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Nigeria Declares State Of Emergency: "Everyone In The World Is At Risk" From Ebola, CDC Issues Level 1 "All-Hands Call"
With over 932 dead, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued its highest level alert for an all-hands on deck response to the crisis in West Africa (that is spreading across the world). While President Obama proclaimed we are prepared and itis "not easily transmitted," it appears that is not entirely true. Meanwhile, CDC Director Frieden's "deep concerns" have been confirmed as Nigeria’s health minister has declared a health emergency as the deadly Ebola virus gained a foothold in Africa’s most populous nation, according to news reports. Nigerian authorities moved quickly late Wednesday, gathering isolation tents as five more cases of the Ebola Virus were confirmed in Lagos (the world's 4th most populous city with 21 million people). Most international flights from West Africa are also now screening passengers.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday issued its highest alert for an all-hands on deck response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa.
"Ops Center moved to Level 1 response to given the extension to Nigeria & potential to affect many lives," CDC chief Tom Frieden said on Twitter.
Level 1 is the highest on a 1-6 scale and signals that increased staff and resources will be devoted to the outbreak.
"Basically this activation allows us to pull resources from throughout the agency to respond to this," said CDC spokesman Tom Skinner.
He said it was the first time since 2009 that the Level 1 alert had been issued. Back then it was in response to the outbreak of H1N1 flu.
As The Washington Post reports,
Nigeria’s health minister has declared a health emergency as the deadly Ebola virus gained a foothold in Africa’s most populous nation, according to news reports.
“This is a national emergency. Everyone in the world today is at risk. The experience of Nigeria opens the eyes of the world,” Minister of Health Onyebuchi Chukwu told the country’s House of Representatives. Nigerian authorities moved quickly late Wednesday, gathering isolation tents as five more cases of the Ebola Virus were confirmed in Lagos, a city bursting with 21 million people.
All five people are believed to be health workers who had direct contact with one man traveling from Ebola-ridden Liberia to Nigeria — making this country the fourth now infiltrated by the deadly disease.
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“Yesterday the first known Nigerian to die of Ebola was recorded,” Chukwu told reporters in Abuja on Wednesday. “This was one of the nurses that attended to the Liberian. The other five [newly confirmed] cases are being treated at an isolation ward.”
Idris said this is the time “for everyone to be vigilant, especially with regard to relating to people who are ill.”
Most international airlines flying to West Africa in the grip of the deadly Ebola outbreak are counting on stepped-up passenger screening as they continue serving the region.
Air France fliers in some cities must complete health questionnaires and be checked for symptoms, including an elevated temperature, before boarding cards are issued. Delta Air Lines Inc. said travelers are being checked at the airport in Monrovia, Liberia, one of the countries hit by Ebola.
Only two airlines have suspended flights to West Africa so far, with British Airways opting yesterday to join Gulf carrier Emirates in pulling back.
U.S. carriers “that fly to the affected countries remain in steady contact with government agencies and health officials, and have procedures in place to monitor and quickly respond to potential health concerns,” said Victoria Day, a spokeswoman for the Washington-based Airlines for America trade group.
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Barack Obama says that Ebola is "not something that is easily transmitted" and that everything is under control...
According to this comment - supposedly written by someone who works in a hospital laboratory. Michael Snyder shares three quotes that we found particularly sobering...
#1 "Even in the United States, out of all the various hospitals I have worked at, there is no hope of containing anything like this. One of the largest hospitals I worked at only had two reverse flow isolation rooms. TWO, let that sink in for a minute."
#2 "Patients only show up to the hospital when they go symptomatic. So by the time they get there, they've already infected their entire family, their work group, and anyone they got within a few feet of on the way to the hospital. When they get there the ER nurses would treat it either like Flu, or Sepsis. But the whole time the patient is infecting all of them. And all of them, in turn, begin to infect everyone else in the exact same way. If this is as virulent as the WHO thinks it might be, by the time people realize what is going on, there will be more sick people than there would be beds available at every hospital in the US combined."
#3 "So don't expect miracles from front line hospital staff, we don't have the tools, and we certainly do not have the manpower. Ask anyone in the medical field how much overtime they could work if they felt like it, don't even get me started on how thinly stretched people in the industry are. Though I suppose if this does turn into something, that will become apparent very, very fast."
There is no way in the world that our medical professionals are going to be able to handle a full-blown Ebola pandemic.
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"USSA War" on....Drugs, Terrorism, Taliban, Al Qaeda, Racism etc etc...now add "War on Ebola"...Need to keep the Amurikan sheeple in check
Time for the Nigerian kleptocrats to take their ill-gotten gains and move west, say to Martha's Vineyard, an island retreat from Ebola hemorraghic fever.
I never thought I'd see a Godlike Productions link on ZH. That saddens me.
Give it to mikey, he'll try anything.
Top Ebola Scientist Joked About Culling Humanity with Engineered Virus
you are instructed to report to your nearest quarantine facility
Look it up, children are mostly immue to ebola.
So that's why the new "Smiley Town" sign went up in my hood.
If you've been contemplating leaving the USSA - now is the time to do it; before they close the borders [temporairly] permanently.
My family has been in the health care industry for more than 80 years combining three generations. Everything they say in the comments above is an understatement. Sadly, it's even worse than they say, the reason is that the way ER titration of patients works, patients exhibiting flu like symptoms, including vomiting will be titrated last as of current procedures and thus made to wait for hours, some times 4 to 6 hours before somebody sees them. By that time they'd have contaminated 20 to 30 people on the average size ER in the US. Once they suspect that they have the virus, it'll take them 48 to 72 hours to get the verification done. So, unless they are ready to isolate millions of people, it'll be impossible to handle. Specially with flu season coming as the epidemic grows exponentially in Nigeria.
Unless a quick test is designed and the supply chain strategy worked out to get a test done in hours anywhere in the US, there will be no way of stopping this.
This leads to prioritization, where anybody who does the mathematical analysis will see that the only way to control the propagation is to set up your defenses where you can succeed at controlling the propagation of the disease, and then isolating the places where you can't control propagation and letting them burn out, that is, outside of the places you have protected. The problem is that it will be hard to distinguish if your are locking people where you can't control propagation out, of if your are locking people where you can control propagation in.
By the way, epidemiology is based on relatively simple mathematics and vector analysis, where vectors here refer to the propagation vectors.
Thank you for sharing your experience/background. Accurate info is so valuable in these situations. Any comments on the exerpt below from the previous thread? I posted later in the evening AK time and most folks might have missed it. Reposting for convenience. NOTE: due to the size of the thread - links only work if you are logged in.
Regards,
Cooter
EBOLA virus has a VERY simple cure
Absolute horeshit! Quit pimping out your fucking rag while you are at it.
And YES, I do take CS, and have seen ZERO effectiveness on a virus. For bacterial infections it has no equal, especially for topical use.
Quit the BS and put up or shut up with this crap links.
Antibiotics cannot kill it not because it is a novel virus, but because it IS a VIRUS.
Sure would love a reference on that besides circular forum posts.
WTFF?
Go piss on a fence with this shit. If you want to pimp out your miraculous cures, pony up and BUY some space here, I am sure that Tyler would not care.
pods
the weak spot as i see it is the plane itself, if one person gets sick on it it lands they get off and the plane takes off with another raft of the soon to be infected, it lands with the newly infected and takes off again ect... till the whole world is quickly infected, a couple days at the most.
Those tiny little bathrooms on the plane sure don't help. It's hard to keep sanitary in there even when you are healthy, much less when you are starting to get feverish and if there's a bit of turbulence. So if someone comes down with symptoms on a long flight and is using those facilities, it seems to me the easiest way to spread. Obviously if you are sitting next to them in a crowded coach seat it's not good either, but on a long plane ride all the passengers are going to use the restroom eventually.
John Rappaport and Jim Stone already cracked this one, folks. The "scare" is massively over-hyped, and the cure is simple: Lots of Vitamin-C. Silver doesn't touch viruses, but Vitamin-C does. I would add iodine to that as well, because it strengthens the immune system. Iosol or LL's Magnetic Nascent Iodine are some of the best.
And then there is the dependable Mailman (or Mailperson, if you wish) - delivering to us thru rain, sleet or snow, dropping the days post thru my front door mailslot after it has been handled by who knows how many individuals on its trip to my home.
Long spray bottles of bleach.
Spine:
Thank you for your post.
And to think that just a few days ago the CDC was touting the safety, and lack of outbreak likelyhood in the US.
As always, the government lies. They are truly sick bastards who should be incarcerated as the criminals that they are. Like the MSM, they have this parent-child mentality towards us, and think that whatever they do is because we are incapable of understanding the truth of the situation and dealing with it appropriately.
Yes, they are sick bastards.
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Lots of polyglots here. Spine has to mean TRIAGE which he describes quite well. Titration is a largely obsolete acidity testing method.
The rest of the piece is quite helpful. Thanks.
Titration better not be obsolete to anyone whose backup plan involves fighting ebola outside the system with their own I.V. (saline or vitamin C).
Heh. Thought maybe I was the only one noticed.
"Triage" has another use, and anyone from the military or disaster training will know. When there are huge numbers of wounded you deploy a triage proccess to decide which injured are treatable and move them forward, and anyone who is likely to die shortly is given a sedative and moved to the side.
Yeah we'll be seeing a lot of "triage" in the future, but not the good kind either. Hospitals will become places where you go to die, and that's all.
Once this thing becomes "shit got real" on our door step, does anyone think that any health care worker is really going to go to work, esp those that actually do something such as housekeeping, or a CNA, or even a RN?
Basically, just basic services would cease to function, for people would either be dead, dying, or terrified (rightfully so) to leave home.
So your saying obamacare won't save us? /sarc
Healthcare workers are a dedicated bunch. I've worked around quite a few, and most of them absolutely will go right in there. They'll be scared, but they are driven by compassion and duty, so they'll go.
We will lose a few of them. Maybe, a lot of them.
This is so sad. I don't know what to say except I wish them luck, and be safe, and come back.
You can take that view and praise their suicidal (and mostly wasted, in the case of a real epidemic) dedication, and that's fine, but what about the fact that they all become disease vectors?
Relax. Nobody is going to force you to comfort the dying.
As for vectors, they are already mostly around sick and dying people -- and during a national emergency wouldn't even be going home for days or weeks at a time -- so the matter of transmission it rather moot, don't you think?
"Relax. Nobody is going to force you to comfort the dying."
Priests were hit hard in Europe's plagues, precisely because of this aspect of their job. There are stories of priests already ill by the time they'd finished performing the last rites.
Having spent some times in and out of hospitals, I agree with Spine01 that there would not be any containment. Seems like half of doctors wear their scrubs and coats outside during breaks or on the way home. Lots of hospital workers go out at least once per day to get lunch. The non-medical staff too.
Point is, there are no serious containment procedures in place at any hospital, visitors and employees come and go as they please, everyone breathes the same air, shares bathrooms, etc. Unless the entire hospital staff is going to be outfitted with NBC suits and/or the facility hermetically sealed in a giant plastic tent, there is essentially no chance of good containment. A hospital might as well be a restaurant or an airport. Transmission is not moot, it's how epidemics happen and why they are essentially impossible to stop. The fact that there is still international shipping and travel occurring to and from central and western Africa at this moment tells me all I need to know - no one is serious about containment if it means even a minor inconvenience to business as usual - the airport "screenings" are a total joke.
It just seems a bit silly to me to risk everything to fight something for which there is essentially no treatment and which is at this point impossible to contain. It'd be a different story if we were talking about quarantine centers where all possible precautions have been taken.
Things like reverse-flow/pressure ventilation air systems, NBC suits, military-grade gas masks, isolation facilities, etc. may seem expensive, but the cost utterly pales in comparison to the alternative. Instead we spend ever more money dealing with largely preventable/avoidable illnesses.
Be on the lookout for twelve monkeys, and a flock of fruit bats!
A diagnostic test was authorized by the Department of Defense to respond to the Ebola outbreak.
The test, called DoD EZ1 Real-time RT-PCR Assay, is a pcr test kit.
CONX also has a test kit, a ELISA test kit.
Hopefully they can get these out in time to prevent spreading of this disease.
As someone who runs PCR daily I can attest to its specificity and sensitivity. The only problem is false positives due to contamination. Let me also point out if I were asked to run PCR on a possible Ebola patient I would refuse and go home on perminant vacation( mr miffed has insisted upon this) due to the fact I do not work in a BSL 4 laboratory. There are few of these at present in the USA. Healthcare workers will be potential vectors of this disease.
Miffed;-)
There is no real treatment, nothing is gained by primary diagnosis that cannot be cheaply attained by simple isolation until the disease runs its course. So I can't see where there is any way they are sending specimens to anything but a BSL-4 facility, and that only for research purposes and maybe tracking the introduction of the disease into new areas.
In "The Andromeda Strain," the top-secret lab was also designed to develop biologics into weapons as well as find cures.
US Military investigated Ebola for both diagnostic tests & for bio-weapon.
Army Times reported Ebola is stable in aerosols.
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/08/the-us-military-and-ebola-o...
They are ready to isolate people...(see FEMA camps)
Empty chinese cities are starting to make sense..
Spine or Miffed (hell any ZH doctor's opinion solicited) .... your thoughts on this one?
Worst case:
Imagine an Ebola + Influenza patient later this winter. They're most likely dead men/women walking but perfect breeding grounds for BILLIONS of interactions between ebola and the flu. And this could happen to thousands of people. Results?
Ebola virus with a much hardier protein coat. / Flu virus that induces hemorrhagic fever symptoms
Or .... Ebola + Rhinovirus.
Ebola that is as contagious as the common cold. With as many variants.
Or how about??
Now before ANYONE says "Oh this shit will never happen" .... some thoughts
Sure the odds could get ultra remote, but with that many interactions statistically it becomes likely.
How RNA viruses exchange their genetic material
Chapter 43Viral Genetics
Recombination
Recombination involves the exchange of genetic material between two related viruses during coinfection of a host cell.
Recombination of Viral Genome
When two different strains of influenza infect a single cell, their genetic material can mix freely, resulting in a new third strain of influenza.
Box 3 | Recombination and viral emergence
For most RNA viruses, cross-species transmission is the most common way for a virus to enter a new host. Recombination could assist in this process because it enables viruses to explore a greater proportion of the sequence space than is accessible by mutation at any one time, thereby increasing the likelihood of finding a genetic configuration that facilitates host adaptation. Notably, many recently emerged human diseases are caused by RNA viruses that display active recombination or reassortment.
RNA viral types
Same Order
Same Group : Group V—negative-sense ssRNA viruses [all of the above]
Orthomyxoviridae—includes Influenza viruses
Other RNA types
Smallpox / Chickenpox are a DNA virii so that might be a blessing
Titration, also known as titrimetry,[1] is a common laboratory method of quantitative chemical analysis that is used to determine the unknown concentration of an identified analyte. - Wikipedia
The word you meant to use is triage. 46 upvotes and NO ONE pointed this out?
Edit: I see a few people 5 levels deep noticed too.
I think most read 'triage' and realized it was a mistake, but had no idea what titration is.
Bizarrely enough, titration can refer to 'titrating to bowel tolerance' of Vitamin C...
http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html
Bizarre, because it would seem this is one possible approach to handling Ebola.
Hudson: "So why don't you put them in charge, man!"
Oh, wait. Technicallys speaking, it's already been done.
And just what makes you say that?
That makes about ZERO sense. a Child's immune system isn't impervious to any viral infection.
that is absurd
The only thing might save children is they are kept away from the dying, and the dead. Up to now, without close contact you didn't get the disease.
Though that might have changed recently. Children coming down with it would be evidence it has gone airborne.
In very general terms, human immunity peaks at about the age of ten. That might or might not help here.
We're talking nickles and dimes, though. Ebola is a bomb that goes off inside you, there is little real defense. If you are tough and lucky, you survive.
Nigerian gov't is just going to claim an emergency, take the money and do nothing as they watch their citizens die. Welcome to Aftrica.
Don't forget that the CDC and WHO get a little off the top too.
Yes,for the government elites this is a unique twist on Darwin's "Survival of the Fittest."
You understand little of Africa.
yeah, cow shit hut construction, petty graft and theft, tribalism and neo-stone age cultures are all pretty complex... A guy could earn a PHD and make a career studying them. Or distributing free shit amongst them.
that is, until he turns into a real life Kool Aid Man and red starts sloshing around and running out of him
OH YEAHHHHHHHH!
it surprises me no one has brought up Edgar Allan Poe's Mask of the Red Death.
an allegory worth reading, considering the discussion of its epidemiology.
especially the "indomitable sway over all" part. Yeah, makes me keep my eyes open, for sure.
Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year" is a terrific read ...
@LFMayor
Don't waste your time with Eirik because he is nothing but a multicultural ( read for whites only) worshiper. Just take a gander at his avatar. Wonder how much he paid that Nigierian hooker to hold his child? Better yet, has that baby's mother been informed about the photo op?
You understand little of Africa.
What is there to understand about a history of dictatorships, ethnic cleansing and billions of dollars pissed away into corrupt states? Please inform me Eirik? Forget that, go back to your rag Huffpo and feel better about looking down upon those lesser rednecks.
Oh dear, here comes another wave of spam about some leader who left his $25,000,000 in Nigeria and needs our help.
Instead of sending your money, this time he will be asking you to go back to West Africa to get it for him !
(you get to share in the proceeds if you survive)
"Air France fliers in some cities must complete health questionnaires..."
Q1. Do you feel a bit under the weather?
No?
Welcome aboard... Puke bag's in the pocket of the seat in front! If you fill it before we land, you may not be allowed off the plane. Have a nice flight!
They are going to measure everyone's temperature before you board - probably with the same thermometer. So if you didn't have Ebola before your flight, after you've shared that thermometer with everyone else you'll have the flu, Ebola, oral herpes, several colds ...
"I'm sorry sir, we cannot use your thermometer to measure your temperature with. Only prescribed thermometers as provided by the airlines are allowed. Please pay your $30 thermometer fee; we accept either cash or Visa."
"you may feel a slight pressure..."
You know how to tell the difference between the oral and the rectal thermometer, don't you?
if not, you soon will!
The taste ?
I'd guess the second one tastes a bit off.
Cue the Idiocracy scene where the doctor gets the oral thermometer and the anal probe confused. :)
The good news is that,
Turkish Airlines Air France
British Airways KLM
Iberia United
Delta Airlines Air France
....are all still booking round trips (via connections) from my US City to Lagos Nigeria.
....in other words, EBOLA has to be considered riskless to the US to allow this to happen. So...we're all safe.
I've read that ebola can survive for several days on dry surfaces. Hmmm most planes have dry surfaces inside them . Perhaps ocean cruises will return as the favored source of travel between the continents. Umm perhaps the norovirus could be advertised as a weight loss treatment.
Ghana bans all flights from Nigeria, others
Ghanaian authorities have banned all flights from Nigeria and other West African countries over concerns of an Ebola spread, the Premium Times of Nigeria has reported. the ban was part of elaborate emergency response being implemented to contain the deadly Ebola virus.
How many other countries have to report Ebola cases before air travel grinds to a halt?
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Ebola comes from Africa
Most Africans are socialists.
The Soviet Union was socialist.
The Soviet Union is now Russia.
Putin runs Russia.
I HATE YOU, PUTIN
#geometric logic #hatin' on Putin
#Putin's fault
Putin Bush's Friend
Bush painted Putin
Bush's fault, often says Obama!
Damn you Bush!
ir'a sarc you down voting moron, we all know this leads us back to Obama and SOCIALISM...HITLER perfected SOCIALISM, damn YOU HITLER (Hitlery?)
Sounds like Glenn Beck.
Culling? Perhaps asymmetric culling, as it is self - limiting to warmer climates.
Good luck spreading it to frigid regions.
I'll prep our cabin in the Yukon and call myself Yukon Jack. And my boys will be the Yukon "Jack's sons", who can't sing & dance, but can hunt & fish.
Thriller, Chiller, no Zombieller!
...as if winter isn't the flu season.
Pack those boys into school rooms, while the Mrs goes shopping inside a crowded Wal-Mart, and you ride inside a nice cozy elevator, because it is too cold to be outside.
Don't think that Yukon Jack is going to go to Walmart to stock up his cabin and his boys won't be going into a Yukon school either. Besides, the Yukon is pretty isolated unless a deadly virus strikes. See the graveyards and toombstones for clues.
The one thing we haven't even considered here... does it affect RATS?
How touching; he's worried about Obama.
How is it self-limiting to warmer climes? There is plenty of coughing and sneezing and throw-upping in colder climate zones as well. Plenty of pigs to infect as well. Please explain. I would like to understand your point.
The Black Death acted primarily from Mar-September.
The idea being that it didn't stay alive 'in the wild' as long after those times, so the epidemics finally burnt out faster than they spread.
We don't know this about Ebola, let alone this strain, but its possible/probably/if not likely.
I don't understand the junkers - it was a genuinely meant question. Thanks you both HR and Kirk for the answers. About the cold temps. While it sounds plausible that there could be a slowing effect from lower activity in potential new wild animal reservoirs, I am wondering about the idea that the virus itself would be inactivated in droplets due to cold temps. The reason for this is the following paragraph:
"SURVIVAL OUTSIDE HOST: The virus can survive in liquid or dried material for a number of days..Infectivity is found to be stable at room temperature or at 4°C for several days, and indefinitely stable at -70°C. Infectivity can be preserved by lyophilisation."
http://www.msdsonline.com/resources/msds-resources/free-safety-data-sheet-index/ebola-virus.aspx
Now I may totally misunderstand the term "stable" in this context, but I understand this paragraph to mean that this virus' ability to infect is degraded over time when exposed to heat/warmth, but becomes more and more stable with lower and lower temps.
A: Lower pop density. People wearing gloves and shivering -- not sweating & sliming. If you avoid the malls and elevators (as HH points out), as well as pubs+bars, those cough-borne Ebolas literally "freeze+die" in the cold air. Everything you touch in the car or bus will freeze. Bye bye baby Ebola!
Canadians and people in cold/Nordic climates are FAR more educated than the average grunt in the tropics. Traditionally, they had to be smarter and more productive, to survive the long winters. Mother Nature eliminated those who weren't. Have you actually read the stories of some of the unbelievably dumb things those sick people in Africa did, which caused them to get it and spread it?
Darwinism. Mother Nature. Cognitive abilities. World-class education. People in Nordic climates are much better at it. Not PC, but it's the truth. Sorry.
The story I heard was (non PC warning) white people lived for a long time in a region that got dark quicker than it does in Africa (i.e. we have seasons, and very short days in winter). Which meant more hours of darkness in a day, which prioritized verbal communication!
Communication in general is what was stimulated by this difference.
What is this oral stimulation you speak of?
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@Kirk
Absolutely correct. It does not take much smarts to reach out of your hut and grab breakfast, lunch and dinner 24/7 365 days a year, even a chimp could do that. Must be why one does not see any chimps in Canada, US or Europe in the wild, no?
Not many wolves, bears or wild cats left in Canada, US or Europe ...
@Ajax
Going by the ads on my side bar there are apparently plenty of cougars left to go around.
"Saving the Earth with Ebola"
"Professor Pianka said the Earth as we know it will not survive without drastic measures. Then, and without presenting any data to justify this number, he asserted that the only feasible solution to saving the Earth is to reduce the population to 10 percent of the present number.
He then showed solutions for reducing the world's population in the form of a slide depicting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. War and famine would not do, he explained. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved.
Pianka then displayed a slide showing rows of human skulls, one of which had red lights flashing from its eye sockets.
AIDS is not an efficient killer, he explained, because it is too slow. His favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola ( Ebola Reston ), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. However, Professor Pianka did not mention that Ebola victims die a slow and torturous death as the virus initiates a cascade of biological calamities inside the victim that eventually liquefy the internal organs.
After praising the Ebola virus for its efficiency at killing, Pianka paused, leaned over the lectern, looked at us and carefully said, "We've got airborne 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that."
With his slide of human skulls towering on the screen behind him, Professor Pianka was deadly serious. The audience that had been applauding some of his statements now sat silent.
After a dramatic pause, Pianka returned to politics and environmentalism. But he revisited his call for mass death when he reflected on the oil situation.
"And the fossil fuels are running out," he said, "so I think we may have to cut back to two billion, which would be about one-third as many people." So the oil crisis alone may require eliminating two-third's of the world's population.
How soon must the mass dying begin if Earth is to be saved? Apparently fairly soon, for Pianka suggested he might be around when the killer disease goes to work....
When Pianka finished his remarks, the audience applauded. It wasn't merely a smattering of polite clapping that audiences diplomatically reserve for poor or boring speakers. It was a loud, vigorous and enthusiastic applause."
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2006/04/doctor_doom_eric_pianka_receiv00211...
The fact that nobody shoots idiots that espouse beliefs like this directly in the head says quite a lot about the decay of Western morals, does it not?
Says more about the hubris of our "elites" (pissants all)
xcehn:
When is Pianka going to inject himself with Ebola to demonstrate his commitment to his own professed ideology?
Ever notice how those calling for mass death always refer to it being someone else who dies? (See jihadist serial mass murders producing a trip to Paradise, yet none of the jihadist leaders blow themselves up.)
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What makes you think he believes himself immune?
Well, the elite have definitely given themselves a pass on that score. Here, in their own words....
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/04/26/will-humanity-survive-the-d...
“No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation.” David Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations
“One America burdens the earth much more than twenty Bangladeshes. This is a terrible thing to say in order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it’s just as bad not to say it.” Jacques Cousteau, UNESCO Courier
“A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be 1 billion. At the more frugal European standard of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible.” United Nations, Global Biodiversity Assessment
“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline would be ideal.” Ted Turner, founder of CNN and major United Nations contributor
A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells, the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions.”
Stanford Professor Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb
“We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.” Francis Crick, The discoverer of the double-helix structure of DNA
“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.” Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Leader of the World Wildlife Fund
Malthus has been vindicated; reality is finally catching up with Malthus. The Third World is overpopulated, it’s an economic mess, and there’s no way they could get out of it with this fast-growing population. Our philosophy is: back to the village.” Dr. Arne Schiotz, World Wildlife Fund Director of Conservation
“Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind” Theodore Roosevelt
"There is a single theme behind all our work–we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean methods, or they will get the kinds of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran or in Beirut. Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control, it requires authoritarian government, even fascism, to reduce it….” “Our program in El Salvador didn’t work. The infrastructure was not there to support it. There were just too goddamned many people…. To really reduce population, quickly, you have to pull all the males into the fighting and you have to kill significant numbers of fertile age females….” The quickest way to reduce population is through famine, like in Africa, or through disease like the Black Death…. Thomas Ferguson, State Department Office of Population Affairs
“Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries.” Dr. Henry Kissinger
“The world’s population needs to be reduced by 50%,” and “The elderly are useless eaters” Dr. Henry Kissinger
“The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.” Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.” Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries’ shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits.” Obama’s science czar John P. Holdren: From Ecoscience
“It is easier to kill a million people rather than trying to control a million people… people are fighting back…our capacity to impose control over humanity is at an historical low…” Zbignew Brzezinsk
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http://www.thelibertybeacon.com/2013/07/19/the-elites-agenda-explained-i...
“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.” — A letter written by FDR to Colonel House, November 21st, 1933
“The depression was the calculated ‘shearing’ of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market….The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank.” — Curtis Dall, FDR’s son-in-law as quoted in his book, My Exploited Father-in-Law
“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.” — President Woodrow Wilson 1916
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” — Henry Ford
"The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control…. Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.” — Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets
“Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.” — David Rockefeller, Memoirs, page 405
“It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go….We are living in the end of the sovereign states…. In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish….Countless people…will hate the new world order….and will die protesting against it.” — H.G. Wells, in his book, “The New World Order”, 1940
"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism, and religious dogmas.” — Brock Adams, Director UN Health Organization
“We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. . . Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. . . . We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electronic stimulation of the brain.” — Dr. Jose M.R. Delgado, Director of Neuropsychiatry, Yale University Medical School, Congressional Record, No. 26, Vol. 118, February 24, 1974.
“One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order.” — From The National Educator, K.M. Heaton
"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.” — David Rockefeller
"No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation.” — David Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations
"Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government.” — Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991
"Still think Obama is in charge? Think again…"
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I believe in checking sources. On the Roosevelt quote, you're right, it's true, and there's more: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2468536
Thanks for the link. Haunting words proving how screwed we are.
From what I've read, Ebola Reston travels quickly but is NOT lethal. Not even very harsh.
It looks like the CDC is now officially worried about airborne transmission. Here's a link with an embedded link to the Canadian site citing fatality figures:
http://www.infowars.com/cdc-concerned-about-airborne-transmission-of-ebo...
What better way to enslave mankind then to reduce his numbers to more manageable numbers. War, crime, starvation, drugs, civil strife etc., are just to slow. TPTB need a faster and more reliable method of murder.I was taught that you reap what you sow, so I sow corn and beans and tomatoes. I wonder what those that sow ebola will reap?
I'm sure they're already working on stuxnet ebola.
We stuxnetted some folks.
Not one person that's posted that has mentioned the screen behind the jerk.
WATER
"I never thought I'd see a Godlike Productions link on ZH. That saddens me"
What would you prefer? ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CNN, or maybe a White House press release?
Nope. Time for Obongo to sanction Nigeria for posing such a serious threat to world health.
And have a press conference about how great everything is because of him and only him.
Then play golf again.. and again..
Sub saharan Ebola is well contained.
-Obama
PS - Time for my next 18 holes.
won't work man, you forgot the most important part:
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Yep, can't let anyone focus on the crumbling economy.
That's so yesterday anyway.
You can't beat daily updated body counts for headlines.
Did they get that right? CDC Ops center or is it oops center?
The New CDC Public Service Announcements.
Just like the Ricola cough drop ads
E-Booool-Aaaaaaaa
(drop over dead, bodies bursting, spraying blood all over, people running amok, in panic, screaming, bursting, bleeding all over)
Then the voice over
Getchur Vaccinations Stay Home Shelter Indoors Eat you pets first, then your children
Vote Early and Often
Progressives treated first
Laughing too hard. got diet coke in my nose. you're pretty funny.
He who panics first panics best.
Fuckin'-A Babe! Some of them way down the panic line just drop dead before they even get to panic.
Now dat be rzzzzizt
Once everyone in Africa dies from Ebola there'll be a shortage of what??.....Despots?
Once everyone in Africa dies from Ebola there'll be a shortage of what??.....Despots?
Unfortunately, we already have plenty here in the USSA!
AIDS, malaria, dengue fever...
tuberculosis, hepatitis A,B and C, syphillis, diabetes ...
932 people out of the billions and billions of people on earth and we are running around like the sky is falling.....
Yup... and let me control the X and the Y and I can make any graph look exponential. Seasonal Flu makes Ebola look like a pussy.
So you volunteer you and you loved ones to die when the next ebola plane unloads at your local airport?
Remember that denial is for the weak.
Truth-seek noted that mortality from this disease is increasing at an average of 177% per month. If this were to continue unchecked, by this time next year there would be over 3 million cummulative dead. By August of 2016 there would be over 3 billion cummulative dead and by September of 2016 there would be nearly 6 billion cummulative dead. That's just simple math, but I don't think epidemics follow a linear progression, I think when graphed they look more like a bell curve, which means this timeline is off considerably. I think that guy in New York City has it or we would have heard that he was negative by now, so its here already in an area of high population density.
he was confirmed negative I heard..
Yes, I saw that below, but its really only a matter of time if containment has failed.
This post projects both linear and exponential:
Theoretical Ebola spread and death based on 1.86 infection rate monthly
Excerpt:
So here is a recalculation increasing the Rate of Infection ROI to 5% each month and let’s see what happens...
Jun, 2015 – Infected: 400,969,208 Dead: 240,581,525 ROI: 3.87
Jul, 2015 – Infected: 1,627,993,821 Dead: 976,796,293 ROI: 4.06
Aug, 2015 – Infected: 6,940,388,486 Dead: 4,164,233,092 ROI: 4.26
But no worries:
Experts: Ebola Vaccine At Least 50 White People Away
Those rates of infection are for 5% per day, not 5% per month.
At one time in the Spanish Flu's progress and the Black Plague's progress, there were only 932 people infected also. Big things have small beginnings.
RockRiver,
it has to START some place. Patient ZERO, and so on.
see the movie Contagion to get a fair view of how the spread happens. Though the Grid down part was completely absurd.
the rest was quite possible.
Seems to me... If we don't already have ebola carriers in multiple cities in the USSA, it could only be because the jihadis don't actually care enough to do it, which would mean that the whole War On Terror is a PR campaign with little or no actual threat to the people here.
Think about it... If they don't care enough to attack their arch - enemy Isra-merica, then they sure as he'll don't care about Ameri-el.
War on Terror? Fake, fake, fake, fake, fake. Dumb, lazy sheeple! Deserve everything they get.
Yet you believe this Ebola hype bullshit? From the same MSM circus that brought you TWOT? Ok.
I heard that Paradise has closed its gates to ebola carriers.
True that. I've used the "war on drugs" as my example for years. We put how much money towards keeping drugs out? Yet I can get anything I want whenever I want it. So we can't keep drugs out, but we are able to keep terrorists out? Sure. So we either A. aren't really trying to keep drugs out, or B. there aren't really any terrorists who want in or C. Both A&B.
The Islamic nations that may or may not be funding the Ts are the most stringent in locking down flights from areas with the disease. They are at least smart enough to release biowar is not controllable. Only a lunatic would intentionally use a bioweapon.
I've said the same for decades- if there were really terrorist that wanted to take down the US, It wouldn't even take a cell, a lone operative with a book of matches could drive across the USA in a matter of days setting large scale forest fires that would completely overwhelm the ability of firefighters.
A small cell could take down the electric grid in three to five hours in a coordinated attack.
Both of those would catastrophic, yet they are so simple to achieve that the mind is boggled as to why they haven't been done if there really are boogeymen terrorists here In the USA under every rock.
That's obviously only two ways to bring the USA to the brink, I'm sure creative minds could come up with many, many more.
uhhh... sorry. The nips tried that with those balloons back a ways. It's been a long time since Natty Bumpo hunted squirrels all the way to the mississippi and never walked in sunlight.
(it's not solid forest any more) besides, decidous forests don't burn like flash paper, not to mention we don't have California liberal imbeciles preventing the clearing of underbrush to save endangered murines coast to coast. Yet.
But, to extrapolate on your theory... late Aug/Sept when all those grain fields are nice and dry. Hmmm.
Just like the end of Stephen King's Salem's Lot?
Fire purifies everything.
Would you like that "battered."
This image is hideous!
witty, ms!
SAVE THE AFRICAN FRUIT BAT
JUST PUT A EXTRA 25% TAX ON EBOLA IMPORTS AND IT'S DONE!
no let's invite as many Nigerians over to discuss the problem and finish it with a grouphugh...
Geez...can a guy just finish one cup of coffee in the morning without getting hit in the face with gloom and doom? I think I'll click on HuffPo to get something a little lighter.......SHIT! I'm going back to bed.
Worldwide there are between 250,000 and 500,000 flu deaths per year. In a typical flu season, between 3 and 5 million people will have what is considered a serious case of influenza.
Distraction from? Lets see, Ukraine, ISIS, Russia, Israel, Hamas, Al Aqaeda, China....seems to be working.
"Worldwide there are between 250,000 and 500,000 flu deaths per year"
Low numbers compared to possible worldwide outbreak of ebola. The new ebola kills 90%, flu can't claim those numbers, yet.
America has wide open borders thanks to liberals and Democrat voters/retards. You could have had Ron Paul you stupid fux.
Ron Paul, as much as I do like him, wouldn't have made it through his first term. If he did make it through the first term then we would be seeing these same policies we see today from O. Call me a pessimist if you want. I prefer realist.
The only reason he wouldn't make it is because TPTB would have had him assassinated.
the 932 dead number was released 8/6 from data collected through 8/4.
Hey Rock River... I guess math is not your thing huh? Do you need the link to explain exponential functions?
Just because you can prove mathmatically that something can happen doesn't mean that it will. There are many factors at work here. Health care quality differences between Africa and USA/ Europe etc just to name one.
"Just because you can prove mathmatically that something can happen doesn't mean that it will." Truer words were never spoken: according to the 'quants' the 2007/2008 Meltdown never happened.
I think your answer is off the mark.
You can see the numbers of infected and dead are increasing much much quicker. we are still at a very low total number for both. BUT- something greater than 25% of those (admitted) totals are from the last 11 days.
This is happening- not will it happen. The question for the future is will it continue to happen, and at what rate.
Close miss. . . this time. NYC patient hospitalized at Sinai came back negative. At least, that's the party line.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/08/06/mount-sinai-hospital-president-pa...