Ping!
They were playing with the numbers in most news stories before by adding new cases in with those who had passed through the disease to give us the supposedly non panic worthy number of 50%.
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www.house.gov
OK, Freepers, time for action.
It’s after 9:00 am in DC.
Call your reps in DC and tell them the flights from West Africa through any hub HAVE TO STOP!
The place to fight this disease is at its source, not here.
The “screening” process at our airports is a joke and ineffective. 150 people a day are coming here from West Africa—that is 4500 a month. Some will show a fever and yet may be carrying the virus.
Our healthcare system will shutdown if this continues.
We already have cases in Kansas, Nebraska, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Texas.
The first order of business of a government is to protect their citizens. And this government is failing to do so.
Make the calls.
The family you save may be your own.
If they can't even calculate the death rate correctly, how much confidence is there in anything else they say?
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...
Yet, they will not stop those passengers coming from the Ebola infected countries from coming here.
I have so many questions on this and things are not making sense.
I wonder why the nurse in Dallas, who was wearing protective gear got ebola, yet Duncan’s relatives, in close quarters in the Dallas apartment, have not.
Why did the news camera man contract it when “splashed” by a chlorine spray cleaning an ebola infected car?
Dr. Bradley, who originally contracted the disease and who was brought home for treatment, also took precautions against ebola and got it anyway.
The relatives in the Dallas apartment, especially Duncan’s girlfriend, show no signs even after being exposed to a very contagious victim. Too many questions.
When all is known and done the actual death rate will likely be higher. Ebola Zaire strain is the most deadly strain with rates up to 90% during any particular outbreak.
Possible numbers coming to the U. S.?
It's only fair. Besides, we can always check their temperatures when they arrive here (if that particular airport is doing screening) and make them fill out a probing questionnaire ("honor system", of course).
Didn't I read someplace last night approximately 13% of Ebola victims don't exhibit high temperatures as part of their initial symptoms? On the other hand, we are sure to catch the 87% who do and send them to a nice American hospital where they can be well taken care of.
I'm sure things will work out just fine. After all, our CDC has this little problem well under control!