Posted on 08/05/2014 6:59:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
We’re now witnessing the worst Ebola epidemic ever — and on your list of worries it belongs . . . nowhere.
Here’s a rule of thumb about diseases: The rarer and less likely they are to kill you, the more hype they get. The New York Times ran more than 2,000 articles on SARS, which ultimately killed zero Americans.
This is only the deadliest outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease because past ones were so tiny. At this writing, there have been 1,603 reported cases in Africa and 887 deaths.
That’s too many. But every day about 600 sub-Saharan Africans die of tuberculosis, and contagious diarrhea claims the lives of 2,195 children, the vast majority of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
Malaria, syphilis, AIDS and probably dozens of other diseases each year kill Africans at higher rates than Ebola is killing right now.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Michael Fumento is a lawyer and journalist who specializes in mass hysteria. He lives in Colombia.
From one count I saw, there has been a bit more than 2000 deaths. Since 1976. Perhaps it is getting much worse. I know this has apparently been the worst year. Could be a fluke, could be the disease has changed. I do not know.
Unless the author is a noted physician that has treated this and other infectious diseases (NOT a friggin attorney) I see no need to pay him any mind at all...
Fumento is an excellent science author who wrote the book, "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS," which predicted in 1993 that AIDS would continue to be confined mostly to the homosexual and drug user population. That was in direct conflict with the U.S. government's "AIDS Doesn't Discriminate" propaganda campaign, and he was absolutely correct.
If Fumento thinks Ebola doesn't present a significant threat, I'm inclined to give him a listen.
You know its time to start panicking when all the right-thinking people start spilling a lot of ink saying, “There’s nothing to be afraid of.”
The odds that something like this may hit here may be small, but it is NOT zero. I don’t think that there should be hysteria about Ebola, but I do think there should be concern.
Not exactly.
Me too!
Another knuckleheaded “expert”. A “lawyer” too.
I don’t think it would spread here as easily as it does in Africa but its certainly worth keeping an eye on.
That said, maybe they should stop walking around in space suits if its so hard to transmit.
To me?
This is just another shit borne disease from deep in the tropical lands of Africa. Every virus that is out there needs the right conditions to flourish. I doubt it will carry far in America. It will do poorest in in dry desert areas like Phoenix or areas of Texas. Better yet, a place with freeze thaw cycles... Alert.
I also believe it can take a real foothold in the areas where sanitary conditions are real poor... like the third world equatorial regions who are still drinking their effluent from the nearest river or stream. Places where three quarters of the population are already run down with all the following typhus, hepatitis a, b and c, malaria, aids and other sexual diseases. Once the body is already diseased, it takes little incremental disease to kill it.
Also, here in North America, beyond our civilization our culture is entirely different.
If it does surface here, we know that we can contain it. Africans are not like that.
I really do not think it has a future here.
If you like your health, you can keep your health.
Seriously, is it all that hard to look the guy up on Amazon?
In addition to the excellent science books linked above, Michael Fumento was also one of the first to blow the whistle on the black church fires hoax in 1996.
It takes up to 21 days to incubate.
Parts of the U.S. are essentially 3rd world right now. Go visit some ‘migrant’ trailer parks. They’d be reluctant to seek medical attention as well.
It’s spread through blood but the blood can vaporize and it takes very little to infect someone. The last stages have people who aren’t controlled wandering around their village and they fall down with the guts splitting open and bleeding out.
It’s absolutely a terrifying disease and it could break out here.
Read THE HOT ZONE about the outbreak in the 80s here outside D.C. This strain appears to be worse than that as the 8 health workers working with the doctor transported here are now infected back in Africa. Indicates it’s airborne capacity may be stronger than any we’ve seen before from Ebola.
We absolutely could have contained AIDS.
But we didn't.
It would be racist to quarantine ebola victims who are not white. We would be prejudging them based on the color of their skin.
And that is exactly the thinking that allowed AIDS to get out, except you were a homophobe instead of a racist.
Fumento’s book on AIDS was a great read. At the time if you remember, Magic Johnson tested positive for it. Because of Fumento’s book I was and am still suspicious that he really has it.
How many people in America had SARS? We know at least 2 persons on the continent have ebola and they took precautions but still caught it.
Working on the disease ward with the worst cases does call for protective gear.
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