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Ebola's Warning for an Unprepared America
WSJ ^ | 9/16/14 | Scott Gottlieb And Tevi Troy

Posted on 09/17/2014 11:02:41 AM PDT by Kartographer

The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general just issued a highly critical report finding that DHS lacks sufficient supplies and preparedness to handle a domestic pandemic. Thirteen years ago, soon after the 9/11 attacks, letters laced with anthrax killed five Americans. Just as 9/11 revealed the country's vulnerabilities to terror attacks, the anthrax episode exposed the need for better routine surveillance and strategic stockpiling of key countermeasures against viral outbreaks or bioterror attacks. We're still far less prepared than we should be, and far more vulnerable than we're admitting.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ebola
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To: familyop

Not you to familyop!


41 posted on 09/17/2014 1:00:29 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; null and void

42 posted on 09/17/2014 1:11:31 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Smokin' Joe; lostboy61
"Oh I see it's us on the outside that are not ready as the bunker door closes.

Not a problem. Call someone with a welding truck...
"

A cheap cutting torch outfit on a tiny, cheap trailer will do it, or a mini cutting torch outfit. The hardware is cheap at Harbor Freight. There are also plasma cutters, air arcs, etc. A super cheap air arc setup can be made at home with a cheap arc welder and air compressor. There are also cutoff wheels for cheap grinders. Or one could simply build a giant bonfire over a bunker for a few hours to allow much more time to figure out how to get in later.


43 posted on 09/17/2014 1:14:25 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Kartographer
"Not you to familyop!"

Well, obviously, if the disease doesn't slow down on its own, most of us will be Ebola stew in short order. I'm series.

It doesn't blow through like the flu. It moves very slowly but very surely. Granted, here in the States, it might move much faster initially because of travel being so much more common. Zip--millions of travelers crisscrossing all at the same time from all ends of the country to others! But Ebola does have staying power for sure.

It can linger in each community for a very long time. One would need to hole up for years to avoid getting it. Imagine demented survivors tossing samples all over someone's property (e.g., gates), giving it to the dogs, giving it to wildlife, etc. It could be on everything. A nightmare!

‘Don’t Touch the Walls’: Ebola Fears Infect an African Hospital
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3190930/posts

Escape? There's no escape! So there's no plan!


44 posted on 09/17/2014 1:23:56 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: GraceG

As far as potential traitors within the military (who are willing to serve as human vectors), I think the numbers are miniscule. I’m much more concerned about troops who are being sent to carry out a near-impossible mission without the proper training/equipment, and virtually no regard for their safety.

Going back to my days as a medic—and my experience is very dated, there were only a handful of units/facilities that were remotely qualified to handle something like this: Fort Detrick, and a few folks at Walter Reed, Bethesda (now a single facility) and perhaps Wilford Hall.

One of the most telling moments in this entire affair came when President Obama announced we would not be sharing the experimental Ebola vaccine with doctors in the most-affected countries because they were “incapable of using it” or something like that. The real truth, I believe, is that our leaders know Ebola’s arrival in the U.S. is inevitable, and the few available doses have been reserved for senior government officials and members of their families.


45 posted on 09/17/2014 1:49:41 PM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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To: LucyT

They have much higher priorities like running the democrat vote farm(trucking in illegals), stripping us of our rights and trying to shut down the people who are onto them. Muslim outreach, global warming, LGBT, on and on

Anything but security and safety for US citizens


46 posted on 09/17/2014 1:56:59 PM PDT by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S.)
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To: kenmcg; Kartographer

“Obama will do all in his power to contaminate the US military and spread Ebola here in the states.”

Number in today’s paper was Obama sending 3,000 military to Ebola region. You bet, they will get it and bring it back. The doctor who came back for treatment lives in Fort Worth, less than 40 miles from here.

Sending 3,000 military there exposes all of us.


47 posted on 09/17/2014 1:59:48 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: Kartographer
Public Health Agency of Canada
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/ebola-eng.php

In another study, Ebolavirus dried onto glass, polymeric silicone rubber, or painted aluminum alloy is able to survive in the dark for several hours under ambient conditions (between 20 and 250C and 30–40% relative humidity) (amount of virus reduced to 37% after 15.4 hours), but is less stable than some other viral hemorrhagic fevers (Lassa) Footnote 53. When dried in tissue culture media onto glass and stored at 4 °C, Zaire ebolavirus survived for over 50 days

[At -70C, it can be preserved virtually indefinitely--more recently deleted from the site above.]


48 posted on 09/17/2014 2:13:49 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Kartographer

Borax wagons, originally?


49 posted on 09/17/2014 2:16:54 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring; null and void
Yes. Or maybe the DHS already has some of these ready!

50 posted on 09/17/2014 2:26:23 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

Perhaps all muzzies, the peaceful, the moderate and the militant, will decide to leave if it is known that Ebola has arrived in America.


51 posted on 09/17/2014 2:32:40 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Kartographer

How about an f****** fence at the southern border, you idiots. Secure border?? Yeah, that’s what the big lesbo said, but it’s not.


52 posted on 09/17/2014 3:23:01 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Guns are like parachutes. If you need one and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again.)
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To: Kartographer
Note the ladder at the near corner for the operator to get to the cab:


53 posted on 09/17/2014 4:30:59 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Kartographer

54 posted on 09/17/2014 6:49:30 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: Kartographer; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

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...

55 posted on 09/17/2014 7:52:21 PM PDT by null and void (Only God Himself watches you more closely than the US government.)
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To: goldstategop

“I plan to get inoculated once a vaccine is available.”

I have Vitamin C available in mega dosing technologies to make Ebola inefective.


56 posted on 09/17/2014 8:33:14 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for the ping!


57 posted on 09/17/2014 8:38:45 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: tet68

In short...no it cannot.


58 posted on 09/18/2014 3:09:45 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: oh8eleven

My tinfoil hat is sending me messages that say that perhaps stories such as this post and the CDC one that you mention are put out there to prepare us mentally for when the Soros Administration declares martial law as the only way to protect all of us from these horrid diseases.


59 posted on 09/18/2014 5:33:42 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Yours are rhetorical questions, I am sure.


60 posted on 09/18/2014 5:36:10 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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