Posted on 10/18/2014 2:42:42 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Comparisons between the two deadly diseases surfaced in the last few months as the Ebola outbreak escalated. Both emerged from Africa and erupted into an international health crisis. And both have been a shocking reminder that mankind's battle against infectious diseases can take a sudden, terrible turn for the worse.
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The rest of his post indicates the fact that HIV is extremely latent. People take years to usually show symptoms. During those years, and given the promiscuity of some HIV infectees, plenty of people can be infected with HIV before you figure out what is going on. Late 60s early 70s was when a great deal of HIV spreading occurred, when we identified HIV as an official disease in 1981, the infectees had the virus for years prior to being diagnosed.
Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.
Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.
I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.
Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.
Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?
Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216461/posts
I can see a comparison of the two. Queers, prostitutes, IV druggies could spread this real easy
“Has anyone discussed whether the U.S. blood supply is being tested for Ebola?”
Not sure about testing, but if you’ve even been to Africa, you’re excluded from donating blood in the USA. The list of countries you’ve visited or lived in that exclude you is quite large
” open transportation and continuing visas for people from West Africa.”
Not just continuing visas, expediting them
” Currently according to WHO (World Health Organization) it has killed over 4,500 people.”
4500 is not a small amount by any means, but it suggests that it isn’t airborne or easy to contract even in third world environments. 35 to 36 thousand people a year die from the flu in the USA alone.
Good info. Thanks.
It’s ridiculous to compare the two.
AIDS goes away when:
* people stop sleeping around casually
* drug abuse with needles stops
* hospitals and health care facilities don’t reuse needles, have proper practices in place to prevent stickings, and contaminated blood and biological matter isn’t exposed to staff or patients (including blood transfusions from infected)
As much as you expect it, we strive toward perfection in the delivery of health care. Reality proves we are only human. If you know of any perfect humans who are willing and able to flawlessly provide health care every minute of every day to people with communicable diseases, they are welcome to join the field.
The infected is doubling every 3 weeks....
The WHO is now reporting it has anywhere between 70 to 90% kill rate once infected.
They say by January (2 1/2 months from now) it will be over 1 million dead. Well past the 35 to 36 thousand on the flu.
BS
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