 17:36 | 5035077 darteaus
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"The CDC advised that crew members on a flight with a passenger or crew member who is “ill with fever, jaundice, or bleeding” and has been traveling from or has recently been in an area at risk for the disease should follow these precautions:"

Crash your plane immediately into the middle of the ocean.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 22:34 | 5030986 btdt
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Not easy to contract?

If one gets to the very long wikipedia entry on Ebola, the read this:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-31/wests-reckless-rush-towards-war...

 

"...

Recent research

In late 2012, Canadian scientists discovered that the deadliest form of the virus could be transmitted by air between species.[144] They managed to prove that the virus was transmitted from pigs to monkeys without any direct contact between them, leading to fears that airborne transmission could be contributing to the wider spread of the disease in parts of Africa

..."

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:30 | 5030381 Smartie37
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Potential Ebola therapy - the cholesterol reducing drug ezetimibe. 
Ezetimibe binds to the NPC1 (Niemann Pick C1) receptor which is critical for ebola virus entry into cells (references below).   Ezetimibe has already been shown to effectively block HBV and HCV (references also below), so it seems like it would be worthwhile to try for Ebola. Identification of the Niemann-Pick C1-like 1 cholesterol absorption receptor as a new hepatitis C virus entry factor. Nat Med. 2012 Jan 8;18(2):281-5.    Moreover, ezetimibe inhibits infection by all major HCV genotypes in vitro and in vivo delays the establishment of HCV genotype 1b infection in mice with human liver grafts. Thus, we have not only identified NPC1L1 as an HCV cell entry factor but also discovered a new antiviral target and potential therapeutic agent. PMID: 22231557 

Ezetimibe blocks hepatitis B virus infection after virus uptake into hepatocytes. Antiviral Res. 2013 Feb;97(2):195-7.  PMID: 23266293 
Ebola virus entry requires the cholesterol transporter Niemann-Pick C1. Nature. 2011 Aug 24;477(7364):340-3.  PMID: 21866103   Small molecule inhibitors reveal Niemann-Pick C1 is essential for Ebola virus infection. Nature. 2011 Aug 24;477(7364):344-8.  PMID: 21866101  
Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:33 | 5030395 JohnG
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Wikipedia much????

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 01:11 | 5031371 Smartie37
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Looks like ezetimibe won't work for Ebola after all, too bad:

"Binding proteins for Ebola and HCV-- NPC1 and NPC1-like1, respectively, are in fact different (but related) proteins. They are paralogs that are ~50% similar. They are both cholesterol transporters, but are expressed in different cells and are regulated differently (NPC1 is present in all cells; NPC1-like1 is present only in gut epithelial cells and liver hepatocytes). We know that Ebola doesn't need NPC1-like1 at all. Also, Zetia (ezetimibe) blocks NPC1-like1 but has no effect on NPC1. "

Kartik Chandran, PhD

Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

http://www.microbeworld.org/component/content/article?id=1111

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:32 | 5030393 buzzsaw99
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Aids didn't spread nearly that easily and it still kills a lot of people.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:53 | 5030507 kaiserhoff
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Aids didn't spread at all in the VD sense.  It was and is just a blown out immune system.  Peter Deusberg did the heavy lifting on that in Inventing the Aids Virus.

This, on the other hand, is an honest to god, contagious viral disease.   Much worse than aids.  We are living in interesting times.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:33 | 5030722 darteaus
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"Aids didn't spread at all in the VD sense"

Uh, could you clarify that?

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 00:01 | 5031233 Urban Roman
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I think it was just a nitpicky supercilious way of saying that the Acquired Immune Deficiency does not really start until the virus that caused it has finished its work trashing the immune system. 

But it's also wrong because an individual with the syndrome can still give you HIV, exactly in the VD sense.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:57 | 5030510 kaiserhoff
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.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:02 | 5030561 darteaus
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But AIDS is a disability, not a "disease".

http://www.ada.gov/aids/

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:36 | 5030411 angel_of_joy
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What do you believe will happen if Ebola comes to America?

Pretty much what happened in the movie "Outbreak" except for the happy ending (wich was implausible anyway...)

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:37 | 5030422 Jack Burton
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This may be known already, BUT, just in on CNN the US Government has gone to Africa and picked up Ebola infected American(s) and are flying them to America. I forget the name of the hospital, I just caught it as I walked in. The graphic made clear the smart government is taking American Ebola victims here to America to be isolated. Need I tell you how fucking insane this?

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:43 | 5030450 buzzsaw99
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they are personally driving the infected monkey to the airport

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:45 | 5030462 LetThemEatRand
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At least we can be sure they checked their luggage for drugs and box cutters.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 23:46 | 5031197 Schizofrantic Squonk
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I thought he got to ride there in Marine One...

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:38 | 5030753 Everybodys All ...
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Just when you think things can't get more screwed up. If this goes out of control from here there will be hell to pay. A massive revolution will be in order.

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 08:14 | 5031928 Lostinfortwalton
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Not to mention somebody like CNN will send a prominent talking head and film crew to Africa to do an "in depth and personal" series of stories and then fly them back to the US. What could go wrong?

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:40 | 5030433 Smuckers
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Long hand sanitizer. 

Buy when there's blood in the streets. 

 

 

 

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 00:43 | 5030577 IridiumRebel
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We'll then TKMR CLX and CONX are your Buffet buys.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:25 | 5030676 crazybob369
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Long silver. Much better virus killer.

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 06:08 | 5031701 slvrizgold
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Silver knocks out every virus or infection it comes into contact with.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:42 | 5030439 SillySalesmanQu...
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TPTB have decided not to wait for it to maybe spread....they are going to import it here, and anywhere else they feel like killing off a few million or billion while they go retreat to their luxurious underground bunkers and wait...patiently for us to drop like flies. Time to roll the guillotines...

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 22:20 | 5030940 PoliticalRefuge...
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.."TPTB have decided not to wait for it to maybe spread....they are going to import it here, and anywhere else they feel like killing off a few million or billion while they go retreat to their luxurious underground bunkers and wait...patiently for us to drop like flies. Time to roll the guillotines"...

..let me condense that to it's element..."Time to roll the guillotines"..

You don't have to make a case for proaction any longer.

 

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:41 | 5030441 general ambivalent
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Is this the monsanto version of ebola?

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:42 | 5030444 A Lunatic
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Federal Reserve policies kill thousands every year. Get some fucking perspective.......

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:59 | 5030546 22winmag
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THe IMF is an even bigger death machine. Think "austerity".

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:43 | 5030448 Fix It Again Timmy
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When the smallpox virus was being transported in London on the way to the airport to be flown to the CDC in Atlanta, it was escorted by all manners of police and emergency vehicles.  CDC  personnel [bubba] picked up the container at Hartsfield airport in Atlanta, threw it in the trunk of their car and then drove unaccompanied by anything to the CDC about 20 miles away.  Now Ebola commin' to town, great 'cuz I live near Emory.  As W said, "Bring 'em on" - you know how that TURNED out...

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:46 | 5030468 IndianaJohn
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They didn't quarantine the AIDS perverts and AIDS junkies. Back in the day ('88) I had an AIDS scare from fucking a junkie woman. Chicago Board of Health Clinic put me thru several layers of anonymity to insure my privacy. I asked; 'how do you keep a public health issue private? Silence, is all I heard.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:06 | 5030581 kumquatsunite
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Exactly. 50,000 NEW Aids cases each year (that's just the gay men statistics; another 10,000 mostly black women who have sex with bisexual black men; these two statistics are CDC statistics) but the CDC, which has as it's Primary Focus Stopping Any/All communicable disease, chases a few measles cases while gay men are out there spreading this stuff like rabbits. But god forbid anyone say to them, nope, we ain't gonna keep paying for all this health stuff; you gotta change your ways.

Course, they, the gay guys, want to give blood so EVERYONE can have it that way all medical funding can go to finding a "cure" for Aids, and they can keep doing whatever they want, to whoever, whenever. Watched the HBO movie The Normal Heart. First thirty minutes they used the line, "They've taken up sexual promiscuity as their cause." Well, at least they weren't trying to sugar coat it. But anyone who can see the scenes of anonymous guys in bathhouses entering rooms with doors slightly ajar, showing naked men just waiting, and not be repulsed, is no longer human. We have souls. That is soulless behavior.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:46 | 5030471 Fix It Again Timmy
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Atlanta, GA. Home of the 1996 Olympic Games and Home of the 2014 Great Ebola Outbreak that took out the USA.....

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:17 | 5030472 TomGa
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Article FAIL. Stephen King's Dr. Trips aside, I doubt the pandemic potential of Ebola in the US unless areosolized  -  meaning mutated or intentionally engineered.  Of course there was that recombinant DNA porcine/avian/human flu bug that escaped someone's lab and got loose in Mexico a few years ago....

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 04:41 | 5031615 Hobbleknee
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Does sneezing blood count as aerosolized?

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:47 | 5030474 Yes_Questions
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Channeling Lewis Black:

 

FUCK!

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:49 | 5030479 Yen Cross
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 Okay folks, I had lunch with my Mother last week, and as usual, wanted to update her on current events.

 I asked my Mother about some fairly significant current "MACRO" geopolitical events. Her response was, "it's not on my doorstep", and "this couldn't happen here".

 My response, after being torched by the "EVIL EYE", was " I'm just suggesting you think about the possibilty."

 Time PASSES 10days

  I go to lunch with my Mother today...The first words out of her mouth are EBOLA!

  I Fuckin Give Up

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 23:32 | 5031149 samsara
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Yen, Nothing is important until it is with a lot of folks

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:53 | 5030500 Reaper
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Why must we be stupid and presume these compassionate government and medical experts know what to do? The dead compassionate doctors show something else.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:55 | 5030514 NoWayJose
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"There is nothing to fear from the Spanish Flu." - US government Health Officials in the summer of 1918.

The US had gone through a mild wave of Spanish Flu in the spring of 1918, leading to optimism that the worst was over. However, unstoppable second and third waves of Spanish Flu hit that fall and winter leaving over nearly 700,000 US citizens dead.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:02 | 5030565 Amish Hacker
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Don't worry about a thing. The ebola outbreak will be confined to subprime.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:40 | 5030768 Berspankme
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Emory College is well capitalized

Fri, 08/01/2014 - 01:03 | 5031357 Maxter
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What is even more tragic is that this ahppened right at teh end of WW1.  Soldiers who were lucky enough to survive returned home, some to learn that they lost relatives to the desease (more then double the number of U-S WW1 casualties).

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:56 | 5030522 Captain Jack Sparrow
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I think I've got Ebola... oh no it's just that bad Mexican food I had last night hahahahahaha...ooops I shouldn't have laughed so hard...shit

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:57 | 5030525 22winmag
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Federal law permits... blah blah.

 

Yeah right, try enforcing these laws in a real SHTF situation. When the shit really hits the fan, everyone above the rank of junior file clerk in state and federal government will be ducking bullets or running to avoid the guillotine.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:59 | 5030536 Dutch
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So the mortality rate on the current version of Ebola is 55% instead of the usual 90%. So that means it can more easily spread without killing its hosts?

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:18 | 5030647 kaiserhoff
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Any numbers coming out of Africa, are pretty squishy, and there is some "work in progress", infections that haven't killed yet, but will.  But yes.  We could have some Typhoid Mary situations.  Gawdhelpus.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 23:11 | 5031085 HardlyZero
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Hope there is little Wall Street hype trying to find a silver lining or investment angle.

Could be 12 Monkeys or The Omega Man.

Prefer isolation over quarantine.

Maybe shut down travel for a month ?  

Dismal.

Anyway good information, and thank you Michael Snyder.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 23:45 | 5031186 tvdog
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They seem to think it's about 60% mortality with this strain. Not sure since they don't know exactly how many people who have it now will eventually die of it.

But it's not 90%. That is the record for the most fatal strain. Ebola strains vary from 0% mortality up to 90%.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 23:50 | 5031201 tvdog
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People that recover from ebola remain infectious for up to 7 weeks, even with no symptoms. But people who are asymptomatic during the initial incubation period are not infectious.

Yes, the virus is spread by bodily fluids, but that includes droplets from sneezing, and ebola starts out like the common cold. Sneezing, fever, muscle aches.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:59 | 5030537 kumquatsunite
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The idjats at the CDC are examples of political correctness run amuck. That any doctor would say this:

The disease is not terribly contagious, but it can spread via bodily fluids and healthcare workers are at special risk. They must wear layers of protective equipment including boots, gloves, a full body suit and face and eye protection.

ln other words, even though they suit up in so many layers it's practically impossible to actually "scrub down" the layers when they are done, we are told we are so stupid that that the "disease is not terribly contagious." 

That your government would bring anyone with Ebola into the country, rather than sending whatever resources are needed there, is...peculiar. There's something going on...and remember this is the same CDC that just had the anthrax calamady, which just found a vial of smallpox (albeit dead cells) floating around in some basement when they decided to move from one building to another, and which just fired 11 CDC workers for not taking required precautions when fooling around with a non-treatable flu virus in the labs. 

Looking at the pictures from various sites, what you see if suited up docs being hosed down with a single wand sending out a stream of very thin liquid from a pack on someone's back. The idea that this little stream of liquid will find and kill the virus is LUDICROUS!! The square area of the docs body would require a hosing with at least five times the amount of liquid on the person's back (in the plastic container; you can see pics in various places).

Add to that the reuse of needles (one of the original hospitals was noted as giving a shot for what was thought to be malaria to one of the first women who died from Ebola with a needle that had been used all day, and probably many days after, and before.

Ah, thank you, Baby Jesus for giving us the idjats, who continue to find more levels of hell to send us to. It's not enough we aren't allowed to have a country that reflects the men and women (oh sure, mostly white, English speaking...throw those stones!) but instead are turned into a third-world cesspool because it's "good for us." After all no one in history has ever had a country as successful as the USA; gotta destroy it. Pronto!

By the way, Oboma is running right over to Emory to visit the Ebola patient right? Or one of his kids who works with the downtrodden...? Oh wait, she's off in Hollywood working for Spielberg's company. Chortle.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:14 | 5030626 darteaus
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Ebola is the perfect "crisis".

Every tyrant needs a crisis to be granted extraordinary, "temporary" powers.


Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:59 | 5030541 Watts_D_Matter
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Wonder if Ebola is covered under ObamaCare.....

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:03 | 5030564 darteaus
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IF?

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:12 | 5030595 rsnoble
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Exciting!!!!

Now I eased a little of my anxiety waiting on the next episode of "The Strain" this sunday.

And on a serious note please explain to me what's wrong with the following:

"the apprehension and examination of any individual reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease".

Everyone's crying about their rights.  If you've had possible exposure you're goddamn right someone needs to lock your ass up for examination.  

The part of that I don't like though is you're going to be locked up with others suspected of having it and some of them are bound to be infected so you will be around them.  They better have some very good containment cells.

I suspect they won't........and if you're in with a bunch of others who have it will you EVER get out?  And suppose you do have it and don't get caught and don't know it..........how many will you affect???

This is a zero-win game.

Also........this business of taking safety clothing off and on without first going into some kind of decontamination chamber is a death sentence.

And of course the wider spread this stuff gets the more chance it has of meeting one of it's little buddies and go into cahoots to make something even worse and more easily spreadable.


Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:14 | 5030629 rsnoble
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I think if you're convinced you don't have it to treat it as if you would the gov't coming for you in the night because you're on the shit list.  Either wipe out as many as you can before you're killed or run for your life.

It will be a disaster that can't be controlled.

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:27 | 5030604 dobermangang
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Rest assured folks, if there's ever an Ebola outbreak in the USA, the federal government will tell us right away.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/state-regional/worst-tb-outbreaki...

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 21:18 | 5030644 OMG
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If you come in contact or intend to come in contact with, someone who has Ebola, or may have Ebola, or is thought to have Ebola, please take your lead vitamins, it is painless & quick, it would be best to use a fail safe delivery system such as a Glock!

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