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Why America's Not Ready For An Ebola Outbreak (In 1 Photo)
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...
HD Chopper 8 caught crews cleaning the sidewalk outside the Ivy Apartments where the #Ebola patient stayed. pic.twitter.com/Tl7CVVzVvH
— WFAA TV (@wfaachannel8) October 2, 2014
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thank you for explaining the process, dr.
Kid in window fingers in mouth
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@Gaius
Did you mean to say, "Wonder where that car has been since then?"
And if you look closely it has no license plates.
I'm shocked that they're not wearing swim trunks and flip flops so they can hose themselves off when they are finished "working."
christ almighty- The Pentagon isn't having the Ebola victims infiltrate ISIS already?
I think The Red Queen said it best....
"You are ALL going to die down here."
Welcome to United States of Fucking Racoon City, my brothers and sisters.
I'm 3/4 of the way through my Resident Evil benge session.
It's not really helping. Neither is excessive boozing, praying, yelling or beating off. Not even all done at the same time.
My new kittens help a little, until I realize they're gonna eat me when I bleed out. Guess that's ok, though.
May change gears and go with a Free Willy marathon while mainlining Thorazine. I'll keep everyone posted of the results.
Spoken like a true patriot, Indy. Give me Librium or give me meth. We await your reports.
My "customers" sometimes tell me that a combination of NNRTIs and alcohol result in "interesting dreams" along the lines of LSD trips. The "best" agent is the triple-therapy combination Atripla.
Things like this make my "non-glamorous" branch of medicine quite interesting . . . . . .
When I need to drop someone like 3rd period French, I oruder up a B-52. Haldol 5mg plus Ativan 2 mg, mixed and delivered IM, followed by 1 mg Cogentin, also IM. It's the equivalent of Tyson going 'head-body, head-body'. Of course, the 'patient' might be dragging their leg behind them for most of the next day, but . . . it's for their own safety.
free willy on the telly.
puss pumpin through you eyeballs
ears fallen to der floor
ye sir nice.
pleas leave the cash monies in the top drawer in the bedroom next to the made in china cock muscle pump xpander,
the talmudic rabbi does not wanna have to pull up your floor boards lookin for loot
May I suggest another movie marathon -
Revisit Contagion, follow that up with 28 Days later and end with It's A Wonderful Life.
...or fuck it, just watch Lebowski.
"and here is a gentleman jet-washing the puke from the pavement..."
"There you go again..." Tyler, that's no "gentleman". Whatever he is, a "gentleman" he ain't.
Unless, of course, you are using the term "tongue-in-cheek" -- the way we now use the term "Folks", to mock our Dear Leaders.
he is a real human being
And in 3 weeks, he might become a real human corpse!
yes, he might.
and what is the root cause?
idk, googling "How to clean up a biohazard area"
pods
It's a rather short Wiki:
"Petroleum based mixtures and other highly combustibles."
I like it when they keep it concise like that.
that requires:
1. having an internet accessible device
2. basic education
he doesn't have 1, 2 or both.
the system failed this man.
"the system failed this man."
Oh bullshit.
It's nobody's job to provide for a man, educate him, feed him or clothe him. It's his job and he's responsible for himself.
This liberal "we gotta take care of the niggers because they can't do it themselves" mantra is the type of thinking that got Ebola puke in the middle of Dallas to begin with.
are you the type that just expects children to grow up and become self-sufficient beings without parental and community nurturing?
or are you a wild child?
Perhaps his genes failed him. I suppose you are one of those 'blacks test 1-1.5 SD lower than whites or asians on IQ and are 10x more likely to commit violent crime' b/c dey bee oppressed and sheeit.
you be supposin' sumtin' silly, brah
Sure, those 4 decades of government statistics be silly, brah. I've lived in the ghetto. Something tells me you haven't.
and what is the root cause?
Being in our country illegally, not speaking English, and jumping into the back of the wrong pick-up when hiring himself out as a day laborer at Home Depot probably covers it.
so, the contracting party is not culpable for employing this man to clean up bio-harzardous waste?
No, they absolutely are responsible for hiring and training that rolled-sleeve 'gentleman'. I've always wondered at the professionalism and intellect of the average public bus driver in Western Europe compared to the mouth-breathing, 'primate-plus' equivalent in the US. US government is increasingly filled with the 'primate-plus' types. When you get a 'primate-plus' hiring another 'primate-plus', you gotta discount the probability of quality work getting done. The decision to remove the travel-quarantine policy was made at the Presidential Administration level. The decision to NOT stop flights from African nations experiencing Ebola outbreaks was made with input from the CDC as well as the President's Administration. The only conclusion that a reasonable person can make here is that there is a gross incompetence/negligence at multiple levels of Federal, State, and local government on fine display around this Ebola outbreak. This shit rolls all the way downhill to the power-washer who is busy in the pic aerosolizing Ebola virus. Let's not forget the discriminatory government contract-award systems which place negros/trannies/homos/women at an automatic advantage in the bid process. When you make the contract process about more than best quality @ lowest price, you undermine quality/outcomes.
Let the fuckin' nation burn. I'll survive, and rebuild from the ashes.
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clearly you didn't realize it was a rhetorical question farley
Behold the genius creative thinking and analytic process of a 'primate-plus'.
And what if both the contracting party and the contractor are ignorant assholes? Then who is at fault?
Just admit it already, you love the fucking government no matter how many times .gov sticks it in you, without lube.
i'm not defending .gov
what makes you think that?
but at least he'll be clean!
That guy probably has about 10 kids making the whole "Darwinism" thing idiotic.
Amusing how people who go on about evolution/natural selection/darwinism ignore it is the stupid people who are procreating like crazy and passing along their stupid genes watering down any remaining level of intelligence in the species. It's pretty much a proven fact the species has been getting dumber over at least the last century and look at that, the population has exploded, logically making it far more likely the species will keep getting dumber as the years go by while more of the dumb people keep popping out their babies each generation.
Then again I suppose I can't say I am surprised since the people who believe that stuff and make comments about "darwinism" or "darwin awards" when idiots are caught being idiots are probably idiots themselves. It's like the whole deal of Idiocracy where the dumb people are clueless they are dumb and actually think they are intelligent.
It has nothing to do with the number of kids someone is having...
It is the culture. As it degrades and is diluted by those that we bring now, only expect it to get worse.
Now...ask yourself who controls or influences the culture the most and you will start to identify where the problem is coming from.
I ain't never seen no KEEDS in no rap video.
<< It's pretty much a proven fact the species has been getting dumber over at least the last century ... and fatter and lazier ... >>
That's my additional 2 cents to loregnum's comment.
Imagine, if he really does have say, 6 chilrin, 4 gran chirrin, a wife, nephews, latinos are very family oriented. Ebola will spread fast.
What's the point on putting a Hazmat suit on an 80 IQ Nigger..................Yeah you all know what I mean.............FFS
Reminds me of the DOJ or SEC.
Vote down! Looks like more Darwin Award finalist for 2014!
All part of the grand plan.
Carry on!
Lol, ....and the winner is.......Dallas ebol sidealk puke washer !
"The virus that causes Ebola is not airborne and can only be spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids — blood, sweat, vomit, feces, urine, saliva or semen — of an infected person who is showing symptoms. Those fluids must also have an entry point". This could get real shitty.
Well, Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein have gapped all of our asses pretty well, so there are many entry points.
If the bureaucrats tell the viruses they can only spread in an authorized fashion, and repeat it enough times, it's bound to become true. It works on the public, after all.
If congress passed a law outlawing ebola, whalha... Fixed... just look at the myth from wayback known as the drug war and the war on poverty.... stuff found in books, phew...
bodily fluids — blood, sweat, vomit, feces, urine, saliva and semen —
20 percent reclaimed beef some bread crumbs and herbs and spices.
le big macbastard
ebola burgers bitch shut up and eat up the pure taste of the talmud.
>>ebola burgers bitch shut up and eat up the pure taste of the talmud.
That's pretty bigoted. As a matter of fact, that is disgustingly bigoted.
That goes way beyond critism of how the Israeli government is handling the Palestinian situation.
"That goes way beyond critism of how the Israeli government is handling the Palestinian situation"
Yeah, it's expanded to a macro level...
As I posted before (5281653 )... As long as there are airborne things (dust, pollen, atomized water droplets, etc, etc), for the Virus to cling to, it gets a FREE RIDE, and will then cling to whatever surface it can
Fortunately it doesn't survive sunlight very long, indoors though, well it's like a fucking buffet.
Survival half-life is dependent on UV flux. With the Northern Hemisphere winter approaching, UV levels "up North" are dropping, so directly exposed mean survival time will increase. Survival half life for relatively sheltered filoviridae is pretty good, and now's the time to remember how packed the indoor Shopping Malls are on the run up to the Festive Season.
Coughs, Colds, runny noses, escalator hand rails. Not helped by touching your nose 3-4 times an hour http://www.livescience.com/25086-stop-touching-yourself-flu-researchers-say.html
This is getting interesting.
I took 3000 mg of Vit C yesterday and got runny shit.
Batards have ebola in vitamins now.
Bitchez...I pick up pennies
Ebola: Tests in DC & Georgia jail, friend of Dallas victim tracked, now 4000 US troops to Africa
http://wtfrly.com/2014/10/03/ebola-tests-dc-georgia-jail-friend-of-dalla...
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang, but with a pressure washer.
My apologies to T.S. Eliot
you're a clever one ;-)
+1
Nah.....I thought I'd take a page from the Hip-Hop world and copy something great and put just a little twist on it and call it original.
See.....I'm an artist now !
< could you be a dear and bring me a bottled water.....I really broke a sweat on that one. And get my agent on the phone. >
creativity feels good, don't it? ;-)
Yeah. I may just quit my day job and set up shop at home and just sample poetry in a sasrcastic and ironic way on ZeroHedge.
Then turn around and make a pretty penny by spamming on same said ZeroHedge with offers to go to my website detailing how I make $1,250 a week just by sarcastically and ironically sampling great poetry and posting it on ZeroHedge.
"I love it when a plan comes together." Hannibal
if only it were that easy...
America's imploding continues.
The good news is those folks in the photo only have 13 kids combined in 14 differnt schools. So it's obvious the government is correct when they say this is contained.
Frieden's statement makes no sense and is completely illogical. He's not smarter than a 5th grader, apparently.
Our government is trying to kill us.....somewhere I think we have a right to defend ourselves..
simple math, 20k cases worldwide (real, not who BS), double every 15-21 days, 60% death rate....By Christmas, 400,000 cases, 240,000 dead, 10,000+ cases in US/EU...hospitals overrun, Drs escape cities, Anyone w fever sent to mass death camps now being built by US military. Within month, many camps built in US. Panic and Merry Christmas
I like your thinking. With a mortality rate of 60%+ I wouldn't expect ebola to spread too far though.
They will find a cure and everyone will pay double to get it, those who can't afford it will die.
Things will be fucked up and in the end the rich will get out richer and more powerful as always, say goodbye to any freedom you think you have left. It's a new kind of slavery.
With a mortality rate of 60%+ I wouldn't expect ebola to spread too far though.
You mean, like across West Africa and across the Atlantic Ocean to Dallas Texas and now 2 cases in DC? Thats a pretty good distance to travel.
How does it feel knowing your "leaders" are (figuratively) dumping ebola into America like they want a pandemic?
(Of course even this outrage won't precipitate a "revolution" either.)
But gun owners are ready of course. When it knocks on their door they'll just blast it away. They can't even see it, but they'll blast it away somehow.
How do you conquer a nation of armed citizens? Several ways actually, debase their currency to nothing (starve 'em) works well, and that's underway now ("wel'll just kill the dollar"), then throw in some biological warfare to make 'em sick (and die).
If this ebola thing doesn't work (it won't), no worries, they have lots more creepy stuff in their labs.
And yes I still support 100% shelter in place for any city ebola is reported in.
I mean if we're gonna go loony tunes over it, that's my contribution.
Huh?
If they close the border to West Africans then they fear it will be a slippery slope to closing it to all the other disease infeasted f*ckwads from South America. So, rather than give a little tiny bit on that position, screw everyone else in America
Yes, that enterovirus imported from S. America is no problem it just paralyzes kids. This alone should be enough reason to do what needs doing.
Well....this is TIMELY. It seems the origins of HIV have been discovered.
"A “perfect storm” of factors that came together in colonial Africa early last century led to the spread of Aids in the human population and eventually a full-blown pandemic infecting more than 75 million people worldwide, a study has found.
A genetic analysis of thousands of individual viruses has confirmed beyond reasonable doubt that HIV first emerged in Kinshasa, the capital of the Belgian Congo, in about 1920 from where it spread via the colonial railway network to other parts of central Africa.
Scientists believe the findings have finally nailed the origin of the Aids pandemic to a single source, a colonial-era city then called Leopoldville which had become the biggest urban centre in Central Africa and a bustling focus for trade, including a market in wild “bush meat” captured from the nearby forests."
Well....let's see. Ebola started with the eating of bush meat. It traveled to urban centers via cars and railways. And to the broader world by air. Yep....all the same. Just different time period.
Oh...wait.
"Rapid social changes, such as an increase in commercial sex workers and the re-use of dirty syringes, aided the transmission of the virus which was also carried to distant parts of the Congo by the millions of passengers who used the newly-built railway network, the scientists said."
HHmm....what did I read from the CDC the other day......oh yeah....here it is......
"Once someone recovers from Ebola, they can no longer spread the virus. However, Ebola virus has been found in semen for up to 3 months. People who recover from Ebola are advised to abstain from sex or use condoms for 3 months."
So....let me get this straight.....you're recovered......but you still can't knock boots for 3 months. But IF you do knock boots you may give Ebola to your partner......even though you are....."recovered"
I guess it depends on the definition of "recovered"
From WSJ,
The students were advised to stay home. But on Friday, Dallas school officials said that one of the students failed to heed the advice on Wednesday and returned to Sam Tasby Middle School.
“We’re not sure why the Tasby student showed up for school on Wednesday, but once he was identified, he was asked to go to the nurse’s office so that a parent could be contacted,” said Jon Dahlander, a spokesman for the Dallas Independent School District.
At the Dallas apartment where Mr. Duncan was staying, his dirty sheets and clothes were lying in sealed bags Friday morning as a result of a lack of a state permit to transport hazardous materials on Texas roads.
Judge Clay Jenkins, the highest-ranking elected official in Dallas County, said Friday evening that a hazmat team was cleaning out the apartment and a vendor with the permit would move the materials in sealed containers to a final destination.
“This is a paperwork nightmare,” said Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings
I was about to comment that the main reason we see rapid spread in Africa, is that the health workers are largely badly educated, and non white.
Now I am not going to write that.
Oh Lord/US Govt/<insert statist big brother protectorate savior here> please save me!!! Anybody, like the vast majority of ZHers and evidently the Tylers who have provided quite a forum for ebola fearmongering, who believes in this utter drivel being piddled by the MSM, CDC, and WHO has lost any semblance of rationality that they once had. You believe the same people who are dedicated to your slow or fast, they dont really care, death. Lies, lies, lies, no proof and we talk about a pandemic...what about that bridge for sale in Brooklyn...hey look over there the boogeyman named Sadaam, Osama, Khorasan, swine flu, west nile virus, bird flu, ebola, anthrax...and cut to football/dancing with the stars/political kabuki theatre...
I used to expect more from ZH and ZH has been a worthwhile education for me but cot damn BS is BS and this is some BS...too much indoctrination and fear lead otherwise rational beings to drink from the trough as the path of least resistance...http://www.activistpost.com/2014/10/ebolagate-47-questions-and-answers.h...
Expect more lies, fearmongering, diseases, wars, and abuse until morality improves...look around you!!! common sense goes a long way. what is up with all the pu$$ies here lately, this used to be fight club...I got next.
best,
a real fighter
These people do not want to help you they want to vaccinate you make you ill and sell you sick care...people do irrational things out of fear...you could talk about Otto Warburg and cancer, Strecker and AIDS http://www.streckermemorandum.com/index.htm, vaccinations and death or disease, prescription drug deaths, accidental hospital deaths, and the list goes on and on to US government tests run on unwilling unknowing or imprioned citizens and the sheep even here on ZH believe this sh!t while Big Pharma rakes in billions in profits. nonsense it is. why is a snake or serpent featured as a symbol of medicine aka ´health care´...there are too many GMO light beer drinkers or yuppy microbrew drinking global warming alarmists here to count..follow the herd..play nice Johnny...where is the critical thinking and gumption?
it's the terrrsts!
http://www.theonion.com/articles/fbi-uncovers-alqaeda-plot-to-just-sit-b...
Take that darn "eboly" virus.
Hey! Are these the same guys who cleaned up after the BP oil spill??
Oh fuck - that is hilarious! We are so fucking doomed! ROTFLMAO! I wonder if the guy using the power washer on the sidewalk has made out his will yet.
Looks like the Darwin awards comittee is going to be very busy.
Too many turds floating in the gene pool.
Somebody needs to send a link of this over to CDC.
These fucking nuts are very dangerous!
They probably arranged it. I think we all need to get used to the idea that MAYBE the CDC isn't really that interested in containing ebola.
EDIT: Someone should call those poor dumbasses washing the sidewalk and explain to them that they are now literally walking dead, but they can still do right by their families if they check into a cheap motel to wait out their remaining 2 - 21 days.
Per GW, the CDC ORDERED it to be power washed off.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-02/workers-spray-ebola-patients%E2...
Maybe we get lucky and someone spilled bleach on their way to the laundy?
pods
Not to worry. The cats and dogs got all the big chunks and the flies got all the juice.
At least there are no mosquitoes in Texas, right?
Right?
Somebody commented earlier on GW's post that this reminded him of the movie "Jaws" where this Frieden wacko is the mayor and wants the beaches open to make more money.
Then you see shit like this! It makes no sense at all.
A lot of people are realizing this was "no boating accident". CDC will make no effort to contact these people but I bet an ambulance chaser will. Maybe this will piss people off enough to roll out some guillotines.
clearly, the CDC screwed up the business process outsourcing and management in this instance.
one-off or systemic problem?
If there was absestos in that building instead of Ebola there would be inspectors watching this day and night ready to dish out fines left and right.
Texas Hospital Blames Flawed Software for Ebola Misdiagnosis http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/277988141.htmlIt's unfuckingreal how bad this has been handled. Of course we're most likely being fed lies, as usual. I just heard on the dumb TV a *weekly* emergency broadcast test for the following area: United States.
This seems new.
Yeah, and I'm working under a laminar flow hood that failed certification. I was handed a N95 mask as a stopgap until they can find the money to replace it. This is at a major medical center.
Power washer. How nice. Obviously this man has no concept of aerosolization. Ignorance may be bliss but deadly and he won't be the only one who pays for his lack of education.
Miffed
Still with us Miffed ?
I thought you would be in transit to Pitcairn island by now.
The thougt of hijacking one of my clients 'yachts" is looking pretty attractive right about now.
The 190ft one should be good for about a year with docking.
I have access to a sailboat and a friend who circumnavigated the earth many times. I am not that experienced a sailor. He is a dear friend of my husband's and close. Funny, how those people in your life suddenly become so pivotal. This is plan B. Plan A is sheltering in place which we are now going heavily into debt to pull off quickly. I have faced the sad reality I must put down my two retired horses. They are my friends. But I must save them from a horrible death if this epidemic truly comes into full force. This has been a tough decision and saddens me deeply.
Miffed
Ebola is not like rabies. I don't know that horses get it, or if they do get it that they show symptoms. My guess would be they don't.
If on the other hand you are worried about leaving them behind, you could probably give them to someone who keeps horses already. One or two more in the herd are sometimes fine esp in an emergency, people will take the extra effort.
But don't you think you should just wait?
I can see sitting it out. Just take care of yourself, do the prudent things that make sense anyway, and see what happens. Stay out of crowds, stock up on a few things, keep track of international developments. Stay alert to local news, watch for the sign that something bad has come to town.
If the SHTF, it's easy to stay ahead of this thing. Not like there is going to be an army of mindless zombies milling around in the road looking for living to eat. People get sick, they fall down and die. End of problem. Maybe there are other kinds of problems then (disposal) but those problems take care of themselves too if you wait a while.
It's not the wrath of God. It's just a bad deal. Nature kicking our ass. Well nature gets bored with that kind of thing and moves on to other things she's got going on. Like rebirth. She's slow, but she knows what she's doing.
Keep the horses, is my recommendation. Go riding, enjoy the sunset. Breathe the air. Make a nice dinner. Sit under the stars like people have always done, and think about forever. Don't worry about shit that you can't manage anyway.
Well I'm an animal, so maybe that's easier for me. We animals have our peculiar wisdom, we take things as they come. Though of course when we do finally take them it's balls-to-the-wall and zero-to-insane-in-seconds, but that works too. You relax and enjoy life -- and then you come completely 100% unglued -- and then when it's over you get over that shit.
Sorry ebola, I'm too busy for your bullshit. But hang around a while and I'll deal with you proper.
Yes Miffed, consider giving the horses a reprieve. This will likely pass and leave you regretting having put them down. Best wishes.
The issue is purely economic. My horses drink 55 gallons every few days. We are in a serious drought and our well is only rain water fed. There used to be 30,000 horses in San Diego county. There are now approx. 9000 now. You can't give horses away. A bale of hay is around $20. My vets practice is now going around and putting horses down. I think he knows what his practice will be in a year.
This is one of the hardest decisions of my life. I do not want them to suffer. I owe them that.
Thanks for caring. It does mean a lot to me. Ok, I'm tearing up.
Miffed
<sigh>
I'm with you Miffed. I have 6 horses here in the backwoods of North Central Florida. Most are from people who can't take care of them anymore or have no use for them. A few have been rescues and were in bad shape. We take them in just to give them some sort of good life and proper care before they die. We've already put down 3 before the 6 we have now. I was never much of a horse person and I still don't ride that much. It's my wife's passion and the kids.
But I gotta tell you......when you have to put one down.....there is a little something that dies in you when that happens.
You have my virtual shoulder ma'am.
I hear you. I am the one that has to do it. Last time I had to put the fellow down that I normally rode. It was one of the worst days. I still think about him.
We don't have pasture and I get hay week by week. When this hits we won't be able to get food for them. It's thousands to get a few ton of hay. I am going to stock up on the dog food and chicken food. Chicken food is only like $20 for the 40lb. sack per week.
damn tough decisions to make Mr.
Godspeed to you and the Mrs.
Sorry to hear this mrs miffed....are you sure you have looked at horse rescue operations and this is your last option? i live halfway across the country but know people that would gladly take them in....just saying. :(
I'd be willing as well.....but we're straining the limits of ownership based on our acerage as it is. And although rain is not a problem here where I live....the soil is utter rubbish. Basically a prehistoric sand dune where the ancient Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic met and kissed way...WAY back in the day. What little grass there was in the pasture land got trampled down in no time and has never grown back. We only let the horses graze in the front part of the property simply so we don't have to mow. But we don't let them stay for more than a couple of days in a row and then we don't let them back in there for a month. It's the only way to keep what grass we have.
Like you.....between the kids, the dogs, the cats, the chickens, the goat, the pig, the horses and the Bearded Dragon.....sheesh....my feed bill.....OY VEY !
But like I told my wife.....EVERYONE OF YOU can go. But the Bearded Dragon stays. LOL !
I miss my bearded dragon, one of the best pets i ever had... had to leave him with my brother when I moved to this rock in the Pacific
You must mean Hawaii. Went there when I was 12 in '76. I kinda remember them being a bit anal about imported lizards and snakes even back then. We tripped our tour guide out when we told him that all of us from Mississippi eat frog legs. For two hours that dude kept bringing that topic up. He could not get over that. Of course....I kept asking him how the hell they could eat poi.
Concerning bearded dragons. Yeah...I would miss mine more than the wife if I had to give it up. He was already full grown when I got him from a friend. He was never really properly aclamated and he won't ride on your shoulder or anything like that. But he tolerates me holding him now without him flaring up and trying to bite me. He's almost 2 feet long now. Big guy. Beautiful set of spikes around his head. The dude is like Godzilla when you throw some crickets in the tank. But he loves collard greens too. Eats right out of my hand.
yup, they try real hard to protect the local species... a dog has to go through I think 60 days of quarantine before being brought in.
I would hope I could make a go of it sheltering here, 3 acres with papayas, bananas, and macadamias along with regular rainshowers, but than there is an airport with direct flights from the mainland only a few miles from here. I guess we all imagine ourselves as being able to beat the odds, whether we are smarter or luckier than most.
We are all just delusional I suppose. If it is really airborne, or even just aerosolized, there will be millions dead around the world. Certainly enough to disrupt the murican way of life going forward.
Everyone talks about conspiracies, jews, etc, but that is giving too much credit to the players. This will be more about stupidity, and inability, and bureacracy, than a secret plan by Bill Gates.
Just my .02
Miffed, you said a few months ago that your household income is 230k/year. Can't you cut back somewhere else?
This is true Karen. If I showed you our expenses you'd be shocked as well as how simply we live. The only " mistake" we made was having 2 children. With out them we would be in much better financial shape. But we love them very much and they have turned out to be great young women. I stand by my choice.
We have cut back all luxuries. We do eat well for health reasons more than the average person. My husband has Myasthenia gravis and we spend a lot of our personal money on herbal treatments that have kept him off steroids. Living in Cali ain't cheap.
Miffed
Save some money and wait. Think, horse meat. It's better than dirt.
Dude....a little sensitivity here.
The first rule of joke telling......it's all about context....and timing.
Shame.
I've had to shoot a couple with broken legs.Heart breaking , but totally required.
We have had so much rain over here in Florida this year , all the horses have rein
and hoof rot. Too far to transport them by road from you without sommeone constantly
snotting them. otherwise I would take them.
Tell me about it. I usually have had in the past only one or two come down with rain rot at any given time. Now all 6. It's a mess. Hoof....not so much. Very sandy soil. Shit for gowing stuff, including grass for grazing. But 5 inches of rain can fall.....3 hours later.....looks like it never happened.
Looks like Pitcairn's about to get congested.
Seeing as the Internet will possibly be no more, at least we can continue a more "direct and personal" variant of Zerohedge.
You'll be needing Admiralty Chart 991 (Pitcairn and Southern Ocean).
We're the ones with the Sun Conures!!
N95 mask? LMAO. Surely you got something a lot better than that in your car? I know I do.
p.s. Miffed, some others here and I had wondered and kinda hoped that maybe that was you, your hubby or your boss who made yesterday's headline about the Missouri Doctor with the Ebola Suit and "The CDC is lying" sign.
Yeah, pathetic joke. And people around me are still sleeping. I am rapidly planning my exit before it is too late. I'm at a hub of international travel. Chances are not in my favor.
My husband called me at work yesterday to be sure I was not in Missouri. The guy thinks I would be crazy assed enough to do such a thing. I'm pissed I didn't think of it first.
Miffed
ROTFLMAO !!
If used correctly, N95 is more than good enough.
Note the term "Correctly" - which includes correct removal as well as donning. THIS is where we always see a problem. Poor use of Good PPE.
Absolutely!!!
Miffed
Eek, Miffed see if you can upgrade that to a P100.
Laminar flow hoods often fail but most times is is still well within safe ranges. See if they can replace the prefilters and check the gauges.
We have them at work and we have to do a daily verification that the pressure drop does not drift. We can see when the prefilters are starting to clog.
pods
N100 is bare minimum (I thought it was P-100 a couple of days ago, too, until someone pointed it out to me).
We monitor the magnehelic gauge daily but that's no assurance. Our hood was decertified because it was found if the power were to fail the flow would reverse towards the user! Obviously a WTF revelation. I had someone flipping circuit breakers to figure out why he couldn't get his popcorn popper to work. Yes, he turned off my hood as I was subcultering a multi drug resistant TB. Let's jus say I was a bit miffed.
Miffed
Is it all right if I order you an upgraded mask?
Miffed - yours doesn't have a self-closing anti-blowback flap valve??? I thought this was the ISO standard since the 1980's!! (Originally mandated after the UK Howie Report into the Birmingham Smallpox incident - guess where I was working. Use Google Maps to see how close the Department of Microbiology was to the Medical School, where it all happened . . . . .)
At least one thing beneficial from Australia's "Tick-the Box" mentality - we use Isolators for anything unusual / unknown. Check gloves before use, seal and formaldehyde after use.
So far, ZERO operator or external environment contamination (Continuous facility monitoring inside and outside - room's a Class 100 environment).
No it doesn't. It was installed 25 years ago when that standard wasn't required. That fact has made me ill. The idea of that being engineered in that fashion is insane.
Miffed
If they are not illegals paid to clean it up, then they are the dumbest motherfuckers on earth.
YOLO Ebola
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Live_Once
New fashon trends from the plague centuries...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor
They thought plague was contracted via bad smells, so they made those masks to breath through. The "nose" was filled with posey which was thought to ward off demons. They had no idea plague was transmitted by flea bites.
Malaria was thought to be due to fogs and vapors from swamps. Hence the name -- mal aria -- Latin for "bad air".
People used to think all kinds of useless shit.
Though looking around the comments section here I notice people still believe all kinds of useless shit and make up new shit to believe right on the spot. Clever bunch of monkeys you are, but that won't save anyone.
Well okay then I'm fine with not saving everyone. That's not why I'm on this earth ... to save everyone. Save yourself or get out of the way, is how it's done. Believe whatever you want to believe, just be sure to stay hell out of the way while you are believing it.
The swamps WERE where people contracted malaria, so they were right about that part. They couldn't explain it, but they had the sense to either stay away, or drain the swamps (Rome and Washington DC are both built on swamps, btw).
And there were a number of epidemics at that time, bubonic plague, septicemic plague and pneumonic plague. Not to mention all the other diseases which they couldn't really differentiate from each other.
You can tell where the idea of 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' came from. It was a morbid time. Pestilence, War, Famine, Death.
The amazing thing is without knowing the specific vector they were still very very close to today's modern hazmat suits. The 'vapors' were just virus particles....or whatever. Today we know there is no 'ether' which carries light, but it was still pretty good guessing....there was a formula/Maxwell equation in the 'ether'.
Anyway, I hope there is still time to prepare and survive this mess, otherwise its like Omega Man.
P.S. Why in the heck isn't the CDC or WHO or some other in that neighborhood with a major lockdown and containment ? Its pretty obvious a lost cause ? Now we know how bad this really is becoming since there is no major official response. zip wow.
what's for breakfast, Ebola!
Ebola. Go for the Gusto !
Ebolanation.
Ebolobotomy.
Ebola
is a helluva bug!
-rick
Ebola.....because YOLO.
So confidence inspiring! I have no fear that all of this is being handled with the utmost bumbling and baffoonery......
That's all they seem to accomplish...All that money, all that technology to stop things like this and we get "We are so unprepared for an incredibly infectious diease."
WTF were we ready for??? Practically every movie, TV show is about something like this...how can we be caught so unaware, and so off guard. NOT POSSIBLE.
It's all bullshit folks....every last ounce of it. And it fuckin stinks.
So we do not have a concrete plan for containment, only a theoretical plan wholly dependent on the lowest common denominator, AKA, the barely educated janitorial/clean-up crew.
My confidence is not high.
The educated in America don't like to get their hands dirty.
Thats going to bite them in the ass.
Concrete plan? Haha...
There hasn't been a concrete plan in this country in at least 30 years. Reality is well past due.
Market gained backed all it's Ebola escalation losses from deescalation in record time on better than expected non "I Am Legend" scenario...truly the epitome of a broken centrally planned intervened and PPT market.
Truly is a sight to see...why?? Fuck it...it's Friday.
Did anyone here have any doubts????
tsk, tsk, tsk. The /es line in the sand for the pullback is 1978. +1 more than that,,,eh,,,positive, and new Highs. 'Touch and drop lower' tho is in order TO that point. S&P #'s different...fwiw; mine are the /es/futures contract. It's just gettin' warmed up if we turn down at the '78's. down. Trends always give you a chance to get in them. That's the way it works. i.e. you got a chance to short it coming up.
But Obozo done told us, the CDC has this thing bottled up!
Looks like they are using the best and the brightest on the clean up crews. Along with some very hi-tech equipment! It's all good! Not one thing to worry about.
If not managed correctly the transmission/growth of Ebola could resemble the growth of Facebook. Slow at first then over time leading to a more exponential growth. Just switch user adotopn for microbial adoption. 1000 to 1,000,000,000 in ten years
Ebola infection/fatality growth rate is exponential and the doubling period is 21 days. Plug that into your spreadsheet.
Then we all should be dead in ...what... 2 yrs? 1 yr?
Thankfully your models are bullshit.
Everyone to the Superdome Now !!!!!!!
Comment of the day, good sir.
'Dooky: Cleanup aisle 666.'
You said 1 photo. I demand my money back.
You don't get it. You are supposed to pick the right photo. It's a quiz, and I can't figure out the answer.
The market's verdict: "Ebola will be contained in the developed world".
Is the market wrong? Then buy puts with abandon.