But, this disease is the perfect one to finish the job Obama has planned for us.
Rich, it must be wonderful to be so broadminded and objective and calm. However, Ebola is an infectious killer without remedy. A lot of us are stunned that the government is importing this infectious killer. Have you never heard of Typhoid Mary? It just takes one.
The new commie lib talking points that this whole Ebola thing is happening because we don’t have some leftwing political buffoon drawing six figures designated as the “Surgeon General” that we can go to for all of the Ebola answers. That’s some of the dumbest thinking I’ve heard in a long time. Personally, I don’t see how having an Obama supporter designated as “Surgeon General” would stop the outbreak of Ebola. I guess the leftist wingnuts know something I don’t know.
I’ve been thinking about the possibility of Ebola being spread by mosquitoes. I know not all viruses can’t be transmitted through mosquitoes or we’d all have AIDS by now.
This scientist basically says “We don’t know” but they haven’t seen it and it doesn’t appear likely.
http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/virology/2004-February/007604.html
They have. It's made up of morons from the CDC and NIAID.
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2014/10/full-retard.html
Note that: a) this was written yesterday morning; and b) the rest of the article (plus comments) are at the link above.
And this thing has now gone full retard.
Ebola coming here is “highly unlikely”? Fail.
Screening measures will keep infected persons out? Fail.
American medical care is well-prepared to handle it? Fail.
Ebola is “hard to catch”? Fail.
CDC-guideline full PPE will protect healthcare workers? Fail.
“Any hospital with infectious patients can treat Ebola patients”? Fail.
Dallas officials and the CDC are working tirelessly to stop any further spread? Fail.
And we STILL aren’t going to shut down flights, and impose a 21-day quarantine on all persons coming here from affected countries?? FAIL.
At this point, the nurse who’s now presumptive US Patient #2 was in full PPE while caring for Duncan on his second visit, after his 9/28 admission. Evidently self-isolation/monitoring is a concept no one is clear on, because she exposed additional contacts; the Dallas FD Hazmat unit decon’ed all the public spaces around her apartment complex and her car (which she was travelling around in). Someone else will go in and decon her apartment directly (which involves essentially throwing everything she owns into hundreds of barrels, to be incinerated. No word on who’s picking up the tab for this trip, but if you pay taxes in Texas, presumably, that’ll be you.)
And they’ve notified everyone in her neighborhood.
No telling what the sick call-off rate will be tomorrow at that hospital, but they’ve turned all ambulances away and closed their ER until further notice.
Which probably means it’s presumptively contaminated too.
If your grannie was close-by, and having a heart attack later today, I hope the Duncan Ass-capades don’t kill her too as collateral damage.
In case no one mentions it on the news, shutting down a 56-bed ER for a 968-bed acute care primary hospital in a major city is HUGE.
One more time:
This is just the beginning. And the officials and media have been lying to you every day in every way since this started.
Electing incompetent assclowns has consequences.
But if you like your Ebola, you can keep your Ebola.
Unfortunately, the Obama administration sees every act, every event as a political opportunity. They've carefully weighed their options, and the "experts" they've put together consist of speech-makers, public relations' people, pollsters, mass media managers, and political strategists. Oh, sure, they might ask the CDC for some talking points on occasion, but even those are highly scrubbed for anything useful.
Secondly, actions like you're wanting would indicate that Obama actually wants to protect us and look out for our best interests. I'm not convinced that he'd love a little outbreak right here in the old US of A. He could practice implementing marshall law, civil defense and curfews, just in time for the elections.
The most important critical move once an infectious disease breaks out is what Rich?
It’s isolation!
When this primary duty by health organizations is ignored, the populace gets a bit testy.
Imagine that!
Our president still can’t grasp that for every EBOLA positive patient that is allowed to arrive on our shores, there will be literally hundreds of people at risk of exposure. And when one of them becomes EBOLA positive, tack on hundreds more.
Infections disease cases explode exponentially!
Geez, Rich no need to take this issue seriously is there...
What a dufus.
This isn’t fear mongering. It’s a simple numbers game from here on out.
One might have hoped that between March and now those "next steps" might have already been decided.
Yes, one might have hoped that they had taken more action by now. The whole purpose of fearmongering educating people on Ebola, it's speed of spread, the dangers of air traffic, etc. is to get the so-called experts to do more to get control of the situation.
We don't need any more "experts" to "calm our fears" and convince us that know what we are doing even as the problem grows.
What we need is to:
The creditability of the experts has been blown away by their attempts to "calm our fears" even as the problem keeps growing. Demonstrate control of the problem and our fears will go away on their own. Until then you and the rest of the experts flapping their mouths just add to the distrust.
But they lie to cover the most effective course in the interest of political expediency and ideology.
Quarantine at the barrel of a gun.
No travel from West Africa.
Let it burn out.
Here's a bit of wisdom for the CDC: Humans have a genetic predisposition toward Quarantine of the sick during "plague". Any government or medical official who tries to overturn that will be swept away and will be lucky to preserve their own life.
Humans panic in these situations because our ancestors panicked and LIVED. Those who did not panic, DIED.
Yet the government response has been pretty much the same to this infectious disease event as it has been to every other. The difference is that, for some reason, the public is actually interested this time around, and very many of them do not understand infectious disease. So we get a lot of fear-mongering, which the nerds over at CDC have no idea how to counter.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...