I guess the response curve isn't quite this steep. What a shock.
Posted on 10/16/2014 6:05:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
The current Ebola outbreak is “running much faster” than the international response to it, the co-discoverer of the virus said Thursday.
“This is the first Ebola epidemic where entire nations are involved, where big cities are affected,” Peter Piot, a microbiologist and a former undersecretary general of the United Nations, told Global Public Square host Fareed Zakaria. “And I continue to be worried that the response to the epidemic is really running behind the virus.”
According to the World Health Organization’s latest update, there have been almost 9,000 confirmed and suspected cases, with almost 4,500 deaths. However, the WHO warned there could be as many as 10,000 new cases per week in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone by the end of this year.
Piot, a member of the team that discovered the virus in 1976 in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, made headlines earlier this month when he told The Guardian newspaper he feared an “unimaginable catastrophe” if the virus became lodged in a mega-city such as Lagos....
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but obama told us it was contained...
Lots of people are telling their employers they think they have ebola and need to self quarantine themselves until they know they are safe. Sick Leave scoundrels.
No one should be surprised, it’s simple math at work.
In a perfect world, 0b0la would indeed be unlikely to be a problem and the probably of any outbreaks in the US extremely slim.
With the White Hut occupied by a Caliph, we're screwed...
I guess the response curve isn't quite this steep. What a shock.
He lied. Imagine that.
Only the Government workers might get a paid (taxpayer paid) leave. Those that work for private industry will have to take the time off on their own dime.
Be prepared. Health/life BUMP!
What a great Cloward Piven opportunity for Obama. “For the safety of the nation” make us honest people pay for these slackers.
O’blowhard tonight said something will be done after ONE more case. What BS.
The avg LIV probably doesn’t even know 1 died here.
We can’t survive the idiots that elected this POS twice.
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