The Jakarta Pandemic
by Steven Konkoly
Posted on 08/28/2016 10:57:38 AM PDT by RightGeek
When I was coordinating the U.S. response to Ebola in the fall of 2014, one frequent problem was false reports of Ebola cases in this country. Early symptoms of Ebola resemble flu. Even when we screened out the 99% of flu patients who had not been to Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea (and therefore did not have Ebola), there were still many more suspected or feared cases than actual instances of Ebola in the U.S. Many sleepless nights in the winter of 2014-2015 ended, fortunately, with negative Ebola tests.
But among the many reasons policy makers and citizens are not taking seriously enough the potential threat and consequences of Zika is that just the opposite is true for this virus.
About 80% of people who contract the Zika virus experience no symptoms. And health-care professionals are generally not testing asymptomatic people in the U.S., even if they have been to Zika-affected countries or areas in this country where Zika is spreading. This means that most people in the U.S. and its territories who have Zika do not know that they have the virus.
This is particularly stunning when we consider how many cases of Zika have been laboratory-confirmed: more than 2,500 in the 50 states and over 9,000 others in U.S. territories (largely in Puerto Rico). Given that four out of five people with Zika don’t have symptoms and that some people who have symptoms might not get tested, the number of Zika cases in the U.S. and its territories is probably in the tens of thousands already.
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Question: Who is going to take care of these virus damaged infants/teenagers/adults when their parents are gone?
How deep & how long will this threat be in the USA???
IS this disease a man-made disease that has just recently been allowed to spread? What is the infection rate in South America & Central America???
The left is hustling another pandemic to line everyone up to get shots again.The solution if it is even a serious problem is, of course, DDT. But that IS a solution and the rulers don’t want a solution. They want the people obeying orders.
Illegals brought Zika to America
Isn't diversity great!
“But a new study suggests that Zika can also infect the brain cells of adults, causing long term damage to memory.”
This could be a culling machine.
The parents could be basket cases themselves - this bug triggers dementia in some adults.
The Jakarta Pandemic
by Steven Konkoly
The lowering of IQs in so many people is intriguing. I'd love to find a philosophical discussion of how many points the IQ can be lowered in an advanced civilization with causing its decline or fall. Has there every been a self-sustaining advanced civilization where the population didn't have above average intellectual, analytical skills?
Illegals brought Zika to America
Isn't diversity great!
And our republican and democrat politicians brought the illegals to America.
Isn't Globalization great!
The pandemic baiters...
Finally! There’s hope again!
Anyone remember when VEE(Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis) from mosquito bites swept through the USA fifty years ago? WE WERE ALL GONNA DIE! but didn’t. It affected both horses and people.
I demand the federal government to buy us each a can of Off!
Future historians (if there is a future for civilized man) will be able to answer that question as they analyze the decline and fall of the once great nation of America.
The dumbing down of an advanced civilization is a phenomenon that has been underway in America since at least 1965 - perhaps even longer.
There is a difference between genetic abnormalities
and a defective educational system
It is only recently that Common Core has held back academic achievement
to the lowest denominator, and been found to limit achievement and make it easier to teach.
The Zika Undercount and the Virus’s Growing Threat to Public Health
Purposely Undercount, or still developing information ?
Our government is facilitating it.
BS
The genetic abnormalities and flooding civilized countries with more compliant populations, that lower overall potential, that's a far worse situation. It's not reversible. The puppet masters probably think they have things under control to their benefit, but it's hard to imagine that they factored in the effects an ability-destroying disease could have.
Aren't we seeing the effects in everyday life? It's a daily occurance to encounter people who just don't have the smarts to think on their own and problem solve at their jobs. I don't see how it ends well, philosophically speaking. The movie Idiocracy is becoming future history.
I always wondered what happened to the Ebola Czar.
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I am done with kids. I can get the flu for a couple of weeks. I have plenty of sick time.
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