Posted on 01/02/2020 10:20:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Quick.....we need to send more $$$ to Africa.
Again and again.
Let me get my tinfoil hat.... again.....
I’m not going to read the article, but if it says because it will come in through the southern border then I agree
In total, the CDC estimates that up to 42.9 million people got sick during the 2018-2019 flu season, 647,000 people were hospitalized and 61,200 died.
So how long have folks like Scott been trying to fix Africa? And in their frustration after over a hundred years of failure, they’re trying to move the whole population of 1.3 billion people to the United States and northwestern Europe.
Cultural beliefs and behavioural practices
High-risk behaviours in the three countries have been similar to what has been seen during previous Ebola outbreaks in equatorial Africa, with adherence to ancestral funeral and burial rites singled out as fuelling large explosions of new cases. Medical anthropologists have, however, noted that funeral and burial practices in West Africa are exceptionally high-risk.
Data available in August, as reported by Guinea’s Ministry of Health, indicated that 60% of cases in that country could be linked to traditional burial and funeral practices. In November, WHO staff in Sierra Leone estimated that 80% of cases in that country were linked to these practices.
In Liberia and Sierra Leone, where burial rites are reinforced by a number of secret societies, some mourners bathe in or anoint others with rinse water from the washing of corpses. Understudies of socially prominent members of these secret societies have been known to sleep near a highly infectious corpse for several nights, believing that doing so allows the transfer of powers.
Ebola has preyed on another deep-seated cultural trait: compassion. In West Africa, the virus spread through the networks that bind societies together in a culture that stresses compassionate care for the ill and ceremonial care for their bodies if they die. Some doctors are thought to have become infected when they rushed, unprotected, to aid patients who collapsed in waiting rooms or on the grounds outside a hospital.
As several experts have noted, when technical interventions cross purposes with entrenched cultural practices, culture always wins. Control efforts must work within the culture, not against it.
It’s an African problem.
Any American going into an Ebola region should NOT be permitted back into the United States for a year.
“Between 2014 and 2016, Ebola took 11,000 lives and infected 28,000 people in West Africa.”
“Ebola is a rare and highly infectious virus, with a variable death rate that averages around two-thirds but according to the WHO can be up to 90%.”
Both cannot be true, unless there were drastically better Ebola outcomes between 2014 and 2016.
So how many cases of Ebola have there been in the USA lately? Oh right, none. But it's our problem because here's where the money is. Got it.
I was quite concerned when CDC brought an Ebola patient from Africa to Atlanta, from thousands of miles & ocean distant, to about 30 miles from me.
I appreciate their concern for the patient, and the necessity of studying a live case ... but changing an extremely virulent & lethal disease from “not here” to “here” is a bad move. Fortunately all went well, but still don’t like the precedent.
I can recall multiple “health workers” that came back here to the US infected. They were allowed to get on aircraft loaded with people and flown here. Also, if memory serves me correctly there was a doctor flown here with his condition for medical care.
Now, I am not a medical professional but I do have common sense and thankfully God saw fit to give me copious amounts of it. If you are coming from an infected area and you were in a hot zone in direct contact with this nasty bugger you should be quarantined and stay in that turd world hole until your are cleared.
Is it me or has there just been a healthy does of stupidity been delved out in large amounts?
Happy New Year everyone...
Well what’s interesting here is that an Ebola vaccine was just approved by the FDA and yeah, it’s a LIVE VIRUS vaccine. That means those who receive it will shed the live virus for a period of time, potentially infecting others.
But I’m sure we won’t have an Ebola outbreak in the US or anything. /sarc
I’d have to go with, “..a healthy dose of stupidity delved out in large amounts”. After all, look how many people vote for democrats. That right there is a direct indicator of a stupid person.
I frequently cry over Africa. But anyone with half a brain who has ever spent any time there knows fully that ‘education’ will not make the slightest difference.
What is this? Nothing more than an early scare attempt to convince people they MUST get the new ebola vaccine. As more and more people understand that vaccines ARE causing illness, harm, and death, and thus are rejecting the stabs, the poor pharmas are in dire need of more cash.
Do you know in (at least) NY and VA there are bills to allow “medical personnel” to administer ANY vaccine to minors without parental knowledge or permission? Pretty cool, eh? :/
and recall they transport Ebola victims to the USA for treatment?
Violates first rule of containment of pathogens.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.