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During An Ebola Pandemic All Of Your Rights Would Essentially Be Meaningless

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Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,

If there is a major Ebola pandemic in America, all of the liberties and the freedoms that you currently enjoy would be gone.  If government officials believe that you have the virus, federal law allows them to round you up and detain you "for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary."  In addition, the CDC already has the authority to quarantine healthy Americans if they reasonably believe that they may become sick.  During an outbreak, the government can force you to remain isolated in your own home, or the government may forcibly take you to a treatment facility, a tent city, a sports stadium, an old military base or a camp.  You would not have any choice in the matter.  And you would be forced to endure any medical procedure mandated by the government.  That includes shots, vaccines and the drawing of blood.  During such a scenario, you can scream about your "rights" all that you want, but it won't do any good.

In case you are tempted to think that I am making this up, I want you to read what federal law actually says.  The following is 42 U.S.C. 264(d).  I have added bold for emphasis...

(1) Regulations prescribed under this section may provide for the apprehension and examination of any individual reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease in a qualifying stage and (A) to be moving or about to move from a State to another State; or (B) to be a probable source of infection to individuals who, while infected with such disease in a qualifying stage, will be moving from a State to another State. Such regulations may provide that if upon examination any such individual is found to be infected, he may be detained for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary. For purposes of this subsection, the term “State” includes, in addition to the several States, only the District of Columbia.

 

(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term “qualifying stage”, with respect to a communicable disease, means that such disease—

 

(A) is in a communicable stage; or

 

(B) is in a precommunicable stage, if the disease would be likely to cause a public health emergency if transmitted to other individuals.

In addition, as I discussed above, the CDC already has the authority to isolate people that are not sick to see if they do become sick.  The following is what the CDC website says about this...

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

On a very basic level, we are already starting to see this happen in Texas.  Obviously Thomas Eric Duncan has already been "isolated", and now his family has been placed under mandatory quarantine and ordered not to leave their home for 21 days...

Texas health officials have placed the Dallas family of a Liberian national infected with Ebola under quarantine and ordered them not to leave their home or have any contact with outsiders for 21 days without approval of the local or state health department.

 

The "control order" also requires the family of Thomas Eric Duncan to be available to provide blood samples and agree to any testing required by public health officials. Officials said Thursday that the four or five family members could face criminal charges for violating the order, which was delivered to them in writing Wednesday evening.

 

Police have been stationed at the apartment complex to ensure residents' safety, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings told a news briefing Thursday afternoon.

If we could all just stay in our homes during a national Ebola emergency, that wouldn't be so bad.

But if thousands (or even millions) of cases start popping up it simply will not be possible for law enforcement authorities to monitor so many homes.

This is a point that Mike Adams of Natural News made exceptionally well...

When just one family is suspected of carrying Ebola, they can be easily monitored in a "volunteer home isolation" scenario. But what happens when it's 100 families? 500? 1,000? At that point, there aren't enough state or federal workers to keep an eye on these people, and the quarantine effort will almost certainly shift to forced relocation into quarantine camps.

 

Those camps will, of course, be called something nice-sounding like "Community Health Centers." No one in government or media will call them camps, even though they are camps. The word "camp" brings up echoes of "concentration camps" and the government definitely wants to avoid that association.

 

If one particular town or city is hit especially hard with the virus, there is a likelihood of the entire town being quarantined. No one in, no one out. Everybody will be ordered to "shelter in place" in their own homes for at least 21 days while health workers wearing hazmat suits go door to door, identifying Ebola victims and "relocating" them to the "Community Health Centers."

If that sounds like "martial law" to you, that is because it would essentially be martial law.

For the moment, public health authorities are pledging that nothing like this will ever happen because they have everything completely under control.

Others are not so sure.

For example, on Thursday a doctor from Missouri named Gil Mobley checked in for a flight at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport dressed in a mask, goggles, gloves, boots and a protective white jumpsuit.  On the back of the jumpsuit, he had written the following words:  "CDC is lying!"

Mobley believes that we are not being told the truth about the spread of Ebola.  And he is convinced that as Ebola continues to spread exponentially, that we will eventually "be importing clusters of Ebola on a daily basis"...

“Once this disease consumes every third world country, as surely it will, because they lack the same basic infrastructure as Sierra Leone and Liberia, at that point, we will be importing clusters of Ebola on a daily basis,” Mobley predicted.

 

“That will overwhelm any advanced country’s ability to contain the clusters in isolation and quarantine. That spells bad news.”

 

Mobley, a Medical College of Georgia graduate who had an overnight layover after flying to Atlanta from Guatemala on Wednesday, said that he feels that the CDC is “asleep at the wheel” when it comes to screening passengers arriving in the United States from other countries.

 

“Yesterday, I came through international customs at the Atlanta airport,” the doctor told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “The only question they asked arriving passengers is if they had tobacco or alcohol.”

Earlier on Thursday, there were reports of people being tested for Ebola in Hawaii, Kentucky and Utah.  None of those tests has produced a confirmed case of Ebola as I write this article.

Many Americans are still treating this Ebola crisis as if it was just one big joke.

But Ebola is no joking matter.  This is a very, very serious disease.

Just consider the experience of one British health worker that witnessed a young brother and sister both die one day apart...

'The next morning I came in and saw him lying as I had left him, on the bed.

 

'He wasn't breathing. I remember going up to him and looking at his face, his lips were drawn back in a grimace, and his eyes were vacant, lying in a pool of his own diarrhea.

 

'I lifted his hand to try, just to confirm things and his whole body turned rigid and cold.

 

'I put him in a body bag as his sister looked on.

 

'She seemed more baffled than anything, not really understanding what was happening. I carried his corpse outside with the others.

 

'The little girl, she deteriorated the next day. Overnight, the following night she had intravenous fluids and the line came out and she bled.

 

'I came in the following morning and she was covered in blood. She still had a very puzzled expression on her face and she wasn't breathing.

 

'So I put her in a bag and left her next to her brother. She was a beautiful little girl.'

Hopefully our medical authorities are correct and this virus will not spread easily in this country.

But at this point even some of our top politicians are wondering if we are truly getting accurate information.  For example, check out what U.S. Senator Rand Paul had to say on the Laura Ingraham Show just recently...

“I really think that it is being dominated by political correctness and I think because of political correctness we’re not really making sound, rational, scientific decisions on this.” Paul said referring to statements issued by the CDC last week that assured there was little risk of an outbreak occurring in the US.

 

“We should not underestimate the transmissibility of this,” said Paul, a doctor himself, adding that medical workers have been contracting the virus even though they are taking precautions and covering themselves with gowns and masks.

 

My suspicion is that it’s a lot more transmissible than that if people who are taking every precaution are getting it. There are people getting it who simply helped people get in or out of a taxicab.” Paul said.

Let's pray that this crisis fizzles out, because if it doesn't, we could truly be looking at the greatest health crisis that any of us have ever seen.

And along with countless numbers of people getting sick and dying, we would also have to deal with government-imposed medical martial law.

The stakes are extremely high, and so let us hope that this crisis does not escalate any further.

 

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Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:12 | 5287168 Bindar Dundat
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What freedoms?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:20 | 5287197 economics9698
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The ones you get from the end of a gun.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:35 | 5287248 10mm
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I like you.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:42 | 5287270 mjcOH1
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"If we could all just stay in our homes during a national Ebola emergency, that wouldn't be so bad."

 

It's a plan....the EBT for everybody!   Now we just need some poor fools to produce and deliver our water.food/fuel/electricity/health care.    Note to the idle .... the magic lightning doesn't just come out of the wall for your amusement.   Although ... truely .... "you didn't make that'.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:58 | 5287290 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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If FEMA camps are used, they will be more like fly traps. They'll be phantom promises of government goodies at these locations and once you're in it's their way or the firing squad.

I don't see forced relocation to FEMA camps. Who will be doing these relocations? The local police departments are manned by cowards who will disengage on the first scratch of a biohazard suit. The military will be spread so thin it won't risk infecting the few units it has in any one area (its main objective will be securing the main roads out of the hot zones). The biggest problem I see (besides the virus) is starvation and desperate people trying not to starve. If you're a lucky one on the outside why jeopardize yourself by going in? You're basically hoping to God it can be contained and burn itself out. Of course, this is later after the "Let's squash it in the hot zone" strategy fails in west Africa.

Most force projection by Uncle Satan in the hot zones will be down with drones. Just my thoughts...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:11 | 5287357 Chupacabra-322
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Bottom line, this an Illigitimate Criminal UNITED STATES, CORP. enity functioning under Fraud. Any attempt to Criminally detain anyone should be considered a threat & the end result would be the business end of a 00 Buck shotgun blast in defense of ones life, Liberty & Freedom

Period, end of story.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:48 | 5287485 Leonardo Fibonacci2
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Obama can't close the borders cause he welcomes all his kneegro friends from the homeland.  Better yet, they are welcome but Obozo is nowhere to be found to shake their hands! Clever fucker!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:05 | 5287526 0b1knob
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If there is a major Ebola pandemic in America, all of the liberties and the freedoms that you currently enjoy would be gone

  That's been the idea all along hasn't it?   Feature not a bug.                                                                                                                   

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:07 | 5287536 markmotive
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UN Ebola chief raises ‘nightmare’ prospect that virus could mutate and become airborne

 

http://www.planbeconomics.com/2014/10/un-ebola-chief-raises-nightmare-pr...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:14 | 5287554 lakecity55
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"UN Oboloa chief slowly lets out the word the obola bug is and has been airborne since the beginning."

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 00:12 | 5287702 The Doofus
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Pandemic?  Panic much?  Where do you guys come up with this shit?  One Liberian in Dallas came down with the illness.  How does this equal pandemic? 

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 01:52 | 5287853 whotookmyalias
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Open the Leper colonies back up.  (you young-uns might need to google it)

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 02:31 | 5287883 Manthong
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Somebody has been working on a pumpkin chuckin' entrant.. but is now adapting it to Ebola carcass launching..

..maybe better than fence jumping   :-)

 

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 03:11 | 5287905 TheAnalOG
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We don't ask for our rights, we go out and take them... by force if necessary.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 05:24 | 5287973 Nestor Makhno
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Too many people forget that the king was forced to sign the magna carta at the point of a sword.....

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 13:43 | 5288752 CrazyCooter
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If Ebola really gets legs, it will be quite similar to the black plague, which incidentally, did not burn out for a very long time. It reoccurred in waves, hitting the same populations multiple times.

Camps might happen, but they wont be effective. So, maybe the gov gets to work down the list of piss-ants they want to whack, but other than that it is going to go around like the flu. Police and military are going to be just as vulnerable, and they also have families. Quarantine only works when the numbers are small enough.

I am not sure this is malice at all, I think it is just sheer incompetence by leaders who don't surround themselves with strong minded, educated folks who tell them how the world really is ... they are surrounded by ass kissing brown nosers who keep their fuhrer happy.

Regards,

Cooter

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:12 | 5287546 lakecity55
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"Take flight, my monkeys, drop your obolas everywhere, cackle cackle!"

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:54 | 5287502 Freddie
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Well you better have ma laying down supression fire with a .308 like a FAL or other variant backing up your 00 Buck.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 09:17 | 5288182 DaddyO
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+1

Most forget the object is to reach out and touch something before it has the chance to reach out and touch you.

DaddyO

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 14:46 | 5288859 Mr. Ed
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For me, the object would be to shut down ALL US-BOUND FLIGHTS OUT OF WEST AFRICA until (and if) the epidemic passes.  A three week layover on an isolated island might be an alternative.

But quarantine the neighborhood?  Screw that, quarantine Africa!

Political correctness be damned!!!!

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 10:55 | 5288371 lasvegaspersona
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Freddie

Hogan and Sig are both nicer....both use standard mags (AR10)

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:13 | 5287359 knukles
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Oh come on FFS people.  Our folks won't even stop flights between countries, fly the infected back here for treatment and are completely lax about fundamental procedures (discharging that chap in Dallas to roam about, or powerwashing the street where he'd vomited) or casual "monitoring", won't even implement a cordon sanitaire within W Africa and you're worried that they're gonna round folks up to camps, here?
There's not enough police and military available (just when you'd really honestly need them) and so far the "authorities" are all for "It's not a problem" to stop a public panic.  Which there will be when it's too late!

My guess is that what would be attempted would be a 21 day stay-cation with EMS rounding up the really sick (facilitates will be over taxed to crowd people together) with emergency personnel Most Importantly Focused upon the Continued Delivery of Water and Energy.

What else?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:22 | 5287399 RafterManFMJ
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...and it's going to be a long, cold winter...

If the power fails ... many will freeze.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 01:49 | 5287846 Joe Trader
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Seems like ZH has gone off the deep end again...using a quarantine as an excuse to go on about civil liberties, please.....

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 11:53 | 5288511 viahj
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it is a comforable life in the center of the herd because the wolves only take from the fringes.  that safety holds only for so long, until the herd is spooked or through calm depreciation, the safety of the edge of the herd grows closer. 

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 15:45 | 5289043 IndyPat
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Thus preserving the virus for more fun this spring!

It's like The Thing. Frozen in the ice to do its damage later.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 10:30 | 5288313 SuperRay
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The real question is why would the elites let this happen, because they could be victims too.  The answer is that there is already a vaccine to protect them from ebola, and they've already taken it.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 17:02 | 5289245 bbq on whitehou...
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The e-lights are immune, inbreeding for the immunity to plague. Every 100 or so years they roll out plague to control population. Passive population control didn't work so well so now its back to plague.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:17 | 5287375 Socratic Dog
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"Quarantine Stations" will be death stations.  If you go there disease-free (as most will), you'll catch it there.  60% mortality.  The survivors will become forced plasma donors, for the benefit of the .01%'ers.

A bit off topic, but....the sign to look for that this WILL get out of control will be infected health workers.  If that happens it will mean it can't be contained.  It's happening in Africa, but the US is exceptional of course, so it couldn't possibly happen here.  Could it???

I don't know if they are using intensive care unit-level care in Africa, but we certainly will.  At least initially.  And, with many years experience in that field, I find that a likely death sentence to the caregivers.  Our institutions are too inflexible and incompetent to allow dealing with something so radically different to anything we have  dealt with before.    Once word gets out that the ICU RN's are dying then there won't be anyone to staff them.  The infected ones will spread it, of course.   The system will collapse.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 10:55 | 5287990 gswifty
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Excellent article. As an RN(not ICU), this explains very well the current discrepancy about the high level of health care workers being infected. Thanks for this important information.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:27 | 5287421 freedogger
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As soon as robots start making robots, that's when we will be rounded up.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:18 | 5287569 Anusocracy
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Nothing new.

For 10,000 years the slaves have been making slaves for government.

Hopefully the robots will go Terminator on their masters. People certainly aren't smart enough to.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:42 | 5287621 SF beatnik
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As soon as we dig up the obelisk on the moon, the aliens will know it's time to return to earth to harvest human flesh.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 00:40 | 5287754 Ralph Spoilsport
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What if the obelisk looks like the Georgia Guidestones and is running a really old version of Multics?

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 08:55 | 5288148 lastdinosaur
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Gaius - you are absolutely right - the "jailers" will go AWOL - so glad I have ~ year's worth of food, natural gas generator, live on lake - easily defended. I actually like Spam. It goes well with g/s. I AM OUT.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:08 | 5287345 fleur de lis
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Obama issued an executive order re quarantine for communicable diseases. Nice that he's one step ahead. Or something.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/07/31/executive-order-re...

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 10:54 | 5288364 BraveSirRobin
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Sorry, but the first part of the article is crap. what he intentionally fails to highligh in bold text is "to be moving or about to move from a State to another State". 

The federal government can only use this to detain persons moving across state borders (including DC).

Having said that, various states have varyng public health laws tha permit isolation and quarantine, but the law cited above does not allow the federal government to willy-nilly round up people. 

So, the issue is not the "law". The issue is that our government does not give a wit about the "law" these days, and will do what it pleases. 

Please do not misdirect on the problem. 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:28 | 5287427 Brutlstrudl
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The trigger pullers have families too.  They will go to ground

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 06:31 | 5288038 Winston Churchill
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What if the FEMA camps are for the families of police and army ?

Leaves them free and also easy to blackmail into firing on Americans.

I almost hesitated to give them the idea, if they didn't already have it.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 11:57 | 5288516 viahj
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in all the movies i've seen recently, only the "connected" non-infected are allowed to leave the hot zone. 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:59 | 5300046 fallout11
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"Art imitates life."

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 01:10 | 5287806 gatorboat
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What gun?

You mean the 400 some odd million that won't ever be used against the govt?

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 07:05 | 5288057 laomei
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Precisely... the notion of "human rights" is a farce, they do not exist.  There are no "rights" apart from what you take for yourself and keep for yourself in the end.  The government has shown time and time again that literally every single "right" is conditional and can be stripped... therefore, they are not "rights" at all.

 

Sadly, guns are fairly useless against what the government is now more than happy to use.  Learn about PETN and make PETN, Guns are nice and all, but nothing beats some good boom.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 15:36 | 5289010 Winston Churchill
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Nitro is also much easier to make, and contary to public perception, is nowhere

near as unstable as advertised.When frozen its extremely stable.

Please don't make it in the house/garage.

Sun, 10/05/2014 - 10:15 | 5290518 laomei
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petn's easier, better and makes shaped and cutting charges

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:21 | 5287200 tempo
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simple math, its coming...20k E cases today, doubling every 15-21 days, w 60% death rate... By Chistmas, 400,000 cases of E w 10,000 in US/EU(those w money for a flight out) to get the $1mm care versus death.  Only self reporting continues so any w means can get out.   US hospitals become epic center as E patients  and flu patients over whelm hospitals and Doctor offices.   Only answer is movement of all patients w fever to containment camps w citizens and illegals treated the same.  No media coverage.  no iphones.   only the rich escape.  Merry Christmas to all.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:22 | 5287210 Skateboarder
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You forgot (lackof)Thanksgiving and Black Friday. That's a good way to spread the wealth.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:30 | 5287226 economics9698
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The rich will soon be walking targets for millions.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:50 | 5287302 nmewn
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With 250k and up now being called "the rich" there are (to use an overused buzzword meaning nothing) "opportunities", ahhh, the possibilities.

I'm startin with that plumber on Long Island ;-)

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:57 | 5287657 SF beatnik
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Back from running errands at SF's Civic Center. It's looking more and more like Monrovia. Ripe for epidemic. Hordes of idle "people of color" hanging out, all day, all night, shitting on the sidewalk, hassling passers by, stealing from small businesses, breaking into cars.

Thinking to myself, all the while, "White boy no longer welcome, here. I've gotta get the fuck out of the Bay Area."

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 01:14 | 5287815 gatorboat
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Sorry, but your "E" will be a big flop.

Sorry for busting your deathmongering fantasy.

No I'm not actually.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 08:19 | 5288109 Charming Anarchist
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Agreed. Unfortunately, the Emperola does not need to be wearing clothes for the fantasy to come true. 

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 09:55 | 5288236 gatorboat
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Ha ha, 3 downvotes already. 3 more people with that deathmongering fantasy.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 05:47 | 5287997 Hobbleknee
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Where did you get the 20K number? Link please. Thanks :)

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:33 | 5287246 CaptainObvious
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You know what freedoms we have, it's all recorded in the Bill of Rights. 

We have freedom of speech in designated free speech zones.

We have the right to bear arms if we are gubmint officials or billionaires who buy gubmint officials.

We have the right to have all our communications intercepted and recorded and stored without a warrant.

We have the right to a cot in Camp FEMA, so when we are escorted there at gunpoint, we have a place to put everything the Camp Counselors didn't confiscate.

We have the right to place all our fiat in any institution of our choice, so long as the institution of choice has the ability to steal it at will.

We have the right to purchase health insurance, but no right to not purchase it, because we all have to do our fair share.

We have the right to hand over at least 50% of our earned income in taxes both expressed and deviously hidden.

We have the right to vote for the candidate of our choice, so long as that candidate is one of the two chosen by people who think we are too stupid to make the correct choice.

We have the right to free education in the propaganda center closest to us geographically.

Ain't freedom grand?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:47 | 5287282 Number 156
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Remember what Hillary Clinton said about crises.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:16 | 5287371 knukles
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"Fuck the EU"? 
...er no, that was Obie's gal....
...sorry...

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 06:32 | 5288040 cossack55
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Still, a solid sentiment worth repeating often.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 00:08 | 5287690 WOAR
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"What difference does it make?"

Or was that another crisis?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:37 | 5287251 junction
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Now you know why the super-rich have super yachts.  Tough for the Ebola virus to cross hundreds of miles of sea water to get on your yacht, fully stocked with food, water and fuel.  Larry Ellison owns a good part of the Hawaiian island of Lanai, a good place to dock your super yacht, far away from any Ebola contagion in the States. 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:02 | 5287324 economics9698
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Catapult a few dead Ebola bodies onto the islands.  Problem solved.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:08 | 5287341 CaptainObvious
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Nah, that is totally old-school.  Get high tech...drop vials of infected blood by drone.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 07:06 | 5288060 laomei
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don't need blood.. any fluids will do. just drop it in his water supply

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 00:06 | 5287680 SF beatnik
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 Tough for the Ebola virus to cross hundreds of miles of sea water to get on your yacht,

 

Now so difficult to isolate yourself from the virus. Or even to feed yourself for a few months, while a full-on epidemic burns itself out.

The hard thing to do will be to protect your stores from hungry people who didn't prepare for the day the grocery store shuts down.

It's not the rich guys who'll come a knockin'. It's your bros.

Your bros will huff and puff and blow your house down.

 


Sat, 10/04/2014 - 01:42 | 5287832 MsCreant
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Mad Max on the waves. You're gettin all Waterworld on us. Grow some gills, dude, grow a pair.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:22 | 5287401 JLee2027
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You think the Government would survive an Ebola Pandemic? I don't think so.
Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:22 | 5287582 Government need...
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Dunno.  Are those MRAPs Ebola-proof?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:36 | 5287614 JamesBond
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Martial Law.

The totalitarian's wet dream.

jb

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:45 | 5287478 palmdetroit
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Exactly,...how would that be different from any other day

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 08:49 | 5288145 Silveramada
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The only freedoms amerika really still have is freedom to shopping for junk and freedom to bomb whoever the fuck they want or so  ordered by the zios-corporate- and media banking cartel...

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 15:10 | 5288937 KnuckleDragger-X
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Molon Labe

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:13 | 5287169 Bindar Dundat
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double

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:35 | 5287247 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen.

Never know how much I love you
Never know how much I care
When you put your arms around me
I get a fever that's so hard to bear

You give me fever.

OH!

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 00:09 | 5287696 WOAR
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I've got a fever, that only Ebola can satisfy...

-Christopher Walken

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 01:46 | 5287839 MsCreant
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Good God, ya'll, what are you good for?-Edwin Star

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:13 | 5287170 LetThemEatRand
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Economics collapse blog is worried about Ebola?  Now I know I'll be reading this same shit in 4 years.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:15 | 5287176 Crawdaddy
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thats a lol

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:23 | 5287207 tempo
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Its coming by Christmas!!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:39 | 5287463 SilverIsKing
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Under the tree?

Mistletoe sales will surely be down this year.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:35 | 5287612 willwork4food
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Unless Taylor Swift is near me, then it's LONG mistletoe sales.

 

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 01:47 | 5287840 MsCreant
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What if she is bleeding out her nose and ass?

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 02:32 | 5287886 Blano
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That still leaves two other orifices.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:37 | 5287252 CaptainObvious
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I'm still waiting for Snyder's list of things that show how we will all get ebola in the coming months.  I predict a list of at least 42 links that only vaguely illustrate his points, but he could surprise me and find 57 links.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:45 | 5287276 The9thDoctor
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@CaptainObvious

lmao

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:13 | 5287171 BlindMonkey
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So what exactly is going to be different? My rights are meaningless now.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 08:25 | 5288117 Charming Anarchist
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Big difference now. 

Now, all of the sheepola around you will demand that YOU be quarantined for THEIR own safety.  See?  All of the fools who can not see that the Emperola has no clothes are now tools.  They will want martial law to protect them from <cough, cough> something that does not exist. 

 

What an amazing trick. 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:13 | 5287172 Crawdaddy
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Hopefully our medical authorities are correct and this virus will not spread easily in this country.

 our medical authorities are politicians now so we may have to work on plan B.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:19 | 5287388 knukles
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Strange....
Strange how when Plan A fails and there is no Plan B, then the non believers and doubters turn to prayer.

In this case with the history of hemorrhagic diseases, best just go with prayer from the start.
Prep and prayer.
Damn good combination because there ain't no Plans A or B as we all saw during the press conference today.

Plans A and B are Platitudes A and B

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 01:25 | 5287822 newworldorder
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The only plan that makes sence of all of us is to trust our families, get them out of the cities as soon as you think prudent. Hopefully one would have a place to go with like minded people and far away from major contamination centers. That is about all that one can do.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 00:08 | 5287691 SF beatnik
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Degradation of the nation. Seems we are all forced to be politicians in our own little ways. 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:15 | 5287174 holdbuysell
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The fact that FEMA camps have been storing massive quantities of plastic coffins should give one pause. Of course, the reasons could be many for this action, but this potential and developing scenario certainly fits as a scenario that may require them.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:15 | 5287182 Crawdaddy
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Those are herb planters.

For guys named Herb.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:09 | 5287349 CaptainObvious
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Huh.  I wasn't aware there were half a million guys named Herb in 'Murica.  I learn something new every day on this board.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:40 | 5287470 SilverIsKing
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Not just Herb. Herbert and Herbie do qualify.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 00:10 | 5287698 SF beatnik
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But only 250,000 were born "Herb".  For the others it's an acquired name.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:38 | 5287457 TungstenBars
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Plastic coffins? C'mon that's just stupid, that slows down decay of bodies...

 

If bodies pile up they will be burned or buried semi naked in mass graves with lime.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:17 | 5287566 analyzer_66
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Ebola bodies will be piled high and
"Nuked from orbit just to make sure"

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 01:53 | 5287850 MsCreant
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Alternative explanation: Apparently the plastic coffins are liners to go around coffins which have been burried in areas where the water table is rising. Floater seems to mean something a little different than it used to.

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-fema-coffins-plastic-grave-lin...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:16 | 5287561 Government need...
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Who the hell would agree to handle all the Ebola-laced corpses?

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 00:11 | 5287699 SF beatnik
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I might do it for $4000 a day. 

(Then again, I might not.)

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 01:55 | 5287854 MsCreant
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How many bodies do we get burried for that?

I hear 4,000 a day, 4,000 a day, 4000 a day.

Do I hear 3,775? 3,775? 3,375?

 

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 08:31 | 5288122 Charming Anarchist
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Someone who knows that the Emperola has no clothes. 

 

<<Who the hell would agree to handle all the Ebola-laced corpses?>>

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:16 | 5287185 NYPoke
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First place these camps will show?  Tejas.  Well, anyplace that votes against D.C.

 

Just by accident that the first case shows in Dallas.  Totally random.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:55 | 5287311 himaroid
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I am counting on Texas to thin out the enforcers before they get here.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:21 | 5287199 Cautiously Pess...
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These camps you speak of... do they have water hook ups for my RV?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:27 | 5287595 Colonel Klink
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I'm sure there will be plenty of hook ups for Rna Virus.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 00:36 | 5287745 fishmonger
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No RVs allowed. You will be hot-bunking it in a pup tent with 2 guys that are leaking blood from every orifice.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:21 | 5287202 Keltner Channel Surf
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After a direct impact from Halley's Comet, all of your rights would essentially be meaningless . . .

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:22 | 5287203 nmewn
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(1) Regulations prescribed under this section may provide for the apprehension and examination of any individual reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease in a qualifying stage and (A) to be moving or about to move from a State to another State; or (B) to be a probable source of infection to individuals who, while infected with such disease in a qualifying stage, will be moving from a State to another State. Such regulations may provide that if upon examination any such individual is found to be infected, he may be detained for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary. For purposes of this subsection, the term “State” includes, in addition to the several States, only the District of Columbia.

lol...I'd love to see them explain this to the "folks" on the southside of Chicago.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:16 | 5287363 Rusty Shorts
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By:  Alaskai Moore Johnson, Observer Health Correspondent It has now been established by authorities of the Liberian Government that Mr. Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who became the “first ever” Ebola case diagnosed in the US, will be prosecuted if and when he gets back to Liberia. http://www.liberianobserver.com/news/man-who-took-ebola-us-will-be-%E2%8...
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Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:47 | 5287630 Rusty Shorts
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IMF - US$127M For Liberia, Guinea And S/Leone

 

"In the face of the deadly Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic in West Africa, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has prepared a prospective institutional response and is recommending to the Fund’s Executive Board to extend additional financial support to Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone in the tone of US$127 million."

 

http://www.liberianobserver.com/business/imf-considers-us127m-liberia-gu...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:22 | 5287204 djsmps
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And this is news?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:22 | 5287206 Reaper
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Will Big Bro provide individual cages to protect me from contacting others at his camps?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:39 | 5287259 CaptainObvious
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No, but you will get a lovely bedbug-ridden cot with exquisite views of the guy two feet away from you bleeding from his eyeballs and rectum.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:06 | 5287334 Trucker Glock
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Bunk beds.  Ebola victims on top.  Drip.  Drip.  Drip.  Tip:  Don't sleep with your mouth open. 

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 00:14 | 5287704 SF beatnik
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In Monrovia, you get a free puke bucket. 

 

Garcon!  Bring me a bucket!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:23 | 5287212 Lukacko
Sat, 10/04/2014 - 05:52 | 5287999 gswifty
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It seems that prospective employers were not so thorough in their back-ground checks in that bygone era. It's getting harder to conceal these skeletons damnit!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:24 | 5287213 Steroid
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Immunity is bliss!

Actually it is better to get it first. You will have all the attention and then you can laugh at them.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:51 | 5287301 CaptainObvious
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So what you're saying is that Thomas Eric Duncan is the human equivalent of Iceland defaulting?  Sounds good.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:25 | 5287214 DirkDiggler11
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Is this about the 10th Ebola article on ZH today alone ?

I'm about Ebola'd out right now. Can we peek in on the Hong Kong protestors or search for that still missing Malaysian airlines flight or something ? What about Fukashima and HFT trading ? Even the old standbys of Gold and Silver ?

ANYTHING OTHER THAN EBOLA ?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:36 | 5287249 Crawdaddy
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Round up the troups. Clear the store shelves. This curriculum shall not stand. thx fonz

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 01:42 | 5287833 SF beatnik
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ANYTHING OTHER THAN EBOLA ?

 

Please note: ebola articles at ZH are not a compulsory reading assignment.


But when the Ebola quiz day arrives...

      YOU FLUNK, YOU DIE. 

 

Sample question:

 

If infected, what is the most effective way to avert a slow, painful death from the ebola virus?

 

Answer:

 

Eat one JHP from muzzle of .357. 

 


Sat, 10/04/2014 - 01:44 | 5287835 SF beatnik
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x

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:32 | 5287233 Philo Beddoe
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How about a story about a Ukranian Jew missing from a Malaysian flight en route to Fukushima believed to be an ebola carrier and gold smuggler? 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:40 | 5287266 CaptainObvious
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+1 Did ZH even post an article about the massive data breach at JP Morgan Chase? 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:42 | 5287272 fonzannoon
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they did but who cares really? Even if they got hacked we can just add new digits to replace the digits that got erased.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:11 | 5287355 Trucker Glock
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The customers are going to die from Ebola, so the data will be useless soon.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:18 | 5287573 TheReplacement
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The PR machine is blaming the Russians already.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:03 | 5287326 Number 156
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Agree. Tired of Ebola already.

We already know what comes next:

The formation of some new agency under government auspices and the unionization of hundreds of thousands of new government employees.

Lets move on to something else.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:11 | 5287356 CaptainObvious
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I can already picture the name of the new agency:  Department of Ebola Remediation Procedures, or DERP.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:29 | 5287436 NoDecaf
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Due to the initial outbreaks in immigrant communities we could also see the formation of a special enforcement wing of the DERPs - the Coalition Against Racial Prejudice, the CARPs.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 00:06 | 5287685 Dapper Dan
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O.T.

 

In the sharp formulation of the law of causality-- "if we know the present exactly, we can calculate the future"-it is not the conclusion that is wrong but the premise.

--Heisenberg, in uncertainty principle paper, 1927

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 11:18 | 5288407 fuu
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Fukushima: http://messymondays.com/video/nhk-meltdown-analyzing-the-radiation-leaks...

 

Lots of funny re-enactments. Will make you laugh, let some of the tension out. Also NHK admission fallout hit Tokyo early on. Some nice shots of the General Electric logo on the control room equipment.

 

Good times.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:26 | 5287216 papaswamp
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Any one heard anything on the Utah patient...tests should have been back 12 hrs ago. The quiet makes me wonder....

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:29 | 5287227 PacOps
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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's brief Ebola scare may have raised alarm, but samples sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have come back negative for the virus.

 

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=31818361&nid=148&title=patient-tests-negative-fo...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:31 | 5287235 papaswamp
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Thank you !

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 00:18 | 5287714 SF beatnik
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So you believe the CDC on this?

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:34 | 5287244 Cautiously Pess...
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The Cobb Cnty Georgia guy came back negative too.  This is near my hood. 

 

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/cobb-jail-inmate-a-potential-ebola-patient/nhbdj/

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:58 | 5287315 CaptainObvious
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Please tell me the guy with suspected ebola in DC tested positive.  Pretty please?  Even if he didn't.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:08 | 5287344 Cautiously Pess...
Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:00 | 5287517 lakecity55
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"The patient, a big fan of the current president, made a stop at the WH for a tour before barfing inside and then taking a taxi to Howard Medical Hospital."

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:54 | 5287308 nmewn
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I've got the sniffles.

Its EBOLA!!!...lol.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 00:41 | 5287759 OldPhart
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I've got pnuemonia.  Didn't once think it had anything to do with Ebola or that enterovirus. Spent most of last night and today just trying to breathe.  Some steroid shot, and IV of antibiotics with breathing treatment has me up again.  But the price I have to co-pay on two of the prescriptions are out of my reach.  Hopefull the other two drug will knock this out.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 06:41 | 5288046 Winston Churchill
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Watch out .Legonaires is about. I'm not joking either.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 07:03 | 5288056 nmewn
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Kick that damned things ass and get well OP ;-)

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 08:41 | 5288133 Charming Anarchist
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We may as well amalgamate some more Newspeak. 

Cough, Sniffle, Cold are all now re-defined as "ebola-like symptoms" for the good of all mankind!

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