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To: Thud
You just admitted that buildings can be contaminated by Ebola! People are at risk of contracting Ebola by entering Ebola-contaminated buildings, which can be grocery stores. I am an old Cold War civil defense guy and fully understand the implications of that.

I didn't "admit" anything! I am trying to give the most accurate information I have, which is really difficult since there is so much we do not know about Ebola. We don't know how long it can survive on a surface, how long it can survive in air if artificially aerosolized (artificial, because it doesn't naturally aerosolize from human victims), how long it persists in certain bodily fluids after infection clears. We are hampered in learning these things because this virus is too danged dangerous for anyone who has not been properly trained to work with, and it takes months to learn how to work in a spacesuit.

We are extremely fortunate in that Ebola does not spread through aerosols. If it did, it would be worldwide pandemic by now. It does not spread easily. It will not become a pandemic. Thank God for that.

56 posted on 08/30/2014 7:41:20 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom; Thud

>>We are hampered in learning these things because this virus
>>is too danged dangerous for anyone who has not been
>>properly trained to work with, and it takes months to
>>learn how to work in a spacesuit.

No. This is incorrect.

You can train thousands of people in a few weeks to operate in such an environment.

The US Army Chemical Corps did that in 1991 and again in 2003 when US Army and US Marine units were trained to operate in the worst chemical environment — persistent nerve gas — for Operation Desert Storm and the 2nd Gulf War.

If we had the sense G-d gave a goose, The American Federal government would be training National Guard response teams to be trainers for Ebola PPE deployment to the medical community and stockpiling said material.


60 posted on 08/31/2014 10:36:38 AM PDT by Dark Wing
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