Posted on 10/10/2014 6:21:47 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
FYI
Hopefully this analogy only goes so far...
Yes, it’s communicable like the flu and not like AIDS which was behavior-based.
But we have to sure as heck hope it is not like the 1918 flu in terms of epidemic.
My paternal grandparents BOTH died from the 1918 flu.
If the military isn’t prepared yet to defend itself from bio terrorism and operate in infected regions after all these decades, then we need to get ready, because at some point Islam is going to attack us in a true biological attack, and the military will have to show up.
Limbaugh quoted a poll where 59% of US black people agreed with the statement that there would already be a cure for ebola if it was occurring in the US.
My response would be what is keeping Africans from developing the cure? What makes it our problem?
Well yeah the flu pandemic killed mainly those under 65 since the average life expectancy in 1918 was early 50s.
From the start it was known as the Gay Plague.
Unfortunately, the authorities didn't have the brains or courage to isolate the vector.
I’ve known people that have died from AIDs, it has killed 36 million so far, and kills about 130,000 a month.
The 1918 flu killed more people worldwide than WWI.
It was a killer and wide spread.
No one of my forebears died of it to my knowledge.
Walt Disney almost died of it as a young man.
What I been saying all along .... when Ebola hits in the millions then perhaps it’ll be scary. AIDS is/was preventable. Ebola transfers easy with just cursory touching.
Ebola runs 20+ times that.
Was the 1918 Flu the Spanish Flu? That’s what I thought, maybe I’m wrong.
http://history1900s.about.com/od/1910s/p/spanishflu.htm
1918 flu was the Spanish flu. I also know of persons killed in that epidemic.
Two infants who would have been my aunt and uncle died in that epidemic. My mother as an infant got it but survived.
Yeah. Same as Spanish flu but it didn’t start in Spain. Most likely it started at a military training camp here in the USA.
Where the hell is The World Health Organization? I’m sure we must be giving them megabucks every year. They’re the ones who are supposed to be handling this, NOT Uncle Sugar, and certainly not our military. I suspect 0bama sent the military just to speed up the start of the pandemic in the US.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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