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"Ebola Spins Out Of Control" - Latest News Roundup
Here are the latest news on the worst Ebola epidemic in history.
- Ebola death toll rises to 826 as outbreak spins out of control
- Second American with Ebola to return Tuesday
- Doctor in Nigeria's largest city of Lagos tests positive for Ebola after treating country's first case
- Ebola threatens to erase Liberia’s progress since civil war
- U.K. is holding regular meetings on Ebola
- WHO sees “extremely small” Ebola risk outside West Africa
- U.S. Ebola patient improving amid calls for help in Africa
- Ebola test carried out after U.K. air passenger death
- Official response hampered by worries in Liberia capital
- Ebola crisis alters agenda for African summit in Washington
- Guinea villagers keep eating fruit bats
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In NYC, it could be handled better than Lagos where i believe it will spread to next and that is when it gets hyper-fucked.
I have a sinking feeling its already in Lagos and its only spreading from there. We will know in another 1 or 2 weeks at the most. I read somewhere recently that Russia is sending Biological Weapons experts to Nigeria to asses the situation as well, anyone else read that?
Got a source on that? I'm sure lots of people would want to know!
Ahhh "Russian Health Ministry Specialists" i forget that Russia dismanteled its Bioweapons programs.....or something llike that. fact finding mission? Or just a friendly helping hand? Or....are they marking the best spots for a ground level nuke detonation?
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20140803/191668032/Russian-Health-Ministry-Exper...
If they dismantled it, and want to do a quick reboot, then some fresh, live samples are just the thing.
As the British, Canadian, German and US governments and Big Pharma companies.
BTW, I read the article. What part of Russia are those health workers (in the JPG) from?
"Folks" will get ebola
Can I get out of being a folk?
Die.
We need to "MAKE SURE" folks who are afraid of Ebola realize their EBT cards will afford them the health care they need even when the rich are pushing them over the cliff.
Some idiot journalist types up a headline and says the ebola cure is in tobacco. Turns out after reading the article it is a genetically engineered experimetal antidote/treatment not tobacco itself.
I was fixin' to make a run and load up on Swisher Sweets or White Owl 'rillos. My day is ruined from disappointment
While I am somehow certain that he was looking for a way to elevate his status as opposed to your solution of burial, I suppose it is exactly that sarcasm which created what I consider to be comedic genius. +1000
I thought was pretty damn funny...although he obviously wants me dead.
No, those are just dead folks. Make great voters I'm told.
"Can I get out of being a folk?"
No, we're all folked.
If you don't want your Ebola, you can keep your Ebola.
Obama's been folkin Americans for a long time.
We ebolaed some folks.
@Dead Man Walking: ""Folks" will get Ebola"
Yes, I know. I knew that weeks ago, when a new TV series started: "The Last Ship". And then there's a remake of Noah. Interesting timing, but I'm sure it's all a Hollywood coincidence.
Breitbart:
"In addition to the individuals from terror-prone nations who attempted to illegally enter the U.S., individuals from nations currently suffering from the world’s largest Ebola outbreak have been caught attempting to sneak across the porous U.S. border into the interior of the United States. At least 71 individuals from the three nations affected by the current Ebola outbreak have either turned themselves in or been caught attempting to illegally enter the U.S. by U.S. authorities between January 2014 and July 2014."
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/08/03/Leaked-CBP-Report-Sh...
(as reported by Drudge a few min ago)
The President needs to either resign immediately or told he will be removed from Office and put under some type of "confinement" before this entire catastrophe can be contained.
Biden's better?
Yes. I actually think he is the President right now actually anyways.
It's really just a formality involving something along the lines of "who is that dude sitting at the end of the Mall staring at Congress where that other dude gave the I have a dream speech?" (Hint, hint...if you answer that question correctly you get a job he once held.). You have thirty seconds to come up with the correct response.
Preezy had a sweaty lip yesterday. Better quarantine him, for his own safety!
Tenshin, this underscores the madness of the situation.
One would expect that the powers that be out of basic self-preservation would at least quietly take basic measures to limit the chance of Ebola spreading. Perhaps maintain the political correctness for those still suffering from post-1960s acid experimentation, but ‘direct’ things in the background to protect their own hides.
Nope. Not a chance. Every action of theirs is truly psychotic, comparable to jumping into water with live electric lines pumping major voltage.
The appeals to ‘compassion/charity’ are absurdist (it is evil to endanger millions to feel good being a do-gooder) and inventions of legality laughable (‘right of return’ they say- I guess the droned people somehow are exempt from this novel concept.)
My business requires me to travel and I have to watch this very closely. I’m shocked so many people I talk to think it is ‘mean’ to be concerned about this. I know the MSM is spreading the BS thickly, now claiming on CNBC that it is “very hard” to catch Ebola (sure, USAMRID keeps it in Level IV labs and works with it using space suits just for kicks.)
I don’t know gang. My sense is that intelligent people are reasonably concerned with this. I told all my compatriots, expect no refuge at the ASACJon redoubt. Y’all should have been prepping with the rest of us ants. If Ebola breaks out, it is DEFCON 1 and me and my family will defend ourselves from any trespass.
God willing, this blows over, but I’m not so sure it will.
I don't see it (in the short run) becoming a huge deal in the US. However Africa might depopulate in a big way over the next 6 months.
Now. As Africa implodes there will be a lot of desperate people in flight -- desperate people with money. They will not come the the US because we will have shut down air travel. However they will get into places like Mexico and Haiti with ease. Once there, ebola will take on a new life and might even become more viral than it already is (by being exposed to a greater number of pathogens from which it can "learn" new tricks). In maybe a year you get a serious outbreak in Mexico, and those people already have connections to money and health care in the US, so they stream across the US border by the millions. Short of deploying the US Army there is no way to stop them, no way at all. So then you start getting ebola outbreaks in places like LA, Colorado, rural parts of Texas and New Mexico. Probably the California Bay Area. At that point ebola will become naturalized -- part of the local environment -- and will never go away ever for evar.
Let us hope for the sake of US public and pray that this works...
CDC director: "We can stop" Ebola from spreadingAfrican woman died at Gatwick airport yesterday though THEY claim it was not Ebola:
African woman who died in UK did not have EbolaThe first of international ramifications have started unfolding already:
Korea did not allow 3 Nigerians to attend a conference:
Ebola outbreak: South Korea bars Nigerians from university conferenceAnd, Dubai has stopped flights to Guinea:
Ebola alert: Emirates halts flights to Guineafuck the cdc, they're in on the bull shit show, ebola cannot be spread in an aerosol form, I.E. sneezing, it must be spread through direct contact. hence the reason they have not been able to weaponize it, that and it kills too fast for proper fear mongering tactics.
http://www.removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/2014/08/the-ebola-outbreak-pa...
I am sure you are right...that is why I said let us hope and pray...
Anyways...second Nigerian citizen/doctor just got Ebola infection from the Liberian/American Patrick Sawyer who died at Lagos airport...
LAGOS RECORDS SECOND CASE OF EBOLA IN DOCTOR WHO TREATED VICTIM - NIGERIAN HEALTH MINISTERhow many foreign students from these countries are going back to university? dorms are a great place to spread in addition to planes.
Canadian scientists have shown that the deadliest form of the ebola virus could be transmitted by air between species.
In experiments, they demonstrated that the virus was transmitted from pigs to monkeys without any direct contact between them.
The researchers say they believe that limited airborne transmission might be contributing to the spread of the disease in some parts of Africa.
They are concerned that pigs might be a natural host for the lethal infection.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20341423
Not surprised. After all, "Air" is technically just a low-density FLUID, if you ever studied Thermodynamics.
Also, if you think about it... When in close physical proximity (short travel paths for pathogens), they can hitch a ride via any of the 6 transfer mechanisms that come to mind immediately: Leftover contaminated food bits, a fart, a sneeze, oral slobber, vomit, or hand-to-face-object transfer.
That's why "Charitable Treatment" seems the height/depth of voluntary or self-induced stupidity, given the scope and threat of the problem.
/ p.s. Jesus never told you this, nor did your Church, but... "Being a Good Samaritan" does not work on some microbes. And "Unconditional Samaritanism" is just Reverse Darwinism (Devolution, not Evolution). Mother Nature will teach you real soon on what she thinks about that. /sarc
The outbreak in Reston, although not transmissible to humans, WAS airborne. It WAS an Ebola strain.
This virus DOES have airborne potential, it is just one small mutation away.
Let us hope for the sake of the US public that not everybody will run arround like scared chickens and act like scared children.
With weaker immune systems, US has a better chance to spread the virus faster than Africa where they have higher immunity....so scared chickens, they would be in the US....
Great Point Dubaibanker. Not sure why you got two arrows down.
Anyway, many Africans in DC. And I work around many of them. Scaring, after reading your post..... Very scaring, if people in DC start getting affected.
"Korea did not allow 3 Nigerians to attend a conference". EEEE GADS! Try doing that in any western country. The responsible officials would be hung on the nearest lamppost for racism.
My wife read the news about the lady dying at Gatwick, whether ebola related or proven to be otherwise, and stated that this disease will make it here. She worked in Sierra Leone doing travel nursing and now runs a clinic. She thinks that the US Gov should have sent a Medical boat to Western Africa or Freetown and set up shop there. It breaks every protocol for dealing with a morphing and 90% deadly virus like Ebola. Everything she has read about this is totally wrong. Now I read today that our porous borders have people streaming across from Western Africa. "At least 71 individuals from the three nations affected by the current Ebola outbreak have either turned themselves in or been caught attempting to illegally enter the U.S. by U.S. authorities between January 2014 and July 2014." (Breitbart). She believes that it is airborne too. It has to be because 100 medical professionals would not be stricken with the disease otherwise. My cousin is a PHd epidemiologist who works at Emory. I am trying to get my wife to contact her as they are better friends due to their medical field background. I'll keep you all posted as to any info I may glean. in the meantime, get some P100 masks from Home Depot in the Painting section and a box of latex gloves at the bare minimum. For a family of four, the cost would be about 20 bucks. It's well worth it. This is coming here. Get ready. Have a plan.
Look forward to your further reporting on this matter and will indeed do so today. I am glad I do not live anywhere near a major metropolitan airport right now and the dipshits at the CDC had better start moving to THAT front line first and tell all the clowns getting exterminated over there to DIE IN PLACE.
That's the problem. They are doing EVERYTHING against standard operating procedure for deadly viral outbreaks.
Which is one of the reasons I suspect this 'outbreak' is being engineered. Something stinks in the woodpile, and while I'm not certain what it is I don't need to know in order to confirm my deep suspicions.
The other very suspect thing was Doctor Brantly walking on his own from the ambulance. He either is not infected or he is a decoy for the real doctor who arrived another way and time. He should have had IVs and been on a gurney. He sauntered into the hospital. That was very strange.
Now that is some top notch thinking right there. Impressive.
My wife helps too. I just think everything is bullshit which I attribute to my time here and back in NYC for 8 years. also, another poster pointed that out so I asked the wife. She thought it strange. I then thought about any possibility and then came up with the decoy idea.
"I just think everything is bullshit"
Thanks, that will be my new email sig... It's funny because it's true.
"I just think everything is bullshit."
Hugs,
IridiumRebel
Just shorten it to Bullshit.
Speaks for itself.
An ebola outbreak stateside would be a crisis that would not be wasted by the goons in DC
Since there is no treatment other than keeping a patient hydrated your theory makes a great deal of sense. aren't hazmat suits hotter than hell to wear?
I was watching the live feed on CNN. The people got out of the ambulance and the anchor asked Dr Sanjay Gupta might one of them be the patient? He said no way, not possible that he would be walking.
Maybe, if that really was the infected doctor,
perhaps he was already in recovery mode.
He supposedly received a blood transfusion in Africa from an Ebola survivor,
which would give the receiver some working anti-bodies against Ebola from the survivor,
supposedly the only proven method of treatment,
as used in previous outbreaks in Africa.
<<Which is one of the reasons I suspect this 'outbreak' is being engineered. Something stinks in the woodpile, and while I'm not certain what it is I don't need to know in order to confirm my deep suspicions.>>
Cogs, without sounding 'too' paranoid:
- overpopulation
- resource shortages (oil, water, food)
- accelerating global crackup boom, about to enforce net-worth discovery on some very 'rich' people (and nations)
- all attempts at WWIII 'hot war' have fizzled
- internet has destroyed the secrecy that used to cloak the ruling class
- government spying is openly discussed by populations around the world
- 'national security' tends to arouse fear and suspicion rather than nationalism and loyalty to leaders
- the internet has crippled corporate and government propaganda
Cogs, when war fails and famine is too slow, what is left for the oligarchs to try but pestilence? That's the riskiest option (well, in some ways), but 'risk' is not a word that today's oligarch notices much.
Call me paranoid, my brother. Do your worst. I can take it.
Our greatest liability when considering and confronting the PTB is we fail to imagine their sociopathy. What to us appears to be mental illness and a dark path is to them business as usual. The only constraint holding them back is their fear of being caught and hung from the nearest lamp post, not what they're actually doing.
When they become desperate even that constraint disappears.
Yes and given that Quantitative Easing of the monetary kind did not work, let's try Quantitative Easing of the population kind. It's a flexible concept as circumstances warrant.
Pestilence: One of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Was that one of the paintings at the new Denver Airport?
Idiot Government Intentionally trying to create the Apocalypse.
Wrong Interpretation, already happened in the medieval plague,
when Black Death Bubonic plague killed a third of Europe,
unless Apocalypse history repeats, in truth.
This time, not bacterial, but viral ?
Hope Not.
Being in San Diego I have seen many cases of active TB cases trying to cross the border. These are not all Mexican. We have many different nationalities represented including from the ME. If someone is showing signs of TB they can hold them but for only a certain amount of time. I can't tell you how many times I've called border control saying I've isolated TB when they say Damn, just let him go. Remember, obvious hemorrhage in Ebola is found only in 50% of cases. It would not be outrageous to suggest one could cross the border considering the laxity I'm witnessing.
The only sane approach to this is containment. We have lost our one chance.
Miffed;-)
"We have lost our one chance." I agree. My wife said, "Why are they bringing this here?!?!" You do not ship deadly virii with no known treatment sans the blood of those who survive. I am about to reach out to my cousin and ask her what is going on. I just hope she isn't gag ordered.
Always appreciate your comments, Miffed.
I'm just speculating, but there is a possibility that the 72 year old lady that died at Gatwick may have developed a deep vein thrombosis during the 6 hour plane trip. When she deboarded it could have dislodged a clot and caused a pulmonary embolism, which can cause the sweating and vomiting that witnesses described. So it might have been a false alarm after all. Or not.
I hope its a DVT. The problem is that you cannot believe anything that the news or govs say anymore. They have lied for so long that you think they are full of shit on everything. I told my daughter the story of "The Girl who Cried Wolf". Throughout the story I thought about how it is pertinent for today still and things like our media.
Or acute MI (heart attack). Women don't always get the crushing chest pain that men get. Women can often experience sudden intense fatigue, acute nausea/vomiting, sudden and severe back pain as opposed to chest pain, severe sweating. But, yes, it is in the realm of possibility that she had a fatal pulmonary embolus or even fatal ischemic stroke from a DVT.
Given her origin, more likely severe untreated Malaria, same symptoms as Ebola.
@IridiumRebel: "Get ready. Have a Plan".
As I posted on 7/29 in 5018712 and 5018722… Wear a gas mask, safety glasses and gloves the next time you're at the airport, or right after you’ve cleared Security.
/ If people have a problem with that, wear a Burka. They allow that. / sarc. Alternatively, wear an "Ebola Suit" sign.
Plane ticket: $400
Anti-Ebola outfit (mask, glasses, gloves): $400
Peace of Mind: Priceless
Plane ticket to Ebolistan: Canceled
Another site worth checking out is: http://approvedgasmasks.com/
Ebola Kits – It’s the new Gun Scare this Fall season. Get it… “Fall” season?
@IridiumRebel: "Get ready. Have a Plan".
I can only hope that our Plans far better than those of the Military, since their "Best Plans don't survive first contact with the enemy".
This is exactly the type of 'thing' that brings out the worst in people. I don't know what will be worse if this 'thing' starts to snowball, the death that comes with it or the ripping apart of society as suddenly we all become acutely aware of who moves within our physical circle.
<It is also exactly what the PTB want to happen to provide 'the' excuse for an economy destroyed. I do not trust this 'thing' was natural and not engineered.>
I told Kito that someone in nyc is going to pass out in a pile of vomit and sweat and the whole city will be instantly shut down. He had a good laugh and then asked me how often someone in nyc passes out in a pile of vomit and sweat.
carry on.
Try the F Train....I am sure there are at least a couple rolling into D'Bronx right now.
I'm pretty sure I've passed out in a pile of vomit and sweat in my college days.
<Breaking News>
"Ebola treated with bloody mary found successful"
Any indication if Clamato works too?
Me too - but not with blood in it.
You have obviously never been to New Orleans.
My suspicions vocalised there I think CD.
Feeling quite philosophical of late about this though - if they want to turn this world into a crawling shit show, let them have it and enjoy it. Either there will be a huge cosmic punchline at the end of this existence, or I will simply cease to be.
Not so bad either way, I like a good laugh, and I've been dead for billions of years prior to arriving here, which didn't seem to concern me all that much.
Meh, fuck 'em, I'm over being scared every day by the churning bullshit-o-rama, I'll just keep rocking until I can't.
"Meh, fuck 'em, I'm over being scared every day by the churning bullshit-o-rama, I'll just keep rocking until I can't."
In chapter four of my 5 part "Welcome to the Insane Asylum" I talk about the time when I shot my leg just above the knee with a nail gun. Waited several hours in the ER for the orthopedic surgeon to show up and experienced a revelation regarding 'fear' and pain. Once I recognized the connection I was able to sever it at will and greatly reduce the 'pain' I felt.
We control the chains that bind us to our fear and all the resulting complications in life that spring from that fear.
That chapter can be found here under the section called "Fear the Nailman".
CD I think we should at least add you to the financial services/nail gun incident list based on that anecdote.
LOL
At least I survived my attack on myself.
The surgeon said an inch lower and it would have blown out my knee. A half inch to the left or right, instead of straight thru the center of the bone, and I would have split in half my femur. A million in one shot designed to teach without permanent damage.
Okay, all these nail gun jokes and you're just giving us this juicy tidbit now? WTF? You've been holding out on us. We wouldn't have been too rough.
I post that image now and then as a reminder I should try to remain humble. That 'shot' more than anything else is a wonderful example of my ego run riot.
BTW anyone who knows nail-guns realizes the nail is barbed and glued. It was pulled out in the ER without pain killers with the surgical version of vise grip locking pliers using a twisting motion similar to removing a cork from a bottle.
It took a few minuets to be removed. It was stubborn.
Great story from arguably the greatest ZHedgemite. Keep on keeping on, Cog.
how'd it manage to get in at that angle though? Did your toddler shoot you or something?
I heard it was his wife lol.
Yeah, that definitely looks like a "have I got your attention yet" message from the boss. As most women know, men generally are wimps when it comes to pain.
The image is upside down and displayed from the point of view of you sitting on a chair with your feet up on the coffee table looking at the side of your knee. My torso is at the bottom of the image and my foot is at the top. That is my left knee you see.
Pretty good shot.
Went to the range with our new 380 this weekend. First time we'd fired it. The wife shot the crap out of the bullseyes. I had some loose groupings around the belly. Everytime we go shooting it becomes more and more clear, I don't want her really mad at me. I do believe she could nail me to the wall if she wanted to. Not that I don't like getting nailed by her.
LOL
You don't want to be around Mrs. Cog when she is really angry. Teddy the local bear runs and hides when Mrs Cog has her steam up. She always tells me I haven't yet seen her when she's really angry. That may be so, but I've seen enough to get the message.
Our back property line is along the edge of a ridge that has a near vertical drop of a quarter mile. I always make sure Mrs. Cog and I don't walk the logging road along the ridge when she is angry. All it takes is a little shove and........ :)
Or a little more medial and you could have severed the femoral artery and bled to death. Lucky man.
I had never considered that. But thinking about the location, you are correct. Like I said it was a one in a million shot designed to teach and not disable.
You'd make a lousy banker.
I most certainly lack the killer instinct. I talk to the bees (and the trees) here on the mountain rather than swat at them.
Damn, isn't this just a couple inches away from major arteries in the leg?
Happened to my cousin, exactly like that. I was working in the X-ray dept at the hospital when they brought him in. Don't recall if I helped with the x-rays or not that day, might have.
Imagine my surprise.
Thanks for link CD, have been enjoying dipping in to some of your bits and bobs on the blog, will have a read.
I think you're right, I'm thankful that I seem to have found, by long hours of searching and reading, the same principle. The fear of pain, loss and death are the only tools with which we can be controlled. The hilarious irony of our situation is that all of these things are inevitable. It's possible to be free from any circumstance, if you simply choose it. Perhaps this is the only real choice we can ever make. 'The myth of freedom' as Chogyam Trungpa called it.
Edit: just saw the xray. That's impressive fail my man.
"That's impressive fail my man."
Top shelf only for Cog....especially when I'm serving myself. :)
I was out of the carpentry business of nearly 20 years within 6 months of the Nailman incident and.......wait for it........went into financial services 'bidness'.
Life is full of irony and sarcasm when you develop your sense of humor and relinquish your fear.
went into financial services 'bidness'
I commend your attempt at preemptive self-regulation.
Ebama is what they should call this shit!! I have never hated another man as much as I hate that prick!!
Please do not 'invest' another moment of your emotional energy in hating this man. It polarizes you and clouds your ability to reason and function, thus essentially controlling you and leaving you worse for the experience.
It ain't worth it because you never receive a return on your investment nor do you receive a return of your investment.
lets at least call it ebeiber
Everyone who thinks - at all - of course despises Barky, but don't get distracted by the figurehead. He's nothing but the marionette, and he'll be gone within the next couple of years to be replaced by the next (soon to be hated) puppet.
Save your hate for the real puppetmasters, the ones with the brains. They don't change. Some of them have been the same names for over a century. Your energy should be saved so it can be focused on the real problem, the people who have captured your government to the degree that Barky even has this kind of power, and the criminality is this obvious.
Hillary Clinton a marionette? Who coulda thunk it? I am crushed.
I think its a real credit to the genetics of Africans that they finally produced something that the White man could never produce in a million years, a virus for which there is no cure. Bioterror scientists the world over are still sratching their bald heads as how to create something astounding like this.
Someone all the Nobel committee, now Obanga really has something to crow about concerning his homeland.
What makes you think the white man didn't produce it. He patented it!
Donald Sutherland's character in the movie Outbreak had the right idea on how to contain a disease like this: Fuel Air Bomb, bitchez!
This means I wont be able to travel to Nigeria to collect my lottery winnings and/or substantial monetary reward from the crown prince.
and that wedding with that Nigerian princess is also off I guess :)
No, really, you should go on with your plans. Don't use protection and I hear they enjoy deep and passionate french kisses. Bleeding from orifices is normal so no worries there mate. Mazel tov!
I will happily do it for you. Upon returning to America I will deposit the check from the crown prince into your bank account. Please provide your checking account number.
and we also sadly mourn the passing of the Minister of Defence (damn you to hell, Ebola), who's wife now finds herself with a shitload of money headed straight into my bank account for the purposes of "resting in Western bank account". Boy am I glad she picked me. Now where's my credit card to pay for that small transaction fee?
O'bummer
Obysmal.
Afri-bola
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmJypW0lWrQ
You have a better chance of being killed by an Obama Drone than by Ebola.
jb
over-the-top PR bullshit
better chance of getting a hummer from my wife
Which of those factual news items strikes you as over-the-top PR bullshit?
Implying the government media reports facts.
That's a shame, I hear your wife gives great hummers.
sarc.
His wife is a vacuum cleaner. Hum a few bars of that one.
Tell her to take out her dentures next time, those things hurt like hell!
Bet ya $5 American'll get you quite a BJ in Sierra Leone.
Yes but who in hell would want it?
I like how they try to say the lady who died on the UK flight did not die from Ebola. Sure she had all the same symptoms, and came from the same area, but it wasn't Ebola. Of course the news comes from that most trusted source, the BBC.
Right? What did they use...the "Walgreen Instant Ebola Test Kit"?
Aren't they still testing the water in Ohio? The constant lies from all forms of govt. make everything worse. Nobody believes a thing.
I hate using that word "they". They this, they that, why is it always they. They suck!
<<I hate using that word "they". They this, they that, why is it always they. They suck!>>
Me too...but better than how much it would REALLY suck if "we" were the ones committing all this evil. One alternative is to name names, but that requires research and, to be honest, riskier these days than a nice anonymous "they". Oh hai there, NSA pantysniffers...
Its a wiered and strange day I find myself in total agreement with Donald Trump.
It has arrived, much like ebola I suspect.
This is a cover story for it coming over the southern border IMO.
Fear mongering at its best imo... The flu kills millions every year.
Not with a ninety percent death rate it doesn't. You could have twenty million dead in six weeks here you phucking dipshit.
The official CDC estimate is 36,000 deaths per year from seasonal influenza.
and of course the list always starts with the first fatality------hummm
I wanna say 9 million in 1919. Maybe it was 19 million...but people just dropped dead and it was definitely war related.
That's where the playbook comes from for dealing with these things...and simply put "containment means containment."
Simply "rushing off to Africa to save the day" is the height of incompetence. The folks I the ground there set up their own containment facilities first...have themselves checked out...then proceed from there.
There is no "special treatment" when you're dealing with an outbreak.
The CDC conflates flu with secondary complications, usually pneumonia, in their influenza statistics.
Flu by itself kills almost nobody in the U.S. these days. That 36,000 per year number is almost 100% pneumonia and other complications in individuals already compromised by the flu, usually the very young, very old, or already very sick.
Only something like 5 to 10% of *hospitalizations* for influenza have death for an outcome.
Do a little reading on the flu of 1918. I wonder if that virus, which infected 500 million and killed somewhere between 50-100 million, caused a touch of 'fear-mongering'. That was at a time when the world's population was 30% of today's level. Another virus WILL destroy >10% of the world's human population. Ebola is more lethal than the Spanish flu. This outbreak suggests it is also becoming more virulent than prior forms. A 21-day incubation period is what will make this a global killer. Over time, more than 1 great plague has originated in Africa: (1) fireants, (2) killer bees, (3) Obama's father; (4) giant African land snail; (5) Ebola . . .
Ya know, liberals and feminists are always talking about a right to choose when it comes to abortion.
It looks like Obama's mama made the wrong the choice.
you mean the "white woman"????
That was before abortion was legal in the United States,
Presuming she was in the US at the time of her pregnancy.
Don't recall the supposed timeline of travel to Kenya between her marriage and giving birth.
Seem to recall she was pregnant before the marriage.
Where did they get married? Hawaii ?
Storm in a teacup. Many Africans sadly are uneducated and/or ignorant about infectious diseases and will keep on eating tasty (therefore fine) bushmeat or shagging someone who looks fairly healthy on the outside. Also, in 1918, immunity and resistance to disease was weakened after four years of world war. This will all blow over fairly quickly.
Plus the fact that they were still pretty puritan back then. Liked to cover up and avoid sunlight. Go back and look at pictures of the people back then. Very pasty white people, that's why the Indians called them Pale Face. Don't see truly pale white skin all that much now days except in women that avoid sunlight at all costs. And, of course avoiding sunlight leads to vitamin D deficiencies. While most of the victims were the elderly and the very young, both groups with impaired or under developed immune systems.
I read somewhere that the 1918 death rate was greatly enhanced by use of very large (toxic) doses of the new wonder drug, aspirin.
Stop with the rationality and common sense. This is the Age of Fear.
Commonwealth Games athlete 'goes missing in bid to avoid returning to Ebola-hit Sierra Leone (Daily Mail)
also on an overstaying note:
25 African delegates to the international AIDS conference seek asylum in Austraila (ABC)
Fruit bat diet recommended for zionists
You must be muslim or atheist....... Stupid comment either way!!
Thank you for offering me a choice Oh Master.
Your depth & insight astound.
Damn , some nasty shit comes out of Africa. AIDS. EBOLA. OBAMA.
You should put them in the order of most deadliest first..........Obama, AIDS, Ebola
No cure for any of them!
What is really spinning out of control is the media distraction attempts to draw away attention from the disaster US policies have been and the disastrous consequences the US will have to recon with.
If Ebola breaks out in the US due to .gov not implementing appropriate quarantine procedures, cancelling all flights from affected countries, quarantining all persons that have flown in from Africa, and securing the southern border, then the consequences from any prior disastrous US policies will look tame in comparison.
I think in the long run they will just look comparable. That's the scary part.
Right now, I find it difficult to imagine "after Obama".
Come on, 2060 is right around the corner!
The gov't/FDA won't even let us make salt water, much less drugs for ebola.
Baxter issues global recall of saline in midst of U.S. shortagehttp://www.fiercepharmamanufacturing.com/story/baxter-issue-global-recal...
Some people seems to think the ebola patients have been repatriated to the USA for weaponizing purposes. That can't be the case, since the ebola virus has been stored in American high-security labs for years.
If they wanted to make a weapon out of it, it's been ready for ages.