Posted on 10/02/2014 9:25:25 AM PDT by servo1969
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Look up and your reps and CALL THEM.
Tell them that all persons and flights originating from West Africa are to be stopped NOW from coming into the country.
Britain and France have already taken this step.
Forget PC. Many of your reps, and 100% of your House reps are up for re-election.
Tell them to call the CDC and demand that action be taken.
We can jawbone all day about this, but our DC crowd has to be forced to take action to protect us.
Add your voice to the chorus.
“Girlfriend’s five children”? Sigh.
Actually, one of the problems Christian missionaries have had in Africa is that what looks like the rather simple task of telling people about Christian marriage and making sure that people in their mission churches actually understand it and accept the teaching - really isn’t that simple.
Between Islamic and animist polygamy and the influence of black (and celebrity or trash-level white) American slutty behavior that Africans see on TV, it’s very hard for the missionaries to get Africans to understand the Christian view of marriage.
I do not believe in luck. I believe that the harder I work and the more dilligent I am the luckier I get.
If this ends well and if there is justice this is should ruin Texas Health Presbyterian. If it does not end well Texas Health won’t matter.
“A Dallas emergency room sent Duncan home last week, even though he told a nurse that he had been in disease-ravaged West Africa. The decision by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to release Duncan could have put others at risk of exposure to Ebola before the man went back to the ER a couple of days later when his condition worsened.
The patient explained to a nurse last Thursday that he was visiting the U.S. from Africa, but that information was not widely shared, said Dr. Mark Lester, who works for the hospital’s parent company.
Hospital epidemiologist Dr. Edward Goodman said the patient had a fever and abdominal pain during his first ER visit, not the riskier symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea. Duncan was diagnosed with a low-risk infection and sent home, Lester said.”
No, the 100 are just friends and neighbors. It doesn’t include school students, the plane passengers, the airports, the ER visit, or anywhere he might have gone like the mall or grocery store.
I could have sworn FOX said that she and two nephews (who’s?)were now suspected cases. Also, that her sheets were still on the bed.
I have a new tagline quoting the recently updated CDC site. Scary.
just too many what ifs.
But this means that in fairly short order we will know if this single person’s contact list was impacted at all. Then the “what if’s” are answered. I’ve always found it interesting that things like the black plague didn’t kill EVERYONE. I’ve read that something like that DID happen to the north american indian population between the vikings’ visit and Columbus’ visit - that fully 90% of their population may have been wiped out, and why they kicked the vikings’ butts but were a different “civilization” in the late 15th century.
It’s possible that Americans in general have less immunity.
Ok, thanks. My reading this morning leads me to believe more in the symptomatic theory of transmission. It looks like Ebola virus ramps up in the body in proportion to the symptoms. That means the passengers and others who crossed paths with him early on would have a much lower risk although saliva is one of the first places it shows up. Looks like this virus gets into the salivary gland like Mumps although I have not heard of salivary gland swelling specifically. I would like to know that if anyone else knows.
I am not the least bit worried about any of this, because we have free healthcare, Obama has laser like focus and he gots him a phone and a magic pen.
No, I wasn’t making the Third World disease point. I wrote an argument against it. If any population has more immunity, it would more likely be the population in the home country of the virus—the population possibly exposed to earlier versions of it.
Maybe it could take out the federal-pork-sucking, tyrannical political regulator folks in suburbs here more quickly than villages in Africa.
With the newer thread popping Sequoyah. Am losing confidence, the disease, is meant to be contained. Prayers am wrong.
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