Posted on 10/04/2014 7:31:33 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
Here’s my question. What happens should one of the folks just makes a run for it out of their back door?
The nice thing about diseases is that you can’t see them. You see the symptoms of infection, but you can’t see the organisms. The are really tiny. Being invisible makes them really scary. This makes it easy to generate a public reaction. It’s like global warming. You can’t see it, but it sure is scary what it can do. We are all screwed by global warming!
You shake hands with someone, next thing you know, hepatitis. Somebody didn’t wash their hands after going to the bathroom, and somebody else didn’t wash their hands before eating. But either one washing their hands could prevent the transmission of the Hep A virus. Ebola is probably a lot like that. The flu sure is. Hand washing is the number one way to prevent a flu infection.
The only epidemic disease that got people really working was AIDS. The flu, not so much. AIDS is scary because you get it from sex. Nobody wants that. The intense effort to cure it was unprecedented, because homsexuals were getting it, and some of them were important people. They discovered or invented antiviral medications like acyclovir that work on viral processes to prevent them from reproducing themselves. These are very expensive drugs, and have application in other ailments, like herpes.
AIDS, even after all of the work, still infects the same people at relatively the same rates. It never became the mass extinction disease that media sensationalists wanted to see. Ebola will never cause huge death, and media sensationalists will be extremely disappointed, but that won’t stop them from generating mass hysteria. You see it right here.
I’m going to start posting “In before the we are all screwed” on all the ebola threads. Too late for this one.
bwahahahaha
Help wanted ad 10/4/2014:
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Odd how that is, but our ‘presstitutes’ are busy ignoring the hard news that gets in the way of kissing 0bama’s ass. Bastards! There are days I wish I hadn’t quit smoking. ;)
I thought that was a “tragicomedy” moment. Trailer looked like a “toy hauler”. (stock car, quads, etc or a rock band trailer)
Will that be like the, “IBZT”?
ooops...2015 mistake ....s/be 2014
Aaron Yah
November 6, 2012
I want to take my personal time to congratulate president obama for high work, and those that cast their vote for him
I will NOT take this story from the Mail at face value. They are the most poorly edited news site on two continents.
At the Dallas presser last night, one guy was complaining about all the “permits” and “paperwork” required to “clean this up”. Hey Govt. guy, “No kidding”. Ask any business owner. Geez
I think it's germ warfare by the Democrats.
In just about a month there will be thousands of ebola cases here in the US, enough to invoke a medical crisis state which can be used to cancel the scheduled 2014 elections.
Pelosi recently commented that she thought Democrats were safe.
And Beckel predicts an October surprise.
Remember, both of these predicted that Obamacare would not be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
I like the way you think!
Send them back to where they came from. No landing needed. C130, parachutes, low pass and problem gone. Repeat as necessary. Yes, in a hazmat suit I could toss-em out personally. We are only as screwed as PC makes us. Self preservation takes priority over ‘fairness’.
"Let them eat Ebola. The EV-68, tuberculosis and ISIS were not enough."
Those ‘cleanup’ companies have been popping up like weeds. They’re fine for cleanup of standard accidents, fire, etc., but this is a bug of a different color, so to speak. You must be thorough to deal with it effectively and I seriously believe the vast majority have little to no experience dealing with and suppressing possible outbreaks of infectious disease by any means short of applying a flamethrower to the area. ;)
The first big test of ObamaCare.
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Public health is in the hands of the folks who brought us Obamacare, the economic recovery, the VA scandal, Solyndra, Fast and Furious...anyone who’s not scared is living under a rock.
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