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Maryland “Freak State” PING!
SSDD.
The sounds of silence from Republicans on this accusation are deafening. Why aren’t they bringing up that funding on research at the CDC was cut, but employee bonuses are still funded.
I wonder how lonq before exposure to Ebola a person would have to be immunized with what this quy received back in 2003.
It’s been so bizarre that Duncan’s qirlfriend and her kids didn’t contract Ebola. Makes me wonder if they were immunized at some point. Maybe before she traveled to Liberia in Auqust...
Shall we itemize the millions spent on offshore studies of the sex habits of Peruvian whatevers ... the millions on idiotic domestic studies? Billions flushed down the toilet over the years?
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...
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
ELEVEN YEARS and Obamacorp gives the nod to big pharma while ignoring an independent actor.
Obama utterly failed in his most basic responsibility, to keep America safe. He is the Chief Executive in charge. Ebola was a known threat. His policies allowed it to come to the US. Obama cannot hide behind congress, or behind some bureaucrat. Obama owns this abject failure. May his soul burn in hell.
All the money went to African breeding programs to export more African voters to the USA to fund more money to send to Africa for more breeding programs.
Waiting for it to go exponential now....
Was this before or after all those scientists died?
They had an inoculation for Mutawba in Outbreak the movie. The Chinese recently mentioned an Ebola treatment reserved for the PLA. Does USAMRIID have an experimental of its own?
“Ebola vaccine abandoned in 2008 after showing promise in trials”
Another example of Ebolagate or Obama’s Phony War on Ebola.
Why are the so called experts at CDC, Homeland Security and TSA not stepping up and doing their job to protect Americans from passenger fly ins with Ebola or exposed to Ebola in countries raging with deadly Ebola, without banning or severely restricting air travel from Africa?
They don’t want to. Again, this is a prime example of the need to use Cui Bono, the old Latin phrase which asks the question, “Who benefits?”
o Cui Bono or who benefits with no real travel restrictions from Africa to the USA?:
1. The airlines, which fly people and freight from and to Africa.
2. The businesses which service the air lines and need their business.
3. The need of our left wing progressives to have another unending “war” like the war on poverty. A war on Ebola is the ultimate wet dream of liberals, who never let a good crisis go to waste.
#1 and #2 above are obvious to any of us with half a brain.
#3. Requires a little explanation. A War on Ebola will make the War on Poverty look like a very small wet puddle compared to a full scale and large flood like Noah’s.
A liberal/progressive War on Ebola will require us to hire millions of people with worthless degrees or psychiatric problems to fight this war. We will have shore to shore facilities to provide offices for these previously unhireables. They will require hundreds of thousands of supervisors to motivate and to monitor them and to waste money like VA hospital administrators do now.
Our worthless State Department will expand our embassies around the world to the size of the one in Baghdad to house and office the warriors of the War on Ebola.
Moosella and Jill Biden and the worthless Follywood idols will do thousands of PSAs telling us to spend our time and money supporting the War on Ebola.
They will start marches, marathons and other BS social circle jerks to raise money and to support the War on Ebola.
They will pour gallons of ice water or whatever on sports idols and Follywood idols to support the War on Ebola.
Our military will no longer fight Isis and bad guys, they will be included in the great War on Ebola. Barrack E Obolabama has started that process with our troops in and being sent to Western Africa to fight Ebola.
None of the above will save lives. Like the War on Poverty and other expensive liberal wastes, this fight Ebola will thrive without any real positive results. Each death from Ebola will result in more money and more worthless people involved in the War on Ebola.
They will tie the War on Ebola with Global Warming to take away any rights we have left.
AIDS sufferers linger and vote longer, so AIDS research is on front burner, Ebola on back.
It would not matter if there were infinite funding for Ebola vaccine or antiviral drugs. There is a major problem with testing the vaccines and drugs to see if they work in humans.
Phase 1 clinical trials is safety testing. No problem there.
Phase 2 clinical trials is dose finding. No problem there.
Phase 3 clinical trials is efficacy testing—to find out if the stuff works.
That’s the problem. That’s because no one will volunteer to be purposely infected with Ebola to see if a vaccine or drug works. There is no way to ethically test Ebola interventions.
With an outbreak going on, there are ways to test for efficacy, but they are still ethical minefields. The only way to tell if a drug works is by comparing groups that receive it to those that don’t.
Phase 3 clinical trials typically involve thousands of volunteers. There has never before been an outbreak with enough victims to even do a phase 3 trial. And no healthy person is ever going to volunteer for one.
Funding is NOT why Ebola treatments and vaccines don’t exist.
Anyone else find the Washington Times website unreadable due to advertising and flash crap?
Of course, in 2008 Prez OBOZO was too busy making sure his buddies on Wall Street got bailed out to make sure science got funded.