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Not Worried About Ebola? You Should Be.
Novelist and writer Derrick Dean "Shadows of History" ^

Posted on 10/13/2014 6:08:00 PM PDT by truthfinder9

If you’re like me, you’re baffled and disturbed, that weeks after the ebola epidemic has raged across Africa, we are still letting people from those areas into the U.S. If you are not baffled or disturbed, I’m thinking you don’t understand what ebola is.

What it is not is the flu or measles. You have the flu and cough in a room full of people, most won’t even get sick, let alone die. You have ebola and cough in a room, many may get it (no immunities) and, well, the fatality rate puts this disease somewhere above anthrax (which doesn’t spread very easily without sophisticated help).

While I’m sure there are plenty of dedicated people working around the clock to fight this disease, the laze-fair doctrine of non-existent control of our borders and who enters the country is ripe for a deadly scourge. The open borders, by some studies, is at fault for the recent re-emergence of other disease outbreaks — though none of the killing caliber of ebola.

(Excerpt) Read more at darrickdean.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: borders; cdc; disease; ebola
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1 posted on 10/13/2014 6:08:00 PM PDT by truthfinder9
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To: truthfinder9

“If you’re like me, you’re baffled and disturbed”

Ha1...No Derrick. I’m not....


2 posted on 10/13/2014 6:10:44 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: truthfinder9

Why aren’t you/we more worried about Enterovirus D-68?

You SHOULD BE!

It will KILL more Americans in the next year than Ebola!


3 posted on 10/13/2014 6:11:00 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: Cold Heat

Darrick....whatever....lol


4 posted on 10/13/2014 6:11:16 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: truthfinder9

I know this sounds odd but I really think Obama wants Americans to get Ebola. He doesn’t think it is fair that Africans have it and Americans don’t.

I can’t imagine any sane president sending our military to the middle of a highly contagious epidemic.


5 posted on 10/13/2014 6:11:31 PM PDT by yarddog (G)
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To: truthfinder9

I saw on FOX at about 4:30 this afternoon that a plane landed in Boston with about 5 sick people. Not sure where it was from (UAE?), and I haven’t heard a word about it since. Strange.


6 posted on 10/13/2014 6:12:50 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: yarddog

Redistribution — It’s such a good idea! Now it’s gone viral!!


7 posted on 10/13/2014 6:13:52 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Now is not the time for fear. That comes later.")
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To: yarddog

Deliberate! prove me wrong


8 posted on 10/13/2014 6:14:09 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: JudyinCanada

What’s strange, is going to be sensational reportage by the media and bloggers about every sick SOB in the continental US..


9 posted on 10/13/2014 6:14:39 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: G Larry

I hope you’re right.


10 posted on 10/13/2014 6:14:49 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: JudyinCanada

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/10/13/united-arab-emirates-flight-quarantined-logan-after-sick-passengers-reported/X5DSbXfckXH9Q0PcGMsq4M/story.html

The official word is that the sick people on the Boston flight had not been in Africa, and tested negative for Ebola, so there is nothing to worry about.


11 posted on 10/13/2014 6:15:52 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Now is not the time for fear. That comes later.")
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To: truthfinder9

Most don’t want to consider that we have a traitorous, pro-moozlum anti-American as president. I guess is just too upsetting for them to consider. That they irresponsibly voted for this destroyer is also too difficult. Most will just keep watching TV and existing in their dream world.


12 posted on 10/13/2014 6:17:37 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: truthfinder9

Most don’t want to consider that we have a traitorous, pro-moozlum anti-American as president. I guess is just too upsetting for them to consider. That they irresponsibly voted for this destroyer is also too difficult. Most will just keep watching TV and existing in their dream world.


13 posted on 10/13/2014 6:17:37 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: truthfinder9

Most don’t want to consider that we have a traitorous, pro-moozlum anti-American as president. I guess is just too upsetting for them to consider. That they irresponsibly voted for this destroyer is also too difficult. Most will just keep watching TV and existing in their dream world.


14 posted on 10/13/2014 6:17:38 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Thanks!


15 posted on 10/13/2014 6:18:08 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: truthfinder9
You have the flu and cough in a room full of people, most won’t even get sick, let alone die. You have ebola and cough in a room, many may get it

Actually, it's just the opposite (leaving out the part about dying).

Influenza much more communicable in a room with a sick patient -- no comparison.

Half of Dallas would be sick with Ebola by now if it were communicable like flu.

16 posted on 10/13/2014 6:19:06 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Cold Heat
What’s strange, is going to be sensational reportage by the media and bloggers about every sick SOB in the continental US..

...Not till after the elections!!

P.S. Where's Duncan's family??

17 posted on 10/13/2014 6:20:53 PM PDT by luv2ndamend (Same party, different letter)
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To: G Larry
It will KILL more Americans in the next year than Ebola!

Don't know that. Both are unpredictable. E-D68 can mutate much more readily (can be good or bad).

18 posted on 10/13/2014 6:21:00 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Balding_Eagle

ya....well....being accurate in my prediction isn’t a good thing.

It just means that the media is fine with hyping the threat from Ebola, rather than point to the DEADLIER THREAT that is a DIRECT RESULT OF OBAMA’S IMMIGRATION POLICY!

(EV-D-68)


19 posted on 10/13/2014 6:22:14 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: truthfinder9

If the main-stream media is telling me to be worried about ebola, I’m going to review very carefully whether that is true or not.

My conclusion? If we are at risk, its due to the actions of our own Government.


20 posted on 10/13/2014 6:23:34 PM PDT by PGR88
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