Posted on 10/18/2014 2:42:42 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Comparisons between the two deadly diseases surfaced in the last few months as the Ebola outbreak escalated. Both emerged from Africa and erupted into an international health crisis. And both have been a shocking reminder that mankind's battle against infectious diseases can take a sudden, terrible turn for the worse.
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As long as it’s on the path to the bath house, I don’t mind.
Sorry...I don’t feel sorry for anything you catch when having unprotected sex with a stranger. As far as Ebola goes...it’s very different.
The same path to politicalization, certainly.
Ebola is to AIDS Like Typhoid is to Syphlis.
It isn’t, it’s worse. Ebola affects INNOCENT PEOPLE, like that first nurse, and, arguably, the second nurse. AIDS, with some very minor exceptions now, does not, at least in the US.
Well, a certain subsect of the homo brigades does something called “bug chasing”.
They seek HIV infection for some nebulous “ status” it magically grants them.
I wonder how long until there are idiots who actively seek Ebola infection appear.
Turning Ebola into a non-existent civil rights issue will be the end of the left. They will be consumed by their own mindless idiocy. The problem being that they’ll take everyone else down with them.
“Comparisons between the two deadly diseases surfaced in the last few months as the Ebola outbreak escalated. Both emerged from Africa and erupted into an international health crisis.”
Add O’bastard to the list of bad crap that emerged from Africa!
...and it came in the front door..
...but we're still screwed.
Part of the problem is the constant equating the disease with something you have to behave in a specific way to be at risk of.
With Ebola, the virus can be given to anyone by anyone infected, without sexual contact, and can be contracted from contaminated surfaces or materials.
Not even close.
Much more risky to a much broader population. Downplaying it will only let it spread.
AIDS started with the sodomites, but it eventually spread to heterosexuals, including babies and young children. Those cases of heterosexuals contracting AIDS aren’t as minor as you think. If you think you’re immune to AIDS because you don’t engage in aberrant behavior, you are severely delusional.
If the disease was confined to the amoral, I wouldn’t care, but had our government mobilized against the disease early on, it might not have spread to innocents.
Perhaps you are too haughty to care that at least 60 health care workers were infected with HIV due to occupational transmission.
Likewise, thousands of blood transfusion recipients contracted AIDS due to contamination of the U.S. blood supply.
Has anyone discussed whether the U.S. blood supply is being tested for Ebola?
“Beginning in 1987, HIV-positive travelers were banned from entering the country. The rule was changed in January 2010.”
Just before Republicans took control of Congress.
AIDS and Ebola, two nasty diseases from Africa that shouldn’t be allowed in, but O’bastard is importing them both!
HIV has affected people who had nothing to do with promiscuous sex or IV drug use. In fact, there were notorious known people, many of them homosexual, who purposely donated their HIV Blood to get people infected and “terrorize” the population into wanting a cure for HIV now that innocents had to rely on contaminated blood from the blood bank. This was short lived, but still, people can lie about their behaviors before donating blood, and under a lot of conditions, HIV-infected blood will not be detected by the screening process. Kind of like how the fever test can fail to detect an ebola infection in people.
Most people don’t care about Ebola in the blood supply. People have an extremely short time on Ebola to live or die in comparison to HIV. There are very few in comparison, ebola infectees. People can go for years asymptomatic of HIV, and even longer if they give a good effort to cover up the symptoms.
I do agree, however, that the politicians and medical leadership have either failed, or are getting people infected with Ebola in the U.S. rather than make an effort to contain the disease.
Can’t some people do their own quarantines without government orders? I personally am right now. By the time someone with ebola gets to my home town, and the government admits it, I am too late, especially with a toddler and an infant in my home. I personally don’t feel very good toward my own government now, and not because of the nutty conspiracies, but based on what I even hear on the regular news media alone, gives a pretty good fact that they couldn’t handle an actual invasion or nuclear war if they can’t even do the right thing to contain ebola.
Comparisons between the two deadly diseases...
Both were allowed to grow into global pandemics because those with the disease were not quarantined. Precautions to keep high risk individuals in isolation were moot.
Both emerged from Africa and erupted into an international health crisis. And both have been a shocking reminder that mankind’s battle against infectious diseases can take a sudden, terrible turn for the worse.
...and in both cases the CDC was at the heart of the terrible turn for the worse.
In the case of aids, it was death to those innocents needing blood transfusions during the early eighties. Hemophiliacs died by the thousands, as did hospital patients receiving tainted blood.
The CDC failed to control the blood supply, and failed to call it what it was, an epidemic.
2014 different day, same story. A giant fail to stop the spread of Ebola through open transportation and continuing visas for people from West Africa.
Who are these "most people" you reference? Were any of them on cruise ships or airplanes in the past week?
People can go for years asymptomatic of HIV, and even longer if they give a good effort to cover up the symptoms.
In the early days, when there was no test for HIV, infected individuals were diagnosed via a group of symptoms. Hence the "S" in AIDS. Syndrome.
Ebola is very different from AIDS. Transmission, incubation, “lethality” and causes of death are all different. Do not compare or you confuse the issue.
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