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America's First Ebola Patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, Has Died

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The first US Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, who was treated in Texas, has just died:

  • TEXAS HEALTH REPORTS DEATH OF EBOLA PATIENT THOMAS ERIC DUNCAN

And while we await the inevitable CDC press conference to follow, the stock of CMRX, whose medicine was being used to treat him, is plunging.

 

As Bloomberg reports,

Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S., died from the virus while in isolation at a Dallas hospital.

 

Duncan was diagnosed with the disease on Sept. 30 after contracting it in his native Liberia, where Ebola has infected about 7,500 people, killing half. He had come to the country to marry his girlfriend, Louise Troh, who is now being quarantined and has not yet shown symptoms of the disease.

 

"It is with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment that we must inform you of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan this morning at 7:51 am,” Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital said in a statement today.

Some more from Bloomberg:

Duncan was in serious condition until Saturday, when his kidneys failed and he was put on dialysis. That afternoon he received the experimental drug brincidofovor, made by Durham, North Carolina-based Chimerix Inc (CMRX), according to statements from the hospital, which has declined to say if the patient received any other experimental treatment. 

 

Duncan was also receiving oxygen on a ventilator and medication to stave off infection, according to the hospital.

 

A nephew, Josephus Weeks, said earlier today that Duncan did not receive any serum from Ebola survivors, a treatment given other survivors. Kent Brantly, a U.S. doctor who recovered after being infected, has donated serum to at least two other patients.

 

Asked in a text-message interview if the family thinks blood serum derived from disease survivors should have been used, Weeks said, “We begged and pleaded several times. They said it’s too late in his treatment. They didn’t try any other options but saline, oxygen and water.”

So the lawsuits are coming.

In any event, one can only hope he is the last Ebola casualty on US soil. Unfortunately, when the best plan the "smartest and brightest" in the room can come up with is to take the temperature of West Africa travelers, he won't be.

 

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Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:20 | 5303246 buzzsaw99
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fuck him and the horse he rode in on

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:24 | 5303264 kaiserhoff
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Surprise, surprise,  Goober

Now where do we send his damn hospital bill?

Thanks, Bathhouse.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:25 | 5303289 walküre
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arrived with little to no symptoms 09/23

admitted 09/30

died 10/08

14 days is all it took despite the first world care

what the fuck are we doing getting involved over there?

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:26 | 5303297 kliguy38
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all planned

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:31 | 5303340 froze25
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Pray for the mans family in this time of grief

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:33 | 5303358 StackShinyStuff
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No

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:35 | 5303387 InjectTheVenom
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got LUV/CCL/RCL/UAL/etc  puts  ? ?

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:39 | 5303410 Supernova Born
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Wait till it hits Central America.

Brownsville is going to be knee deep in Ebola virus ridden feces.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:44 | 5303462 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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Let's fucking hope "the luck" was with the doctors and nurses who treated him.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:46 | 5303476 Keyser
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One can only hope he is the last Ebola casualty on US soil. 

Bullshit, this is just the beginning... 

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:54 | 5303539 Pinto Currency
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" ...A Rockefeller Foundation white paper published in May of 2010 titled Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development takes a look at hypothetical future scenarios which may be used to benefit privy globalist corporations, businessmen and organizations at a later time. ...

... Basically the publication is insinuating that a new world will be formed after a pandemic strikes, allowing “top-down government control” and “more authoritarian leadership”. ..."

You may wish to avoid this link as there is an irritating pop-up if you click in it:

http://www.intellihub.com/rockefeller-foundation-fictional-scenario-depicts-pandemic-used-top-government-control/

Here is the direct Youtube link :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEvYdNP2unk&list=UU3xHAfZZqbMMWjc1ed1ajow

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:08 | 5303589 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen.

One can hope that the great American leader "REVEREND" Jessie took deep breaths while on his visit to Duncan!

Now feed him to the dogs!

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:18 | 5303704 Patriot Eke
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It's hard to blame the medicine if the strain has been weaponized:

http://youtu.be/3zb41sCOqPw

Your immune system had better be strong folks.  If it is not already, take immediate steps to do it.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:26 | 5303772 V in PA
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Excellent article from Liberian News/Opinion on how the Ebola crisis is making the Country more civilized.

http://www.liberianobserver.com/lib-life/lessons-learn-ebola-outbreak

 

Good Read

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:53 | 5303953 General Decline
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Current list of countries to have banned or restricted flights from Ebola zones. 

 

https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=435&language_id=ENG

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:06 | 5304048 pods
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I don't know if you could call this Amerika's first Ebola case.  What is the criteria for that?

He was clearly infected in Africa.  He was African.  He only died here.

Now if he girlfriend dies, THAT would be Amerika's first Ebola case.

pods

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:11 | 5304068 Save_America1st
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Chimerex???  Creepy name....isn't a Chimera a lion, goat, snake, evil monster???  Interesting choice of names for their medical chemical company, ay??? lol

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:23 | 5304127 kridkrid
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I assume that I'm always being lied to. So the question the becomes, "what is the lie, exactly". Are the death tolls being over reported in support of the typical state sponsored scare mongering? Is the threat, therefore, being over-reported? I mean clearly you don't want Ebola... it will likely kill you (at whatever that rate is... 50%-75%?). But there's a stat that can falsified, yes? And exactly how many people will a carrier infect? I read 2.2, but there's another stat. I know what an exponential curve looks like, but the numbers I'm reading don't look exponential to me... they look mostly linear, no? But, of course, I could be being lied to in the other direction. "It's contained" just like the mortgage crisis (or the current level of clearly unsustainable debt rolling / debt creation). So maybe ebola is far worse than even the worst fearmongering might indicate. Oddly, I think it's one or the other. This is either avian bird flu or global Black Death. If I were a betting man, I still think avian bird flu.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:34 | 5304157 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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Well... if you ONLY count the one person in Dallas who just died, I guess you could make the argument it's linear (in the USSA)... but the African numbers are exponential.

From my experience, most 'Mericans suffer from normalcy bias on most issues, so one has to assume Ebola will be no different.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:49 | 5304232 kridkrid
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No, I'm talking about Africa. 3400 deaths to date. The number of deaths maybe increasing very slightly over time, but to call the growth anything close to exponential is misleading. Greatly misleading, actually.

Though I clearly acknowledge... the numbers around which I make my claim that this isn't exponential could all be a lie. Like I say... I'm pretty sure I'm being lied to... I just don't know if the ones doing the lying want me to be scared shitless over something that doesn't merit it or if I'm a lamb being led to my slaughter at the hands of a weaponized population culling virus. Time will tell. See you in hell.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:06 | 5304296 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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NO... Exponential growth can have any rate... it is the WAY it grows.

Don't be fooled by the use of "exponential" as a colloquial term.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:07 | 5304314 Leonardo Fibonacci2
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He dead? Fuck me!!!! Mutherfucker should have stayed in Africa! Too bad Obola didn't have time to go shaake his hand!

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:17 | 5304359 kridkrid
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Um... sorry... you're just wrong. Exponential growth is either defined by an increasing rate of growth, or at the very least, a constant rate of growth impacting an ever-expanding base from which it is growing. The curve looks all too familiar. If you want to see what that curve looks like, google is your friend.

But again... I'm basing my assumption on gov't statistics. Maybe it's not 3,000 dead... maybe it's 20,000 dead and 50,000 infected. Those numbers, based on my back of a napkin calculations, is what we would be looking at right now if this thing were exponential. We would need about 100k dead by the end of November.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:22 | 5304368 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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WRONG

Do your calculations again. It is exponential. This shouldn't be surprising.

Are you sure you're not trolling?

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:47 | 5304536 Overflow-admin
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It's your statement that is misleading. Here's mine, which provides numbers, figures, sources and even a disclaimer:

"From 5/23/2014 to date, the numbers of Suspected Cases and Deaths reported by WHO are very much correlated to an exponential function, with a R^2 of more than 98%"

Sources:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx7I-MzAy7p5UnFkcG12N1B4MFk/view
WHO reports: http://www.who.int/csr/don/archive/disease/ebola/en/

Disclaimer:
The data is crappy before WHO provided full summary in their reports, somewhere around June and the predicted GROWTH function I use is not as much accurate as it could be i.e. against linear regression trend analysis of the log scaled historical data. The information is provided to encourage you to try to figure it out by yourself, not to rely on it.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:05 | 5304306 kridkrid
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I want to add... while I agree with your take on normalcy bias... and clearly this could be the case here... merican's are also quite prone to buy senseless propaganda and fear mongering. Which again... leads back to my dilemma... which way is the lie trending?

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:28 | 5304404 Overflow-admin
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" I know what an exponential curve looks like, but the numbers I'm reading don't look exponential to me... they look mostly linear, no?"

See the nice "linear trend" on the LOG SCALE GRAPHS*? https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx7I-MzAy7p5UnFkcG12N1B4MFk/view?usp=sh...

So in what mathematical world do you live? If you don't understand those graphs I advise you to take a 101 course in exponential functions. I encourage you to collect your own data - I made some mistakes/bad inference when I built my dataset - and do your own experiments (try linear regression of the log scale data to build your growth function for example).

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:40 | 5304487 nopalito
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That list says Cape Verde has imposed restrictions on non-residents travelling from the US within the past 30 days. Wouldn't that be ironic if other countries started doing the same, effectively forcing the US into quarantine.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:25 | 5304134 V in PA
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From the article:

"When Cote d’Ivoire and Guinea closed their borders with Liberia at the onset of the Ebola outbreak..." 

 

And not one case of Ebola from the Ivory Coast. I guess closing the borders does work. Huh!?!.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:12 | 5304342 ParkAveFlasher
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Absence of evidence does not equal evidence of absence.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:41 | 5304496 halfasleep
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Thanks for that, really good read and nice hearing POV from Liberia. Funny thought, the most popular story is "Ebola, AIDS Manufactured by Western Pharmaceuticals, US DoD?". I guess someone gets it.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:32 | 5303802 boattrash
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That's just hateful. Whatta you got against dogs?

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:04 | 5304035 Government need...
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I hope I'm still standing to ventilate the globalists when they try to foist their top-down-tyranny onto me. 

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:32 | 5304122 The Big Ching-aso
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Duncan be eatin' dirt donuts wit some Cafe Ebollatte.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:58 | 5303563 BLOTTO
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Eric Duncan? Maybe not the innocent random that they suggest...

Liberia

Director of Management and Operations Overseas Peacecorps.

 

Linkedin

Director of Management and Operations Overseas Peace Corps

Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; International Affairs industry

June 2013 – Present (1 year 5 months) Monrovia, Liberia

Director of Management and Operations Overseas Peace Corps

Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; International Affairs industry

October 2010 – May 2013 (2 years 8 months) Georgetown, Guyana

District AIDS Coordinator Peace Corps

Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; International Affairs industry

2007 – 2009 (2 years)

Botswana Ministry of Local Government

Senior Vice President - Market Executive Business Banking Bank of America

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; BAC; Banking industry

2005 – 2007 (2 years) Greater Los Angeles Area

Senior Vice President - Market Executive Business Banking Bank of America

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; BAC; Banking industry

2002 – 2005 (3 years) Las Vegas, Nevada

Vice President - Regional Market Sales Manager Bank of America

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; BAC; Banking industry

2000 – 2002 (2 years) Scottsdale & Central Phoenix

Vice President - Regional Service & Operations Manager Bank of America

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; BAC; Banking industry

1994 – 2000 (6 years) Scottsdale & Central Phoenix

 

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/eric-duncan/15/591/687

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:58 | 5303575 Hippocratic Oaf
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'Ebola patient dies'

 

Who gives a fuck, the market is green (as of 11:58am)

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:35 | 5303827 Keyser
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I wonder if you will feel the same way when your internal organs are dissolving into slime... 

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:07 | 5304047 Oldwood
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At least Dallas will not have the reputation as the "go to" place for ebola treatment. As I live in Dallas, its all the "spin" I have. I'm inclined to agree with other posters here that this may well prove to be the next "polar vortex" moment for our economic ills. Any excuse except the obvious blame will do. Ebola, just the icing on the cake.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:54 | 5304517 benb
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Obama Ebola Bumper Stickers Appear Around Los Angeles

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/obama-ebola-bumper-stickers-appear-aroun...

White House Reporter After Ebola Press Conference: “We’re Screwed”

http://www.infowars.com/white-house-reporter-after-ebola-press-conferenc...

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 16:17 | 5305157 MOB666
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And here i was waiting till 2016 for Hillary

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:01 | 5303593 BLOTTO
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And of course with last nights Blood Moon - what better publicized death to the masses then America's First Ebola Patient...

.

Symbolism...

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:47 | 5304244 WillyGroper
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 you're a day early if in the USSA. 

Blood moon/eclipse is tonight.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:36 | 5304455 Seek_Truth
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Wrong.

I took pictures of it early this morning.

If you live in the US you missed it if you weren't up between 5:15 am and 6:45 am.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:51 | 5304555 European American
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Actually, to be precise, 3:50 AM PCT, this morning

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 15:28 | 5304814 Seek_Truth
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I am on Eastern Time.

Took pics.

Was the first time that clouds didn't get in the way.

Watching it happen was way better than the pics, though.

To see the moon turn from a bright full moon to a red total eclipse is something I will never forget.

Next time I will use a real camera instead of an IPhone. though.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:55 | 5304266 Kirk2NCC1701
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Don't forget the DUAL celestial event:  Blood Moon and Rising Sun

What significance is this to Freemasons, Luciferians, Talmudists, and other organized superstitions?

I'm sensing global warming and the Coming Out of the Lizard/Lazard People.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:40 | 5304495 WhackoWarner
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"We have ample protection and shielding in place today, but we remain vigilant to the desperate attempts of the new (unnatural) world order as their best-laid plans are crumbling before their eyes.  They know they have lost control so they will continue to lash out.  Tomorrow's Full Moon and October 13-15 (when the Sun will oppose the Eris Point and Eris) are the days that are highlighted for hijinks by the minions of the Archons."

http://www.oraclereport.com/blog/


Wed, 10/08/2014 - 16:59 | 5305366 ThirdWorldDude
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Hail Eris!

All hail Discordia!

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:01 | 5303598 Herd Redirectio...
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Scottsdale to Monrovia.

Makes sense.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:14 | 5303672 BLOTTO
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An elite says, 'We better snuff this mofo before someone figures out that he is fuckin fraud'

.

Also, notice how the MSM is calling him 'Thomas' Eric Duncan...

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:17 | 5303696 pods
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He was probably the guy that got the underwear bomber through the gates.

pods

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:20 | 5303719 Thom_333
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That´s not the right Thomas Eric Duncan - is it. Next you gonna tell me that he was also consulting for Ford Foundation,East-West Institute , CFR and a couple of Soros NGO´s. Right? Right...?

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:53 | 5303956 Iwanttoknow
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great job.if you are an american,you make us proud.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 18:29 | 5305779 ajax
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Thomas Eric Duncan you idiot - he was a fucking driver:

"He took a job with Safeway Cargo, FedEx’s shipper in Liberia, as the general manager’s personal chauffeur."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/08/thomas-eric-duncan-liberia-...

There REALLY is a good reason NOT to read "Linkedin" - especially when you can't evne get the man's name right.

19 upvotes for a huge load of complete bullshit.

What a disgrace.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:31 | 5304432 whirling tword ...
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Hell... It's just beginning in Africa but, the numbers are signifigant now.....  ( and, out of control )....   I'm not scared of getting ebola from Africa... I'm scared of it tearing across India, China and other 3rd world countries... ending up in Mexico and walking across the border in numbers we can't cope with.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:15 | 5304093 Edelweiss
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  I attended a staff meeting this morning at the hospital where I work.  The council I'm on, deals with policies and procedures for doctors, nurses, etc.  One member updated us on the "plan" being implemented for possible Ebola cases.  They intend to add the question "have you traveled to West Aftrica recently" to our admission screening.  She also assured us that we are "ahead of the curve on this one", considering we have many private rooms to use for isolation patients.  Also, she stated that we are following the CDC's recommendations regarding this.  Most of the expressions around the room could roughly be translated to "are you kidding me?", including mine. 

  Sincerely, I hope that my anxiety is unfounded, but I suspect it isn't. 

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:35 | 5304191 drendebe10
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No worries, mates. Hospital & gummint bureaucrats have always solved serious problems with their arm chair quarterback,unproven administrative edicts. We're all safe from the "eboly" virus as the liar in chief calls ebola.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:33 | 5304442 whirling tword ...
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Now we just need a slogan and a jingle....

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 15:11 | 5304672 BeansMcGreens
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Now we just need a slogan and a jingle....

How about a song? (with apologies to Louis Armstrong)

"You say ebola,

i say eboli.

Ebola, eboli, ebola, eboli,

Lets call the whole thing off."

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 15:14 | 5304691 tenpanhandle
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Ring around the Rosary

pocket full of eboly

ashes ashes all fall down

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:37 | 5304203 phaedrus1952
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Thanks for the input, Edelweiss.

As one who has spent a near lifetime transgressing accepted protocol, I always find it amusing when what "ought to be/should be" is misconstrued as what "will be".

In the current circumstances, the oversight may well be catastrophic.

Stay safe.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:43 | 5304507 yabyum
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Edelweiss, Went to the same meeting....at a different hospital. They hope to have some quanity of gear "shortly" I went and picked up some gear on my own dime for the ER, if that patient walks in your hospital today you are screwed!! Also wrote  and copied my letter of resignation, left it my in box just in case.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:43 | 5303451 Headbanger
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Got Colt, S&W, Ruger, Remmington, Para Ordnance, Kimber, Kel Tec, DB ,

And most of all... Hi Point calls!?

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:45 | 5303474 Bunghole
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Spare us your wishlist and get back to charging your airsoft batteries.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:49 | 5303512 Headbanger
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And fuck you too homo boy.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:54 | 5303533 Calmyourself
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All your avatar needs these days is a hand behind that head, of course your doing a bang up job all by yourself.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:55 | 5303552 fonzannoon
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I just never knew how much he likes dragons. Until I started dragon my balls across his face each week.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:36 | 5303832 jon dough
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Yippee-ki-yay, Fonz.

 

+1

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:57 | 5303569 Spumoni
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A useful quote from Mike Cross:  

"Listen here brother,

Life's just another

terminal disease..."

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:57 | 5303568 takeaction
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Bung...Best comment of the day!!!!

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:25 | 5304395 buyingsterling
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Airline puts are such an obvious investment that they are going to scream up at some point. Mine are up 40% in the last week.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:37 | 5303402 General Decline
Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:44 | 5303465 MrTown3
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 "unrelated" hahaha...

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:56 | 5303972 Matt
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Different strain, so distantly related. Whether the cause is related is a different story.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:22 | 5304126 pods
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Well, we are talking about Africa, so I would say the cause is going to be the same as the other ones.  Too many malnourished people living in close proximity.

pods

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:33 | 5303368 eclectic syncretist
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will the head of the CDC bury his body?  Would he stand in the same room with the body and a couple of hundred mosquitos? No he would not.  But he will tell you it would be perfectly safe for SOMEONE ELSE to do it.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:48 | 5303500 Herd Redirectio...
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"Right now a person could stand 3 feet away from Thomas Eric Duncan's corpse, and as long as you don't exchange fluids with him, you are fine.  Now, I'M not going to do THAT..."

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:41 | 5303860 boattrash
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As Wifey said, he's likely been dead, they just needed time to figure out what to do with the body.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:15 | 5303688 tarsubil
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Tom has actually visited Africa and suited up to see Ebola patients up close and personal.

That said, the logic of not closing flights in order to be able to send people over there and hence control it over seas is to me insane. Use charter flights and/or the military to get people over there. Keeping commercial traffic open to help get aid workers over there is insane. Tom might be suffering from strong arming from political overseers and/or a lack of sleep.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:21 | 5303718 Socratic Dog
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Well fuckin' silly old me, I thought the problem was flights coming THIS way, not THAT way.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:38 | 5304477 whirling tword ...
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mosquitos, flies.... yeah, I'm good..., no thanks.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:40 | 5303421 CaptainObvious
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No, but I would pray for the families of anybody this fuckwit infected if I believed in the Great Imaginary Sky God, though.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:27 | 5304406 buyingsterling
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If you can find a way to deal with your sexual guilt, you may be able to get a handle on that atheism too.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:41 | 5304498 Pickleton
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rabid atheism.   You can tell they have the rabies when they insist on frothing at the mouth and being as offensive as possible about that which they don't believe in.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:40 | 5303422 walküre
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You think they're grieving? They potentially got their own battles to fight pretty soon. The ex-wife soon to be wife again invited him to come here. She likey sponsored him and perhaps had help from more family members.

Desperation and leaving the hot zone is one thing, being completely careless and lying about the huge risk to spread your infection and potentially bringing death and destruction to thousands is practically unforgiveable.

IF there is such a thing as a "just" God, then may this deity have more compassion for the deceased than I can presently muster myself.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:49 | 5303511 Herd Redirectio...
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Exactly, he has potentially exposed millions, THOUSANDS of miles from where the disease currently is running wild.  Why assist the disease in its spread?

Your usual "stupidity/incompetence or evil" dilemma.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:06 | 5303629 bbq on whitehou...
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Life is just a flash in the pan, it was never intended to exist at all.
It may help to put the blame where blame is do, the people at the CDC and president with the funding of Banks and your support by useing their coupons.
You are as much to blame as anyone else. The others are just actors on a stage that the people built, wanting what was never theres to have.

Money is the root of dreams and desires built by others and gifted to you.
Blame the works of god, on god and the works of man, on man.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 16:10 | 5305110 maskone909
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dont bogart, pass that shit

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:23 | 5303744 Socratic Dog
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Um, he got sick when he was here.  That means... HE DIDN'T FUCKING KNOW HE HAD IT when he came here.  He came here to get married.

I guess he fucked his bride....wonder how that one will go.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:46 | 5304527 pods
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He came here after wheelbarrowing a lady to the clinic.

You don't think he KNEW he was exposed?

pods

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:53 | 5304561 Shirley Swanepoel
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Good riddence! Most unwanted tourist ever.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:47 | 5303497 RiverRoad
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Actually this man's family may be entitled to sue the hospital for a great sum of money for sending him home untreated initially.  And same for all those he may have subsequently infected....

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:04 | 5303610 Citxmech
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What the state did to them afterwards is criminal.  

Quarentine them yes - lock them in that invected apartment with Duncan's bloody, vomit ridden sheets, etc for days?  Is that really the best we can do?

And just think - this is our first unintentional case.  What would it look like when infections are into the hundreds? 

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:12 | 5303670 walküre
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Would you have wanted to "accommodate" them? That's the whole issue going forward. Those FEMA camps will eventually be opened.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:34 | 5303812 Citxmech
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My point is that our "exceptional" American health care system can't even properly take care of the primary contacts of the first case.  

Again, quarentining those folks is absolutely the right thing to do - in sterile isolation units.  

Locking them in an infected apartment, forcing them to use infected faciliities, and requireing them to bag up Duncan's dirty linens might as well be a death sentance.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:04 | 5304302 RobertC
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They should have brought in FEMA trailers to house them during the isolation period.  Then they could have sanitized the apartment. 

 

 

.02

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 16:13 | 5305145 maskone909
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whats most bizzare is that they werent quarantined individualy in an area far away from the general public.  what was done with the family is basicalyl incubate the god damn shit and beg it doesnt contaminate or go airborne.  the most stupid reckless shit i have ever seen

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:15 | 5303684 bbq on whitehou...
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How about what they did to that homless man, kidnaping and holding without charge or reason other then next to someone that was sick.
If that man doesnt become ill then he may sue.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:03 | 5303614 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen Road.

Ah, the great American "JUSTICE" system.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:06 | 5303631 RaceToTheBottom
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I remember seeing sponsored articles about how great the Hospital and Dr were and how lucky the patient ended up there.   The fact that is was a sponsored article was not huge but it was visible...

They cranked up that PR machine real quick

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:36 | 5303830 ajax
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I doubt the family has any right to sue anyone involved, why? Because it's seriously doubtful Mr. Duncan told the admissions personnel in Texas just exactly the truth of his exposure to Ebola and dead Ebola victims back in Monrovia.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:09 | 5304331 Citxmech
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Mr. Duncan's status is a little different than the other folks in the apartment.  

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:21 | 5304379 phaedrus1952
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... For the moment.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:51 | 5304543 Citxmech
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I was referring to their potential legal status with regards to a potential lawsuit.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:39 | 5303846 Keyser
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One thing I am looking forward to after the collapse is the demise of the legal system as it is today, along with tort laws and most lawyers... Me tinks that the heads of lawyers will be bringing a handsome bounty...

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:07 | 5304052 boattrash
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RR, I bet the judge would want that case held Via Skype!

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:38 | 5304159 fockewulf190
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"Actually this man's family may be entitled to sue the hospital for a great sum of money for sending him home untreated initially. "

I still think he was sent home initially without more extensive (and expensive) testing, because he had no insurance.  They just gave him the mandatory once-over, an antibiotic (and we wonder why they are not working anymore), and shown him the door. That probably happens thousands of times everyday at the hospitals located in major cities (such as Dallas) with large populations of uninsured immigrants and illegals.  

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:42 | 5304502 Winston Churchill
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Ding ding. Chicken dinner winner.

Its always about the money, until it isn't.

Have you got insurance ? is the only question that matters, say no and you won't even see a

doctor.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 16:22 | 5305189 STP
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Fuck the family and their greedy lawyers.  POS comes here, knowingly infected, inflicts this crap on us and now Jesse Jackson runs down there to 'help' the family (by giving them a list of his favorite lawyers).  They can go fuck off and die (by themselves).

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:21 | 5303732 SilverRhino
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Fuck that scumbag 

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:11 | 5304073 The_Dude
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Maybe just pray ....

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:15 | 5304354 Government need...
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Tramp the dirt down!

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:34 | 5303375 IridiumRebel
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ZeroEbolaHedge

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:54 | 5303544 DaddyO
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There is a part of me that thought for a moment about the death of Duncan as being inevitable. How else would you send the message that you're no better off here in the states, so stay home and don't infect anymore people on the journey here.

But that is just my conspiratorial streak in play...

DaddyO

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:05 | 5303627 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen Big0.

Spot on. America is a ruthless group of thugs from the top down.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:47 | 5303910 IridiumRebel
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Listen Bangalore.

Listen to Bangalore.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:11 | 5304067 pods
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I'm starting to like BET.  Got some sass and at least knows engrish, as opposed to ananonymous?

pods

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:19 | 5304364 The_Dude
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Sry...just can't get past his incoherent comments..

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 16:46 | 5305311 RiverRoad
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Right.  They didn't get any of Bentley's blood for him, did they?  But the TV cameraman is getting it.  I wonder how they pick and choose?

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:26 | 5303302 MrTown3
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It's not obvious?

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:29 | 5303329 fonzannoon
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Michael Snyder is whacking off so furiously right now there is smoke coming off his dick.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:32 | 5303361 TruthInSunshine
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He's furiously preparing a 100 item "listicle."

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:36 | 5303389 MsCreant
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You beat me by 2 minutes, damn.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:35 | 5303395 fonzannoon
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It's going to have so many spelling errors from him slamming the keyboard with only one hand.

He prob looks like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otPL8KwKQmw

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:48 | 5303492 lasvegaspersona
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The new generation has mutated...it possesses a super power...the ability to masturbate left handed.

The Professor was right...call Mystic and Wolverine.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:33 | 5303365 InjectTheVenom
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Alex Jones too

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:35 | 5303382 CaptainObvious
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+1000 for the belly laugh.

But -999 for putting that image in my head. Eww.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:36 | 5303400 MsCreant
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Fap, fap, fap, fap...

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:34 | 5303385 MsCreant
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There will be a list forthcoming, yes?

34 ways Ebola will fuck you up, even if you don't get the disease.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:41 | 5303444 fonzannoon
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35 if you include your dick falling off from violent whackage.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:57 | 5303556 TeamDepends
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I've got blisters on my fingers!

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:59 | 5303580 MsCreant
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Must. Push. Through. The. Pain.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:17 | 5303703 TeamDepends
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For the children. The knuckle children.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:43 | 5303450 pods
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Krugman is pouring water on it like Brody did for Quint's reel in Jaws.

pods

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:46 | 5303485 fonzannoon
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LOL

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:49 | 5303508 Yen Cross
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rotfl~ That was a good one!

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:51 | 5303520 Grande Tetons
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I have to sign in just to upvote that, pods. 

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:20 | 5303724 Agent P
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Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish nurses....

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:03 | 5304024 RSloane
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LMAO Fonz!

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:29 | 5303333 oklaboy
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with 3,000 new transfer patients in waiting

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:59 | 5303573 chunga
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Israel National News site had a story, citing Reuters, that this guy died on 10/5.

The link got changed the next day to saying that he was almost dead.

I took a screenshot for the heck of it.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:19 | 5303713 ThirdWorldDude
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A glitch in the matrix (see BLOTTO's posts higher up the thread).

Appreciate if you can.upload the screenshot and post the link.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:28 | 5303780 chunga
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I guess I could scan and throw it on scribd as a pdf. Also took a screenshot of Google search results using the title of the story. It shows that the story went uncorrected for quite a while.

scrolling up to BLOTTO

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:22 | 5304125 ThirdWorldDude
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Thanks for the heads up, but there's no need to bother you with screenshot uploads, as another ZH poster linked to a YT video discussing the Arutz Sheva article:

http://youtu.be/RcD-omMspFQ

 

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:41 | 5303865 General Decline
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Speaking of Israel.... I wonder what their current policy is for allowing people to fly in from active Ebola zones?  Are they allowing it?

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 12:45 | 5303896 tony wilson
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what the fuck are we doing getting involved over there?

 

 

your an adult

why not think out of the goy box

if you was a rich jewish fella would you not want you goy motherfucker dead : )

ebola is fucking military it patented it profit making.

it is a fucking scripted brookings chatham house project just like syriana and ukrainia.

 

the rabbi says the useless eaters must use up the medical plans when the money is gone you are free to die.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:26 | 5304396 buttmint
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why are we involved? Simple...Forward Military Base of Operations. When an LZ--landing zone---is determined, suppression fire is laid down. Then a beach head. Then perimeter is secured. Then a military base is built.

This is why ebola was unleashed to begin with.....suppression fire. I'd hazard a guess to state that 98% of incoming military will be properly vaccinated. They cannot have 100% secure manpower without attracting attention. This is not about some makeshift hospital tents. This is about command and control of Africa's resource supply chain from a wholly new military base.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:25 | 5303290 Pool Shark
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At least the taxpayers won't have to pay to prosecute him for falsifying information on his entry visa application.

 

 

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:28 | 5303322 NoDecaf
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They're voting on a post mortem bill to prosecute. Looks serious with jail time and fines.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:37 | 5303374 Harbanger
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Even post mortem he will be voting Democrat in November.

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