Posted on 09/02/2014 6:46:05 AM PDT by Qiviut
Centers for Disease Control Director Tom Friedman did not return from his visit to West Africa, where the worst outbreak of Ebola in history has spread to five countries and killed at least 1,500 people, with any good news.
Friedman told CNN hosts on Tuesday that the Ebola outbreak in Africa is currently “completely out of control” and is now an “epidemic.” The CDC director added that “it will get worse in the future and our window of opportunity to turn it around is closing.”
I am most worried about men continuing to have sex after they are recovered from ebola, during the very long amount of time it remains in sperm.
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You know which group is going to be most affected by this .... the group that engages in unprotected sex with multiple partners despite knowing the HIV-AIDS risk and/or being infected themselves.
Getting close to time to grab the bugout bag and head for Hershel’s farm.
I’m sort of surprised at the amount of ‘bugout’ talk I’m hearing .... and not on FR.
So i search and first thing i find out is the guys name is Frieden.
Record numbers of citizens renouncing their US citizenship... must mean something.
Looks like the lemmings are gathering for a trek to the nearest river.
As it did with HIV and AIDS....
I have reflected on the ebola epidemic and plainly see that urgent action is required to end this largely black African problem. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson (the father of the bastard) should be dispatched to Liberia and Sierra Leone post haste.
“...a West Africa-style outbreak is highly unlikely in the industrialized world.”
I don’t know why they really think that.
I grant that we have better sanitation, and generally healthier people and better treatment, BUT we also have a very high population density and I don’t think our people are any “better” than West Africans in dealing with fear, panic, ignorance, etc. Or at least I wouldn’t want to count on them to be sufficiently better.
In any event, the spread has to be stopped in Africa itself. They need to close the affected countries entirely, we keep saying this, but no one is listening.
In any event, the spread has to be stopped in Africa itself. They need to close the affected countries entirely, we keep saying this, but no one is listening.
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They’ve got some folks they’re watching in India .... you don’t hear the MSM talking about that ...... the ‘cat’ may already be out of the Africa bag.
Ebola scare: 116 people arrive [in Delhi, India] from worst-affected Liberia in Delhi and Mumbai (thread 8-27-2014)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3197788/posts
Oh don’t worry. They checked their temperatures and asked them if they had any symptoms before they let them scatter....
I kinda quarantine myself during flu season anyway. Don’t go out at all. Of course my grand daughter goes to school, and I babysit her, but I don’t usually catch what she has.
I make sure and wash my hands often, and stay out of reach of sneezes. Wash everything including dishes with bleach solution.
Take vitamin D3. So, I would have to do more. I’m thinking that the schools should shut down sooner rather than later, but they would probably wait to close the barn door after the horse left there too.
LOL, your tagline is very amusing!
Homeschooling is always an option should there come a point where there is an epidemic in the schools.
It’s not like they’re going to miss anything anyway.
I’m obviously not an expert, but my gut feeling is that if this is active in India we are probably all doomed. The Indians almost certainly are. There are so, so many Indians in this country now, you never think about them because they don’t b*tch and moan like so many others do. But they go back and forth to India quite frequently, so imagine all of them rushing back here (and to Britain and Canada too I’m sure) if Ebola broke out there. What would we do, quarantine all of them? And where would we do that? There might be a deserted facility in the East River, Ward’s Island I think was at one point used as a hospital facility of some sort.
Maybe somebody out to get over there and check it out.
I know that our state is working on setting up on-line school for k-12, so that may be a wave of the future that gets a big push forward, if there’ a big epidemic of something.
No report that it’s active yet ..... I’m waiting for the “other shoe” to drop, though.
I make sure and wash my hands often, and stay out of reach of sneezes. Wash everything including dishes with bleach solution.
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During flu season, I try to limit my trips to stores, etc. I carry a canister of clorox (or similar) wipes in my vehicle & I try not to touch my face at all until I can get back to the car and wipe off my hands, etc. - anything my dirty hands have touched (door handles, pocket book). I also use the store wipes and wipe down the cart handles, etc. I have noticed, over the years since I’ve been doing this, that I have a lot less colds .... very, very few. If anyone is coughing or sneezing, I’m headed in the opposite direction, for sure.
I think they somehow feel technology makes us immune to a serious problem.
Consider the points of failure in getting a can of beans to your table, and even isolated clusters can have much broader impacts.
We are as someone once said, only a few meals from barbarity.
Not only could the spin-off effects be worse than the disease, disruption of critical infrastructure and distribution systems might have repercussions beyond any outbreak by itself.
Aside form that, I think the capacity for infection is even greater in a technologically advanced culture, not less.
Whatever the case, with the current administration and their syncophantic media, it is a given that any crisis will be utilized to the utmost to usurp and concentrate more power.
When authorities such as the WHO and CDC refuse to quarantine in the first place and seem more worried about convincing the world that air travel without quarantines is still safe.
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