— Ebola can survive on surfaces for almost TWO MONTHS —
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220107/posts
“Tests reveal certain strains survive for weeks when stored at low temperatures ...”
[Wonderful, wonderful — ebola can now ‘hang out’ with us this winter.]
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— CDC gives ebola permission to be airborne —
[headline... ]
CDC Finally Admits that Ebola Can Float through the Air … 3 Feet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220069/posts
[To be clear, NOT three feet above the ground. Three feet above the nose, and that is if there’s no air current.]
“All fluids are capable of becoming airborne.” — GilesB
[Yes, the CDC now permits ebola to obey the laws of physics.]
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Obama Health Official: Ebola Can Spread Through Bus Sweat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220049/posts
“Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary Dr. Nicole Lurie said in sworn testimony that Ebola can spread through perspiration left on a bus seat.”
[No wait: you can infect others on a bus, but you can’t catch it on a bus. But you can infect others, and you can go insane trying to ... whatever.]
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— [NJ] Christie Caves, bows and scrapes before ‘the One’ —
NYT: Nurse in Newark to Be Allowed to Finish Ebola Quarantine at Home, Christie Says
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220006/posts
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Cuban doctors proud to risk lives in mission to halt Ebola (held for 21 days when they return)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220142/posts
[They should go visit New Jersey and hang out at the casinos during those 21 days while keeping Cubans safe.]
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5 Year Old Under Ebola Evaluation at a New York Hospital
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3220143/posts
[A new, improved, and superior kind of ebola examination is now being attempted in New York ...]
... The boy is undergoing an evaluation, which includes taking a thorough history of the child’s recent travel with his family to West Africa and finding out if he’s come into contact with people who have Ebola, said Raju, the president of New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, which oversees Bellevue. CNN’s Chris Cuomo asked why the child wasn’t simply tested... [gentle snip]
[As I understand it, we must be sentitive to the ebol-i. They have feelings too after all.]
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Bellevue Hospital ICU patients head to NYU Langone to free up staff for Ebola cases
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220155/posts
[Yes, spread the love around.]
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U.S. soldiers returning from Liberia monitored for Ebola in Italy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220057/posts
... and ...
JCS Recommended Mandatory 21-day Ebola Quarantine For Military returning from Africa
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220045/posts
[So it’s okay to inconvenience our fighting forces because they’re just ‘nobodies’. But the healthcare workers must be allowed to search their own consciences and be trusted and even sue anyone who dares put them in an isolation tent when they return here with a fever.]
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CNN: Cuomo, Perry play politics on Ebola
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220087/posts
[CNN normally only bashes the good guys for doing the right thing. But in this case the network is spanking a beloved member of the D.isease Party next to an ‘evil’ republican.]
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Wasserman Schultz: Republicans Are Scarier Than Ebola, ISIS (video)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220091/posts
[Maybe today she might say that republicans are scarier than the devil himself?]
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[... move heavy objects away from you first ...]
Rednecks have no escape: Ebola should bring home to US conservatives that they are part of humanity
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220066/posts
[Well guess what? Bigger cities are higher risk. The perverse leftist is clueless — we’re actually fighting more for the lives of leftists in dense populations than we are for ourselves. Basic math is a new concept to this guy. And as usual, fools resent being scolded for their foolishness — better to get between a mother bear and her cub than to save a fool from suicidal foolishness.]
“People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York – a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children. (Should I mention that Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?) This family represents the cultural changes that have enveloped parts – but not all – of America.” If the thought of New York’s first family’s interracial marriage makes many Republicans (and apparently Cohen) gag,... “ [snip]
[Gary Younge doesn’t know a ‘conventional view’ in our nation any more than he understands math.]
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Political Ebola Czar Working Exactly As Obama Intended
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220185/posts
‘The New York Times let slip the Ebola Czar’s true purpose through an anonymous Democrat operative: “He’ll control the message better than most people would, which is really important from an economic standpoint, from a health standpoint, but it’s also important from a political perspective. If anybody can get the way this is being reported and discussed under control in a short period of time, he’s the one.” Just so. Klein started his new job on Wednesday of last week. We saw the results of his politics-first, policy-second strategy over the weekend...’
[Good to know. Yes, we don’t want silly facts getting in the way of our wonderful ebola policies.]
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Ebola In Japan? Authorities Test First Potential Case Of Infected Traveler In Tokyo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220174/posts
[Don’t expect Japan to get ‘hip’ with our superior ebola policy. I fully expect Japan to crack down and be boringly conventional.]
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NYT: AIDS Activists Oppose Cuomo on Ebola Quarantines
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220072/posts
Moderator Calls Out Franken For Not Answering Ebola Question
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220051/posts
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Daily Beast Column: New York & New Jersey’s Ebola Quarantines Are an Insane Overreaction
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220100/posts
[I can understand ‘bus-sweat’ remarks to be confusing, but what about after they learn that the CDC gave the virus permission to be airborne?]
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Minn. African restaurant owner forced to change sign over Ebola fears
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220099/posts
[If the African restaurant owner really wants to tick people off, offer a discount to all meat-eaters.]
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African Boys Attacked at Texas School, Called “Ebola”: Advocacy Group
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3220194/posts
A group that advocates for Africans in Texas is calling for action after it says two brothers who had recently immigrated to the borough from Senegal were beaten and badly injured by several people who called them “Ebola” in school. The 11- and 13-year-old boys, in sixth and eighth grade, respectively, were attacked Friday afternoon at I.S. 318 in Tremont, according to the African Advisory Council. Their father, Ousame Drame, said they were pummeled by other students in the schoolyard during lunch after enduring weeks of taunts. The boys, who have been in the U.S. for about a month,...
[NBC New York is very excited to learn about this amazing revelation — Texas children CAN be cruel. Why, it should be front page news across the land — ‘President Ebola Failed to Even Improve Racial Harmony in Texas’. Perhaps he can hold a beer summit with the lads and let them romp and frolick among his styrofoam columns. I did hope we could at least solve this one problem under the One. But alas, silly me. It seems to be getting worse, especially in the Bronx — NOT Texas by the bye. A little trickery on my part. The outraged organization is ‘Africans in the Bronx’. Nor should we be surprised if the entire matter is a leftist hoax. Monte Carlo rates it at 50/50 odds.]
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How some exposure to Ebola “could” lead to immunity
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3220105/posts
[You too can join in the ‘ebola-lotto’ sweepstakes! Winners survive, and losers die.]
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CDC guidelines: If you jabbed yourself with a needle okay to go jogging
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220240/posts
[By all means, if you have been treating ebola patients and return to the good old US of A, by all means jab yourself with a needle and go for a jog. Just do not infect others with your ‘bus-sweat’. Oh, and keep three feet away from others, but never mind the complexities of air currents. Oh yes, unless you are a member of the armed forces. Then go vacation in Italy for 21 days while jabbing yourself with needles all you like.]
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Video: SNL mocks entire Obama tenure in Ebola skit
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220020/posts
Blackmailers threaten Czechs with Ebola outbreak
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220055/posts
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Ebola Commander Quarantined by Pentagon...
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/27/politics/soldiers-monitored-ebola/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
[It is not clear to me if he is jabbing himself with needles before a jog, but he is apparently forbidden from giving others ‘bus-sweat’. But if you ask me, when it comes to someone’s honor I would pick military officers over civilians any day of the week.]
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Australia issues blanket visa ban on Ebola-hit countries
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220308/posts
[Now that’s hardly interesting. Only African nations bother with that boring and successful policy. It’s far more interesting to ponder the routes of sweaty joggers, to shut down clinics and bowling alleys, to watch nurses get hospitalized, and all the rest of it. Seriously though, God bless those brave healthcare workers!]
Flashback to Oct 22:
WH: States to Decide What to Do If West African Travelers Don’t Self-Report Ebola Symptoms
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218918/posts
And just a week before: Oct 16, 2014
Ebola in the Big Apple? CDC tells NYC to get ready
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ebola-in-the-big-apple-cdc-tells-nyc-to-get-ready/article/2554882