marvelousmarvelousHow many patients have you seen? How many beds are in your hospital? How many vaccines or anti-virus serums have you produced?
What is your annual non-entertainment budget?
Who is this WHO official? A Fox News contributor? A talk radio host? A Tea Partier?
Much different scenario than the one being presented by present Obola and our CDC.
Yo, Dr. Wayward, just what is your definition of a "stepped up response"?
In dollars, I mean. Round up to the nearest trillion.
Speaking of which. What is your salary? How many patients have you seen as WHO Assistant Director General?
What is the salary of WHO Director General? How many patients has he or she seen?
The sad part is it won’t infect Democrats as it doesn’t affect pond scum.
According to the Obama administration it would be much worse if we were to quarantine West Africa.
Is the tactic of bringing Eboma patients into the US the modern day version of that?
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OK, Freepers, time for action.
It’s after 9:00 am in DC.
Call your reps in DC and tell them the flights from West Africa through any hub HAVE TO STOP!
The place to fight this disease is at its source, not here.
The “screening” process at our airports is a joke and ineffective. 150 people a day are coming here from West Africa—that is 4500 a month. Some will show a fever and yet may be carrying the virus.
Our healthcare system will shutdown if this continues.
We already have cases in Kansas, Nebraska, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Texas.
The first order of business of a government is to protect their citizens. And this government is failing to do so.
Make the calls.
The family you save may be your own.
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...
I am to assume depopulating the earth has started and that the elite have the antidote for themselves.
The ONLY thing that has worked in the past is containment. And that has only worked because it occurred in small, remote villages in the wilds of Africa where travel was limited.
The only way to avoid it in the United States is to basically close the borders. Nobody in until a mandatory 21 days in isolation. Even then it's almost certain that those who work in such centers will get the disease.
In other words, barring a miracle or a mutation, Ebola will march around the world.
That means Africa is done.
I’m not seeing it. There is a simple formula for epidemics based on just four things: their incubation period, the time during incubation and symptoms when they are infectious, their host density, and their ability to migrate.
The other side of this formula are the “actuals”, the actual number of physical infections and mortality over time. If they do not match the four variables, within the timetable of the disease, then the error is with the four variables.
Every year the US sees this model in operation with the influenza season. A good example:
On April 15, 2009 a new strain of flu was detected in a boy in California. Two days later, another boy with that particular flu was detected 130 miles away. No known connection between the two boys.
By April 25, there was a cluster outbreak in NYC, and shortly thereafter in Kansas City, followed shortly after in Ohio.
April 27, the CDC raised its alert level from category 3 to 4, then two days later, from 4 to 5, the most serious level.
By April 30, large clusters of the disease were found in NY high schools.
By May 4th, more than 98% of flu cases were testing as “probable” for the new strain nationwide.
By June 11th, the influenza was declared a pandemic and had spread over much of the world.
By June 19th, it was reported in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
By June 25th, at least 1 million cases in the US.
By July 23rd, the CDC submitted its last case estimate, as the number of infected people were too great to count with any degree of accuracy. But by that time, levels of new infections were in steep decline.
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Okay, now compare this with what is known about the rate of increase of Ebola. The critical factor is time, because people have any number of tools to mitigate epidemics, and Ebola is particularly vulnerable to such techniques. The slower the growth of Ebola, the less likely it will ever amount to much.
***10,000 new cases of Ebola per week within two months.***
In Africa? Europe, or HERE?
One of the most important characteristics of being a
“community organizer”
is to get people involved.
I tend to think that Obama is purposely letting ebola into the United States (by keeping air traffic from hot zone residents open and by sending troops there to become infected) so as to keep Americans “involved”. He must think that we’d treat ebola as an African problem if Americans were not at risk.
Human life is cheap to Obama. Remember, he voted for post-birth infant murder. The “Cause” is more important than lives. This isn’t incompetent leadership, this is an exercise in involvement.
Again, I believe that American ebola infections are deliberate.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread