"We moved our base camp last night and we’re now positioned literally
within feet of the river. Have been sitting here watching the border
patrol patrolling in their riverboats all night and all morning..."~Jim Robinson
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So if there is no cure yet, and there is a 90% or so (varying reports) survival rate, to the survivors walk among us in the population? Where are the survivors?
Will these two people if they are “better” be released into the population?
Though I was quick to express concern upon initially hearing of Emory’s plans to treat Dr. Brantley I am glad to hear he seems to be improving. This does not, by any means, lessen my concern over the lengthy period of communicability and the need for quarantine of months, not weeks.
Much panic and chatter has swept social media recently and some fear is valid. However let us remember that the West African population at large consists of a high number of people with immune deficiencies due to HIV, hepatitis A-C and a veritable cocktails of other illnesses due to poor diets and unsanitary water supplies...not to mention a legion of mosquitoes trading blood for the reaper.
It appears Nancy Writebol may be too ill for transport at this time. Sources are now saying she will arrive in “several days”. She is a generation older than Dr. Brantley and May have a tougher fight.
The Stand was one of my favorite novels growing up. I don’t think it is time to march to Boulder..but that damned book has made me more cognizant of possibilities. “ Baby can you dig your man?”
Standing on God’s Promises...
BIBLE PROMISES FOR THOSE WHO HELP THE POOR
Psalm 41
1 Blessed are those who have regard for the weak;
the Lord delivers them in times of trouble.
2 The Lord protects and preserves them—
they are counted among the blessed in the land—
he does not give them over to the desire of their foes.
3 The Lord sustains them on their sickbed
and restores them from their bed of illness.
God also promises protection from the plague in Psalm 91
I had this pegged yesterday. If one or both of them survive, then it’s yeehaw! from this administration to throw open the door for every turd world disease to be flown into the US.
Funny how his family flies home without him for a wedding for his relatives and to meet a newborn nephew also on his side of the family. He was supposed to come so why didn’t he come with them? And BAM! the next day he’s sick but the CDC is glossing over the wife and kids maybe having it. Then we hear he’s fading fast yet he (or someone) is shown walking across GRAVEL in a Tyvek suit. Now, miracle of miracles, mere hours after getting to the US he’s improving.
"While Americans infected with Ebola have the option to come home for superior treatment, those suffering from the disease in Western Africa don’t have that option, and the outbreak is only getting worse."
That's just not fair, and we have to bring the infected to the U.S. so they can get better treatment. /sarc
My MIL improved greatly the day before the night she died. She sat up and ate solid food and talked for the first time in two weeks. That night she passed. Just saying.
Read about Zaire Ebola for the truth about the strain going around. There’s much effort to prevent panic and decreases in economic activity.
Good news. And God bless him for voluntarily putting it all on the line to help the needy.