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Spain Warns "Something Went Wrong" As Suspected Ebola Cases Rise In Madrid

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Despite being described by Spain's public health director as "a national jewel," the head of Spain's Nursing Council warns "something went wrong" in the health care system's protocols. As RT reports, Spanish health officials have 4 patients interned including infected initial nurse, her husband, and a 2nd nurse (male). Furthermore, 22 more possible Ebola cases are under surveillance having had direct contact with the infected nurse during her vacation after being infected (officials have said they 'don't know' how she became infected with the deadly virus). Images within the hospital show "irregularities" and make-shift isolation units and an insider account said "I do not want to create social alarm, but explain what is still a reality everyday for a few months of nursing staff at the ICU.". One researcher noted "air traffic is the driver.," and added ominously, "it's just a matter of who gets lucky and who gets unlucky."

 

As RT reports,

Health officials in Madrid say three more people are in the hospital on suspicion of contracting Ebola. The news comes a day after a nurse who treated two Ebola patients at a city hospital became infected with the disease.

 

The nurse is now being treated with a drip using antibodies from those previously infected with the virus, Reuters reports. Approximately 22 contacts of the woman, often referred to as the 'Spanish Ebola nurse,' have been identified and are being monitored, Madrid health officials told a press conference on Tuesday.

 

The officials added that the hospitalized include the nurse's husband, another health worker and a traveler who had spent time in one of he affected West African countries.

Spanish authorities are struggling to explain the infection, as The Daily Mail reports

"At the moment we are investigating the way in which the professional was infected," said Antonio Alemany, the head of Madrid's primary health care services.

 

"We don't know yet what failed," he was quoted by the Guardian as saying. "We're investigating the mechanism of infection."

 

Mercedes Vinuesa, the head of Spain's public health service, told parliament today that the nurse's husband had been placed in quarantine.

And, as RT reports, in a similar vein to Dallas, it appears local hospitals were anything but prepared for this...

Spanish authorities have come under increasing pressure to explain how the disease was able to spread in their hopital. While they say all proper protocols and procedure were followed while providing care to the deceased missionaries, reports to the contrary have surfaced.

 

According to the Guardian, staff at the hospital said waste from the rooms of both patients had been carried out in the same elevator used by all personnel. The hospital was also reportedly not evacuated when the second patient, García Viejo, was taken in to receive treatment.

 

Union workers also accused the government of providing hospital staff with adequate hazmat-suits.

 

Some Spanish medical-worker representatives said the situation should prompt an overhaul of the procedures and facilities used to treat those afflicted with the virus.

 

“Something went wrong,” Máximo Gonzalez Jurado, head of Spain’s General Nursing Council, told Spanish news agency EFE. “They need to establish if the protocol is correct or not correct so that a case like this, that never should have happened, doesn’t happen again.”

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"Air traffic is the driver," warns Professor Alessandro Vespignani of Northeastern University in Boston...predicting where the virus will spread...

There is a 50 per cent chance a traveller carrying the disease could touch down in the UK by October 24, a team of U.S. researchers have predicted.

 

Using Ebola spread patterns and airline traffic data they have calculated the odds of the virus spreading across the world.

 

They estimate there is a 75 per cent chance Ebola will reach French shores by October 24.

 

And Belgium has a 40 per cent chance of seeing the disease arrive on its territory, while Spain and Switzerland have lower risks of 14 per cent each.

 

 

 

'It's just a matter of who gets lucky and who gets unlucky."

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An insider whistle-blows on the weakness in Spanish anti-Ebola protocls (via Google Translate)

I am a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Hospital La Paz. The reason for addressing you.'s To inform the public the facts that have happened recently regarding the "Crisis of the Ebola virus" opinion. Do not want to create social alarm, but tell what is still a reality in everyday for a few months of nursing staff the ICU among which I include ago.

Since the hospital was named La Paz as a reference center for the diagnosis and treatment of HIV infection in April 2014, the staff has been showing its disconfor to that measure and irregularities have been committing the direction of nursing the hospital as a whole. (See attachment Notification Judge).

These irregularities summarize, focus on that:

• The hospital does not have adequate infrastructure to enter patients affected with this type of disease (the famous isolation rooms with negative pressure).

• The original protocols of the Ministry of Health were modified to fit like the gaps that had the hospital: If you do not have "negative pressure" we say "as far as is demonstrated airborne transmission is not necessary."

• General (modified or not) protocols are not handed to staff for knowledge, nor were exposed at various meetings with management nursing.

• As ICU care were demanding the implementation of specific protocols UCI (Today still not exist or at least personnel have not arrived)

• Staff training requires the completion of courses and training to work in situations like this.

• The Department of Preventive Medicine Hospital offers two informative talks (45 minutes) of such as personal protective equipment required. In those talks and the inexperience of the same staff that taught, costumes torn apart, replaced the shims for plastic bags, there were no complete SCUBA and coming to say more or less I had to do a hack to cover his face with masking tape.

Without being solved any of these issues by the Department of the hospital, you will hanging out and communicating to staff that will be the Hospital of the defense "Gómez Ulla" who takes these emergencies but as it is in the process of reform to create appropriate facilities, until the month of October will remain referral hospital.

...

Finally only remains to emphasize that in all this there is a lot of improvisation and a lot of reckless attitude of those who truly, really ... NOT going to be ahead of the virus at him in the face. Listen to those who are on the front line have something to say.

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Un-contained...

 

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Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:15 | 5298340 astoriajoe
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Bullish, but maybe that's just me.

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:54 | 5298519 BlindMonkey
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Waaaay bullish. Think of the liabilities being crossed off the board as the die-off happens. I can imagine they will put a bell in the lobby of the Social Security department. They will ring it on ever 100k of liabilities scratched off the list.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:39 | 5298714 kaiserhoff
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It's all bullish, CD, absolutely friggin everything in the Galaxy.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:02 | 5299380 Citxmech
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Exactly.  Here's the flowchart:

________ --> Bullish!

Fill in the blank however you wish.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 12:46 | 5299295 Loose Caboose
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It's irrelevant.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:20 | 5298359 CaptainObvious
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You rang? ;)

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:30 | 5298652 LULZBank
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Killer plague?

There's an app for that!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:47 | 5298235 1stepcloser
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Sum ting wen wong...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:57 | 5298281 d edwards
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And his cousin

Ho Lee Fuk.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:59 | 5298290 DetectiveStern
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In the last 12 hours I've been to the toilet 5 times and thrown up once. I only had 3 beers and around 4 double vodkas last night. I think I have ebola.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:03 | 5298307 1stepcloser
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No you're just a light weight... :)

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:48 | 5298241 Dungholio
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Short airlines?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:53 | 5298265 Bindar Dundat
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Already done thank you very much. Before this is over all air traffic will be halted for two months minimum.  

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:31 | 5298392 LULZBank
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Ebola couldn't stop the slave trade.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:45 | 5298484 gatorengineer
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short humanity

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:05 | 5298562 Lux Fiat
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Cruise lines?  Family has a cruise scheduled for next year.   Was looking forward to it.  Now, am a bit concerned about the potential for a floating viral factory, unwelcome at any port.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 11:46 | 5299046 quasimodo
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News flash, any cruise ship is a floating petri dish on a good day, let alone with this shit going around.

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 11:58 | 5299089 Lux Fiat
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Well aware of that, but normally the things in the cruise petri dish don't kill you, on a good day.  Taking your chances with Norwalk, puking your guts out, etc. is a risk just about any knowledgable cruiser is aware of.  It's the potential prospect of something in the petri dish with a 50%+ mortality rate that is of concern.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:50 | 5298244 replaceme
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The Spanish have a horrible habit of licking off thermometers, or so I've heard.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:51 | 5298251 Dungholio
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I understand that that particular habit only pertains to rectal thermometers.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:57 | 5298282 knukles
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Is that a rectal thermometer between your legs or you just excited to see me?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:00 | 5298540 BlindMonkey
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Ebola lollipop is what I think those are called now.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:55 | 5298274 d edwards
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All air traffic to/from affect countries must STOP! Medical personnel could be airlifted in by the military.

Keep the disease confined to these nations at let it burn itself out. If they keep screwing around like this there will be a global pandemic for sure.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:28 | 5298385 Quinvarius
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I don't see a good reason to send medical personnel.  There is no cure.  Obama sees a reason because he is a GD dumbass.  

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:52 | 5298256 Irishcyclist
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One of the busiest airports in the world, Madrid.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:29 | 5298389 Ignorance is bliss
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I've been on the Miami to Madrid flight a couple of times. Always packed like sardines.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:54 | 5298257 skbull44
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Oops....not so contained after all. Catalonia better secede quickly and put up some walls...

 

http://olduvai.ca

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:23 | 5298367 CaptainObvious
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Maybe I'm just a cynical bastard, but I think the timing is just a little *too* perfect.  Catalonia makes secession noise, and suddenly Spain has eeeeebooooolllllllaaaaa. 

I'm suddenly thankful my ancestors emigrated from Spain a century and a half ago.  Not that 'Murica will do any better in the ebola department with pretentious douche nugget fucktards like Frieden in charge.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:35 | 5298683 flyingcaveman
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Texas has had their toes in the seccessionist pool for a while now too.  So has the State of Jefferson (Northern California Southern Oregon area) but there hasn't been any outbreak there yet.  too rural, not many west africans running around up there. Not a port of entry up there.  Wierd, I don't think Dallas is a port of entry city either.  Why (if you were to come to the USA for ebola treatment) wouldn't you just go to the nearest city that you could fly directly to?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:50 | 5298761 LULZBank
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Again, please dont ask logical questions.

Put on your worried face and scream "we're all gonna die!"

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 11:02 | 5298811 forwardho
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:-0 !!!

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 11:39 | 5299013 markar
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Dallas not a port of entry city? It's the main hub of the worlds largest airline.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:19 | 5300451 flyingcaveman
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Dallas / Ft.Worth is only 10th in the US for international arrivals.  They'd got fuck all.  It's fly-over country.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in_the_United_...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 11:22 | 5298917 Government need...
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Ironic that the Scots were not aware they were voting 'for' or 'against' Ebola.  They voted 'against', YAY!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:53 | 5298262 lower98th
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So where in Spain did they find recovered Ebola patients to provide the antibody containing blood?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:58 | 5298287 LULZBank
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Actually they were wanting independence. lulz

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:53 | 5298266 Debugas
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biowarfare

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:55 | 5298268 williambanzai7
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Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:58 | 5298284 g'kar
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Obama's priority: Not protecting Americans

 

Thomas Sowell: He takes 'citizen of the world' role more seriously than role as president

 

http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/obamas-priority-not-protecting-americans/

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:38 | 5298434 MsCreant
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Admit it Bonzai, you drop acid, and lots of it!!

 

Does this make him a "club member?"

clubbed pe·nis a deformity of the erect penis marked by a curve to one side or toward the scrotum.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:10 | 5298575 williambanzai7
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It's one big club, and you ain't in it...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:55 | 5298269 NoWayJose
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The problem with calling any Ebola ward 'make shift' is -- that they are ALL make shift because NO ONE knows what they are dealing with! Even the top hospitals only have one or two isolation rooms - so if we reach 3 or more Ebola patients then EVERY hospital in the US will be 'make shift' and isolation wards wil be plastic tarps and duct tape!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:56 | 5298273 williambanzai7
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I am always bullish on duct tape.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:17 | 5298351 Lumberjack
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Moreso on gorilla tape.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:43 | 5298727 ceilidh_trail
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Jose you got it right. We are ill prepared for this. Even the gloves we use on a daily basis rip about half the time while in use. I typically double glove. I have to walk thru clean areas to put trash into a dump cart that is then wheeled through the rest of the hospital... Every shift I have to repeatedly tell the same visitors over and over to wash their hands or wear gowns and they still don't do it. Our houskeeping staff does a decent job of cleaning rooms between patients, but it's never perfect and for this it must be perfect. God help us.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 11:32 | 5298981 walküre
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Do these visitors speaking any English? Are they a wearing funny costumes with many many colors and head gear that could be used as a towel in a pinch? When wrapping up Ebola dead for example?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:56 | 5298781 fredquimby
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Even the top hospitals only have one or two isolation rooms

Errrrrr no. There are 19 so called Level 4 isolation rooms in the entire USA.

There are 4 in the UK.

http://undergroundmedic.com/?p=6990

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:05 | 5299397 Citxmech
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I wonder how many of those are currently occupied. . . 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:45 | 5299641 fredquimby
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It is beds, not rooms. And 2 of the UK ones are currently being redecorated.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:54 | 5298271 Ethelred the Unready
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The bane in Spain spreads mainly by the plane.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:47 | 5298481 MsCreant
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I just had a vision:

A plane is flying above and needs to jettison it's waste. All of a sudden the populace below hears a low pitched horn through a loud speaker, trumpeting the word: Eeeee-boooooow-lah. The populace runs for cover as blue and brown vapor and chunks fall to the ground.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:09 | 5299782 RiverDrifter
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I just imagined this sounding like the old Ricola cough drops commercials.  Might be an effective way to sound an alarm without making it sound so ominous....?  

Eeeee-boooooow-lah..!  

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:54 | 5298272 disabledvet
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Oh, look. Another Social Media invite from a gal from West Africa!

Thank God for e-mail...and all the other things.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:56 | 5298277 Infinite QE
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You know, if half the effort put in by these researchers predicting spread went into getting the country of origin isolated and air travel shut down, this would not be an issue. But NOOOOOOOOO, someone else has BIGGER plans for this.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:56 | 5298278 Dungholio
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Long Duct Tape!!!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:35 | 5298415 CaptainObvious
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Long visqueen plastic, nitrile gloves, P100 respirators, and Tyvek suits.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:49 | 5298499 MsCreant
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It would seem, from this news, that you are under equipped.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:50 | 5298510 CaptainObvious
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Okay then, long isolated privately owned South Pacific islands.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:56 | 5298279 spellbound
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The FEMA camps are all ready to herd you in...It's for your own good, don't you know?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:05 | 5298310 yogibear
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Future Ebola camps as it gets out of control.

We have a decietful government. Bailed out the banksters and then Eric Holder says he can't prosecute the TBTF. 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:23 | 5298444 Government need...
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Any sort of 'camp' is the last place you will wish to be if Ebola really gets going.  Evade or resist would be better odds/adjusted outcomes.  Going to fun-camp will, with a high probability result in your death.  Think about it: they put in with a closely-contained large group of people who either arent suspected of having Ebola or are suspected of having Ebola.  Given the difficulty in differentiating these 2 groups (until its WAYYYY too late), going to a camp carries with it similar odds of surviving a Nazi death camp.  You might, but the odds are stacked against you.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:48 | 5298504 CaptainObvious
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I'd rather die in the middle of a roadway by being perforated by some of those one billion hollow points from the guns of the assholes trying to take me to Camp FEMA.  Death is assured either way, really. 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 08:57 | 5298283 SoDamnMad
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Are those Mexican assassins available to get rid of sick people before the elections?  This has to be kept quiet.  The MSM needs to tighten up on leaks of this nature.  Drag Bill O'Reilly in and threaten him with 10 years of back IRS audits if he brings this subject up.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:01 | 5298299 NoPension
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Talk to any nurse. Talk to any friend you have, who works in healthcare. They will tell you, hospitals are centers of disease. It is a dichotomy. We go there to get well, but you want to get away ASAP. 5% of patients get Mersa, and they can't change this.
I read 75000 people a year die from hospital infections.

Our local hospital has a whole floor, shut down and off limits, because of mold. Anybody who knows, knows not to go to this fucking joint. They were counting on new digs, so let the old joint go to pot. Then funding got squashed, and new digs on hold. Nurses have been quitting and moving en masse. Your pretty much bottom of the barrel, or new, if you have to work there.

We are fucked.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:22 | 5299465 Seek_Truth
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They call it healthcare:

"The most stunning statistic, however, is that the total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is an astounding 783,936 per year. It is now evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US. (By contrast, the number of deaths attributable to heart disease in 2001 was 699,697, while the number of deaths attributable to cancer was 553,251.5)"

http://www.lef.org/magazine/2004/3/awsi_death/Page-01

Western medicine is good at one thing: trauma care.

Other than that, avoid it like the plague (or EBOLA, for that matter).

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:01 | 5298300 yogibear
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Obama's spread the Ebola, by keeping the US borders open and not halting flights.

The CDC being pressured to be Politically Correct has it's expensive payback.

As The Obama Administration Crashes And Burns, Insiders Begin To Blame Valerie Jarrett

http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/10/05/obama-administration-crashes-and-bu...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:41 | 5298455 lakecity55
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VJ has been the president since Day 1.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:12 | 5298578 BlindMonkey
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I read that as Piers Morgan telling is how the play book is run. Negative stories in a "drip-feeding" campaign.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:36 | 5298697 Government need...
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Don't worry, when Ebola gets going, it's going to 'disappear' US government.  They'll call out the DHS/thugcop/military stormtroopers when it spreads to 5 cities and infects a few thousand.  But the virulence will take out some of the stormtroopers (blood on the baton, perhaps?), and they'll stop showing up for work.  Drones can still fly, but there are only so many that can fire missiles, and someone, somewhere has to re-equip and maintain them.  Trust me, the Fedcoats will lose as much or more than the peons.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 12:55 | 5299344 general ambivalent
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Don't be so sure. Lots of sick fucks in the military ready to sacrifice all for their ex-baby-mamas.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:01 | 5298301 Smuckers
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Ebola, she can fly,
Ebola, she can touch the sky,
Spread her crook and fly away,
And make us bleed out any day.....

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 12:11 | 5299145 Lux Fiat
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I'm leaving on a jet plane,

Don't know who I'll infect again....

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:04 | 5298303 barre-de-rire
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top most fun is she felt sick but still went in hollydayw before going back to work.

 

potentially you already have expon' lv 2 triggered, over a base of 100ppl met during hollidays, 40% propagating, something between 3k and 5k ebola in spain 1st november

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:03 | 5298305 GrinandBearit
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Nothing is wrong.  All is going according to the plan.  All of this is no accident.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:56 | 5298528 MsCreant
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I marked this down to dis Jessie, not you. Fuck him. He has no special knowldege nor authority. Like Liberians all know who he is? Any where there is a camera, there he is. Al will be jealous. Jessie, you don't own dark colored skin. They are so different from you.

In private, I have learned from African students that they don't want to be assiciated with African Americans in our country, sad to say. They get very insulted and see themselves as very different. 

I am not saying their perceptions are correct, I am telling you what I know I have heard. Jessie needs to know it.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 12:18 | 5299173 Lux Fiat
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Have heard the same thing from past coworkers and acquantainces from Africa.  They know a self-destructive, disempowering subculture when they see one.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:08 | 5298306 Bokkenrijder
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Disregard, nothing to be seen here folks, just keep moving, just walk along, keep spending, keep consuming, there is nothing wrong here.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:05 | 5298308 Son of Captain Nemo
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Everything is on track and going according to plan...

If Spain and the U.S. are lucky we'll have a major pandemic cooking in Europe and the U.S. right before Christmas along with frequent visit(s) to this place between now and the end of the year to start the New Year right with a market collapse we can blame "both of them" on!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:08 | 5298318 yogibear
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"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”

Rahm Emanuel, 2008 -

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:06 | 5298312 tarsubil
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Might be about time to start stocking up on essentials.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:57 | 5298533 MsCreant
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Past time, but get it while the getting is good.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:33 | 5298670 BlindMonkey
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Penny's is going to have lots of merch on close out...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 11:33 | 5298980 corporatewhore
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are they still open? /s/

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 11:17 | 5298877 Bangin7GramRocks
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Maybe that's where they get the 4.1% retail sales increase. We will be wildly buying anything and everything to ride out the plague. Buy! Buy! Buy!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:06 | 5298316 Reaper
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The Spanish lackeys follow the decrees of Obama's CDC. Trust in government offices fails again.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:08 | 5298319 SIOP
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I enjoy Zerohedge, I really do, but with all the various "It's the end of the world!" news on here, I dont know if I should be really really concerned about this ebola thing or not.  I mean, hell, if I followed what is reported on here I would be about $200k poorer right now. So what do I do with this latest crisis? I know the answer, do my own due dilligance, and I try.

P.S.  Yes I know I just spoke the obvious, I'm just venting, and honestly, getting a little worried.

P.P.S. Disclaimer: I work (software) at a State Health Lab. The water cooler chat here is "It's a virus, there is no cure, We are cleaner over here than in the underdeveloped countries so the risk of a rapid breakout here is lower, there are only 5 labs in the country that are certified (BSL-4) to test for contagions such as this."

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:12 | 5298332 hedgeless_horseman
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I demand better .gov trolling for my tax dollar.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:33 | 5298405 RadioactiveRant
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Good to see China is still building its BSL4 lab, and the UK has two of its facilities in London.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 12:10 | 5299137 T-NUTZ
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good point.  you need to FADE THE HEDGE.  Lever up that 200k and BTFD.   you could make a million...

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:36 | 5299574 Seek_Truth
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SIOP..."I would be about $200k poorer now"

The days are coming when many, laying in a bed, blood dripping from every orifice, will ask: "why didn't I take this more seriously?"

If your employer requires you to fly frequently, you are increasingly at risk of contracting EBOLA.

Find another job (or drive instead).

Money will mean nothing while you lie on your deathbed.

There's only one currency that lasts forever- faith in Jesus Christ.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:59 | 5299713 fredquimby
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And weed. That'll always work as a currency.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:32 | 5299901 Seek_Truth
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Dat iz wut da rasta mon say.

But I disagree with him. Weed, like everything else, won't be needed in heaven.

"That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him." - 1 Corinthians 2:9

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:09 | 5298324 Al Huxley
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Lucky for these mindless bureaucrats with their emphasis on form over function, protocol over substance, that they're immune to this disease and it only affects the people they rule.  Oh wait, they're NOT immune?  They're finally going to join in the suffering caused by their arrogance and ignorance?

 

Cold comfort...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:16 | 5298343 youngman
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I cant wait for the Photoop of  Obama in a ebola suit going to the hospitals to talk to the patients....we can only hope....and change

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:30 | 5298390 overmedicatedun...
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protocols , are useless - humans make mistakes -  hospitals have cleaning staff who are mimium wage, HS dropouts in ussa..they cannot do the type of cleaning needed and avoid infection - ( last time my wife had surgery in a top rated hospital in ussa, I cleaned her ward room(bleach) prior to her getting there, it was filthy and I observed as I have so often cleaning staff contaminating everything they were "cleaning"..

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:39 | 5298453 Al Huxley
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I agree, that's my point - the protocols are established, but not followed.  The hospitals primary purpose is not to provide health care for the sick, but profits for the investors, so the policies are established for show, and then minimally, and ineffectively followed (I'm sure that many of the individuals in the system ARE trying to provide good healthcare, and do actually care for their patients, but I'm talking about the overall system).

 

So typically this cheat just means that on average an individual in a hospital gets a dirty room, or maybe an infection that may or may not have bad consequences.  But now, the culture that's been created has REAL, SERIOUS consequences, and the system is in no way capable of addressing, or even seeing its own flaws.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:30 | 5298395 Al Huxley
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Given the apparent uselessness of protective gear (seems to INCREASE the risk of infection) I doubt that photo-op will be occurring.  I'm guessing in a few months the ultra-wealthy and their political toadies (at least the top level ones) will be off to their private islands to wait out the storm.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:35 | 5298418 youngman
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And you can bet there are going to be some IPOs of new fly by night companies that make the protective gear...shabby of course..but you wont be around to sue after you are dead with the disease....a quick buck for Wall Street and the insiders for sure...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:21 | 5298362 Son of Captain Nemo
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They're finally going to join in the suffering caused by their arrogance and ignorance?

Like the fact that you put a question mark on that statement AlIf the CDC has a patent for one or more of the strains involved, I'm sure the only ones that matter in the "1%" realm will have the right "flu shot" at the right time and at the right price!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:16 | 5300102 1Inthebeginning
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Do they have DRACO?

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:13 | 5298334 steelrules
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Just in case some of you haven't already heard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_jz5c3GVVg

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 11:10 | 5298846 medium giraffe
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There's been a recent change to that update: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkQd2WySV4U

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 12:34 | 5299239 Overfed
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I can't believe that no one has dynamited that shit.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 12:38 | 5299256 steelrules
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Good day Giraffe,

Yes I was aware of the removal, guessing that it drew more attention than was intended by the scum that erected this profanity.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:41 | 5299548 medium giraffe
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Think you could be right, steel.  At least we now know that the damnable thing is still important to someone (i.e - the loonies are still at large).

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:13 | 5298336 freedogger
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A broken window with ebola on it => Krugman's wet dream.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:13 | 5298337 youngman
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You have to remember the CDC is a political animal..they love the spotlight..its more funding for them...so to bring this to the USA gives then gravitas....a reason for being....they love the pressers every day...makes them famous

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:27 | 5298376 CloseToTheEdge
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ATLANTA—During a brief, impromptu press conference at the agency’s headquarters this morning, Centers For Disease Control director Dr. Thomas Frieden announced that Americans should start making plans to say goodbye to loved ones right away. “Citizens are advised to bid farewell to parents, children, and any other friends or family they haven’t seen in a while,” Frieden told reporters, adding that if you live anywhere in the Northeast, you should definitely call within the next 48 hours, if not by tonight. “If you have any unresolved emotional issues with any family member whatsoever, now is the time to work those out—I mean right now, because there will not be another chance. You don’t want any regrets.” Concluding his statement to the American public, Frieden said, “Dad, I love you. And I’m so sorry you never really got to know your grandson.” onion

Frieden, you dip shit, will drop dead in the same ditch. 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:16 | 5298341 lakecity55
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It is Airborne and it is Virulent.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 11:01 | 5298806 g'kar
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...and it eats through bio-suits like the Andromeda Strain

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 11:02 | 5298817 StandardDeviant
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The professor quoted in the article was talking about "air traffic" -- 747s and the like -- not airborne transmission.  Sheesh.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:17 | 5298347 Dungholio
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So much for my frequent flyer miles....

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:17 | 5298349 Quinvarius
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Obama still has not shut down air travel that could spread this garbage.  Completely uneducated fkn dumbass.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:31 | 5298401 lakecity55
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Reggie gave him the antidote in the ass. He is not worried about US.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:18 | 5298353 CloseToTheEdge
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it is changing its mode of transmission


http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2014/09/airborne-transmission-ebola-possibility

 

In past studies Sanders found that the entry of the Zaire strain of Ebola virus is most similar biochemically to the bird retroviruses, suggesting it may have at one time been associated with a bird host. His research also uncovered the first step in priming the virus for entry and has important implications for how the virus escapes the adaptive immune system and causes disease.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:18 | 5298355 Sudden Debt
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we don't know yet what failed...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 11:35 | 5298990 walküre
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at least hindsight is 20/20. This dude is obviously blind like a bat.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 01:21 | 5302062 trulz4lulz
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They know what failed, they just wont admit that it was them, which is yet another failure on thier part.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:27 | 5298381 Kina
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Smallpox was responsible for an estimated 300–500 million deaths during the 20th century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:27 | 5298383 Al Huxley
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If only there were some way to keep people from flying in and out of the West African countries where the disease is out of control...  Ah, maybe someday we'll have that kind of advanced technical capability.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:32 | 5298399 eurobug
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Surfact-to-air missiles?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:02 | 5298550 CuttingEdge
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Shhhh! Don't tell the Ukrainian government - they might get ideas...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 12:11 | 5299139 dontgoforit
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I guess no cases reported in Asia or Austrailia?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:36 | 5298694 forwardho
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Ellis Island comes to mind.

Although that might stigmatize those quarantined.

Can't have that can we?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 11:19 | 5298894 thedrickster
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Raysuss

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:11 | 5300089 1Inthebeginning
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Passports are stamped with the country of origen.  If the country of origen reads from an infected location then it is a mandatory 21 day quarantine.

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:30 | 5298387 Government need...
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Could posters remind me of the good things that come from Africa?  

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:49 | 5298502 Infinite QE
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Cocoa.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:01 | 5298547 CaptainObvious
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Gold, diamonds, and other assorted gemstones that will preserve your wealth when the rest of Africa's exports decimate what's left of our economy.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:03 | 5298553 CuttingEdge
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Durban Poison?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:03 | 5298555 pupdog1
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1. Coffeeeeeee... javajavajavajavajavajavajavajavajavajavajavajava

2. Fruitbat-on-a-stick

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:08 | 5298566 Ignorance is bliss
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gold and oil

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:17 | 5298594 kurzdump
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Bush meat! Yummy!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 11:37 | 5299001 Oldrepublic
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how about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Conquest, War, Death, Pestilence

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 12:59 | 5299365 Oldrepublic
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Our Dear Leader!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:30 | 5298391 lakecity55
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Says right on the wiki page the level-4 labs are for hemorrhagic fevers that are airborne.

These fucksticks have lied since Day 1.

If I get this shit, I am going to barf out on any politician I can find, even if it's just city council.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:03 | 5298549 Government need...
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This type of action is what all Ebola-infected patriotic Americans need to do before they die.  Meet their House and Senate rep, visit the White House, tour whatever 'intelligence' agency they can get inside.  And cough/bleed/leak/sweat a lot.  If you're detected as a threat, make sure the goon-squad has to man-handle you.  Think of the passive-aggressive joy you will experience as the thugsters pummel you and 4 of them carry you outside.  Remember, when they grab you, CBLS: cough, bleed, leak, sweat.  

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:26 | 5298631 Government need...
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The virulence through coughing, bleeding, leaking, and sweating make this impossible for any government action to stop at the point Ebola infects a few thousand Americans in a handful of cities.  Typically, the Fedcoats would set up barriers/law enforcement walls to keep the potentially infected away from 'key' areas.  Once this thing goes critical and the thugcops witness their tyrants-in-crime getting it from all the blood/shit/sweat they beat out of folks, they will stop showing up for work.  It would be pretty cool to watch the end of US government in less than 100 days. 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 11:37 | 5299004 walküre
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what about my 401k? should I liquidate now or wait?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 11:45 | 5299045 goldsaver
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Spend a Wednesday ridding the DC metro, starting right about 6 am. Do the blue line, then the red line, rinse repeat. Catch them going to work and coming back. You wont get close to the politicians, but their secretaries, janitors, baristas....

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 12:56 | 5299352 pops
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No bodyguards = no body gets guarded.

Just sayin'

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:31 | 5298659 forwardho
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 Beware the "Pink Mist"

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 11:06 | 5298830 p00k1e
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DC Hookers - sadly, if you want to get Republican lawmakers, you may have to rent the ‘Bull Dog’s. 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:22 | 5298609 atthelake
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Barf on or near America's executive branch and oligarchal families.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:31 | 5298396 q99x2
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First Obama is going to build the DHS and militarize the police; arm them with machine guns and ammo, Then Loyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon, Draghi, Legarde and the gang from brussels are going to siphon all your wealth to them. Then the CIA is going to release the ebola epidemic. And then they are going to F'n kill ya -- bitchez. 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:32 | 5298402 NMFP
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Am I missing something, Spain has a 14% chance of ebola arriving in there territory, but it's already there?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:43 | 5298470 Cortez
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64% of all Ebola statistics are made up.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:14 | 5298585 IridiumRebel
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4 out of 5 doctors agree that 9 out of 10 dentists think......

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:29 | 5298650 Kprime
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they are wrong.  9 of 10 dentists have no frontal lobes, they are a subspecies of the politician

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