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As US Politicians Consider Travel Bans, Istanbul Quarantines Hospital Of Suspected Ebola Patient

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Istanbul's Marmar University Training and Research Hospital is not accepting new patients after, as Daily Sabah reports, a person suspected of being infected with Ebola has been quarantined. The patient, who arrived by plane from Ivory Coast, is suffering high fever and nausea. While Lagos, Nigeria was CDC Director Frieden's worst nightmare with regard Ebola contagion, we suspect Istanbul is a close second with over 14 million people living there. This news comes as US politicians begin to call for visa restrictions and travel bans from infected nations.

 

 

  • *MAN WITH EBOLA HOSPITALIZED IN ISTANBUL: DAILY SABAH
  • *ISTANBUL HOSPITAL TEMPORARILY QUARANTINED ON EBOLA: DAILY SABAH

As Daily Sabah Reports,

A man arriving from Ivory Coast infected with the Ebola virus has been hospitalized in Istanbul on Wednesday.

The patient was brought to the Marmara University Education and Research Hospital. He was diagnosed with Ebola after landing in Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport. The hospital was briefly quarantined and current patients immediately were transferred to other hospitals.

The patient will be transferred to Süreyyapa?a Breast Diseases Education and Research Hospital on Thursday morning.

Just before this news broke, US politicians started raising the rhetoric on travel bans...

  • *MCCAUL, R-TX, IS CHAIRMAN OF U.S. HOUSE HOMELAND SECURITY CMTE
  • *REP. MCCAUL CALLS FOR U.S. VISA SUSPENSION FOR EBOLA-HIT NATION
  • *MCCAUL PROPOSED VISA BAN FOR LIBERIA, GUINEA, SIERRA LEONE

House Homeland Security Chairman Mike McCaul says a temporary travel ban targeting Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea is needed until the outbreak of Ebola “is under control.”

McCaul, R-Texas, called on the Departments of State, Homeland Security to temporarily suspend visas of individuals from those countries

Travel ban would impact 13,500 visas, McCaul says

McCaul’s letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson co-signed by subcmte chairmen Reps. Peter King, Candice Miller, Jeff Duncan, Richard Hudson, Susan Brooks, all Republicans

And then:

  • *BOEHNER: U.S. SHOULD MULL TRAVEL BAN FROM COUNTRIES WITH EBOLA
  • *HOUSE 'READY TO ACT' IF EBOLA LEGISLATION NEEDED: BOEHNER

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) today issued the following statement on the growing Ebola crisis:

“Our hearts go out to the health care workers who have contracted the Ebola virus here in the United States, as well as those who have been impacted by it around the globe.  We pray for their speedy recovery, and we pray for those who are helping to treat and care for these individuals, including our medical experts and military personnel who are in West Africa to help stem this deadly disease.  Concerns about the possibility of an outbreak of this sort prompted the House to provide more funding for the CDC than requested, and the tragic developments seen in recent weeks demonstrate that decision was a prudent one.

“In a September 16 speech in Atlanta, President Obama said the ‘chances of an Ebola outbreak here in the United States are extremely low.’  Since that time, several Americans have been diagnosed with the virus and untold more potentially exposed to it.  Today we learned that one individual who has contracted the virus flew to Ohio through the Cleveland airport in the last few days.  A temporary ban on travel to the United States from countries afflicted with the virus is something that the president should absolutely consider along with any other appropriate actions as doubts about the security of our air travel systems grow.

“It is also imperative we ensure that federal, state and local agencies, along with our public health infrastructure, are prepared, remain vigilant, and follow proper protocols to identify the virus and take appropriate measures for those who have been exposed to it.

“Numerous committees – including the House Armed Services Committee and the Committees on Appropriations, Homeland Security, Energy & Commerce, and Transportation & Infrastructure – are actively assessing the administration’s response, and hearings have already begun.  The Homeland Security Committee held a hearing in Dallas to examine the federal, state, and local response thus far.  Tomorrow, the Energy & Commerce Committee will hear from the CDC and NIH to look into their response to the crisis.  These oversight efforts will continue, and the House stands ready to act if it becomes clear legislation is needed to ensure the threat is countered aggressively and effectively.

“The administration must be able to assure Americans that we will stop the spread here at home.  We will continue to press the administration for better information about what steps will be taken to protect the American people, including our troops, from this deadly virus.  And we will work with the administration on appropriate policy options that will help stop the spread of this horrific disease both here in the United States and around the globe.”

*  *  *

And so it begins...

 

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Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:42 | 5337773 kowalli
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ebolcare not yet?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:44 | 5337789 NemoDeNovo
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My how far we have fallen, RIP USSA, it was a nice run..........

 

"Can't we NUKE this place from Orbit?"

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:46 | 5337796 X.inf.capt
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at least they raised the freak flag

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:46 | 5337807 wallstreetapost...
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I'm just waiting for the ebola / ricola parody commercials.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:46 | 5337810 X.inf.capt
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those were here last month...

 

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:50 | 5337825 1Inthebeginning
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Captain.  If ebola gets out of hand in America, do you think other countries will try to go predator and attack?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:54 | 5337846 kaiserhoff
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When did the Traitor Obola Hussein consider a travel ban?

 

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:59 | 5337872 0b1knob
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Even Boehner has broken the suction and removed his mouth from Choomboy's wiener long enough to call for a travel ban.

The rats are leaving the sinking ship.   The rats are in the corn.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:07 | 5337914 Cliff Claven Cheers
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No Ebola Deniers yet on this thread.  Fucking amazing.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:39 | 5338056 TeethVillage88s
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Nurses outraged: 'There was no protocol, there was no system'...

Can't be anything called Ebola, was just made up for Tom Clancy Books... you know fiction.

Otherwise the hospitals would have used DHS & FEMA money with NIH Money to train our best nurses. S/

Bush put the program in place right? not a Left or Right thing at all. no S

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:42 | 5338062 NemoDeNovo
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@Cliff Claven -- Give it time the deniers have to formulate a good rebuttal which will get more and more difficlut as the days and weeks pass by I am afraid.  I am waiting for the Pilots to refuse to continue flying in those contaminated planes 3....2.....1......

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 20:40 | 5338399 sushi
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Data from a CDC spreadsheet shows that 68% of transmissions occur in the first week of an infection. This drops to 23% for the second week.

This contradicts public statements in regard to transmissibility only occuring after symtom onset ie. after week 2.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 21:05 | 5338499 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/14-october-2014/en/

“Recent studies conducted in West Africa have demonstrated that 95% of confirmed cases have an incubation period in the range of 1 to 21 days; 98% have an incubation period that falls within the 1 to 42 day interval. WHO is therefore confident that detection of no new cases, with active surveillance in place, throughout this 42-day period means that an Ebola outbreak is indeed over.”

"indeed over"... well sort of...

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 21:33 | 5338766 TheReplacement
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What about the other 2%?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 21:48 | 5338872 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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Good question.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 20:43 | 5338429 Jack Burton
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Workers will soon refuse to work in potential Ebola targets. I can see Airline staff refusing to work on an African flight. I can see nurses refusing to work in the infectious disease departments. First responders, they get a call for a black man with fever, vomiting and blood shot eyes, will they respond? Would you?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:52 | 5338109 TeethVillage88s
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We need Investigations, Inspections, Audits of how money is spend by the Federal Government. No Sarcasm, no Joke.

- Ebola proved to be as serious in the USA as in Africa
- Rate of Infection is 2 people per single patient
- Rate of Infection in the USA may be higher than the official rate that was derived from Africa

- DHS & FEMA get $60 Billion a year
- NIH gets $10 Billion a year
- We Spend $1 Trillion a year on MEDICARE/MEDICAID
- Catalog of Domestic Assistance funds Billion in Research

Where is this money going?

AND what about the rest of the Budget Spending on Spying, MIC? How much of it is hidden from us? Who gets this money?

AND why do Wall Street Banks get to Create unlimited amounts of Money... while we get .5% Interest on Savings Accounts and 1% on CDs

You want Revolution. Start investigations and demand Transparency. Is the FED Creating Secret Money too? How can there be $1.8 Quadrillion in Derivatives if it is not a fixed game hidden from the US Public who coincidentally are getting poorer and making less money each year.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 20:00 | 5338140 WTFRLY
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More Texas Ebola: Amarillo hospital on 'lockdown', patient displaying possible symptoms of virus

http://wtfrly.com/2014/10/15/more-texas-ebola-amarillo-hospital-on-lockd...

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 01:12 | 5339874 long-shorty
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it's tough to be a black dude with food poisioning in Texas these days.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:43 | 5338071 buyingsterling
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heard it

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:12 | 5337935 X.inf.capt
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el

.. please dont feed the trolls

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:32 | 5338031 ebworthen
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October 31st will mark two 21 day periods since Thomas Eric Duncan flew into Dallas.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 20:02 | 5338168 disabledvet
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Yep. Could already have 1500 to 2000 infected.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 22:02 | 5338952 mygameon
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The blood is in your hands mother.....

 

Humpty Humpty Bump......

 

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:02 | 5337888 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen.

There's a simple travel solution. A marine vessel that takes 21+ days for the journey from Africa to your precious USSA.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:04 | 5337906 El Vaquero
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Listen.

 

That's a stupid fucking solution.  If one guy on the vessel comes down with Ebola, he might spread it to the other passengers, thus defeating the purpose of the 21+ day trip.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:13 | 5337941 CaptainObvious
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Nice one, Vaquero.

For you, Bangalore:  OH!

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:17 | 5337964 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen.

A jet plane puts him in your USSA general population infecting countless "FRIENDLIES".

The boat is a interim quarantine. It's the only way to "HAVE IT BOTH WAYS". Either stop travel or find a better solution.

Duncan got you guys good.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:19 | 5337972 El Vaquero
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Listen.

 

If one guy on the boat ship has it and spreads it to half the ship, that's puts a very literal half a boatload here infecting countless "FRINDLIES."

 

The boat is not an interim quaranteen.  It is not a way to "HAVE IT BOTH WAYS."

 

OH!

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:43 | 5337982 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen.

You don't get it.

If you want to travel to/from the HOT zone this is your only choice. Those travelers are the one's that want the risk. Your grandmom does not want to travel to Liberia, she's a "FRIENDLY".

If one gets it the whole boat is moored offshore till the spread stops.

Think man, think!

It's not a pleasure cruise, it's "DEATH" travel.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 21:52 | 5338896 Help Is Not Coming
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Unless all of the passengers are quaranteened in their individual rooms the whole time and are not allowed to interact with other passengers your idea is pointless. One passenger has it on day one and infects the next person on day twenty. Second infected person appears just fine.

Do you spend any time thinking through your ideas?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 22:05 | 5338980 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen.

Let's do it your way. In fact USSA for dummies can rename the major airlines as such:
AA/Duncan Air
United/Duncan Air
Frontier/Duncan Air

Have fun, USSA brainiac. Direct flights from Africa, or "How to kill ~350 million Americans in 6 months, a Terrist Primer".

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 21:50 | 5338886 TheReplacement
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While it would suck to be an uninfected passenger on a ship with infected it would certainly be possible to monitor the ship and if there are infected, just extend the quarantine until either they all die or nobody has been symptomatic for three months.

It might take a lot of ships or cause a major backlog but slow and known is better than fast and unknown.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 21:55 | 5338909 Help Is Not Coming
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Sure. 21 days quarantene times the total number of people on the boat. So a boat with 1,000 people would need to be quarantened for 57 and a half years. Yeah, that will work.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 22:10 | 5339013 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen.

Do you ever think?

1 infection is found and everyone is locked down for 21 days.

The lockdown "STOPS" the spread. You don't let the idiots mingle on my ship bro. "Everyone get in your fucking cage and no spitting at each other!"

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 08:12 | 5340487 clade7
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listen, maybe all those plastic coffins in Georgia could be used as one man row boats?  Then Bangies idea would work!

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:13 | 5337945 X.inf.capt
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listen...

el

please dont feed the trolls...

thanks, bro

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:32 | 5338027 El Vaquero
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Some trolls are kinda cute, and unlike bears, they are predictable and won't randomly swat your head off when you are feeding them.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 21:57 | 5338919 Help Is Not Coming
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Don't feed them after midnight and don't get them wet. Oh, wait, that's Gremlins....

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 01:14 | 5339885 long-shorty
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"There's a simple travel solution."

I'm a bit surprised nobody on this thread has yet suggested nuking the entire earth from orbit.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 05:45 | 5340191 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen long-shorty.

You've been silent for far too long. Chime in more often.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 05:53 | 5340197 LULZBank
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They are trying to get Putin to do it.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 21:31 | 5338747 TheReplacement
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Ebola might be our salvation.  If it gets out of hand why would anyone want to come here?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:54 | 5337845 El Vaquero
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It's already here you stupid fucknard congress critters!  Let us just hope that nobody on the airplane with that nurse caught it, and let us hope that it doesn't make it to Mexico, because I damned sure know that you stupid political cocksuckers won't even think about dealing with that shit until it is too late.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:08 | 5337922 Stormtrooper
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So, where is the Ebola certified hospital in Cleveland?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:10 | 5337930 El Vaquero
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LOL!

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:42 | 5338033 Mr. Ed
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Yes, this painfully, politically, correct and slow-witted administration has been allowing approx 1000 passengers a week from the affected areas of Africa to enter the country for how long now?  So: we have an unknown reservoir of ebola carriers running around the country unchecked.

And, judging from the fact that some travelers have lied about there exposure history, it may be that others have been moving about the country DELIBERATELY having some kind of physical contact with as many people as possible.

And we're still only considering travel bans?

Individuals of low intelligence are often referred to as "slow".  What we have here is an example of SLOW.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:46 | 5338086 NemoDeNovo
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Just IMAGINE what this place will be like 12 months from now?  Let face some harsh realities.........Ebola is HERE, and we are past the point of 'containment' all that is left to do now is figure out how to deal with it going forward [I fucking HATE that word], that is our ONLY option at this point, anything else and everything else is just fodder for the [du]masses.

Like it or not the day Patient Zero hit our shores the US changed FOREVER, as change is the only constant in life.  Adapt or DIE fuckers this is where we are at.  ~ YMMV

 

-Nemo

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 20:45 | 5338435 sushi
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About time other countries started to prohibit flights FROM ebola afflicted USSA.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 21:58 | 5338938 TheReplacement
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We so do not know.  We highly suspect but we do not know.  We will know within weeks. 

Also, to those who seem to think this is a matter of incompetence, do you really believe that anyone who is smart enough to hide virtually his entire past and get elected President while making mistake after compounded mistake is just making another "mistake"?

Let me tell you, find your most mistake prone/incompetent aquantance.  Put an ounce of gold in one hand and show them two fists, of which they are to select one.  Do this every day.  Eventually they will pick the one with the gold.  I do not think Obama is incompetent.  Even a broken clock is right twice a day.  This guy puts it in Team USA's basket every hour on the hour, not even a miss.  Even his own team can't stop him from scoring for the opposition.  We are way beyond mere incompetence in my ever so humble opinion.

Okay, I lied.  My opinion isn't that humble.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:58 | 5337869 McMolotov
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Eeeeebolaaaaa!

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 01:17 | 5339890 long-shorty
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is this to be yodeled as in "Ri-co-laaaaa"?

if so, thumbs up.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:05 | 5337903 McMolotov
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Istanbul was Constantinople

Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople

Been a long time gone, Constantinople

Now it's Ebola delight on a moonlit night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQrKZcYtqg

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:18 | 5337929 The Big Ching-aso
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All I know is that Africa is one big ass land mass with many nations but today is also quite incontinent.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:42 | 5338067 GooseShtepping Moron
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Istanbul was "Can't stop ebola"

It's in Istanbul, you can't stop ebola

So if you have a date but can't stop ebola

She'll be bleeding in Istanbul.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:06 | 5337911 Statetheist
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Was it REALLY a nice run, though?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:11 | 5337936 silverliberty
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Andromeda Strain in real life.  At the end the movie the strain mutates to a harmlessness.  My version of the Ebola strain would be it mutates and only becomes harmful to cats and dogs which gives rise to the Apes and we end up with "THE PLANET OF THE APES".  

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 22:00 | 5338945 TheReplacement
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I knew that was a true story.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:46 | 5337790 X.inf.capt
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as we said in the infantry...

LEAD, FOLLOW or GTF out of our way...

mr president....

 

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 20:54 | 5338283 Mr. Ed
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Yeah.  Odd that our Dear Leader can issue a presidential directive permitting the murder of some US citizens without a trial; yet cannot use this executive power to protect millions from a fatal disease by issuing a travel ban.  Is it a question of will power?  of brain power?

I don't get it.

 

(could this be related to that Cloward and Piven thing?)

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 22:03 | 5338960 TheReplacement
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Let us spell it out.

We, Americans, are Charlie Brown.

Obama, The President, is Lucy.

Ebola, the disease, is just another football.

On your back, the grass strain, is you bleeding out.

Cheerio

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:46 | 5337798 TeamDepends
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Shivering jihadis spewing weaponized vomit. Coming to a nightmare near you.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:57 | 5337857 BaBaBouy
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Can't Put It Past Fuckin ISIS To Come Up With A Suicide Ebo Bomber...
Truly A Nightmare Scenario /// Like Fucking Instant Infections...

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:50 | 5337829 SHEEPFUKKER
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Would love to know who was shorting airline stocks and when......you know, kind of like in August of 2001. 

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:42 | 5337776 X.inf.capt
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wow, now can we at least follow their example..

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:59 | 5337862 Ms. Erable
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With apologies to Ray Davies...

I met her in a club down in old Monroe
Where you eat fruit bat and it tastes just like buff-alo-a
Buffa-lo-a a-lo-a.

She walked up to me and she barfed on my shoes.
I asked her name and in a frothy red voice she said, "Ebola"
E-B-O-L-A ebola, Bo-lo-lo ebola

Well, I'm not the world's most healthnutty guy,
But when she infected me it liquefied my spine
Oh my ebola, Bo-lo-lo ebola

Well, I'm not dumb but I can't understand
Why CDC says gotta get in this van
Oh my ebola, Bo-lo-lo ebola, Bo-lo-lo ebola

Well, we drank saline and bled all night,
Under hazmat containment light,
She ate me up and wiped out my spleen,
And said, "dying boy won't you help to spread me?"

Well, I'm not the world's most intelligent guy,
But when I bled from my eyes,
Well I almost fell to the ebola,
Lo lo lo ebola, lo lo lo ebola

I pushed her away.
I crawled to the door.
I peed on the floor.
I got naught left to bleed.
I looked at her, and she at me.

Well just that night I began to pray.
And I always wanted it to just go away, don't want ebola.
E-B-O-L-A ebola.

Nurses will ride planes and boys will ride girls.
It's a fucked up, open borders, sick old world,
Because ebola.

Well I gone to Dallas just a week before,
And I never ate a fruit bat before,
Ebola just smiled and infected my glands,
And said, "Dumb bastard, gonna burn you down, man."

Well I'm not the world's most masculine man,
But ebola treat me like a bloody trash can,
oh, my ebola.
Lo lo lo ebola, lo lo lo ebola

(Repeat and fade)

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:02 | 5337897 Citxmech
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Awesome - thanks for that!

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:26 | 5338002 TeethVillage88s
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nice: How do you like Being Lied to about Hemorrhagic Fever, with Potential to become a Weapon of Terror inside our borders (WMD). Yes, we can handle this and we are trained & Prepared.

A statement from National Nurses United on the treatment of Dallas Ebola patient said that “nurses were asked to call the Infectious Disease Department” to learn the policies on how to treat Duncan.

The statement, which was played in its entirety on CNN on Wednesday morning, also reports that Ebola training at the hospital was “optional,” “nurses have been left to train each other,” and that nurses who interacted with Duncan simply continued treating other patients.

According to the statement, “there was no advanced preparedness on what to do with the patient. There was no protocol, there was no system. The nurses were asked to call the Infectious Disease Department. The Infectious Disease Department did not have clear policies to provide either.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/10/15/Nurses-We-Were-Told-to-...

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:06 | 5337912 X.inf.capt
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total old school...

+10

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:42 | 5337778 ekm1
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http://www.speaker.gov/press-release/boehner-travel-ban-should-be-consid...

 

Read Boehner's statement.

He basically is saying Obama is MENTALLY UNFIT

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:56 | 5337860 Everybodys All ...
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I would say that without reservation at this point, but I've been thinking that for years now anyway. I have made my case on this man so many times it makes me sick to think how much damage he's inflicting and basically no one challenges him. Boehner is so weak as Speaker he may as well not even exist.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:57 | 5337864 TeamDepends
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Yeah Mr. Weeping Cheetoh, that's great advice. Three months ago!!!!!

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 21:16 | 5338618 e_goldstein
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That would be like the pot calling the kettle black; but that would be racyst.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:44 | 5337786 Excursionist
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Quarantine West Africa, and let this contagion burn out.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:00 | 5337884 yogibear
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They haven't figured this out yet.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:03 | 5337898 Ralph Spoilsport
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Why Bats Are Such Good Hosts for Ebola and Other Deadly Diseases

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/bats-ebola-disease-reservoir-hosts/

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:16 | 5337965 Suisse
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Today I learned that there is also an unrelated ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/drc/2014-august.html

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:48 | 5338095 Colonel Walter ...
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Great. What new variant is this strain that we have to look forward to this Holiday Season? 48 deaths out of 68 cases!

From your article

"This outbreak is unrelated to the current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa."

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 21:17 | 5338627 e_goldstein
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I remember reading last week that someone else came down with Marburg in Uganda. Haven't heard anything since, though.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 01:22 | 5339900 long-shorty
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"Quarantine West Africa, and let this contagion burn out." Can you please explain how exactly we "quarantine West Africa"? Do you station troops 25 feet across on all of the national borders and shoot people as they try to move from one place to the next, or do we just drone anyone traveling across any border of an affected nation?
Mon, 10/20/2014 - 16:46 | 5356539 Excursionist
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I was thinking of considerably less extreme and more practical measures, but let me know whether your ideas gain traction.  After all, sometimes the simplest ideas are the best.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:47 | 5337812 1Inthebeginning
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At some point the economic cost of exporting ebola from West Africa to the rest of the world will be greater than the cost of quarantining West Africa.  

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:00 | 5337853 El Vaquero
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Yeah, but by the time the stupid fucksticks figure that out, it'll be too late.  It'll be shutting the barn door after the horse is out.  One can only hope it burns itself out before SHTF.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:50 | 5337820 QQQBall
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So if I have Obola, can I go IN the guarantined facility?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:51 | 5337821 grunk
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OPEN THE BORDERS, YOU HATERS.

They're just spreading the illnesses Americans refuse to spread.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:50 | 5337826 Bastiat
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If one patient shuts down a hospital, how many patiens does it take to shut down the whole healthcare system?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:58 | 5337840 grunk
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Is this a math question?

Are you going to ask me about fruit flies and Gregor Mendel?

My head is starting to hurt.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:55 | 5337850 Dr. Engali
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I don't know does this patient have Obama care or not?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:56 | 5337856 kaiserhoff
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According to Miffed, about 10 would do it.

I thought that was way too low, before I saw the cluster fuck in Dallas, and listened to a few nurses.

 

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:14 | 5337957 El Vaquero
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My sister used to be a paramedic.  The hospital that she worked for told her that if there was a major disaster (explosion, train wreck, etc... not something biological like this,) that they would set her up triaging all of the incoming injured people.  She told the administrators that she didn't know how to do that properly and asked if they were going to train her.  The answer was no.  

 

Whether or not we're fucked has a lot more to do with ebola rather than our medical facilities.  

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 21:01 | 5338523 jerry_theking_lawler
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And where is Mrs. Miffed...???

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:57 | 5337863 Al Huxley
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Which directions are they travelling?  Did they leave at the same time?  How fast are they going?  Can I use a calculator to answer?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:15 | 5337962 netpounder
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1 Ebola patient shuts down a hospital, 1 Obola president shuts down the whole healthcare system.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 22:06 | 5338982 Help Is Not Coming
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"If one patient shuts down a hospital, how many patiens does it take to shut down the whole healthcare system?"

Answer: 5723 which is the number of registered hospitals in the US.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 22:09 | 5338997 TheReplacement
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How many hospitals are there?  Divide that by 5.  Mind you shutdown is total collapse.  Significant degradation will occur first.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:50 | 5337827 Handful of Dust
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Send all the west African arrivals through DC first ... if they don't have symptoms then they can travel forward.

 

This may get those politicans off their butts.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:02 | 5337894 yogibear
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Give  a tour of the Senate, Congress and the White House.  Shake some hands.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 22:10 | 5339004 TheReplacement
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How about overnighters in the Lincoln bedroom?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 22:08 | 5338999 Help Is Not Coming
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I always thought that the reason no international flights went into Reagan National was because the runways were too short for the long haul jets. Maybe it is another reason entirely. Generally all international travel is out of Dulles with much smaller out of BWI.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:51 | 5337830 Infinite QE
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All travelers coming from infected areas need to stop in the 51st state, Israel, for a quarantine period.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:52 | 5337839 Dr. Engali
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Is that before or after they stop at 57th State?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:57 | 5337859 Infinite QE
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Which is the 57th?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:59 | 5337868 Dr. Engali
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Don't ask me, ask Obama. He's the one who said we have 57 states.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:02 | 5337890 Infinite QE
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Maybe that's Kenya then.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 22:09 | 5339007 Help Is Not Coming
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There are 57 Muslim states though.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:01 | 5337891 stant
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Hopium, which has bloody candy shitting unicorns

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:51 | 5337833 Dr. Engali
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I hate these bastards trying to make political points out of this mess when they should've done the right thing in the first place. But hey, the whole exercise was to keep a scared in the first place, right?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:54 | 5337848 netpounder
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Time to short the airlines more heavily than other sectors.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:55 | 5337854 Al Huxley
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Wow, that pre-flight passenger screening's sure working well, huh?  A high fever, he would have been fun to travel with.  How'd you like to be the guy who sat next to him?  Or any of those people on the plane.  

 

Oh yeah, also, horse is pretty much out of the barn now, but glad to see the politicians starting to discuss whether or not closing the barn door would be appropriate.  Good job 'folks', watch for those sweaty, sickly smelling Africans by the way - you fuckers may have carte blanche to do whatever you want as far as the legal system's concerned, but you'll rot from the inside same as everybody else if you pick the wrong flight next trip back home.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:59 | 5337875 kaiserhoff
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Love the part where some Arab looking woman points what looks like a gun at everyone's head and pulls the trigger.

What isn't wrong with these idiots?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:58 | 5337876 Infinite QE
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They'll sneak some national security thing in about how all government people above a certain level must fly private. Watch NetJets and others go vertical, especially if they start offering Certified Ebola-free aircraft.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:19 | 5337968 TeethVillage88s
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Do we have welfare program set up for paying the room & Board for Africans stuck in the expensive USA from cancelled flights and Ebola Outbreaks...

Some whiney ass is sure to see it as an Economic Tail Wind.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:23 | 5337984 silverliberty
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No they are too busy discussing on what to call boys and girls since they've determined it to racists.  They finally decided to call everyone PURPLE - Now that emergency is over, what's this about Ebola? We hear its racists.  I know let's call it Green.  There, crisis over.....NEXT

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:57 | 5337865 Duc888
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Shelter in place.  Couldn't see this coming.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:58 | 5337873 Duc888
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Al Huxley : Wow, that pre-flight passenger screening's sure working well, huh?

TSA just needs to double down on ball gropers.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:59 | 5337879 jim249
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If I lived in one of those African countries and had a visa and started to feel the symptoms coming on, with little to no medical care available, then the prudent option would be to try and get a flight out of the country to a western one where there is much better medical care and a least a fighting chance.. The fever can be controlled at first with some asprin etc. Screening at the airports might help some, but won't stop the influx.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:18 | 5337966 twh99
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One option would be to not allow same-day ticket purchases.  How about a 21 day minium?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:59 | 5337880 ebworthen
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CONgress two months and $60 short as usual.

And it's our $60 and lives.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:59 | 5337881 CaptainObvious
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You gotta love this line:

"Concerns about the possibility of an outbreak of this sort prompted the House to provide more funding for the CDC than requested, and the tragic developments seen in recent weeks demonstrate that decision was a prudent one."

Boehner is thinking here, "Take THAT, you liberals!  Neutralized your political ad, ha ha ha!" while twirling his mental mustache.

Boehner is only concerned about the "optics" here, he couldn't give an ebola shit less if we all dropped dead tomorrow.  Unless, of course, more Team Reds died than Team Blues.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:01 | 5337892 sheikurbootie
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Fuck it!  They've killed all us.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 22:13 | 5339032 TheReplacement
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Probably only 50-70%.  Relax.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:04 | 5337900 silverer
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I like that. "Politicians begin to call for...". Maybe some day they'll take action.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:04 | 5337905 czarangelus
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I want Ebola.

It's the only way I can afford to see a doctor anyway.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:19 | 5337973 mrpxsytin
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Things your socialist leaders in the USSA are not considering are the possibilities for asymptomatic people to get surgery or dental work done. Here their blood has a good chance of contacting other people.

You are also failing to consider things like piss and scat fetishes. Asymptomatic people may literally be pissing and shitting into the mouth of people for fun.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:24 | 5337997 IridiumRebel
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NOW they do a fuckin travel ban. Too late Schmucks!
We are fucked. Microbes outta the bag.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:25 | 5337999 Parafuso
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So the symptomatic guy flew a 7 hour non-stop to Istanbul and was taken florid with virulent pestilence straight to a hospital that has now been closed...... Nice. This will make for some solid data points as to how the Ebola might treat the non-infected in an airplane.

 

 

 

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:28 | 5338006 tuttisaluti
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We need a travel ban for the usa as well since they have ebola cases.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:38 | 5338044 ForTheWorld
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This is indeed the elephant in the room that everyone is moving around. The US is now, thanks to Thomas Eric Duncan, an Ebola nation, and air travel to other nations from the US should probably be curtailed as well.

 

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 20:30 | 5338343 Tall Tom
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Well..That has always been the agenda. Walls to keep people out have historically been reversed to keep people in.

 

America is turning into an Open Air Prison complete with the Police State Guards. And, after this disease has become pandemic, the people will demand their own captivity....for "safety".

 

If you have any plans to leave the country...NOW IS THE TIME.

 

My bet is that the individual states will close their borders...just like California closed off its borders to the Dust Bowl Refugees back in the 1930s...before the Fed completely seals its own.

 

If you have plans to Bug Out to another state...NOW IS THE TIME.

 

If you trust the Government to contains this quagmire...then go ahead with your daily activities and prepare to die as a result of your misplaced faith.

 

Deniers...Keep denying it. It does not matter anyway.  If it is a hoax that is THE BEST CASE SCENARIO. But you must Bug Out anyway as it is the excuse that the Government will use to impose Martial Law and strip you of your remaining Civil Liberties.

 

And Deniers..IF YOU ARE WRONG....then you have more than just the Government to be concerned with as the disease will kill you. Again Bugging Out is your best chance for survival.

 

Good luck.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 22:15 | 5339057 TheReplacement
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My plan is to let people like you do my work for me.  Get everyone to bug out to the country side and leave me the hell alone.

Keep up the good work.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:42 | 5338061 Bunga Bunga
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Suspension of air traffic to/from West Africa coming, oil price is signaling that.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:48 | 5338088 Bobportlandor
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In Africa it's thought that Ebola is contained in infected animals such as chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines.

So I ask what if it gets into our dogs, cats or food supply; cattle, chickens etc, ground up and shipped all over the country to be consumed?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:50 | 5338103 mrpxsytin
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Get a pressure cooker. Cook meat for 90mins at 16PSI.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:48 | 5338096 New Kid
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Does Ebola have an affinity for citizens of NATO countries? Don't see any reports of any Indians or Chinese yet.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:49 | 5338099 fibonacci's claus
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along with "considering" travel bans they should "consider" the fact that u.s is now in a "soft" civil war and that the people of america have arms and that we no longer want to taxed and regulated to death.  we don't want gay marriage, or a criminal supreme court, we dont want criminal banks that launder drug money for washingtons black ops, we don't want ebola-bama, we don't want the UN, we don't want ebola-bama care, we don't want all this fabian socialism, we don't want illegal felons from all over the world coming to our country so we can spend trillions on their welfare support.... 

the list goes on, add em if you got em

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:59 | 5338138 Cautiously Pess...
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Fellas...there is only two ways off this rock.  Death by Fukushima Radiation or Ebola.  Take your pick.

 

In all seriousness though, today as the markets were melting down, across the Bloom pops up '6 people at Barcelona airport with Ebola' ... everybody in the office just sighed and went back to working.  It of course turned out to be a rumor. 

 

We decided we are all reaching EBOLA FATIGUE or PEAK EBOLA or something.

 

 

 

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 19:59 | 5338139 Whoa Dammit
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The CDC allowed nurse to fly with fever. WTF?

the CDC gave Vinson permission to get on the plane because she was showing no other symptoms of the virus and her temperature didn't reach the threshold of 100.4 degrees.

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2014/10/15/second-dallas-hospital-...

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 20:11 | 5338219 Bunga Bunga
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Part of the plan?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 20:28 | 5338324 humble_man
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There is no plan... they are just incompetent. Plan accordingly.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 22:20 | 5339083 TheReplacement
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Nobody, NOBODY, is this consistently incompetent.  You are more likely to be impaled by a skittle shitting unicorn than to be this incompetent.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 20:03 | 5338161 kchrisc
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Ebola "epidemic" is as legit as WMDs in Iraq and Jeff Bauman's leg injuries.

An American, not US subject.

 

"How much FUD could a wood chuck FUD, if a wood chuck could FUD?!"

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 20:06 | 5338189 disabledvet
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Yeah but "how do we know?" This isn't Vegas. This is a numbers game "the House" can't win. If you're right...no problem. If you're wrong though...

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 20:39 | 5338405 Tall Tom
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I disagree.

 

But it is still time to Bug Out.

 

As I wrote...If it is just an excuse to curtail Civi Liberties and impose Martial Law then you stand a better chance if you have Bugged Out and they cannot locate you.

 

That is actually the Best Case Scenario.

 

Otherwise you must also concern yourself with the disease, as well as the Government.

 

Good luck Chris.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 20:30 | 5338342 e_goldstein
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"I got a telephone call from Istanbul,

My baby's coming home today!"

(oh shit)

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 20:36 | 5338350 mendolover
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Hey US 'Politcians', consider faster please.  I got a pickup at JFK from Frankfurt on Friday!

Will Ebola be covered by EbolaCare?  I'm thinking probably not if it goes Hollywood.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 20:54 | 5338471 djsmps
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Under any scenarios, wars, collapses, the last thing I ever would have expected in the US was ebola. That is just part of your legacy, Mr. President.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 22:22 | 5339091 TheReplacement
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And you sincerely believe he isn't proud of his record?

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 21:27 | 5338715 whoopsing
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I pine for the good old days of ZH , when we wrestled with tin - foil hat conspiracies of financial shenanigans....Eh, the world turns....

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 21:46 | 5338864 mijev
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I wish they'd ban flights from honolulu. Then I could stay here for a while longer.

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 22:14 | 5339046 Abbie Normal
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If you're still there on Friday, you may get your wish.  Hurricane Ana is headed your way and could close the airports starting then.

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