Posted on 08/10/2014 12:46:23 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe
Read more here: http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2014/08/20/3804607_sacramento-patients-ebola-test.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy>[?
The article is dated August 20, so that would mean results would be expected on the 23rd
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/tests-under-way-for-ebola-following-donegal-death-1.1904073
Dude from Ireland who’d been working in Sierra Leone until 2 weeks ago turns up dead. He was 44 and being treated for ‘malaria’.
Coupled with initial symptoms which mimic so may other diseases that could cause a problem if/when Ebola infected patients are encountered.
And if you read the article, he attended a festival last weekend.
Joy.
If it was ebola, hopefully he didn’t have a low grade fever and headache and just take some ibuprofen and man up.
It’s time to vent.
The international response to this has been less than pathetic.
Doctors Without Borders is the ONLY major international group that has been making an all out effort to help with this. They have voluntarily put their own lives at risk, but their resources are not nearly adequate.
WHO has been worse than a dirty joke at a funeral.
The lack of meaningful tangible help from the West is no longer possible to ignore.
I am disgusted and appalled.
I also have to ask WHY?
Al Gore is not the only environmental extremist who would welcome a dramatic population reduction. It’s a surprisingly widespread view among his sort.
Although they would welcome dramatic population reduction, I cannot imagine even the enviro wackos would deliberately launch something like Ebola (in spite of entertaining novels from Tom Clancy about them doing just that).
But I can easily see how they would be just fine with letting Ebola run its course. As long as it stayed comfortably far away from them, of course.
Normally I would dismiss such thoughts as too far out to even consider. But our response has been so pathetically poor that I’m beginning to wonder if that is what we are actually seeing.
Which is about normal for any UN operation. They are international bureaucrats. That isn't saying there might not be some good people in there at the field level, but the upper echelons are more concerned with image than results.
Medicine Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) and other organizations do what they can, and it is up to us to support those efforts.
I am thanking God for this miracle, and looking at what this virus does, it is indeed a miracle for these two and those that love them.
It was such an uplifting moment in a week of just crappy news.
To God be the glory.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola-crisis-food-water-scarce-in-quarantined-liberia-area-1.2743464
“Government officials handed out bags of rice and sachets of drinking water Thursday to residents of an impoverished slum in Liberia’s capital where tens of thousands of people have been barricaded in an effort to stop the spread of Ebola.”
Interesting that his sudden ‘holiday’ trip back to Ireland corresponds to the time period European governments were telling their people to ‘Get Out Now’.
I saw that.
They (on the PFI board) are also wondering if this could be the same guy who was tested for Ebola a week ago in Dublin and came back negative. Imagine the ramifications on that one, if it is, and he actually WAS...
Given all the people who have been tested for ebola with good suspicions, it stands to reason there has been at least one statistical false negative.
Just how many is another question.
Yeah, that was the disturbing article that’s been posted throughout this whole epidemic.
Of the 68 that were tested, with reason, in this country so far there are statistically bound to be some false negatives.
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