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Why America's Not Ready For An Ebola Outbreak (In 1 Photo)

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Because nothing says "safety precautions" like rolled-up sleeves on a HazMat suit...

 

 

h/t Kirk B

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And here is a gentleman jet-washing the puke from the pavement outside the Texas Ebola victim's apartment building...

 

 

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Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:12 | 5285517 souljaboy
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Great. Right down the road.

"Frieden dismissed suggestions that people traveling from West Africa should not be allowed into the U.S.

“The fact is that if we tried to seal the border, it would not work because people are allowed to travel,” he told ABC. “It would backfire because it would make it harder to stop the outbreak.”"

What the fuck? We are doomed.

http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/10/03/report-inmate-at-cobb-county-jail...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:14 | 5285546 Dr Strangemember
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Looks like more Darwin Award finalist for 2014!  

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:17 | 5285567 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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Wonder where that car has been seen then...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:26 | 5285620 Divided States ...
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Dumbass wears the hazmat suit but then rolls up his sleeve....if you dont give instructions to sheepish workers, they will definitely fuck it up still regardless.

Btw, Frieden is a dual citizen (US-Israel like someone mentioned earlier) so that already speak volumes of why this Ebola incident has gotten to this point. It was meant to happen like this and is unfolding as planned.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:27 | 5285634 saints51
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I am willing to bet Israel does NOT see 1 ebola case.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:29 | 5285642 TheAnalOG
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Nothing like top-kicking the biggest bubble in world history with the worst hemorrhagic fever in world history.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:39 | 5285720 The9thDoctor
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Why America's Not Ready For An Ebola Outbreak (In 2 PhotoS)

I fixed the headline, lol.

Anyways, even if this janitor wore protective gear, it's crazy because the power washing will cause the vomit particles go airborne.

 

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:44 | 5285747 outamyeffinway
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"cleaning".......

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:56 | 5285816 LetThemEatRand
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Are we sure these aren't recycled pictures of the cleanup after a Kennedy compound party?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:00 | 5285849 Beam Me Up Scotty
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Why are they wearing hazmat suits in an elementary school?? That seems to be an even better question!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:24 | 5285952 gmrpeabody
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I'm not gonna panic till I see an ISIS dude dawn a hazmat suit to cut someone's head off...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:39 | 5286020 sixsigma cygnus...
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I'm not going to panic until I see the White House working diligently to show Ebola has a birth certificate from Hawaii.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:56 | 5286096 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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So this Ashoka guy thinks he was exposed after helping someone decontaminate a car (he was wearing at least some protective gear)...
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/10/03/nbc-news-cameraman-from-providence...

Gawd, this poor guy power-washing the sidewalk in a t-shirt and sweatpants is fucked...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 16:59 | 5286179 Richard Chesler
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The PC term is Ebolan-Americans.

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 17:44 | 5286518 Manthong
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Hey, that 7225 street sign has a bit of an ISIS motif, don’tcha think?

..and WTF is with electric meters above head level?

 

And oh, geez, I would not want to be that seemingly barefoot or otherwise lower torso exposed chick of unknown origin in the bottom pic.

 


 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 17:57 | 5286621 boogerbently
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....and what is the income level of the people and neighborhoods being contaminated, here ?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 17:57 | 5286624 12ToothAssassin
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Too bad .25 BAC doesnt kill ebola, Id be set!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 18:10 | 5286668 LordEffingtonTh...
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uh oh! Pressure washer.

Remember a few years back the pig carcasses pressure washed? The aerosol was respirated by workers and it caused a nerve problem.

I am going to go out on a limb and say pressure washer was a bad BAD BAAAAD choice.

Slowly poured buckets of water probably much better. WITH CHLOROX of course.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 18:22 | 5286724 7.62x54r
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Ebola-Chan just wants to dance with you!

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

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 19:03 | 5286847 COSMOS
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Smack those mosquitoes before they bite, and preferably not on your skin.

many RNA viruses are transmitted by insects, like Dengue and Yellow Fever for example, members of Flavivirus genus of RNA viruses, so it is not like viruses cant travel up and down the probosces of a mosquito.

Also do you want to take a bite out of your food after a fly just landed on some Ebola contaminated secretions before deciding to fly out a window and land you your lunch?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 20:35 | 5287037 Whoa Dammit
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The quarantined family who lived in the apartment where the Ebola patient was staying have been moved to an anonymously donated home in a gated community somewhere in Dallas County. Apparently when the clean up crew got inside the apartment it was so nasty it would have taken days to clean it.

How'd you like to buy a nice house then have the Ebola Hoodbillies moved to your neighborhood? I bet the donor was a hedge fund.

Up next all West Africans living here will send for their infected relations so as to get a free McMansion to live in. Winning!

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local/dallas-county/2014/10/03/ebola-clea...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 20:50 | 5287101 mjcOH1
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"I am going to go out on a limb and say pressure washer was a bad BAD BAAAAD choice.

Slowly poured buckets of water probably much better. WITH CHLOROX of course."

The US does have 3.3million gallons of napalm in war stocks.  
And I do believe that would no longer be sufficient.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:17 | 5287184 Yes We Can. But...
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1) Watch out when it hits Haiti

2) I'll bet Cuba handles it better than Obamanation.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 00:02 | 5287675 El Vaquero
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That dude should be using one of the Horrible Freight weed burners instead of a pressure washer.  Those things will melt your fucking face off from 5' away.  Ebola wouldn't stand a chance against that cheaply made Chinese crap.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 05:44 | 5287994 Yes We Can. But...
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"It is contained".

SCHOOLS INSTALLING TEMPERATURE MONITORS.

Sun, 10/05/2014 - 10:42 | 5290592 MontgomeryScott
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Relax, America. Your government is in control, once again!

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 00:05 | 5287681 The Doofus
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Why worry so much?  Mother Nature is gonna do what Mother Nature is gonna do.  I doubt if Ebola will become airborne.  But if it does, should we blame Obama?  Deadly viruses have been killing humans for forever and a day.  Relax and enjoy the sunshine because tomorrow you'll be dead.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 11:18 | 5288418 InjectTheVenom
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blame Bush    ;>)

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 09:36 | 5288203 Grimaldus
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Duncan should have never been given a visa. The reason he got a visa is an illegal PROGRESSIVE IMMIGRATION POLICY to import a voter base that will keep progressive criminals in power.

Progressive murderers infesting the FEDGOV do not care how many Americans die as long as they can remain in power. American citizens are already dying by the thousands as a result of the illegal importation of a disease and criminal laden voter base.

Power kills, and the bloody progressives are ready to kill as many American citizens as it takes.

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/MURDER.HTM

Progressives truly are the bloodiest murderers on the planet, second only to Islam who are fellow travelers in murdering tyranny.

Progressive criminals infesting the FEDGOV are a mortal threat and American citizens should fear for their lives.

Time for impeachment is long past and if no one will arrest the traitor progressive criminals then law abiding citizens threatened with murder by a rouge lawless government may opt for Rule .308 to fight for their lives.

Grimaldus

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:18 | 5287565 WOAR
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Ebola-chan.

I believe I can say that I've seen everything, now.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 16:17 | 5286202 Rubbish
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Surgical mask = allows over 20% into your mouth.

N95 = less than 5% if worn tight

N100 = less than 1% if worn tight

 

This is probably why Medical Staff have been dieing. You need a full blown bio suit to be 100%, but then there is always the cleaning process and mistakes happen.

 

Bitchez are dead....

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 19:05 | 5286857 Leonardo Fibonacci2
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Notice in the photo, its a negro (AFRICAN AMERICAN) that has raised up sleeves from protective suit. AFRICAN AMERICAN OR AFRICAN FROM AFRICA = same fucking lazy IQ! Basically, lazy & no fucking brains!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 19:20 | 5286898 gmrpeabody
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Really, Leonardo, you must remember to <sarc> remarks like that...,

there are some here who might actually take that seriously.

And others who just plain disagree with your style.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 19:56 | 5286960 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen Body.

You "AGAIN"?! Why don't you just leave people be man? Their expressive style is not yours to manipulate man.

Let's try to be more constructive.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:05 | 5287523 gmrpeabody
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I'm honored that you remember me..., man.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 19:58 | 5286963 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen WTF?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:01 | 5287268 Rusty Shorts
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Back home in good 'ole Liberia, (Liberty) criminal charges await Eric Duncan....Liberian Daily Observer

 

http://www.liberianobserver.com/news/man-who-took-ebola-us-will-be-%E2%8...

 

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Liberian-Observer-Online/42279623238

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 02:49 | 5287898 zhandax
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5 to 1 he is more likely to get a book deal than go back to Liberia.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 14:11 | 5288792 bbq on whitehou...
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Thank you for the link; no good dead goes unpunished.

Irony: the person who would help a dieing 19 year old mother where others would not, leads to the deaths of millions.
For want of a horseshoe nail.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 10:29 | 5288310 IrritableBowels
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Those comments from the Boston CBS site are very telling! A couple of years ago, and it would be filled with tears and flowers. Fast forward to today and there is mostly criticism and anger.

(and sarcasm!)

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:53 | 5286101 knukles
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Notice the car in the pic.  No license plate.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 17:11 | 5286436 BlindMonkey
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I did notice that. I assumed he was protecting the resale value since the owner is going to borrow a suit and unload that thing ASAP.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 17:33 | 5286532 Handful of Dust
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I hear the those Ivy League Apartments there have a nice sale going on now; 6 months rent-free with a signed 1-year lease.

 

[PS: In the event you vacate sooner then one year, your deposit will be refunded to the nearest living relative]

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:51 | 5287493 Lore
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No plate = Might just be screen glare reflected toward the camera with photographer in just the wrong spot

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 04:29 | 5287945 zhandax
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You guys never lived in Miami in the early 80's.  Recent 'immigrants' never got a ticket for lack of plates (yet).

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:39 | 5286027 gmrpeabody
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You do realize that was sarcasm?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:35 | 5286005 awakeRewe
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It is an asbestos abatement crew most likely ... almost all old schools are full of it.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:42 | 5286036 Poundsand
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Yeah, the janitors have to wear haz mat suits (or not) but the officials are out telling you not to pull your kid from school.  You can't make this stuff up!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:57 | 5285828 Government need...
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Is this part of the double plus good procedures the CDC mentioned 500 times in the past 3 days?  Oh, and gratuitious 'Ebola is not tranmissable thru the air or other casual contact'.  Come to Amerika, cuz we WINNING!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:24 | 5285959 redpill
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If you touch a sweating infected person (not unlikely since they are feverish) and then rub your own eye, you'll catch it.  The eye is especially vulnerable, only takes a few virus particles to get started.  How is that not casual?  If they sneeze or cough on your face, much less get any drops of the violent streaming pillar of vomit coming out of their mouth onto you, you've been exposed.  It's human nature to help someone who is stumbling and ill get to a medical facility.  All the while you are being exposed.  They say it can't exist outside the body for long, yet they are decontaminating ambulance, police cars, and schools days after the virus would have been initially present there.  I wish they would stop fucking around and be more clear about this.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:48 | 5286049 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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They don't know... they're just making shit up to prevent panic. Ebola wasn't a high priority so little research was done. Now if you like fucking someone in the ass or fucking dirty whores, don't worry, they have your back on HIV.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 01:56 | 5287857 takeaction
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You are so right...."They don't know" or they have a secondary agenda to let this shit go ape shit.  I can not believe for a moment they would not shut down people coming here from Africa.  If I was in Africa, and I started to feel a little under the weather...I would spend every cent I had to get myself a ticket to anywhere except there.  Europe, USA...wherever...because down there those bullshit "Clinics" are just a suffering camp waiting for you to die.   I would lie my ass off to get on the plane and bribe anyone I had to....Wouldn't you?  What about ISIS send some people down to Africa to roll around on the ebola bodies and then just hop right on a plane to New York licking door knobs at every restroom....  Has anybody thought about this shit....close the fucking borders.  

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 18:15 | 5286703 Citxmech
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Check this out regarding how "exceptional" American health care is:

In updated preliminary results from nearly 700 RNs at over 250 hospitals in 31 states released Friday:

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80 percent say their hospital has not communicated to them any policy regarding potential admission of patients infected by Ebola

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87 percent say their hospital has not provided education on Ebola with the ability for the nurses to interact and ask questions

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One-third say their hospital has insufficient supplies of eye protection (face shields or side shields with goggles) and fluid resistant/impermeable gowns

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Nearly 40 percent say their hospital does not have plans to equip isolation rooms with plastic covered mattresses and pillows and discard all linens after use, less than 10 percent said they were aware their hospital does have such a plan in place

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More than 60 percent say their hospital fails to reduce the number of patients they must care for to accommodate caring for an “isolation” patient

Source: National Nurses United Survey 

 

http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/entry/nurses-call-on-us-hospitals-to-improve-emergency-preparedness/

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 19:10 | 5286868 Parrotile
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Well if the US is still using permeable mattresses for even general ward beds, you are REALLY behind the times.

This not a Prion disease. There is no need to discard linen after use - normal Hospital Laundry procedures for infected linen will provide a perfectly acceptable safety factor.

The problem could be a lack of sufficient single rooms, however the US Privatised system does like these (more profit!), and there should be plenty.

Lack of PPE is  a consequence of a profit-led system. You can thank the "Bean counters" in the multibillion dollar profit "Insurance Industry" for that.

If "things start to get interesting" - expect to see a few of these http://www.britishindustrialdesign.org.uk/?id=3105

If "The Worst comes to the Worst" - http://www.generalequipment.info/RAPID%20DEPLOY%20SHELTERS-19.jpg

If the worst comes to the VERY worst (for the 0.1% that is), maybe - http://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/images/news/2014/Feb/210483/first%20strike%20small.jpg

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:25 | 5287420 Spastica Rex
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That sure sounds like fag talk to me.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 00:15 | 5287706 Jumbotron
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Right ?!    I mean....all that talk of "private rooms" and pictures of guys dressed in rubber in front of rubber tents.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 20:47 | 5287093 NoPension
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Dat ain't shit. Our local hospital has a whole floor shut down and vacated because of mold.

They were counting on a new joint, but this wonderful ,booming economy won't support it.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:18 | 5287378 FreedomGuy
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Let me tell you why the government is lying through it's teeth to you. If there are any others on here who work in medicine feel free to chime in.

Even in hospitals in America with the very best, latest and most thorough techniques there are what are called nosocomial infections. These are basically infections acquired during a hospital stay and usually post operative or as a result of some procedure like urinary catheters. I think they occur roughly 5% of the time but it works out to millions of people a year. They are usually worse than infections acquired in the community as they tend to be antibiotic resistant (bacteria).

Even though this is a virus, my point is that even medical personnel and hospitals using all the latest techniques still have infections that travel or get spread, despite sterilizing and covering everything in sight. So, when the politically motivated, probably incompetent talking heads on TV give you guarantees it won't spread they are lieing. In medicine there are two words you never use, "always" and "never" which goes along with phrases like "zero risk" or "no chance". These MF'ers are not telling the truth and I am 100% sure they know it because that is not how medical people speak. They could say things like "The risk is low or minimimal." or "We are taking every precaution and we believe...", but they cannot make the guarantees they make publicly. Don't believe me? Talk to your FP doctor and see what he/she thinks and ask generally about infections other than Ebola (so they don't try to placate you). Did you ever see any virus that did not run the full gamut of your local school? They all do and that is generally viruses that are benign and short lived. We vaccinate reasonably effectively against flu strains which limits them. We also make government school attendance mandatory. This population has no resistance to Ebola.

Notice that the plane itself travelled on to Denver, then Jackson Hole, WY. Are they disinfecting it? Are they contacting other passengers at least for monitoring? Publicly they probably will not but privately, I hope so. How would you like to find out you rode next to the guy or got his seat on the flight to Denver? (BTW, one of the main reasons I despise flying). Can we all tell stories of catching something on a plane from the coughing jerk next to us? Yes.

I am not trying to get anyone to panic but these assholes are lieing about the risk and probably lieing about what they "know" about Ebola versus what is conjecture. I nearly puked myself when I heard them say that they stopped Ebola 40 times out of 40. Another lie. It ran it's course in remote African villages. They quarantined and let it die out. This time it has civil rights and an open travel policy from our well spoken know-nothing arrogant President. Arrogance in medicine has a high morbidity and mortality rate.

One of two things will happen. We will have luck on our side and this will be limited and the administration will say, "I told you so" and they will claim 41 victories against Ebola. I assure you it is partial luck. The other possibility is that it does start to spread in which case we should incinerate the not only  personal articles but the lieing government agenices who will kill you with platitudes. I am not saying they should start panic or you should but they should be more honest and accurate.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:01 | 5287516 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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Yeah, I think luck is about all we have at this point. There's too many idiots and frauds in positions that matter and not enough intelligent and brave people to do anything about it. God help us.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 10:09 | 5288270 trulz4lulz
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Hear! Hear! I propse, an avenue of discussion by political minds to bring about the Era of Open Source! It must be done! There are voices of decent among the American populace that must be heard! Voices of reason, voices of logic and understanding. Individuals not bound by corportions, but by the principles of man, in his most basic form. Its time to do something! Shed your corporate intrests and beliefis! Shed your political affiliations! RISE! RISE Men of the Earth! That is all we are! Sons and Daughters of the most improbable of Beauty! 

Earth Men RISE!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:12 | 5287545 Government need...
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Agree with this assessment, and it will take a lot of cumulative luck to keep Ebola from becoming something etched into the American psyche for generations.  This type of 'luck' happens . . . the Manhattan Project comes to mind when a critical (human) math calculation error was input into a primitive computer (punch card) which got physically moved around the room where the calculator was housed.  Miraculously and inexplicably, an exact off-setting error occurred during the mechanical calculation process which enabled the engineering of the first bombs to be successful.  The exactly offesetting errors (the first of which was human, the second of which was 'a ghost in the machine' was not discovered til months-to-years later. . .

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:47 | 5287287 FreedomGuy
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The truth is they do not know and I am amazed that it has taken over a week since the guy hit the hospital to even begin decontaminating his apartment.

In the movies, when they find an alien, an outbreak of some virus or a strange meteorite an entire combat team with hazmat suits, scientists, security and communications experts shows up. It appears that in reality the Obama administration sends a few unemployed former ACORN members. The don't arrive in a hurry and I'd like to see the supervision the cleanliness testing, etc.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:40 | 5286022 whirling tword ...
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So sorry to say but, it is somewhat airborn... more airborn that you think.... way more.

 

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/08/airborne_transmission_of_ebola.ht...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 20:39 | 5287068 jimmytorpedo
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I'm having bat soup for dinner.

Who's coming over to join me?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:10 | 5287543 Never One Roach
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Count me in Jimmy! I'll chip in with a slab of fresh monkey meat.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:15 | 5287556 Government need...
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Will ooky-cookie be served for dessert?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:48 | 5287294 Cabreado
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Read the article...

didn't see any data/hard evidence supporting "airborne" transmission human-to-human in this outbreak, in the truest sense and accepted definition of the word.

With all the paranoia and excitement re: "airborne" it would be best to agree on the definition.

(eg. aerosol is not the same as airborne)

I suspect though that the forces in play that feed, and feed on, paranoia and excitement are stronger than those that insist on a calmer, more rational and data/truth-driven approach.

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:09 | 5287340 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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A rational approach suggests Ebola has mutated and become more contagious in the last year. A derp, derp, head-in-the-sand approach my suggest otherwise...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:45 | 5287471 Never One Roach
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Inmate at Georgia jail reportedly tested for Ebola

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ebola-outbreak-inmate-at-georgia-jail-report...

 

As HH (and other forward thnkers)  have said here on ZH many times, everyone better be stocked up and prepared for the Zombies. My preferred brand::

 

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

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:37 | 5287548 Cabreado
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Gaius, please pass along your evidence, a link or two, or simply a few words of rational thought that supports the suggestion that Ebola has mutated and become more contagious.

or will "derp derp" suffice for your argument?

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 00:15 | 5287707 El Vaquero
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If this shit turns into a true pandemic, assume that it has mutated into the most transmissible shit ever, and hedge accordingly.  You'll probably be wrong on "the most transmissible shit ever," but it is one of those cases where paranoia is good.  Does this situation have my eyebrow raised?  Yes.  But I'll be in a big crowd tomorrow, without fear.  If you see that this dude in Dallas infected a person who infected another person, worry like fuck.  Until then, it's not on your doorstep.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 03:55 | 5287909 zhandax
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Serious question here.  I plan to use conversion varnish on the floor I am installing in a few weeks, and the product guide states that application requires a respirator.  Since I have to buy the thing anyway, will the organic vapor canisters stop ebola?  Fairly certain I will need at least two sets for the floor, but if there is a price break for bulk....

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 21:59 | 5289910 pods
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Depends on the particulate rating.  Look for a combination cartridge that is listed as OV (organic vapors) and a P100 rating.

Also you have to perform both a positive pressure and negative pressure fit test when you put it on.  Cover the outlet and breathe out, then the inlet and breathe in.  Should feel some good resistance both ways (pressure on the out and suction on the in).

pods

Sun, 10/05/2014 - 05:00 | 5290285 zhandax
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Thanks, Pods, I need to do that for both, and I certainly hope the flooring job will happen before alternative uses.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:11 | 5285904 Seb
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"Why America's Not Ready For An Ebola Outbreak (In 2 PhotoS)

I fixed the headline, lol."

 

3 photos.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 17:44 | 5286568 RafterManFMJ
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These two posts are from a poster on Vox Day's blog:

 CederqOctober 02, 2014 7:13 PM

This is going to get out of hand, and then who is going to take care of the victims when health-care and first responders start get sick and the rest refuse to show for work...

 CederqOctober 02, 2014 7:29 PM

I am a retired nurse and I got a call from the State Nursing Registry asking if I would be interested in coming out of retirement to help if it gets bad here. My reply, stuff it.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 17:58 | 5286627 Lumberjack
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I posted earlier that I can see that coming. They will mandate healthcare workers stay on the job. Obama cares 2.

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 19:01 | 5286842 August
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Looks like I picked the right week to retire from American medicine, and move to New Zealand.....

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 19:18 | 5286893 espirit
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Miffed Microbiologist has gone dark.

 

Either conscripted or on way to BOL in North Cali?

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 00:41 | 5287755 Urban Roman
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My guess would be BOL. Shit's getting nasty -- in about 3 weeks there will be an outbreak in Dallas. An outbreak nobody could have possibly foreseen (except anyone who has read The Hot Zone and viewed that photo of the joker pressure-washing the sidewalk). And lots of newsdroids and politihacks on teevee to tell you they didn't foresee.

If I were MM and had a BOL (preferably in Uruguay), I would be on the way there now.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 03:35 | 5287911 zhandax
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I am hoping Miffed answers the question above, and my ulterior motive for asking is I am also a first responder at work.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 22:06 | 5289923 pods
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Best you can do on a filtering basis is a P100 rating.  Full suit with air is the best way (positive pressure suit).

I have a north half face at home with OV/P100 cartridges for spraying pesticides.  

But to be fair, I am still many times more likely to be killed by my government than this bug.  Not worried by it in the least as of right now.

pods

 

Sun, 10/05/2014 - 06:14 | 5290301 zhandax
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Can't disagree for Imron, but this stuff has a bit of formaldehyde in it as well as some linking polymer hardener,  I am thinking half face will do for two half-days.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:19 | 5287390 FreedomGuy
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Check my earlier post, Augusta and tell me I am not right. These guys are lieing and not speaking like medical people.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 04:07 | 5287927 LithiumWarsWAKEUP
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grammar police: it's lying,,,no such word as 'lieing'. :)  F'g made me cringe when i saw it, dude. no biggie

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 03:14 | 5287906 Flagit
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Who is They?

What enforcement mechanism will be used?

That Gandhi "my life for yours" bullshit died out years ago.

I would chuck patients, deputies, anyone with a badge or a puffed out chest straight down an elevator shaft to protect my nurse sister-in-law.

And we don't really even like each other.

If it comes to that, the military will be ordered in, like Regan threatened to do with the coal mines, and the air-traffic controllers.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 10:32 | 5288315 Paveway IV
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"...If it comes to that, the military will be ordered in, like Regan threatened to do with the coal mines, and the air-traffic controllers..."

THATs going to hurt recruiting and retention.

In addition, ex-active that are enlisted ranks in the National Guard or reserve can basically walk (quit) if they have six years total combined federal active/guard/reserve service. There's some BS rules about contracts, but the six-year maximum mandatory service rule trumps them.

Active and guard/reserve commissioned officers can resign their commission (quit) anytime for any reason. There is no 'enlistement' or contracts to speak of. I think there's a stipulation that you can't do this in the middle of a battle. You can do it when deployed - officers in Iraq and Afghanistan resigned and when home rather than watch their ill-equipped, undertrained men die for Israel's oil pipeline.

This is happening more and more in the states now with Guard and Reserve. If you don't work for the government or a defense contractor, you're basically losing your job (in every practical sense) if you're called up. It's not going to be there when soldiers get back because they don't want to rehire them. Not even a token maintenance or custodian job - those are all outsourced.

The Washington psychopaths are sorely mistaken if they think anyone joins the military to track down fellow U.S. citizens to be caged up in medical rendition and interment camps and shoot them if they try to escape. That only happens in Israel and the movies.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 21:19 | 5289810 Flagit
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Thx for the input!

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 01:19 | 5339895 gallistic
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"Active and guard/reserve commissioned officers can resign their commission (quit) anytime for any reason."

 

Wrong!

Commissioned officers do have a time in service requirement (usually five years) before they can "resign" their commission. Enlisted soldiers that sign up for, say three years active duty, have to serve in the "inactive" ready reserve for five years after their discharge (8 year commitment).

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 18:41 | 5286781 Buck Johnson
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Thats what I was saying, POWER WASHING THE EBOLA VOMIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Nothing wrong with that, no way that it won't get back into the air and onto the skin and into the lungs of someone.  WE aren't ready for this and I think they are allowing this to happen to allow laws that wouldn't be allowed before an emergency you know like right after 9/11.

 

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 19:10 | 5286871 Leonardo Fibonacci2
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This is the shit Dick ''heartless'' Cheney was talking about!  "this decade will not end before America will face another grave situation of terrorism." Ebola being lab manufactured!!!  The murals at DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT now make sense!

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 15:55 | 5289075 Mermaid Seamstress
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Mexicans are the hardest working race, and that will soon be their downfall.  Maybe a 70% kill rate doesn't translate well in Spanish? Hardest, not smartest.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:42 | 5285725 TruthInSunshine
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Hey, let's just count our lucky stars that whatever strain of Ebola is here is not transmissible through the air as the CDC has assured us repeatedly & confidently:

"Frieden also said that, in theory, a sneeze or cough could spread the virus from someone experiencing Ebola symptoms. Officials had previously downplayed this possibility, focusing on direct contact with bodily fluids."


OOOPS!

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/219626-officials-clam-up-about-ebol...

Health officials clam up about effort to contain Ebola in Texas
 
By Elise Viebeck - 10/02/14 04:33 PM EDT

"Health officials are refusing to answer growing questions about their response to the first Ebola case in the United States."

Under intense questioning from reporters, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Texas health department and the City of Dallas repeatedly declined Thursday to provide details about the steps being taken to prevent an outbreak."

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:46 | 5285748 Divided States ...
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Its easy to find that out, lets have Dr. Frieden visit the poor guy Duncan on his deathbed at the Dallas hospital...see if that muthafucka will do it. If he wont, means that its much worse than just a sneeze.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 18:03 | 5286644 Professor Truth
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Better yet... let President Obola Visit him.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:46 | 5285750 MillionDollarBogus_
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The hazmat guys are in an elementary school...

Probably cleaning up puke after the Happy Meal lunch special...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:52 | 5285791 pods
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Lemme guess, a kid brought in Uncle Mbuntu in for show and tell?

pods

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:00 | 5285840 Government need...
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AFter he finishes this government clean-up job, that handsome man with the phat rolled-sleeves is prolly headed to work the 4pm-10pm dinner shift at McDonalds.  Hope he's not in charge of the ice bin.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:23 | 5285955 pods
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He is a saucier. He makes the "special sauce."

pods

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:26 | 5285968 Bunghole
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Urban saucier

Mixing cocaine, baking soda and water and then microwaving.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:42 | 5286046 pods
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Upvote solely on the content of your comment and not the picture of Mrs. pods.

pods

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 17:46 | 5286572 Jumbotron
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Which begs the question.....how did Bunghole get a picture of your Missus ?

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 02:22 | 5287878 Incubus
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Apparently you haven't been around very many women, have you?

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 22:15 | 5289937 pods
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We no longer use the Cloud.

pods

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:39 | 5286026 Uncle Sugar
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Happy Meals, sugary drinks and bake sale goods are not allowed in schools anymore.  Now eat your peas!

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 03:44 | 5287917 zhandax
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That's why the hazmat suits...Michelle meals cleanup.  Uneaten and spit on only once.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:49 | 5285775 Protokletos
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Forgive me, but isn't being coughed or sneezed on considered "direct contact with bodily fluids?"  The virus isn't travelling on air molecules, it's attached to your spit.  

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:11 | 5285898 Four chan
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25+ feet on a sneeze, saw it on myth busters.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 02:36 | 5287888 Incubus
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25 light years out in space

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:12 | 5285899 Raynja
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There is no such thing as a virus that travels on air molecules.

"Airborne" is a factor of aerolization of bodily fluids and if the disease has symptoms like coughing and sneezing.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 17:09 | 5286432 DaddyO
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Forget the whole projectile vomiting meme then, eh?

DaddyO

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:18 | 5285936 N2OJoe
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And drifting in the wind...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 17:46 | 5286576 Jumbotron
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And drifting in the wind...

 

Always trust Dylan.

"The answer my friend....is blowing in the wind."

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:34 | 5287610 Government need...
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I prefer Mraz;

it kind of makes me nervous
who says that you deserve this?
and what kind of god would serve this?
We will cure this dirty old disease

if you've gots the poison I've gots the remedy

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:32 | 5285996 Sedaeng
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Sneeze makes it airborne in another sense:

The sneeze

It starts at the back of the throat and produces ...as many as 40,000 [droplets] some of which rocket out at speeds greater than 200 miles per hour. The vast majority of the droplets are less than 100 microns across — the width of a human hair. Many of them are so tiny that they cannot be seen with the naked eye.

"What happens to these droplets depends on their size," said fluid dynamicist Bakhtier Farouk of Drexel University in Philadelphia. He is working on software that models how microscopic droplets move around a room.

Most of the larger, heavier drops fall quickly to the floor under the influence of gravity. The smaller and lighter particles (those that are five microns or less across) are less affected by gravity and can stay airborne almost indefinitely as they are caught up in and dispersed by the room's airflow.

Movements in a room can cause the heavier droplets to become airborne again after they have fallen to the ground or another surface. Making a hospital bed can kick up viruses on the covers. Opening a door can dramatically alter the airflow in the room and pull up viruses on the floor. Even walking through a room can spread droplets in a person's wake.

http://www.livescience.com/3686-gross-science-cough-sneeze.html

Ebola can survive outside of hosts as well:

SURVIVAL OUTSIDE HOST: Filoviruses have been reported capable to survive for weeks in blood and can also survive on contaminated surfaces, particularly at low temperatures (4°C)

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/ebola-eng.php

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 18:01 | 5286635 RafterManFMJ
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...particularly at low temperatures (4°C)

 

...so what you're saying is, the PERFECT time for a cull is the Winter, when the disease can live longer outside a host, when people gather together indoors, and when it's harder to survive on your own, because without heat and shelter...you die?

Naw, this shit just happening Stateside now is just really bad timing. 


Fri, 10/03/2014 - 19:17 | 5286891 Parrotile
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Add in the "Squeeze them all in for an extra buck" mentality shown in Public Transport design and operation, and the West seems almost purpose - designed to spread respireable particles with a high degree of efficacy.

I'll never forget the jam-packed crowds using the London Underground 20 years ago. I'm reliably told the situation is now far worse. Add in Heathrow (World's No 1 air transport hub) and the UK is a ticking "Disease time bomb".

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:48 | 5286043 whirling tword ...
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that's just not true... doctors with N95 masks and goggles are getting it.. please read this:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/08/airborne_transmission_of_ebola.ht...

 

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:19 | 5285909 IndyPat
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....."I am willing to bet Israel does NOT see 1 ebola case".....

Of course not.

Professional courtesy among organisms bred to take over hosts then kill and decimate.

Kinda romantic in the absolute most fucked up way imaginable.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 18:09 | 5286662 scrappy
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It's a bitch to be vice president.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:59 | 5285843 Antifaschistische
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First of all....he's not dumb, he's thermoregulating.....and the suit did come with very clear instructions....but they were written in English.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 18:00 | 5286634 Umh
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He's still probably dumb on top of that.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:03 | 5285865 TheRideNeverEnds
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>negros in charge of civilization.

If humanity survives another thousand years the downfall of the west will surely be blamed on "diversity" and ultimately the negroid menace.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:12 | 5285901 Four chan
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i'm in detroit and what might seem like a racist comment is actually a sad fact.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 16:39 | 5286303 Herd Redirectio...
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Why do think those African chieftains all said "You want these 50 guys, and you'll GIVE US rum in exchange!  Shit ya, my homie.  Take 'em away."

And off they went on Jewish-owned slave trading ships. (fact)

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 23:52 | 5287616 astitchintime
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really ??

inquiring minds would love to know who the -3 are?

#GETAFRIGGINLIFE

edit:  yeah, I am done with all the pc shit.

all y'all PC morons ... turn the lights off, we are DONE here !!!!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 18:14 | 5286688 MrButtoMcFarty
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Can't a black man fiddle while the nation burns?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:30 | 5285988 Amish Hacker
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BTW, those aren't hazmat suits, they're Tyvek coveralls, the kind worn by housepainters to protect from overspray. Against ebola, that setup would work about as well as pajamas.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 17:13 | 5286450 Rubbish
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The $5 suits are actually pretty darn good. Several brands are liquid and blood tested for an hour. Good to go for  decent  line of defense. Wear two layers imo, rain slicker out and $5 bucker in. Disenfect your azz afterward with a sprayer. Drink a beer and bitch at the boss.

 

Ebola is a very very tiny mother fucker..use caution it seems.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 21:19 | 5287196 ChanceIs
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Yeah.  Pajamas.  Ummmm.....almost there.

Oh.  Right!

Let's all climb into our pajamas, drink some hot cocoa, and talk about Obamademics.

My aunt tells me that the Spansih Flu could do you in after a couple of hours.  Get this per Wiki:

 

The 1918 flu pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus.[1] It infected 500 million[2] people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and killed 50 to 100 million of them—three to five percent of the world's population[3]—making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history.[2][4][5][6]

and...

To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, Britain, France, and the United States;[9][10] but papers were free to report the epidemic's effects in neutral Spain (such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII), creating a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit[11]—thus the pandemic's nickname Spanish flu.[12]

Nothing to see hear folks.  Just keep movin along.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:18 | 5287387 Moe Howard
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Don't forget they made the fatalities worse by overdosing with the new wonder drug aspirin.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 18:38 | 5286769 Pie rre
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I was thinking that since the US sent 3K soldiers to Liberia maybe thier PTBs sent Mr Duncan to the US in case there was any plans for military intervention.  Just a thought.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 19:02 | 5286843 Skip
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"Frieden is a dual citizen (US-Israel like someone mentioned earlier) so that already speak volumes of why this Ebola incident has gotten to this point. It was meant to happen like this and is unfolding as planned."

He reports that in 1948 the American Jewish Committee was urging Congress to believe that "Americanism is the spirit behind the welcome that America has traditionally extended to people of all races, all religions, all nationalities." Of course, there had never been such a tradition. In 1952, the American Jewish Congress argued in hearings on immigration that "our national experience has confirmed beyond a doubt that our very strength lies in the diversity of our peoples." This, too, was at a time when U.S. immigration law was still explicitly designed to maintain a white majority.

It is often said that when the old immigration policy was scrapped in 1965, scarcely anyone knew, and no one predicted, that the new law would change the racial makeup of the country. Prof. MacDonald disputes this, arguing that this had been the objective of Jewish groups from the beginning.

Prof. MacDonald finds that Jews have been the foremost advocates of immigration in England, France, and Canada, and that Jewish groups were the most vocal opponents of independence for Quebec. Australian Jews led the effort to dismantle the "white Australia" policy, one reason for which was cited in an editorial in the Australian Jewish Democrat: "The strengthening of multicultural or diverse Australia is also our most effective insurance policy against anti-Semitism. The day Australia has a Chinese Australian Governor General I would feel more confident of my freedom to live as a Jewish Australian." Like Earl Raab writing about the United States, this Australian Jew is prepared to sacrifice the traditional culture, people, and identity of Australia to specifically Jewish interests.

The KEY to understanding the otherwise inexplicable

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 19:52 | 5286957 TheMeatTrapper
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Dual citizens from up north were the brains behind the civil rights movement in the South.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:24 | 5285622 saints51
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+1 lol... not sure if that's the new cdc suit or football fans.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:32 | 5285648 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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Speaking of football, let's hope no one brings it to one of the contagion arenas this weekend.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:32 | 5285679 saints51
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If they do, We will never hear of it.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 18:04 | 5286645 Umh
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Believe me if they do you will here about it when they lockdown a city. It will be to late by then, but these are politicians.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 22:50 | 5287488 Never One Roach
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I'm sure they're going to test the temperature of everyone entering the stadium, right?

Hate to see some fan vomiting blood in the bleachers at half time.

Bad for Bizniz.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:29 | 5285641 Dr. Engali
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Lol.....

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 18:11 | 5286672 scrappy
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ZH informal poll.

Up arrow if you think this is as fake as newton.

Down arrow if you believe the fuckers.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 18:15 | 5286704 tumblemore
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both.

 

1) they are always lying about something

2) whenever the banking mafia totally screw up a civilization all kinds of biblical type **** starts happening because the hundreds of different black swans flying overhead start to breed

 

what were the Egyptian plagues again?

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:20 | 5285600 Frank N. Beans
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all cars that have come into contact with ebola victims must be quarantined.  Contact tracing has commenced.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:45 | 5286054 JamesBond
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door handles....  lol

it is mere months away until ISIS brings biological agents across the mexican border into the us

 

 

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 18:12 | 5286675 tumblemore
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lol, no need for Isis - the US govt. will be flying all the African Ebola cases to the US to prove how non-racist they are

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:28 | 5285639 Dr Strangemember
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Car owner unknowingly touches door handle and then subsequently picks nose while driving to liquor store.  BAM, sum mo foolz infected!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:48 | 5285709 Divided States ...
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