Ping
thought they initially said this wasn’t a big deal.
Wait until they develop the vaccine. They’ll be giving it in gas stations.
FYI. WHO forecasts are not at the level of your predictions yet, at least not for the end of the month, but it’s much more realistic than their old numbers.
Hopefully we will stop the insanity of flying Ebola patients all over the globe for reasons unknown.
One would think reducing travel to impacted regions would help slow disease spread.
That's what I'm asking you.
WHO is speading alarm to get grants which will disappear into some dictators’ pockets. It will not do a thing to prevent the spread of ebola when there are “experts” from Africa flying to NYC every other week for some worthless conference, as they are doing this week.
"Since the beginning of the outbreak more than six months ago, the Sierra Leone Health Ministry reported only 10 confirmed Ebola deaths here in Freetown, the capital of more than one million people, and its suburbs as of Sunday — a hopeful sign that this city, unlike the capital of neighboring Liberia, had been relatively spared the ravages of the outbreak"......"But the bodies pouring in to the graveyard tell a different story. In the last eight days alone, 110 Ebola victims have been buried at King Tom Cemetery, according to the supervisor, Abdul Rahman Parker, suggesting an outbreak that is much more deadly than either the government or international health officials have announced."
OK, let’s take a breath here.
Ebola used to be over 95% death rate. Now in Africa it is a 70% or less death rate.
That is worth a cheer.
As far as I know every known Ebola patient that came to the USA has recovered. That is called 100% folks.
We can cure Ebola and it does not take a fancy vaccine as everyone knows from reading the earliest reports.
General good health lots of fluids and proper diet will let the body beat this thing.
This report is about Africa where the hopitals are sending people back home because there are no beds. The diet is poor. The family does not have the knowledge. It spreads because they try to help their family member and catch it.
Good thing I am not a conspiracy nut because there is plenty of meat for that here.
Are the Fox News dopes STILL saying nothing to worry about here in the US? What’s his name Bernie Seigal? And the other foreign Dr. on Sunday morning all downplaying Ebola from the get go. If the death rate turns to 100% will they then say, “Oh sorry we F’ed up here and were so wrong. Bend over and kiss your ass goodbye, we’re now all going to die....”? Will he say that? I want to hear him, now.
Mr. Kipling described this situation better than I ever could:
Take up the White Man’s burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go, bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives’ need;
To wait, in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
Take up the White Man’s burden—
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain,
To seek another’s profit
And work another’s gain.
Take up the White Man’s burden—
The savage wars of peace—
Fill full the mouth of Famine,
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
(The end for others sought)
Watch sloth and heathen folly
Bring all your hope to nought.
Take up the White Man’s burden—
No iron rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper—
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go, make them with your living
And mark them with your dead.
Take up the White Man’s burden,
And reap his old reward—
The blame of those ye better
The hate of those ye guard—
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:—
“Why brought ye us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?”
Take up the White Man’s burden—
Ye dare not stoop to less—
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloak your weariness.
By all ye will or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent sullen peoples
Shall weigh your God and you.
Take up the White Man’s burden!
Have done with childish days—
The lightly-proffered laurel,
The easy ungrudged praise:
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers.
Mrs. AV
Just one more way for Obama to “level the playing field”.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Supportive therapy and fluids? Anyone else had trouble obtaining 0.9%NACL or D5W? There is a shortage of fluids right now for the average practitioner and hospital. An Ebola outbreak would deplete the already short stocks and 70% fatality rate would be optimism at best.
I wonder how they arrived at the 70% number. I calculated less than 60%...