Posted on 10/05/2014 8:57:05 AM PDT by seeker41
Marburg breaks out in Uganda
When folks start getting the flu this winter they are going to freak and think they have ebola...
Hospitals will be overwhelmed by folks thinking they have it. The hospitals will have to factor it in.. news reports will increase the panic...
I dunno... how to use this panic against your political enemy?
> Sorry Marburg is less dangerous. It only has a 25% fatality rate.
Depends on your definition of dangerous.
The fatality rate is lower than Ebola, but the contagion rate is way higher. It only takes 2 viroid particles to make you sick.
HIV and EBOLA: How Political Correctness Will Get You Killed!
The ongoing – and expanding –Ebola situation and how it’s being handled (or, more accurately, NOT being handled) has a parallel with the HIV panic of a number of years ago.
It may ALSO be another manifestation of the schizophrenic nature of the hard leftists who unfortunately sit at the levers of power in this country and whose double-mindedness should now be clear to all but the dullest among us.
Allow me to explain.
A San Francisco (where else?) based and HIV infected “leader”of the homosexual community began a serious campaign encouraging fellow HIV carriers to attempt to bypass or defeat the donor screening process and actively donate into the national blood supply. When pressed as to his justification for jeopardizing the entire nation, he declared that if HIV spread out into the “straight” community, it would almost certainly catalyze and accelerate the search for a vaccine.
Am I the only “conspiracy buff” to see the similarities between that and what’s going on today vis-a-vis Ebola?
I hadn’t thought about this angle until I heard Rush recently ranting about some author who’d written that because Liberia was founded by former slaves who returned to Africa, it was our unfortunate institution of slavery that is directly responsible for Ebola in the western nations of Africa. (Please note that I stop FAR short of the recent utterances of Calypso Louie Farrakan who claims that Ebola was created by evil white men to kill blacks!)
But I digress. That reasoning that America is responsible for Ebola – if it can be called “reasoning” – holds that it is America’s place to come to their rescue with a “cure”. And how better to “catalyze and accelerate” that process than to INFECT as many native born Americans HERE with the disease as possible?
Now here’s where the schizophrenia comes into the picture:
There is a growing group of folks who believe that the earth cannot support the current population approaching 7.3 billion. The bulk of them are in the same leftist camp as those now directing the present halfhearted “effort” against Ebola. Many of them are one and the SAME people directing the Ebola thing! The most radical of them embrace the words of a speaker at an early green movement/save-the-earth rally in California. Odd coincidence that, aye? He declared that “Man is the ultimate DISEASE of nature.” He got a standing O for that line!
From that meeting and others still being conducted, the greenies now believe that the 7.3 billion MUST be reduced to around 1 billion or less. And which members of which nations, ethnic groups or races are “eliminated” is irrelevant – so long as THEY are excluded!
Scriptures informs us that “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” The writer must have known a fair number of the leftists of his day.
Back to my question.
If, on one hand, the leftists are sincere in their effort to SAVE THE EARTH from overpopulation, why would they attempt to save the victims of Ebola and allow them to come here?
Could it be that allowing them to come here with the disease (and sending 3,000 potential military carriers THERE to bring it back with them) while portraying these actions to the noinfo masses as the compassionate thing to do is part of the same scheme attempted earlier by the HIV crowd?
I suggest that we prepare ourselves for the spread of the this 60% to 90% fatal disease among the population of this nation. (This may have been the reason for the Homeland Security “drills” about some “zombie apocalypse”.) This IS, after all, the same America that is hated by Obama and the One World leftists now in control here as the source of every evil committed in the rest of the world and for which evils it must be properly punished?
Do I really think these miscreants – living in their sanitized and safe gated “compounds” — would do that?
After witnessing 6 years of this gang’s criminal behavior, I absolutely think that!
It seems as if part of the issue in these African nations has been the population not taking the disease seriously enough to alter their behavior.
We may come across reports of unattended Uganda minors quietly being flown into the US.
True, but panic is a factor, and much like libs, denial and an endless search for alternate solutions will bring out the panic, and plenty of unneccessary deaths.
Sure, but the Influenza test is positive but if there are concurrent infections of Influenza and another virus? Physicians and nurse practitioners are going to miss it by miles.
The patients recently suspected of having ebola and have been cleared with tests - what did they have? Was it this Marburg virus?
You are shitting me. Marburg, Ebola Zaire, and the other new strain? All at the same time.
What’s the saying? The first time is a mistake, the sodomi time a coincidence and the third time is enemy fire?
So do I, Blondee. I barely can watch TV news any more these days. I've turned to True Crime programs to cheer me up!
Leni
I’ve had them. They don’t help with this crap.
Ebola attacks everything EXCEPT bone and connective tissue. In essence you become a liquid sack of bone.
Nice, huh?
The difference between what you had and ebola: you only FELT like you were going to die. With Ebola, the odds are that you will.
Actually, I read in “The Hot Zone” that Marburg is not as deadly as Ebola, but you still would not want to get it.
You are correct as I learned after the fact. Some say it is easier to contract Marburg than Ebola, but at this point not sure it matters.
Yeah, I see what you mean.
No it doesn’t. Not when you have people doing things out of panic and desperation that can kill you too. Liberia is a mess in addition to Ebola thanks to the fact that in addition to the infectees, you have pretty much anarchy and unenforceable quarantine.
Links to the Marburg Surveillance Project Threads here
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