Posted on 07/31/2014 7:30:52 AM PDT by george76
Which one?
The elites are pretty open about the 90% population reduction thing.
But if it got out that it might be more ‘transmissible via air’ than they’re letting on there WOULD be panic. Writ large.
I hope you’re wrong, particularly since one of my husband’s coworkers is supposedly in Africa right now.
Tell them to act like it’s airborne, just to be safe.
And possibly insect borne as well. The current upswing in cases began roughly around the West African rainy season. Also known as mosquito season.
I’m hoping that she didn’t go. Apparently, as of yesterday, one of her group left her passport in the limo and they missed their flight. Maybe they got cold feet. I hope so.
Hopefully so.
African healthcare will be totally overwhelmed with this epidemic. Even if you don’t get it, if you are ill with anything else that requires medical care you’ll be screwed.
That’s a good point.
Source: Flight leaves for Liberia to evacuate Americans infected with Ebola
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/health/ebola-outbreak/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
Interesting details about the airplane and possible evacuation:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/health/ebola-isolation-treatment/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
Stunning. We’ve never had an Ebola case in the U.S., so let’s bring it in.
No kidding. There's still no excuse.
This is supreme arrogance---men thinking they are so medically advanced and sophisticated that they can voluntarily bring Ebola into the country and manage it.
Or ignorance of a high magnitude. The lessons of bringing Lassa into the US resulted in lab workers contracting the disease and dieing from it and the lessons of when Marburg was first identified in that lab in Germany. Plum Island is the only place in the US that may be able to contain a virus like Ebola and even that facility is antiquated and questionable for a disease such as a Filovirus.
The article states they are bringing the affected US citizens to Emory University with the CDC in Atlanta providing the facility if I read correctly. Great. A government agency that has been really inefficient as of late gets involved. I can see a disaster in the making, especially with the SE climate, the feral pig population, the population density of Atlanta and the coming of the major vector season of the year.
One of my fears is that it will end up endemic in a local wildlife population of some sort and will recirculate to civilization periodically like it does in Africa.
Much like plague in the SW post the early 1900’s epidemic of that.
Why, then, do they never learn??
Just heard confirmed we have sent a plane to medevac at least 2 ppl with confirmed Ebola back ti the states. Brilliant!!
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