Posted on 10/01/2014 9:59:34 PM PDT by Kartographer
Thomas Duncan was vomiting wildly outside of this apartment on the way to the hospital. Yahoo reported:
Two days after he was sent home from a Dallas hospital, the man who is the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States was seen vomiting on the ground outside an apartment complex as he was bundled into an ambulance.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Blue Oyster Cult is great apocalypso music!
I’m thinking Led Zeppelin 3 too and Black Sabbath’s ‘Paranoid’ definitely. And Bob Marley for the steel drums.
Yeah, the siren in ‘War Pigs’ and there’s your set-stage doomsday scenario.
Man, I hope horror liberal Stephen King isn’t immune. He can be such a scold.
Rats and the plague... familiar
Dry...nicely done
Yup. Some animals will eat vomit. That includes some dogs. The scary thing is that dogs don’t get sick from Ebola. But they can carry it and be contagious. Dunno what other animals can besides some bats.
The press was even trying to say that he was not contagious on the plane simply because he did not have symptoms on the plane... talk about distortion.
“Blue Oyster Cult will be the soundtrack of the revolution.”
Stephen Hyde/ That 70s show.
Most of BOC’s music was influenced by Lovecraft and John Dee, since Sandy Perlman, their manager/song writer, was a ritual high Mage.
BOC *is* apocalypso.
:D
[and crazy-ass Eric Bloom spends his down time split between playing WOW online and monitoring SETI for “contact”]
Dallas Ebola Patient Was Another Visa Mistake
By Jessica Vaughan, October 1, 2014
Look up “likely visa overstay” in the dictionary, and you should find a picture of Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who is the first Ebola case diagnosed within the United States, and who is now being treated in a Dallas hospital.
This looks like another good case for the consular officers training manual of a non-immigrant visa that never should have been issued, but which could have serious public health consequences, not to mention monetary costs.
According to his Facebook page and other reports, Duncan is a 40-something, single, unemployed Liberian living in Ghana who applied sometime in the last year for a visa to visit his sister in the United States. It was reportedly his first time visiting this country.
That is six strikes against his application:
Single
Unemployed
Liberian (5th highest overstay rate of any country in the world)
Living outside country of citizenship
First time traveler to the United States
Sister living in the United States.
Together, all these factors should have weighed very heavily against the issuance of a visitor’s visa to Duncan. He clearly appears unqualified.
In 2013, more than 3,500 non-immigrant visas were issued to Liberians. This number has grown steadily since 2009, when just over 1,300 were issued. Most are issued to tourists and business travelers. A relatively high percentage do not return, but settle here illegally to join a well-established Liberian community (many of whom have won green cards in the visa lottery).
The federal government has yet to disclose the details of Duncan’s immigration history, but it is fair to ask why he was issued a visa in the first place? More importantly, what steps are being taken to prevent others who may be infected from entering the country?
Using 2013 non-immigrant visa issuance statistics and information on visa validity periods, I estimate that there are about 5,000 people from Sierra Leone, 5,000 people from Guinea, and 3,500 people from Liberia who have valid non-immigrant visas to enter the United States.
The president and his immigration agencies have the authority and the responsibility to deny admission to any alien that has (or cannot establish to the government’s satisfaction that he or she doesn’t have) a communicable disease of public health significance, such as ebola. In the midst of this severe outbreak, the government should be setting up more robust screening protocols. Reportedly, travelers to the United States are simply being questioned about their contact with infected people and are checked for a fever. In contrast, three African countries (Namibia, Kenya, and Zambia) have banned travelers from the countries that are experiencing the outbreak (Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea).
In July, a member of Congress sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson suggesting that we bar entry to any foreign travelers who have visited the three Ebola-stricken countries within 90 days of seeking entry to the United States.
http://www.cis.org/vaughan/dallas-ebola-patient-was-another-visa-mistake
Contagious? Is there any evidence of anyone ever having come down with ebola due to exposure from a dog? I don't believe there is. The cases that have been attributed to bats were either due to eating them or being bitten by them. That is not contagion.
EVERYONE is spouting this BS. If he was already infected on the plane doesn’t it stand to reason he was also contagious?
Or am I the dumb one?
Technically, dogs only eat regurgitated food [which is very different from true vomit] whether their own or that of their peers.
I’ve never seen one touch “real” vomit.
Yes, there are. Lots. But before you go all flame thrower on me, I admit that you are right and dogs who harbor the virus aren’t contagious because I am just stupid and don’t bother looking into anything before posting.
/Tired of these arguments. Familiar pattern. You are right, I’m wrong, the end. OK?
What is this fascination with trying to pin ebola on dogs that cropped up tonight? Any idea? Is it spiteful cat lovers, lol? Muslims? There has been no instance of anyone contracting ebola from a dog that I’m aware.
“Although canine infection by Ebola virus has never been documented, domestic dogs’ behavior and diet place them at risk.”
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Ebola+virus+antibody+prevalence+in+dogs+and+human+risk.-a0131127452
Unless you eat the dog
http://speakupforthevoiceless.org/2014/04/02/dog-meat-trade-ebola/
[toldja eating dogs was bad]
:)
I have seen dogs eat puke after a frat party. But I won’t argue. Your right. Dogs don’t do that, I won’t argue, you’re right. OK?
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the Dog Haters, as roaring lions, walketh about, seeking whom they may devour.
[oh, wait, that was Satan...]
Beats me but I can tell you the consequences.
Somebody, somewhere, is gonna freak out and start a pogrom against them.
Muzzies would just *love* that.
I watched a show the other that sought to explain why we fear the dark.
Turns out the reason is cats, albeit much bigger ones.
Good thing Dog came in and took his faithful place by the fire.
;]
Is there some reason you’re getting defensive and angry?
I’m not on your case.
I simply stated that I have never seen such a thing.
*However*, at a frat party, lots of recently eaten food probably was mixed in.
[good lord, this is gross]
You make a new or controversial claim, you provide evidence to back it up in the form of source. That’s how you maintain credibility, pityar. Not by disparaging those who question your assertions.
Certain viruses have a ‘grace period’ between the time you are infected/symptomatic and the time you become able to infect others.
Hopefully, this is like that.
:-\
Yup. You’re dumb. So am I. I posted something similar last night and got flamed. My link to the CDC indicating that long term proximity within 3 feet of an Ebola victim was a risk factor was dismissed because the other poster did not care what links I provided. Ditto my link to a study re asymptomatic contagiousness. Because, you know, the CDC and those scientists are all morons or something. And I definitely am just stupid.
/Utter sarc BTW. No, you aren’t the stupid one here.
Yes. And sorry, not your fault. I have repeatedly posted info about Ebola and been challenged to provide links. When I do, I am told that my info is useless, including CDC links. Just tired of being beaten up when simply trying to share information as I understand it. So i have gotten a little defensive.
My bad.
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