Look in the news at how Ebola is being treated in the hospitals, the public, sprayed into the sewer, etc.....
When you go to Wikipedia and look up Ebola. It's listed as a Biosafety level 4. Most people don't even have gloves on or are a level 2 or a level 3.
Now compound the above information with the 3 week not detectable period.
Then think of the collapsing 3 world economies because of Ebola. Five people a hour are being infected.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/02/ebola-infecting-five-every-hour-sierra-leone
Now think of the wide open borders along with no ID required for illegals to fly here.
http://dailysignal.com/2014/08/25/illegal-immigrant-air-tsa-allows-illegal-immigrants-board-planes-without-ids/
Compound that all together in about 45 to 90 days we are going to be in deep trouble. We can probably still turn this around. However, this is going to be a disaster if its not stopped now.
Here are the links
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/02/ebola-infecting-five-every-hour-sierra-leone
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and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety_level
Disregard this warning if bleeding out through your mouth, eyes, and asshole for touching the wrong doorknob or being in the wrong place after someone coughed doesn’t bother you.
Knowing all the details about Ebola makes me feel so much better.
No problem, however, Obama has it under control. /s
Bingo!
Don’t listen to their lying words, look at how THEY ARE HANDLING Ebola when they have to face it!
There are only 19 level 4 bio hazard units in the US and 4 in the UK:
Wife was wanting to buy a tyvek suit and goggles etc. I explained that if we were to wear this stuff into a contaminated area we’d need a place to wash it off before taking it off. Bottom line is there’s no way an average person can truly protect himself with the exception of total isolation. With that said, I will do what I can.
The cynic in me says that guy was allowed to fly into Texas because it is a solidly red state. The conspiracy side of my brain says maybe someone wants an outbreak there, make them dependent on the feds, try to instill in them the notion that a big powerful fed is a good thing, look how we came to your rescue. .. Just saying, hearts and minds...
Why panic about ebola?
Just follow some basic rules:
cough or sneeze into your elbow and all is fine.
I spoke with a local funeral director to see what his take is on ebola. He said it’s no different than AIDS. He says the gov is making too much of a big deal out of it. (My jaw dropped)
Meanwhile, today I was at my auto mechanic’s and needed a pen to sign the receipt. I cringed when I chose a pen from their pen collection and made a mental note to always carry a pen with me, as well as find my grandma’s antique white gloves and start wearing them. Now I know why she had so many!
No medical facility other than a specialized research and testing lab is going to use level 4 gear. It’s not gonna happen.
Wikipedia article says there are only 15 BSL4 facilities in the US and 9 of them are federally owned. They are research only labs..or testing...many have to do with agriculture.
The BSL 4 rating for ebola and other hemorrhagics is due largely because it has no vaccine. Much less a approved antiviral.
That argument is not relevant.
We can gear up for level 3 with or have done so already with many of our larger hospitals. The smaller ones (clinics) will have to enhance their predominantly level 2 setups with some better protective gear and protocols.
All that aside, I watched the briefing today. Although nothing was surprising, I did find what they said about controlling this disease outbreak at the source to be very relevant.
If this continues to run uncontrolled, like a forest fire, it will begin to spread up and down the African Western coastal communities.
People in the interior who get their supplies and food from the coast, will find that there is none available, and they with their lifelines cut, they will have no choice but to migrate out, increasing the population densities..
Eventually the fire will end up in North Africa, and in South Africa.
Use your imagination as to where it will go from there, but you can be certain that at that point, people will be trying to get out, and using any mode of transport to get to Europe, North and south America...anywhere but there.
We would not be able to stop them. There are far to many miles of unprotected coast, and of course the land borders. At this point, no transportation controls will work.
Of course within months our medical care system would collapse. Just as any system would.
But all that is preventable, I believe, if we put the resources to work on the source.
All this bickering over air travel fears brought on by one guy, is ridiculous. It totally avoids talking about the elephant in the room.
I have seen hundreds of posts decrying what is essentially the only correct course of action for the US and the entire world to take, and that is to put out the fire in Africa.
If we don’t, then all the argument will be moot. There will be only one course of action left and that is your own self protection because you will not be able to protect the US from succumbing to the fire.
Oh...we can spend all our time predicting the end of days caused by a gigantic CME or the likely hood of a asteroid strike that would be a cataclysm and end of life on earth, but it’s waste of time because we cannot do anything to prevent that.
But we can prevent this...We have beaten disease and plagues, once understood, and we have the tools to beat this one..We understand it..
But the best way is to put the fire out at the source. If we don’t, our tools will be useless.
Eric Duncan slept in every bed in his Dallas apartment and slept with his girlfriend when he was shivering from the symptoms. The CDC has no properly secured the apartment—infected sheets, blankets, pillows, and towels are still in the apartment. I have read that the members of he family have not been quarantined and were free to go outside the apartment.
This reminds me of the Zombie movie, World War Z. With the incompetence of the CDC we may be headed towards an ebola apocalypse.
If you can’t do all that, learn how to start an IV and do this...
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/25/health/ebola-fatu-family/index.html
Instead Fatu, who’s in her final year of nursing school, invented her own equipment. International aid workers heard about Fatu’s “trash bag method” and are now teaching it to other West Africans who can’t get into hospitals and don’t have protective gear of their own.
Every day, several times a day for about two weeks, Fatu put trash bags over her socks and tied them in a knot over her calves. Then she put on a pair of rubber boots and then another set of trash bags over the boots.
She wrapped her hair in a pair of stockings and over that a trash bag. Next she donned a raincoat and four pairs of gloves on each hand, followed by a mask.
It was an arduous and time-consuming process, but Fatu was religious about it, never cutting corners.
by Elizabeth Cohen written on Sept 26, 2014
When will surgeons decline to perform elective procedures?
Realize that homosexuality is illegal in the West African ebola nations.
Wait until Ebola enter the gay community here in the U.S.!!!
Hiv of the 80s teaches us that they will use thier political pressure to deny that any gays have Ebola.
i don’t believe they want to stop it. they want it full-blown.
If Obama really want to assure us there is nothing to worry about certainly some important celebrity friends can reassure us on his behalf. Maybe Jay Z and Beyonce can fly to and from Monrovia in coach?
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread