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The Ebola Effect Arrives: Half Of Americans Will Avoid International Air Travel Out Of Ebola Fears
Remember when Obama said "Putin was isolated", despite the Russian having the explicit support of the BRIC nations, and thus at least half of the world's population? Well, as irony would always have it with this particular US president, the tables have promptly turned, and paradoxically where ISIS failed to "terrorize" Americans into a state of paralyzed daze, the West African virus has succeeded in isolating none other than America, and as a brand new Reuters poll reveals, nearly half of Americans are so concerned about the Ebola outbreak that they are avoiding international air travel!
In other words, global trade, commerce and simply transit, already declining thanks to the global depression rematerializing now that the Fed's latest placebo round has worn off, are about to slam into a brick wall.
The poll results come as health officials said the second nurse infected at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas had flown from Ohio to Texas with a slight fever the day before she was diagnosed.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll, which surveyed 1,577 Americans 18 or older online, found nearly 80 percent were concerned about the Ebola outbreak, with 41 percent saying they were "very concerned" and 36 percent "somewhat concerned."
And while the one thing that is certain to provoke an even greater popular panic at the invisible terror, is at least one more Ebola case developing on US soil, the whistleblowing admission by another nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian will hardly boost America's confidence in the way the Ebola crisis is being handled.
NBC Chicago reports that a Dallas nurse who cared for a co-worker who contracted the Ebola virus at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital said the facility was unprepared to fight the disease and she would “do anything” to avoid being treated there if she were ever to fall ill with the potentially deadly virus.
“I can no longer defend my hospital,” Briana Aguirre said Thursday on NBC's “Today" show.
Aguirre claims that before Thomas Eric Duncan arrived at Texas Health Presbyterian nursing staff had not been trained in how to treat an Ebola patient beyond being offered an “optional seminar.”
Aguirre did not treat Duncan, who died on Oct. 8. But she said that co-workers told her that he was put in an area with up to seven other patients and it took three hours before the hospital first contacted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She called the situation a "chaotic scene."
"Our infectious disease department was contacted to ask, what is our protocol. And their answer was, we don’t know. We’re going to have to call you back,” she said.
“We never talked about Ebola and we probably should have,” Aguirre said, adding that staff was “never told what to look for.”
Well, at least Obama will be kind enough to tell the thousands of reservists he just announced he will be mobiziling by executive order and sending to west Africa precisely what it is they should look for: a virus. One which they should preferably shoot on site.
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It would be interesting to see airports empty at thanksgiving and Xmas and not due to weather either.
If Europe gets multiple clusters of Ebola outbreaks, I think the same general thing would happen over there. The whole world will travel less...
Business worldwide would definitely slow down.
Soon they will be avoiding air travel altogether...,
Merry Fucking Xmas....
Well at least the fucks in Washington might not blame capitalism for the collapse. Something new besides weather, capitalism, animal spirits, and regulation for god’s sake. These fucking parasites have no imagination.
I refuse to panic until I see some creepy old man coming down the street yelling "bring out yer dead... bring out yer dead"...
More like CDC swat teams, "come out or you're dead!"
Wow, and Algore wet-dream. Think of all the carbon that won't be pumped into the very air that the Goremeister is buzzing through in his private jet to the next speech explaining how the world's oceans are going to boil away (despite warming being stopped for nearly two decades).
Speaking of Air Travel, I'm kind of reluctant to fly back to the US these days.
Is Dallas Internaitonal?
Why the fuck is Texas excluded, aside from the "We're Exceptional Shit", again?
Every time I fly in there, the immigration lines are 400 deep (both the citizen and foreiner lines).
Check into the Global Entry program... If you travel a lot, it's well worth the investment...
I'll avoid it just to fuck the airline financially. Fuck them, the TSA, and the freedom stealing government.
They are sending troops cause locals are kicking the red cross out as they don't want to be exposed to the shots the NGO's are pedaling...
http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/ebo-lie-man-living-in-ghana-c...
"Enough with the propaganda fed to us by mainstream news. We have testimony coming directly from Ghana telling us that the outbreak is being created by Red Cross vaccinations."
"The Ebola Effect Arrives: Half Of Americans Will Avoid International Air Travel Out Of Ebola Fears"
I think I'll be a trend-setter and avoid domestic air travel as well.
Many of us stopped flying because of the gestpo tactics of the TSA, ebola is just one more reason not to fly.
... or just ask for a wheelchair.
I was supposed to fly to Dallas yesterday. Wife wanted me to stay. No way; not based on current stats. (In a month that story could change radically.) The issue was resolved because USAirways (Used Air) is so bad they couldn't get me through the first leg of my journey. Rumors of a functional airport in Philadelphia seem wildly speculative at this point.
3% Q4 GDP
Goldman's nut sacks, Oct 14/5 2014
Well if that's what you call refusing to take precautions - bless your little heart.
I've been avoiding all air travel for the past 7 years because I refuse to be humiliated by the TSA.
About the same time I simply decided to move the civilized world... I still get to see the world, but without having to do Uncle Sam's dirty work or be humiliated by those who choose to do so against their own citizens.
Is it the half that can't afford international air travel, or the half that can?
What about the 75% who don't even have passports?
Passport? What's a passport? Ye mean my Kentucky drivers license? Now that's an in'er state ID ain't it? Hell,why didn't ye just say so ? The pictures pretty old but it's still me. Yeehah!
even Santy Clause will cancel out
Yep, the reindeer union will refuse to let their members fly...
It might be a very interesting Christmas. One business in Cleveland that Amber visited was a bridal outfitter, probably a small business and "voluntarily" closed due to potential health concerns. Voluntarily? Yea right. Imagine being the owner..the employees that NEED that paycheck. Think others will visit that store ever again in the near future? Think about that scenario happeing X 10...x100 all over the US. I don't even want to mention health care workers.
Pleasant dreams.
Way ahead of ya
We Skype you a Merry Christmas.
We Skype you a Merry Christmas!
We Skype you a Merry Christmas,
and a Hap-py New Year!
Just shift gears from selling roller bearings to body bags and you will be fine...thumbs up!
Over half don't have a passport, so I guess the math is spot on......
Listen NY.
I think he meant: out of those who normally would fly internationally, 1/2 will avoid.
But they do have the "STAFF" on overdrive pumping out the fear so who knowz anywayz.
Now you assume as a extra.
And it's not like there's a lot of Americans travelling ouside of America anyway.
So... With or without Ebola... Not a lot where planning to anyway. So the answer was easy.
A quarter of America likely never travels more than 100 miles from their place of birth.
Another quarter might have been overseas a handful of time for a cruise or a war or a missions trip, but the vast majority just work and then go home to drink a beer or nine.
Many don't believe that could be true but it is. I had a friend that lived about 50 miles out in the country from downtown Chicago and thought going out of that small town was a big event...Chicago? Never.
Some people are born, raised and die w/o ever leaving Long Island.
I flew overseas this summer, and there was a boatload of Americans traveling outside the US. The int'l terminal at LAX was packed coming and going. There were Americans all over Europe.
I believe your premise is incorrect.
Shittiest, logic, ever.
Thailand this summer, met ONE American besides the one sitting next to me on the flight back to LAX. Had many drinks with Euros, Kiwis, Aussies though.
I fart on your premise.
Babaloo, there are 6 million Americans currently travelling outside the US, so what if you saw a bunch of them. Another 300 million are in the US and of the native born Americans over half will never leave the US in their entire lives.
I flew to Canada once. It was awful. It was bitter cold and it made my nipples hurt. (I just thought I would share a pointless personal observation too!)
And +1 to Effendi.
Ok Ok! Ya got me!
:)
I read this and was going to comment the exact same thing. Well played future me.
Yes, but now they have a reason not to have a passport.
I fear Obola much more than ebola. Fuck You Obama
I just saw a video of how CNN used actors in some of its on site west Africa footage. It was comical and disgusting. In one shot, a perfectly healthy kid is walking along and then is instructed to lie on the ground like he's sick. Crisis acting.
What are tptb up to? A group of locals there are adamant that the only ones who came down with Ebola recieved shots. Perhaps health care responders there were given the disease through routine immunization when they arrived. Wtf is the real deal here? Is our govt out for forced immunization of some kind?
Listen Wish.
CNN advises sheeple to read The Hedge. Lol.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/25/investing/zero-hedge-wall-street-blog-fi...
Do you get it?
Ebola Fight Song
Ebola, Ebola, Ebola, Ebola,
Ebola, Ebola, Ebola, Ebola,
When we "rough-house" poor old Obama,
They will holler fuck you too, Boehner. (Rah! Rah! Rah!)
Song to the melody of the Yale Fight Song.
It's freaken O-BOLA
my roomate's step-mother makes $72 an hour on the laptop . She has been without a job for ten months but last month her paycheck was $14012 just working on the laptop for a few hours. read this article... http://goo.gl/yioYBZ
coup d'état about to go wrong.
coup d'état about to go wrong.
What would happen if everyone decided not to go out to crowded malls to shop this holiday season due to this outbreak????
Our personal debt would be reduced.
The tribe would cry.
Listen.
Long Amazon, UPS, Fedex.
you forgot domino's pizza:
http://youtu.be/qZqYV9KKOZQ?t=4m21s
Nah- they cough on your pizzas....
That's not cough on your pizza. Tip well my son....they spend time alone with your food:)
robots don't cough
Nah, they'd just blow it on apps and iphone covers
"...the world would be a better place...."
Kittens and puppies would die. Baby Jesus would weep. The world as we know it would spin right off its axis.
Only Murika haters hate shoppin', dude.
That would be great for Amazon.
Go long Amazon.
That is a very real possibility.
I order you to get on those planes!
I think expedia has ebola, I just did a search and got some funky error message.
Was the message... Are you fucking crazy? (dot)com
Site under repair. See <ebola>.
j/k
"I order you to get on those planes!"
"...and take your family and fly to Disneyland"
In a few years 30% of us will look back on all of this and laugh.
Love it.
If I recall correctly, they were laughing 30 years ago, not so much today.
In a few years we will look back on this from our perches in the FEMA camps and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
An American, not US subject.
Note: "We" does not include me, as I know what "relocation for your protection" actually means.
if you are a dumb american, then yes.
I'm avoiding black people..
Stay out of Walmart and the Post Office
way ahead of ya
Thats a good policy, even for other black people
How about the Eastern Euro escorts that infest ZH? Are they immune? Hope so:))
I'm overseas now and just called the airlines to inquire about changing to an earlier flight home. No problem they said, and many empty seats so I can think about it for awhile before deciding. Too bad they charge $300 fee, I may just stay here with this new local squeeze (who promised that her mother would cook for me tomorrow, gotta love it here) until my scheduled flight but who knows what kind of shtf scenario will be in force a week from now regarding international travel.
Does she tongue the balloon knot?
Oh God she is all you ever want in a woman. Too bad I'm married back home. 17 years younger this one. Have been working together for a few months and now this happened it went to a new level when we saw each other in person, and yes her mom is cooking for me tonight, etc etc etc. In some sense I just hope ebola keeps me here but I'd miss my kids too much, one of them is a state wrestling contender and it kills me to even miss a single event... Ahh my life is pretty damn good I have to admit.
Good and complicated if ya axed me .... < seething with envy >
Well, I imagine your wife is having fun as well, while you're gone. The two of you can share diseases with each other when you get back.
Saw an interesting stat the other day, that over 100 million Americans have some form of STD. Didn't believe it until I saw an ad for Ashley Madison on one of the American cable channels. Do we really have to emulate the Romans in every possible way?
I always love the vomitorium after gorging myself on the blood and flesh of innocent children murdered in the Colosseum during Saturday night's Grand Finale...
Good man Magnum! Phillipines? Thailand? Which one. Gotta grab every last bit of happiness nowdays.
I'm in Shanghai and she's got every delightful trait you'd picture in a Shanghai girl. I'm afraid for what may happen to my sensibilities which is one reason why I considered leaving early. Alas, you are right, and it's the one thought that crossed my mind. Why deny such happiness nowadays? Precisely why resistance was unimaginable.
Goddamn! No wonder they call you Magnum!
Oh, just STFU. Or blow him.
Mama cooking, eh? How is the missuz going to look in 39 years?
Interesting take on marriage. It ends at the border.
Hi, Simon.
Does she look like one of the ZH escorts?? They are fine lookers EH?
So, pretty damn good life includes infidelity and exploiting another woman and her family. Such a stud! But you miss your wrestling son. You exude testosterone. I'm getting a woodie.
I kind of feel sorry for Magnum, because after a lot of similar drama, I realized, one really good woman is the way to go. Of course, finding one really good woman in the US of A is a fool's errand. Not that there aren't some, but few and far between.
nice poll. 65% of americans dont even have a passport, so theyre not going anywhere regardless.
You dont need a passport to cross the border, a million mexicans proved that..
Wait til Ebola spreads in Central America. There will be a few million more "medical tourists" heading to El Norte for some care.
But what % of that 65% even realize they need a passport to travel internationally (or are feeble minded herd seeking sheeple who simply tell the interviewer what they think they want to hear...)?
Oh ffs...
This country is big enough that you can travel extensively and not need a passport. It's not like the US is a tiny country with only a few attractions. Europeans travel because mostly their countries are only a few hours wide and it's like going to the state next door.
spoken like a truly ignorant uncultured american.
Like driving down the El Camino -->Burger King, Taco Bell, Wendy's, In and Out, Mac Donalds, over and over again, mile after mile.
Here comes the market crash!!!
Or maybe just moar QE, but to another level ^^
The Fed has taken crash out of the equation just as long as Ebola stays in check. Bare in mind there is no real stock market any longer as that ended a few years ago. The market has become a show where the outcome is already known each day before it begins. They will print to whatever level it takes and will buy whatever amount of stock it takes to make it look like everything is fine.
QE has and never will end in one form or another. What is the difference if every day the Fed or their primaries buy stock instead of bonds to keep current price levels elevated.
I panicked a couplke months ago when I started tracking all this crap (July-August)
Now? I'm resigned to the end of the current era of civilization (even a 20% population drop will do it) and planning on having a really good time while it crashes.
401K, retirement, pensions? Don't make me laugh.
Well, I guess I'll be giving the passport I just renewed a little rest.
The other half can't afford international travel anyway!
Might as well add car pools, buses, trains, public events, polling places (how convenient), hospitals, supermarkets, and populated places in general.
Stay out of New York City http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=YNGPxA3H7FA
I guess that means they will be postponing the trip to Epcot Center. Most Americans don't leave the U.S. in a lifetime.
Those reservists are not going to Africa. If they show up at all they will be used here.
reading you 5X5 there good buddy...whether they will comply is the issue...if not, they are weeded out, if so, then shitstorm city..
Reservist called in to Savage's show and said he's not going. He'll go to Canada where he has family before he goes to "fight" Ebola. He had no special medical skills, just a grunt, no clue what he'd be doing there.
Well, way more than 1/2 of amerikans have no means of traveling internationally anyways.
Most Americans think Disneyland is international and Mickey Mouse is the president!
Goofy is president. I know people who voted for him twice.
Okay, Goofey might be president but everybody knows that mIkey is te man in charge
What a bunch of fucking lemming sheep. Good! That means my next vacation should be cheaper!
Fear the fake Ebola epidemic, and not the criminal uniformed goons with guns epidemic.
And some say that Ebola turns you into "jelly."
This is what uniformed goons turn you into: http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/kelly-thomas-beating-fullerton-pol...
An American, not US subject.
"Government, being nothing more than a criminal syndicate of theft and violence, can produce nothing more than poverty, misery, death and lies. Therefore they are either lying about Ebola or can't do anything less than make it worse."
EBOLA IS A HOAX I PROVE IT RIGHT HERE:
http://ebolahoaxtruth.com/
[NWO] LIEZZZZZ ABOUT EBOLA (STAGED!) AND GLOBALWARMING is a hoax.
everyone please spread the truth
i wonder how many know you're joking around...
or, are you being serious? ;-)
see that is what makes it art.
lol. Touche Cougar. At first I was...wtf? from her of all people?
O/Ded on red polls ?
Well done - stylistically distinct from 'fed to a tiger' but with the same visceral appeal, albeit in a different emotional direction. Sometimes I think about doing pieces like that, but never seem to follow through with the actual legwork to set up the website, etc..., so kudos to you for taking the time.
Jim Stone has been all over thid story from the getgo.
http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/
perfect, does that mean my flight to Buenos Aires will be cheaper in January?
Now which Wall Street firm has a lot of puts on airlines recently?
The one that bought a railroad?
Moving coal is probably safe.
Moving people means "move yourself" now I imagine.
Moving at all seems like a bad idea right now though.
I say again "if this is an attack it's a good one." Obviously I don't mean that in a moral or "anti American" sense. Just saying we're acting like the Keystone Cops in response.
Inconceivable!
CNBC had an analyst on today saying air travel hasn't been affected yet.
And that the airlines are a "buy" here!
Who? Kramer?
No, some blond broker, but Cramer probably did too.
ebworthen - for the sake of humanity ... turn off the boob tube.
Irrelevant. Stupid and irrelevant. Why? Still no entry ban for travellers from Africa. Current protocols, procedures, and screening guidelines are comically insufficient. On the containment-and-prevention side, we have made no progress over 14th century Europeans - they at least made efforts to quarantine ALL travellers outside the city gates.
I suppose governments refuse to ban flights from West Africa so they can't be accused of prejudice. Or maybe because they fear what effect it might have on the airlines, or commerce in general. Well guess what boys. Here comes your unintended consequences.
Or, they don't ban flights because the dual-citizens want to spread it as cover during the epic financial collapse?
Sweet, looks like we're going to see some cheap tickets this coming ski season (really the only time I fly).
Get skurd bitchez.
For those who do travel, a recent study reported the most germ infected part of a plane is the seat pouches and tray tables.
Thanks I feel better now, WB!
What about the toilet seats? The handles on the bath doors & faucets? The arm rests? How safe are the plane crew delivering drinks & food to passengers that handle them and taking them away (without gloves)?
How many pilots screw the stewardesses?
I am going to fly and then get on a cruise for 10 days. I hope I get a good rate and survive....
When you start to ooze from every orifice, try to make time to visit Wall Street before collapsing in a puddle of disintegrating goo - it's beautiful this time of year. But always remember, first call the CDC and get their 'ok' to fly. As long as you're not actually dead when you call, it appears they'll approve your travel. Better to get the approval up front than be disappointed at the gate.
Not worried about the CDC. I have watched their methods, LOL.
I am more worried about getting into visit Chase. LOL. I have purposely opened an account with Chase and am looking for ways to build a schedule of Jamie's work schedule. Wish I was big enough to get meeting with Jaimie and Blythe Masters. LOL.
Maybe I should pretend to be Russian Mafia or a Saudi? LOL.
But wait, I will be traveling to Russia.
If I tell them I am from ZH and a member of the Putin ManCrush team, won't that get me a safe trip?
I already purchased my ticket, fly Monday. FLying to a country that bans Ebola countries. Hope they let me in.
Too late. We're already an Ebola country.
Using SARs as an example, in a few weeks/months some people will be able to get some really low long term rental rates for high end apartments.
So I guess if you follow that, you should move to Ebola epicenters in the US to get the best rates.
OK, maybe not...
Good thinking there RTB! Very capitalist!...in fact, if a fellow was a landlord, he could charge double rent to ebola tenants, then bottle their bloody stool and mark it as 'Salsa' and sell it to the mexicans!
In Hong Kong during SARs, ultra high end hi rise condos rent was cut in half. Multi year leases could mean real savings.
Not that that will happen here as that was very localized