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Don’t Worry? 10 Quotes From Health Experts Promising That Ebola Will Not Be A Problem In America

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Submitted by Michael Snyder of The End of The American Dream blog,

Health experts all over the United States are promising us that we do not need to be worried about Ebola whatsoever.  Even though one case has already been confirmed in Dallas, Texas and another potential case is being monitored, health authorities assure us that we have the greatest health system in the history of the planet and that we will be able to handle any isolated cases very easily.  And all over the mainstream media on Wednesday, there were headlines declaring that the arrival of Ebola in America is a non-event.  One example is this headline from Bloomberg: “Ebola in America? Don’t Worry About It”.  So are they right?  Should the rest of us just kick back and relax because a bunch of really smart guys are assuring us that our health system can easily deal with anything that Ebola can throw at us?  The following are 10 quotes from prominent experts promising us that Ebola will not be a problem in this country…

#1 Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: “We feel confident that there won’t be an outbreak.”

#2 University of Chicago professor Michael Z. David: “While this all sounds very frightening, there’s no need to worry at this point about Ebola spreading widely here.”

#3 Gerardo Chowell-Puente, an associate professor of mathematical epidemiology at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University: “Math and history show us that decisive efforts to isolate those who are infected with Ebola and to follow up quickly with the potential contacts of the infected can help to get an outbreak under control. We’re lucky that we have such capacities in the United States; even with the Ebola case in Dallas, the epidemic should not get much of a foothold here.”

#4 Texas Health Director David Lakey: “This is a very sophisticated city, a very sophisticated hospital, … and the chances of it being spread are very, very scarce.”

#5 Zachary Thompson, director of Dallas County Health & Human Services: “This is not Africa. We have a great infrastructure to deal with an outbreak.”

#6 Dr. William Shaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center: “We’re very prepared: Infection-control people in hospitals over the past two months have been reviewing all their infection- control procedures because we anticipated just this sort of thing happening—a person coming from West Africa, they were healthy at the time they traveled, but got sick here.”

#7 Thomas Frieden, the director of the CDC: “It is certainly possible that someone who has had contact with this patient could develop Ebola, but there is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here.”

#8 Dr. William Shaffner: “Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent—I bet we can do substantially better than that here.”

#9 Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston: “The Ebola virus is not easily transmitted from person to person, and we have an outstanding infrastructure in place both to contain the virus and trace contacts. There will not be an Ebola epidemic in the United States.”

#10 Thomas Frieden: “The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that we will control this importation or this case of Ebola so that it does not spread widely throughout this country.”

So are they right?

I don’t know.

I hope that they are.

But considering how out of control the Ebola pandemic in West Africa is, I wouldn’t be as dogmatic as those experts are being.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama continues to act as if nothing has changed either.  Even though a number of other nations have shut down all air traffic to Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, Obama still refuses to restrict air travel to and from those countries

After U.S. officials disclosed another potential case of Ebola in Dallas, Texas, this morning, the question remains whether the Obama administration will finally stop flights from Ebola-stricken countries as multiple nations did over a month ago.

 

In mid-August, Korean Air and Kenya Airways announced they were halting flights to the West African countries ravaged by Ebola, and British Airways and Air France also decided to suspend service to the Ebola hot zone a few weeks later.

 

“France is recommending that its citizens leave Sierra Leone and Liberia, two of the countries hardest hit by the worst ever outbreak of the disease,” Jessica Plautz reported for Mashable. “The government said the increasing spread of the disease prompted its request that the airline to suspend flights.”

 

Yet the Obama administration made no such request to U.S. airlines and government flights, despite the Center of Disease Control advising Americans to avoid “non-essential travel” to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea several weeks ago.

Obama says that he has a tremendous amount of confidence in the “extensive screening” at our airports.

Would that be the same “extensive screening” that some CNN employees recently experienced?

CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen said when she and two colleagues recently returned from reporting in Liberia, they got a mixed bag of responses from Customs and Border Protection officers.

 

“We all said we were journalists who had just been in Liberia covering Ebola,” Cohen said. “One of my colleagues was told, ‘Oh, OK, welcome back home, sir’ — and (was) just let in — that was it.”

 

Cohen herself got a different response.

 

“I was told, ‘Wait a minute, I think I got an email about this,’ and the border patrol officer went and consulted with his colleagues,” Cohen said.

 

That officer later told her she should check her system for 21 days.

 

“I said, ‘What should I be checking?’ And he wasn’t sure,” Cohen said.

And even though it has already been demonstrated that someone from West Africa can bring Ebola over to the U.S. on an airplane, authorities all over the country seem content to proceed with business as usual.

For example, according to Fox News, college students from West Africa “may be subject to extra health checks“.

Or they might not.

No big deal, right?

After all, if a case or two of Ebola does pop up, our health authorities can easily take care of the situation like the experts are saying.

Right?

The truth is that we aren’t talking about measles or the flu here.  We are talking about one of the deadliest diseases ever known to mankind.

I think that John Little summarized what we are potentially facing very well…

When you look closely at this virus, it’s hard to see any reason for optimism. It really is one of the most horrifying viruses known to man. It is massively contagious. It has an extremely low survival rate. Those that survive will often die later on – from organ failure, because of the massive internal damage this virus causes to even those who survive.

So those experts better be right.

They better be able to stop this virus just like they are saying.

Because if not, they are going to have to deal with millions of Americans that are extremely angry that they got lied to.

 

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Thu, 10/02/2014 - 15:56 | 5281589 Supernova Born
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We have nothing to fear but fear and ebola.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 15:59 | 5281607 101 years and c...
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"we have nothing to fear but government, the fed and ebola". there. fixed it for you.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:02 | 5281615 Pinto Currency
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If it spreads here, assuming not airborne, it likely will be a problem in the inner cities - even if not in the suburbs.

If it goes airborne, then major crisis.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:02 | 5281627 X.inf.capt
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IF???

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:06 | 5281652 negative rates
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When told "dont worry", the first thing I do, is worry!

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:18 | 5281714 Thought Processor
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<= Mass Depopulation Event

<= We Got This One Covered

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:26 | 5281745 ZerOhead
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You will know ebola is getting bad when the cops refuse to shoot black suspects because of the potential for the blood spatter to infect them...

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:31 | 5281776 Divided States ...
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I am sure that most people are more scared about a stock market plunge of 20% in a day than contracting ebola....

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:20 | 5282006 Squid-puppets a...
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something about this article is eeeirily reminiscent about the dinner party interrupted by the grim reaper in Pythons meaning of life.

"Shut up! You Americans talk too much. You talk and talk and talk. you say '  lemme tell you somethin, and i just wanna say this '. Well you're all DEAD now, so SHUT UP"

 

...but i didnt even eat the salmon moose

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:55 | 5282158 ACP
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Ten "scientists" - based on their performance, more like scientologists - proved wrong in a matter of weeks...

BWHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! So much for "settled science", BITCHEZ!

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 19:00 | 5282321 Pinto Currency
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The point is the medical establishment has to get a grip and clamp down on the few potential cases so far.

IF it spreads further to a much wider subset even if only transmitted by direct fluid contact, then it will likely blow-out in the inner cities just like the crack epidemic did.

UPDATE: if this is true, then the major problem scenario is the one: http://www.infowars.com/experts-ebola-could-be-transmitted-at-a-distance-from-infected-victims/

"... In a piece published by CIDRAP, the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, authors Dr Lisa Brosseau and Dr Rachael Jones highlight how Ebola currently has “unclear modes of transmission.”

We believe there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients, which means that healthcare workers should be wearing respirators, not facemasks,” states the article.

Making reference to “controversy about whether Ebola virus can be transmitted via aerosols,” the authors assert that the current understanding that Ebola can only be transmitted by by direct contact with virus-laden fluids is “incorrect and outmoded.”

The authors note that US health professionals currently tackling Ebola are being put at risk because of the failure to offer them proper “respiratory protection,” making reference to hundreds of fatalities of Ebola health workers in West Africa due to facemasks or surgical masks which offer “very minimal protection from infectious aerosol particles.”

“Being at first skeptical that Ebola virus could be an aerosol-transmissible disease, we are now persuaded by a review of experimental and epidemiologic data that this might be an important feature of disease transmission, particularly in healthcare settings,” states the article...."

 

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 23:32 | 5282405 Citxmech
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"I am sure that most people are more scared about a stock market plunge of 20% in a day than contracting ebola...."

This week.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:32 | 5281786 saints51
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Its football season and the start of new TV shows. To the author: Do you think people really give a fuck if they are lied to? As long as they have internet with facebook/twitter, fast food,tv,football and walmart, Nobody will give a fuck.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:53 | 5281887 sdmjake
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The DEATH toll in the United States over the last 7 days from HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL INJURIES = 3.

Ebola has some catching up to do...

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:21 | 5282013 saints51
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This ebola scare is just that. Never let a crisis go to waste. They will use the ebola fear mongering just like 9-11 to pass a bill for YOUR safety in return for reduced liberties. We people are funny animals when you think about it. We are so worried about preserving our own life. NOBODY escapes death.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:35 | 5282064 Amish Hacker
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Not so sure about that last sentence. I'm thinking maybe Henry Kissinger cut a deal.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:38 | 5282080 saints51
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LOL!!!! Dont forget Bush. No telling what kind of deal to even get the devil himself not to trick their ass and take them early.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:54 | 5281886 Parabox
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Well, Somebody did update the Georgia Guidestones, an elitist monument to depopulation, with the date "2014".

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:10 | 5281963 JamesBond
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Sci Fi writers often tell us of Things to Come.

The first 30 minutes is all it takes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn76zoYjr4k

Thanks H.G. Wells

 

 

jb

 

 

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:19 | 5281720 Samual Adams
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Interim Guidance for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems and 9-1-1 Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) for Management of Patients with Known or Suspected Ebola Virus Disease in the United States

October 1, 2014

Who this is for: Managers of 9-1-1 Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs), EMS Agencies, EMS systems, law enforcement agencies and fire service agencies as well as individual emergency medical services providers (including emergency medical technicians (EMTs), paramedics, and medical first responders, such as law enforcement and fire service personnel).

What this is for: Guidance for handling inquiries and responding to patients with suspected Ebola symptoms, and for keeping workers safe.

How to use: Managers should use this information to understand and explain to staff how to respond and stay safe. Individual providers can use this information to respond to suspected Ebola patients and to stay safe.

Key Points:
  • The likelihood of contracting Ebola is extremely low unless a person has direct unprotected contact with the blood or body fluids (like urine, saliva, feces, vomit, SWEAT, and semen) of a person who is sick with Ebola or direct handling of bats or nonhuman primates from areas with Ebola outbreaks.
  • When risk of Ebola is elevated in their community, it is important for PSAPs to question callers about:
    • Residence in, or travel to, a country where an Ebola outbreak is occurring;
    • Signs and symptoms of Ebola (such as fever, vomiting, diarrhea); and
    • Other risk factors, like having touched someone who is sick with Ebola.
  • PSAPS should tell EMS personnel this information before they get to the location so they can put on the correct personal protective equipment (PPE) (described below).
  • EMS staff should check for symptoms and risk factors for Ebola. Staff should notify the receiving healthcare facility in advance when they are bringing a patient with suspected Ebola, so that proper infection control precautions can be taken.

Says right there can be transmitted by SWEAT

 

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/interim-guidance-emergency-medical-services-systems-911-public-safety-answering-points-management-patients-known-suspected-united-states.html

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:21 | 5281727 SofaPapa
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Because if not, they are going to have to deal with millions of Americans that are extremely angry that they got lied to.

What TPTB have done over the past 100 years (which I must grudgingly admit is brilliant) is to ensure that no matter how angry anyone gets, they will not have to deal with it.  They are masters of distraction, capable of displacing anger on to anyone but themselves.  The latest iteration is ISIS.  Before that it was Al Qaeda.  The article yesterday about the British talking about the elimination of free speech shows that this ability is for the first time in a long time being challenged.  But I wouldn't count TPTB out.  They have a lot of practice avoiding the anger appropriately placed at their doorstep.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:04 | 5281631 GeorgeWKush
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I thought that Ebola would not be allowed to spread wildly in richer countries, but when I see these guys apparently trying to downplay it I get more worried.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:23 | 5281733 Dr Strangemember
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So which country will be first to ban flights originating from the US????  

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:31 | 5281779 unrulian
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As i was making home-made pizza's for the kids I figured out what we can (population) do to stop this ourselves if it isn't too late. Find some unscrupulous grease bag of a lawyer and class-action the airlines for negligence. guaranteed they'll drop there runs to those countries

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:39 | 5281819 Herd Redirectio...
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They'll fly to Belgium, and from Belgium to the US.

"Welcome to Belgium!  Please keep moving."

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:42 | 5281837 Rusty Shorts
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Hold the fucking horses!!!! What the fucking hell is this!!!!!!!!

 

1st EBOLA - ERIC DUNCAN is a U.S. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H3vlH7HcMk

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:04 | 5281934 pods
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He was probably the guy who got the Underwear Bomber through security.

pods

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:57 | 5282172 valley chick
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What would be the reason for the false flag? To see how the public would react?

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:18 | 5282000 armageddon addahere
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How is it they freaked out over bird flu, swine flu, H1N1, SARS, Legionaire's Disease and a hundred other outbreaks that were all bullshit over nothing?

And now they are downplaying Ebola?

Could it be because no drug company has a vaccine to sell?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 09:25 | 5284243 TruthHunter
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600,000 die from malaria every year. Since it's

treatable and doesn't run rampant here, nobody

gets their panties in a bunch.

 

In Liberia, excess deaths  from social breakdown

will surpass ebola.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 15:59 | 5281608 Zhuge Liang
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let the sheeple focus on ebola... meanwhile the last pieces of WWIII are moving into place on the Turkish/Syrian border...

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:26 | 5281758 maskone909
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not sure why u got the down votes.  prob be in syria and iran before the years end.  hey! look!  over there its a.... awww you missed it!

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:00 | 5281611 X.inf.capt
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like a frog in a pot of water...

'no, its not hot yet...'

its OK...

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:45 | 5281846 css1971
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"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." - Albert A. Bartlett

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:03 | 5281629 Quantitative_Ap...
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We have nothing to fear but fear and ebola. and Mers...

We have nothing to fear but fear and ebola and Mers. and h1-n1

We have nothing to fear but fear and ebola and Mers and h1-n1.
and an enconomic depression.

All right, We have nothing to fear but fear and ebola and Mers and h1-n1 and an enconomic depression....

Anything else?

What about global thermonuclear war??

Right, We have nothing to fear but fear and ebola and Mers and h1-n1 and an enconomic depression and of course global thermonuclear war.

"Hey what about an alien invasion??"

Right Piss off!!!!

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:06 | 5281944 ncdirtdigger
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You forgots 'global climate warming cooling changey hopey'.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:04 | 5281635 Row Well Number 41
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Spanish Flu had a 10% fatality rate, and killed 3% of the American population in 1917, but home boys happy they can do substantally better then a 30% fatality rate.  I'm inspired, No Really.

#41

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:09 | 5281962 Things that go bump
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It'll be higher than that when the healthcare infrastructure collapses.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:08 | 5281655 negative rates
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.....But fear and polio.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:11 | 5281682 Mr Pink
Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:42 | 5281831 Oh bummer
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What's worse Obama or Ebola?

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 18:34 | 5282302 Help Is Not Coming
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One makes you bleed from the eyes and the other is a deadly virus.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 18:56 | 5282377 dicksburnt
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We have nothing to fear but fear and ebola.

we have nothing to fear but the FED (one bank - JPM, BOA, C, GS).

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 18:59 | 5282395 Jumbotron
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LIARS !!!!!

LIARS !!!!!

LIARS !!!!!

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 19:15 | 5282437 Jumbotron
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UNITED AIRLINES IS RELEASING THE INFO ON THEIR FLIGHTS THAT PATIENT X TOOK TO AMERICA

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2777375/Were-YOU-flight-America-...

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 15:58 | 5281591 williambanzai7
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NYT:

Mr. Duncan remained in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Thursday, in stable but serious condition. Mr. Duncan probably became infected in Monrovia, the Liberian capital, on Sept 15, when he helped carry his landlord’s convulsing pregnant daughter to a clinic to be treated for Ebola.

The woman, 19-year-old Marthalene Williams, was turned away from the overcrowded clinic because it did not have room for her and died the next day. The landlord’s son and three neighbors who came in contact with the woman also died soon afterward.

Not easily transmitted. Yuppity dup!

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:06 | 5281642 Dr Strangemember
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So only now are we doing the background work on these fools entering the country.  Too little too late.  Thanks Obama!!!!!

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:11 | 5281681 msmith9962
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Probably better to get it early so one can get treated before the health system is overwhelmed. 

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 15:57 | 5281600 Quantitative_Ap...
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Ahhh Hubris thy name is the medical profession....

Physician heal thyself.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:04 | 5281638 Lost Word
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Ten Liars standing in a row.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:16 | 5281708 Talleyrand
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At least Dr. William Shaftner was partially honest when he said,"...we anticipated just this sort of thing happening".

Of course "we" did-whoever "we" is.

All part of the plan.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:00 | 5281614 GoldenGeezer
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Yeah Right!

And Autism isn't linked to vaccines either.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:00 | 5281617 Dr Strangemember
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Just think about the implications if the Government warned of the real dangers with Ebola.  It would be an Economy Krusher given just about every sector of the economy would get pounded.  Travel, restaurants, dentist offices, hospitals, gyms, schools, football games, malls,... would all experience a huge drop-off in business.  It's economic suicide. 

That's why you have to remain sceptical of their words.  It's always money over your well being to them.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:08 | 5281664 ghostzapper
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This Sunday we get an excellent sense of how America will handle this.  The Cowboys have a home game.  I detest the Cowboys but born and raised in Mass at the end of the day I'm indifferent towards them.  However, I damn sure wouldn't go sit with 75K other humans when the metro area already has a confirmed case of Ebola.  Furthermore, what are Dallas and Texas area "leaders" going to do with this game/situation? 

How many fans show up for this game to be stuck in close proximity with other humans for the day?

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:11 | 5281680 fonzannoon
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The place will be sold out and it will be hugs all around when they kick the oblong ball through the giant H for the win.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:17 | 5281713 ghostzapper
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Possible.  Also possible by Saturday afternoon there are many more confirmed cases in Dallas.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:43 | 5281842 perchprism
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Hedge accordingly:  TKMR.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 04:25 | 5283547 Titus
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The most interesting response will be the drop in ticket prices. Need to check Craig's list or a scalper.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:42 | 5282111 Clowns on Acid
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Yo Fonz - What happens if the person beside you looks like a Liberian? There are 10,000 mostly (if not all) illegal Liberians in the DFW area. Surely at least one will have a complimentary ticket.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:17 | 5281707 Dr Strangemember
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Lots of nose picking, high fives and sneezing.  Go Cowboys!!

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:55 | 5281896 SmallerGovNow2
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+1 LMAO!!!

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 18:01 | 5282186 Not Too Important
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That's why the FCC dropped the 'blackout' rule. Who in their right mind is going to go to a giant gathering of humans now, especially in Dallas?

It'll be fun to watch the game and see the seat count. I'm keeping an eye on any CGI 'seat fill-in'. That's next. Virtual customers.

Jerry and his billion dollar stadium. Good luck paying the mortgage, Jerry!

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:01 | 5281618 drink or die
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Don't worry guys, there won't be a pandemic here.  Sure, some people will randomly get it and die a horrible death due to the terrible border screening procedures in place.  But at least we can all be politically correct and not hurt any feelings, right?

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:53 | 5281888 SmallerGovNow2
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Is it happy hour yet?  Looks like a fine bouron you have there...

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:58 | 5282176 joe6px
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What happened to "if we can save a single life.."  guess that doesn't fit the narative anymore.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 05:46 | 5283614 StychoKiller
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"Nobody gets out of here alive!"

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:02 | 5281633 mfavorit
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Until we hear the Fed tell us it is contained we cannot be sure, be cautious, stay nimble.

 

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:08 | 5281660 Al Huxley
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I hate to be picky, but its 'stay wary, alert and very very nimble'.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 18:02 | 5282192 Not Too Important
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There's really no place to run once it gets going. Have fun while you can, we'll all be 'Liberian' soon enough.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 05:47 | 5283615 StychoKiller
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"Stay frosty, and keep yer head on a swivel!"

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:02 | 5281634 sunny
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Question:  What's the greater threat to the long term well being of country and the American Dream:  The Fed or Ebola?

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:07 | 5281659 Jacksons Ghost
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Fed, not even close.   A virus that wipes out 30% of the pop is not as bad as the Fed.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:08 | 5281667 BlackChicken
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The FED.

Ebola can be killed

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:14 | 5281983 Things that go bump
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How can you kill something that isn't really alive as we define life. 

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:05 | 5281644 Wahooo
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All priced in.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:06 | 5281646 Doubleguns
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“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.” 
Friedrich Nietzsche

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:07 | 5281656 BlackChicken
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Every single death in the US from this disease should be the direct responsibility of the current administration.

They show no regard for our safety, and the complete failure of taking more proactive measures is not an accident.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:09 | 5281668 izzee
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I want to learn how to fly a 747...but I don't really need to know how to land it.

 

You've been covering the Ebola epidemic in Liberia...Hey Welcome back.

 

He and another peroson Informed the nurse that he had been in contact with someone ill in an Ebol......

 

Solution to a Problem?  To many F*(&ng people. NOT enought money for US

 

Who cudda stopped it?  The information didn't get to the Team. 

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:09 | 5281669 gswifty
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It's easy to talk shit when there's no accountability in what you've said. Will there be any repurcussions to these professional assuagers when it's found they were wrong? I didn't think so.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:09 | 5281671 Dr. Engali
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I have found in life that if there is so much effort put into convincing you it's not bad, then it's usually horrible.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:10 | 5281672 tweake
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Not to worry, we have Obamacare to save us.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:13 | 5281686 ratpack1968
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Why do people bother to even listen to people with a strong track record of incompetence and lies?  Prepare accordingly.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 18:02 | 5282201 Not Too Important
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The liberals and FSA think Obama is going to save them.

Hahahahaha.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:15 | 5281696 zerohedgejjxxzz12
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Thes guys are just fools! Paid to say "dont worry be happy!"

They are all concerned about this one guy as if he is the only one with the disease. How about other pepole that can bring in this disease, its time to be safe rather than sorry. stop all air travel unless you want to be quarantined for a 2 week time period after arriving back in the US. Or Canada.

But the problem is as Jack Nickloson stated " you can't handle the truth". this is where we are the Gov thinks we cannot handle the truth, nor can the markets/Airlines deal with the losses. So the people get left at risk. Once this gets a foot hold in North America lookout.

Politicians are no smarter than the rest of us!

 

 

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:18 | 5281717 Budd aka Sidewinder
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The direct family members of the infected man in Dallas were trusted to self enforce a home quarantine....they immediately broke it and had to be quarntined....

Stupid people are stupid and do stupid things

The government is stupid

The government trusted people to do the right thing and they didn't

People are trusting government to do the right thing and protect them

I don't know if this is just gross incompetence by all parties or if this shit is being done on purpose

I guess we'll all find out one way or another

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:29 | 5281765 Sick
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So those experts better be right.

They better be able to stop this virus just like they are saying.

Because if not, they are going to have to deal with millions of Americans that are extremely angry that they got lied to.

 

You will not be mad for long because you will be dead....just as planned.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:32 | 5281783 blu
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Dallas is in for a bad weekend of shit hitting the fan. By Monday I bet the place is full-on full-time all the time all day insane.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:33 | 5281785 palmdetroit
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Good news, coming from a field of glorified Antibiotic dispensors

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:36 | 5281801 Utah_Get_Me_2
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160,000 NBC suits. Check.

CDC instructions to hospitals and funeral homes for dealing with Ebola patients. Check.

DART teams instructed to be ready for activation in October. Check.

Obama executive order 'allowing' the indefinite detention of persons showing signs of respiratory illness. Check.

Extensive, multi-decade Continuity of Govt (COG) protocols and directives designed for just such an event. Check.   

Patient Zero pissing and shitting his way from Monrovia to Brussels and then thru 2 of the busiest internation airports in the US. Check.

Scientific studies confirm Ebola can be tranmitted in aerosolized form. Check.

 

No. There's nothing to worry about at all. Place your cranium firmly up your rectum America. Your government that can't or won't defend its borders, the White House, it's soldiers, it's Veterans or Conservative tax payers will protect you against one of the most dangerous viruses known to man.     

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:27 | 5282021 g'kar
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FEMA/quarantine camps operational. Check.

All Federal, State and Local agencies armed to the teeth. Check.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:37 | 5281808 dot_bust
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It's relatively easy to declare every death from the seasonal flu to have been from Ebola. After all, who has time for proper laboratory tests? We can just diagnose exotic diseases according to symptoms, right? That sounds legitimate.

It's espeically legimitate when early-stage Ebola has almost the exact same symptoms as the flu.

Proper lab tests are time-consuming and expensive and are usually accurate. So, who needs them?

A few years ago, every case of the garden-variety flu was automatically dubbed the swine flu. The following article from CBS News details how that was done: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/swine-flu-cases-overestimated/ 

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:20 | 5282004 Things that go bump
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Seasonal flu is not known to cause bleeding from bodily orifices. There is a simple, inexpensive test for type A and type B flu. 

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:45 | 5281847 hannah
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i cant believe no one has mentioned this yet.....the guy with ebola in dallas is probably part of the group that are the taxi drivers to dfw airport. what better way to spread the sh*t around...

 

and where do these guys hang all day long.....starbucks.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 20:21 | 5282605 eyesofpelosi
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Semen can carry ebola too. Get this bug in the prostitution network and the horror will begin. Imagine some infected lot lizrd infecting a trucker, who is delivering a load across seven states. 

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:46 | 5281851 WhackoWarner
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2 birds with one or 2 stones BS.

Look at the positive.  Wipe out population excess (check)

Unemployment stats go down without fudging (check)

Entitlement payment stats go down (check)

Obamacare efficiency goes up (check)

bank run possible goes down and "unclaimed balances explode"  (check and check)

more room for complacent/immigrant potential voters goes up (check)

Ability to blame on above is magnified (check).

My friends in gated communities survive as long as all the maids are wrapped in Saran (check)

We come out the other end with a captive serfdom who are just happy to be alive (check).

 

Maybe I got some of this wrong BUT did this not happen a while ago with SARS?

 

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:55 | 5281890 Fuku Ben
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You missed a quote

Dr. Kilmore of the Apocalypse Now Society - I love the smell of Ebola in the morning. You know, one time we had a whole country quarantined, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that Ebola smell, the whole country. Smelled like (sniffing, pondering].... victory

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:56 | 5281903 NOTfromSanFrancisco
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There was a time in my younger years when I got 90% of my calories from Cokes, Snickers and potato chips. I never got sick. Most of my friends ate a well balanced meal (whatever that is) and got colds and flu like illnesses regularly.

They used to ask me why I never got sick like them.

I jokingly told them that if I was a germ looking for a host to live in, I would pick someone who eats healthy like them and not like me. For a germ, my body was probably like taking a vacation in a war zone... Nothing healthy for them to feed on.

I could tell by the looks on their faces, some of them were wondering if that was true...

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 16:59 | 5281914 jacship
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C-D-C THINKS DUNCAN WAS IN CONTACT WITH ABOUT 80 PEOPLE

SEE WHAT DALLAS LOOKS LIKE IN A WEEK TO TEN DAYS


Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:40 | 5282098 STG5IVE
Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:08 | 5281951 Frank N. Beans
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We should ban air traffic (and boat traffic) from West Africa, but that won't keep ebola from spreading to U.S. unless other countries do the same thing.  Hey I'm talking to you Belgium!

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:29 | 5282046 Blue Vervain
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I was pleased to read today that Air France cabin staff have refused to board flights to Liberia and other badly affected countries.

Today in the UK it was announced flights would resume from Liberia to Gatwick,  in accordance with the wishes of aid agencies and NGOs.

 

 

 

 

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:14 | 5281985 still kicking
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Anyone considered we need a few hotspots here in the good ole US of A to deflect blame when an absolute infestation at hajj decimates the middle east?

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:18 | 5281999 divide_by_zero
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Anybody still wondering why Obama/Soros sent 3000 military virus hosts to Africa?

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:19 | 5282003 FieldingMellish
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TOP MEN!

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 20:25 | 5282611 VWAndy
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Expert=paid to say that.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:20 | 5282008 pupdog1
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Any chance that all ten of these mutts have gotten calls from the feds about grant money?

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:24 | 5282019 Sid James
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And yet if I want to fly in to the USA and spend money as a tourist I am given a full cavity search.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:32 | 5282053 overmedicatedun...
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well we can believe the Doc protesting at an airport dressed in hasmat suit, or 10 guys with coats and ties short hair and expesive suits who all spoke in private away from the general population...who to trust hmmm who to trust?

ans: trust nothing trust no one..they are all lying and paid to do it.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:33 | 5282057 Rootin' for Putin
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If 1/10 of 1% of the US population get it thats 318,816 dead folks.  I mean new job openings.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:34 | 5282063 Jack Burton
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As long as no mutation allowing easier air borne transmition occurs, then i go along that this should be easily held in check. But, who is certain that with all the new infections, that a gene is not going to mutate or jump in a way that infection becomes easiler through close air borne contact. Flu gets around in drop lets from coughs and sneezes and hand contact with infected surfaces. I cough in my hand write a note and put the pen aside, someone takes it up for use, the preson the note went to handles it to read it. Either one then rubs their eyes or their nose. Bingo, virus load is on it's way.

Ebola should be treated as a huge threat because of the potential for this easier transmission mutation.

CNN reports that Mr. Ebola, after being turned away from help, spent two days in bed sheeding virus to the bedding. That bedding is still on the bed in their apartment! Texas officials say, "they are awaiting private contractors to arrive and move the bedding". "Do not worry, we have contracted for removal and handling of ebola infected items in this case and any further cases."

WHY does, "We have a private contractor" make me NOT fell safe. First the bedding must be removed at a nice profit margine, and that takes time. Fucken "12 Monkeys" like stuff that is.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 18:01 | 5282194 phaedrus1952
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Interesting point there, Jack. Years ago a cousin of mine, a retired NYPD detective, told me an interesting story in which he was involved as a then private investigator. There was suspicion, which his investigation proved to be true,  that many of the hazardous disposal teams that regularly picked up spilled diesel, toxic waste, etc. etc. were improperly disposing of it rather than go through the very expensive proper procedures.

Many of the trucks - after going through this big theatrical clean up in full hazmat suits and all - simply discharged the stuff on the back roads of  New Jersey at night.

That is simply one of the many, many examples in my lifetime I have been exposed to as examples of things frequently not being what they are supposed to be.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 18:08 | 5282213 Not Too Important
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Union employees, right? Like dumping medical hazmat waste off the coast at night?

How about recycling radioactive nuclear metals into household products? Guys with geiger counters find that shit all the time. Someone found some 'glowing' belt buckles. Imagine having plutonium next to your Johnson all day.

No one gives a shit.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:36 | 5282071 carbonmutant
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The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives - Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:40 | 5282104 alexcojones
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Same "Experts' who said not to worry in 2007-08.

Bubble? What Bubble(s)?

Ebola? Not to worry 

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:43 | 5282110 alexcojones
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ALL Those guys already have Ebola vaccines.

Just as ALL the insiders in 9-11 already had the anthrax vaccine

Betcha Most of them own stock in Big Pharma.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 17:49 | 5282137 Fix It Again Timmy
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Hell, trained researchers entering a Level 4 lab containing Ebola break out in a sweat, but "don't worry, we have it contained...."

Oh DAMN,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q1G76_ysNo

 

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 18:28 | 5282287 ZombieHuntclub
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These so called experts are not right. 

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 18:30 | 5282294 GottaBKiddn
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OK, let's see. Ebola is supposed to be easy to spot, with blood flowing from almost every orifice of the body.

Seen any pictures of that? or even hear about any pictures or descriptions of that?

When someone dies of this "Ebola" have you heard of an autopsy in which it was stated that the cause of death was definitely real Ebola?

Have you heard almost every possible source of information (MSM), including our sacred leaders, trying to scare the shit out of everyone they possibly can?

Can you recall people who had real Ebola being "cured" in a short time? Doesn't happen.

Do you have the impression that maybe someone is trying to convince you that you should get the latest and greatest vaccine as soon as it is available, "before supplies run out", because you really don't know any better?

And why the heck is ZH taking part in all the scaremongering instead of the investigating journalism we follow them for?

 

 

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 18:39 | 5282323 insanelysane
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When they are proven wrong and they will be proven wrong, the experts will say that it is a new strain of Ebola and that the other strain was contained until it mutated and wasn't contained.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 18:44 | 5282334 SmittyinLA
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They wont shut down airlines from Ebola countries because Boeing sales are predicated on loose US immigration policy (we give away access to America to pump plane sales).

If we cut off the immigration airline pipelines Boeing goes bust. 

99% of Africans don't have disposable income for air tourism most African air-travel is illegal immigration, Obama's Commie parasite base. 

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 18:47 | 5282343 Werekoala
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I have to say that, generally speaking, I'm not prone to conspiracy theories, but a thought occured to me earlier today - out of the blue.

 

People have theorized for a long time that war and the resulting expenses/reduction in population are beneficial to a societal/economic/environmental system.

 

Due to our increases in military technology, we've been engaged in a "War" for almost 15 years with less than 10,000 casualties on our side. So the old "remedies" don't work anymore. And we don't want to risk a nuclear war because it would tip the scales too far in the other direction.

 

So... that leaves mass casualties and expense from another source.

 

Yeah. To use the local parlance - long tinfoil.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 18:47 | 5282346 mijev
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I like that Obama has faith in airport screening procedures. But how many others would that person have come into contact with who would pass the screening without any issues?

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 18:48 | 5282347 DipshitMiddleCl...
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We have better sanitation processes here. The Afrikans don't.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 19:02 | 5282397 Sizzurp
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Obama....... What else can you say. Just keep those Liberian planes coming. This guy is the worst president ever. It's almost as if he truly despises America.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 19:29 | 5282481 d edwards
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He DOES despise this nation-why else would he want to "fundamentally transform" it?

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 19:22 | 5282459 Hohum
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If 100 people in America get Ebola, the GOP will win in 2016 for President--no matter what clown(ette) they choose.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 19:44 | 5282507 robnume
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Time to whip out Ingmar Bergman's wonderful "The Seventh Seal". We may all be Max Von Sydow's character, playing the "Grim Reaper's" game of chess.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 20:44 | 5282661 Frankly Speaking
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Sure, we've got this under control. Go home, take these every 6 hours, and come back in a couple of days if you think you are dying. Wonderful. Gov now asserts they have stupidity under control.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 21:08 | 5282721 Brutlstrudl
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Barack Ebola

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 21:23 | 5282759 MsCreant
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NBC Camera man has Ebola. Whole crew, including their talking head Dr. Nancy Snyderman, is going to be flown back and monitored for Ebola for 21 days.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/nbc-news-freelance...

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 22:16 | 5282962 AdvancingTime
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This kind of news could hurt the myth that Ebola is hard to catch.

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 22:17 | 5282968 AdvancingTime
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It seems Americans are trying to put Ebola into the dustbin as just another also ran or nuisance thing that when kept at a distance is of little interest. Unfortunately this may soon change as the virus is picking up "critical mass." 

By critical mass I'm referring to the point where enough people are infected with the virus that it can sustain a chain reaction and expand out of control. The bad news is Ebola may have already reached critical mass and be impossible to contain. The implications of this are massive and it could change everything. More on why we should be very concerned in the article below.

 http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/09/ebola-may-have-reached-critical-m...

 

Thu, 10/02/2014 - 22:21 | 5282983 AdvancingTime
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It appears the Ebola virus might make ISIS look like JV!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 00:26 | 5283286 fibonacci's claus
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cdc-who...  sofa king lied.  this is sofa king a joke.  i am sofa king tired of being lied to.  this is obviously sofa king a dry run for fema wet dreams

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:34 | 5284794 NewAmericaNow
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It's all going as planned. Medical martial law to be in place at around the economic collapse. Prepare http://thebookgallery2014.blogspot.com/2014/08/beyond-ebola-preparation....

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