Posted on 10/16/2014 9:49:16 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
And this is really not the time to be demanding that people resign.
We’ve heard a lot of unfounded talk about Ebola in recent days. I don’t sense a widespread panic out there, and I’m certainly not panicking myself, but if people don’t know the real facts, they might not have the most responsible reactions to what’s going on.
So let’s review some basic facts:
When is Ebola contagious?
It’s only contagious when an infected person is showing symptoms, such as fever, vomiting, flu-like body-aches and diarrhea.
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Can’t get it ajrborne just by sitting next to someone. Unless they cough or sneeze on you. Didn’t you mention contaminated saliva? No thanks Herman.
I would suggest that people go back and review 1666 and London. The London crowd did not have a central hospital or pick-up point. They operated a dead body cart and totted folks off to the local cemetery. Quarantine? You were directed to stay at your house, and someone would mind the property to ensure you stayed. Local Lords would appoint the guards, and you had responsibility ensure the people got some essential food. For most part....you got the plague and died, and everyone in the family at that residence went through the same situation. These houses were for the most part, not occupied for years after the episode.
Normally I'm a huge fan of both Herman Cain and "Canada Free Press", but in this case I have to disagree.
I'm not convinced that the government or the CDC really know all the facts about Ebola, and IF they do, they're telling the truth.
After all, 0bama HAS been known to lie and Frieden is nothing more than one of his puppets.
'We think' is not a fact, it is a belief. Shall we test the theory with the author? Put them in a room with someone who has been exposed, keep them there until the infected person shows symptoms, immediately remove them, and then see if the author is infected as well?
Pretty sure no reasonable person wants to test this theory.
We need to quit calling it the Ebola epidemic or the HN whatever the hell it is killing kids all over America, and start calling with EVERY thread, political speech and news article “The Democrats Biological Warfare on America”. Please help.
What is laughable at this point is the CDC’s claim that they can control Obola...They can’t even keep an infected nurse from hopping a commercial jet and flying all over the country...This is a prime example of people spending their entire lives in an academic setting and not having the common sense or humility to understand that when it comes to the human condition, there is very little that is controllable...The best chance of controlling Obola in America was in not letting Obola come to America...our betters aparrently, knew better...
Sadly misinformed.
On the when:
A group of German medical doctors in a peer-reviewed medical journal article published by Oxford University Press have challenged a key assumption regarding the Ebola virus repeatedly asserted by Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
The researchers found that a patient showing no symptoms of the disease can still transmit a virus like Ebola by air if droplets containing the virus are transmitted to another person by a sneeze or cough.
On the how do you contract it:
Leaving off sneezing and coughing.
It does not require broken skin in the sense they are trying to project. Most skin meets the definition of broken.
Cain is delusional... only one of the good reasons he lost the nomination.
Some of this information is turning out to maybe not be accurate. It’s based on what has been known of Ebola, historically. Not necessarily the outbreak that is happening now.
He means well and probably doesn’t realize that he’s spreading the official party line.
We're talking about a communicable disease with a 70% mortality rate here. It is a very dangerous disease for that reason alone. It is not "panic" to insist that persons from infected zones be restricted from travel. It is not "panic" to note that health care professionals constitute the disease's major class of victims. It is not "panic" to note that if someone coughs, spits, or vomits on you, you are at hazard. That we are even having a conversation on these commonplace ideas is itself a little silly.
Sillier still is a policy that sends significant numbers of medically untrained individuals to work in the hot zone and then bring them back again. Silliest of all is to characterize these objections as "panic" because they may be politically inconvenient. Cain should know better than this.
...or sweat.
The city burned that same year. I assume the fire ended the plague.
So what are the facts?
Nothing I’ve seen in all of these articles have shown anything contrary. Even with people swearing that they were wrapped up tight in protective gear, there is still all types of holes in the procedures that are getting people infected.
“I’m not convinced that the government or the CDC really know all the facts about Ebola, and IF they do, they’re telling the truth.”
I dont think anything short of people being told that this is the Black Death and that we should all panic and revert to Jungle Law will ever be seen as anything but a lie to cover up for something.
This is boiling down to careless people, doing stupid stuff. Not a super germ or some eugenicists/globalist conspiracy to unleash chaos.
Oh yeah?
Sez you.
So—I’ll bet my life on YOUR sayso???
If all the ‘fact’ of Ebola were known...
Wouldn’t we at least know where the virus hides between outbreaks, and how new outbreaks start?
We don’t even know that.
So how is everyone so sure they know everything else about Ebola with such certainty?
Until just a few weeks ago, it was universally accepted that Ebola was one of the most devastating diseases out there, and it spread fairly easily and quickly. What’s changed to alter this conventional wisdom?
“It does not require broken skin in the sense they are trying to project. Most skin meets the definition of broken.”
Somebody here pointed out that many health care workers have ‘broken skin’. All the hand washing (often with alcohol) and glove wearing can dry out the skin and cause it to crack.
I work on automobiles a lot, and occasionally my skin will start to burn...the grease and grime having entered a small scrap in my skin, that I had not even noticed before.
And as I type, I have quite a razor burn from shaving this morning...broken skin.
This is up to intense debate. Most of the plague occurred in 1665, and it was peaking out in the spring of 1666. The fire came in early September of 1666....going on for roughly four days. The total area affected was about a mile by half-a-mile.
I get into this because I ended up discovering my original British family member left sometime in that summer of 1666 from London, shortly before the fire. They’d somehow survived the plague...got on the ship and left.
Perhaps,but that's human nature. So far, the vast majority of infected people we've seen here are "Healthcare Professionals". What happens if the general population, which includes 0bamabot morons, start to come down with it?
If you think the government knows everything about this disease and they're being truthful on all counts, then that's your right. As for me, I certainly wouldn't bet my life on it.
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