Just read “The Hot Zone”. Very good book, a fast read, and will have you sufficiently terrified of Ebola for life. One of the phrases from that book that is forever in my mind... “the sloughing off of the tongue”
Ever seen a dog with parvo? A fatal virus — another dog can get it just by walking down the same sidewalk a year later.
No. I think I’m scared enough.
That’s why I plan to immediately cut myself off from society and virtually all human contact and live on Walden Pond and kill deer and fish and eat Juniper berries and wild honey.
See you guys in about 10 - 15 years.
Or the Rapture.
People who are posting that they are not afraid or worried, it’s been nice knowing you. I am stocking up on much basic goods. I have neighbors building around their property like a fortress. Really. People who live in the wilderness far off from the cities is where I’d prefer to be away from all of the risks.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Okay. I’ll try to be more scared in the future.
Bam bam will protect us, and make our house payments.
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Interesting article and comments at the FP link. Thanks for posting; thanks for your link.
Read up on colloidal silver, then buy what you need to produce your own. And please, do not tell me how someone knew someone who turned blue from drinking it everyday. I have a degree in chemistry, nutrition and fifty additional hours in herbs and vitamins. Our family has been using it for 20 years, my kids were raised on it, are healthy as horses and not blue yet. If you use the right kind in the right amounts you will survive what others won’t, free from pharmaceutical intervention. Educate yourself and you will not be afraid. :)
Waiting for when Ebola shows up in Mecca
That should be fun.......
This article states that a special ebola only hospital with 80 beds filled up in one day, with more patients being turned away before the day was even out. The author's conclusion that new cases are being badly underestimated tends to support my hypothesis that the rate of change in ebola infections/fatalities is still rising rapidly. But with no data I have not been able to graph the increase to see what kind of form it has (ie. arithmetic, geometric, exponential, etc.). Somebody knows this.
If the virus continues to spread, I believe that by next spring medical care providers will be forced to give up. The only thing to be done at that point is to shoot the infected and burn their bodies. Pretty gruesome stuff.
First, the reported death toll and actual growth in the disease, appears to be a drop in the bucket compared to numerous other fatal diseases running rampant in Africa, that we seem to not care about. Second, since no history is taught, nobody remembers the influenza epidemic of the early 1900’s that killed far more people than WWI. Really, it seems that unless Ebola, kills a movie star, starts infecting social media or interrupts service on our EBT cards, it can’t be that important.
Like lying about ObamaCare and the passing of the humanitarian crisis in Iraq, the media and the propagandist-in-chief are telling us everything is just fine with the Ebola outbreak. This president and his minions in the media truly believe they can manufacture reality and that will be no consequences, and the bulk of Americans will figure it out too late.
If we’re all scared enough will the cumulative fear stop Ebola? When then what’s the point of getting scared. If it hits the point where it can’t be stopped well then it can’t be stopped. Getting scared ain’t gonna help nothing, except make the last days of your life suck.
So far about 1200 people have died in a land far far away. Every year in the USA 30,000 to 40,000 people die from the everyday flu virus. Every year. Year after year. How scared are you about that?
There seems to be general agreement that Ebola going out of control in Lagos will be the signal to activate escape plans.
Let's hope that doesn't happen for six months, which will hopefully get us within 3-6 months of deployment of an Ebola vaccine.
No problem, Hershel the Vet will handle it.
This country has to do what the administration absolutely refuses to do: control who comes into to the country.