EBOLA PICTURE GETS UGLIER AND UGLIER

boblonsberry.com ^ | 10/16/14 | Bob Lonsberry

[jjsheridan5]

Allow me to disagree. It is unlikely that anyone on that flight is going to contract Ebola.

It is not impossible.

And, to add to your obviously correct observation, while the chances are quite small (a reasonable conclusion from the fact that while the spread in W. Africa has been steady, it is spreading at a rate roughly 1/5 or 1/10 that of, say, influenza), at a certain point it becomes a question of mathematics. Given a large enough number of cases (for example, 100 or 1000 planes with an Ebola victim on each), that "impossibility" becomes a near certainty, mathematically.

This cavalier disregard for uncertainty in terms of the science, and the disregard for the lack of distinction between impossible and highly unlikely, neither of which usually matters, has the potential to get a whole lot of people killed in this instance.

[plain talk]

The problem is letting these people in in the first place. Expecting nurses and everyone to act perfectly while letting these people come over here is absurd. The problem is not imperfect nurses - it is a raving lunatic named Barack Hussein Obama. Also 10% of the ebola deaths in Africa are health care workers so they are not miracle workers either.

[Qiviut]

I suspect his historical moniker will be President Obola -— he kills everything he touches. Think about everything he’s gotten involved with (even the Dem party who is now treating him like a deadly virus!) .... it’s all worse off, in flames or destroyed.

[jjsheridan5]

Around the globe, about 400 health care staff have contracted Ebola, and more than 230 have died.

I can honestly not tell if you are trying to agree with me, or disagree with me. But your evidence is very supportive of my point. We have had one active case, leading to two secondary cases (so far), a 1:2 ratio. There have been at least 5000 cases in W. Africa (and probably closer to 50000), yet the number of infected h.c. workers is somewhere between one tenth of that, and one one-hundredth. Far, far, far better than we have managed.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

I feel for her seatmates. If it were me, I would be up all night, trying to remember if she coughed, sneezed, wiped her nose, if I took her empty glass or wet napkin and handed it to the flight attendant.

This administration sickens me.

[glennaro]

Now that's funny!

[Marie]

I’s be worried, too.

Although the odds are good that nobody caught it from her at this stage, I’d also be isolated from my family. Period.

[bgill]

OTOH, this will cause West Africa to have second thoughts about flying it over here.

[shortstop]

[wastoute]

Duncan’s lies would have been irrelevant had the Klown not been a traitor.

[Rummyfan]

[bgill]

The DNC were on this path long before Nancy changed the 2008 Hawaiian candidate form. Of course, this has been deliberately planned and by many.

[Carry_Okie]

She was not symptomatic on the airplane at the time.

She had a fever; therefore she was symptomatic.

[Mike Darancette]

We are not just merely screwed; we are most sincerely screwed.

[Resolute Conservative]

Sadly we will all pay for their stupidity. Ebola doesn’t respect party lines, I wish it did.

[Pollster1]

With this ebola thing, it is hard to imagine how we could have been more incompetent.

With this ebola thing, it is hard to imagine how our "leaders" could have been anything but incompetent (if you are charitable enough to assume this was merely incompetence).

[PLOM...NOT!]

When do the adults get to be back in charge?? This is not the America I remember growing up in!

[Guenevere]

Bttt

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[RipSawyer]

“It is not incompetence. No Administration could possibly be as incompetent as the Obama Administration pretends to be.

This is treason.”
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I agree with the first part but I must take issue with the treason charge. In my understanding treason means to betray your country and go over to the enemy side. If you have been on the enemy side all along you cannot switch over. I think the correct word is something like infiltrator.