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Not Worried About Ebola? You Should Be.
Novelist and writer Derrick Dean "Shadows of History" ^

Posted on 10/13/2014 6:08:00 PM PDT by truthfinder9

If you’re like me, you’re baffled and disturbed, that weeks after the ebola epidemic has raged across Africa, we are still letting people from those areas into the U.S. If you are not baffled or disturbed, I’m thinking you don’t understand what ebola is.

What it is not is the flu or measles. You have the flu and cough in a room full of people, most won’t even get sick, let alone die. You have ebola and cough in a room, many may get it (no immunities) and, well, the fatality rate puts this disease somewhere above anthrax (which doesn’t spread very easily without sophisticated help).

While I’m sure there are plenty of dedicated people working around the clock to fight this disease, the laze-fair doctrine of non-existent control of our borders and who enters the country is ripe for a deadly scourge. The open borders, by some studies, is at fault for the recent re-emergence of other disease outbreaks — though none of the killing caliber of ebola.

(Excerpt) Read more at darrickdean.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: borders; cdc; disease; ebola
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To: truthfinder9
Not Worried About Ebola? You Should Be.....clicking on my blog and on all my blog sponsors!

There, completed it.

21 posted on 10/13/2014 6:25:01 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: ClearCase_guy

I heard they are worried about Mears with that group.


22 posted on 10/13/2014 6:25:14 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: truthfinder9

It’s the most horrific contagious disease known.
And that maniac in the White House has deliberately and knowingly released here.
He is a criminal and arch-enemy of America and those who continue to support him and his party are mindless zombies.


23 posted on 10/13/2014 6:25:33 PM PDT by ZULU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qLDFiQcjlY Impeach Obama in 2015 !!!)
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To: JudyinCanada

I saw on FOX at about 4:30 this afternoon that a plane landed in Boston with about 5 sick people. Not sure where it was from (UAE?), and I haven’t heard a word about it since. Strange

On Fox News?


24 posted on 10/13/2014 6:26:31 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (w)
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To: luv2ndamend
P.S. Where's Duncan's family??

You aren't supposed to know.

25 posted on 10/13/2014 6:27:30 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: steve86

Well there’s at least these FIVE:

>http://www.vox.com/2014/9/8/6122471/what-we-know-about-the-new-enterovirus-outbreak-virus<

And this one:
>http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/11/toddler-dies-from-enterovirus/17108865/<

And ZERO American Ebola deaths.


26 posted on 10/13/2014 6:27:35 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: yarddog
I can’t imagine any sane president sending our military to the middle of a highly contagious epidemic

It's an indicator of his total contempt of the front line soldier. And he has the GALL to act like he took us out of Iraq over the safety of our soldiers!!

27 posted on 10/13/2014 6:34:51 PM PDT by Antoninus II
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To: luckystarmom; Mears
I heard they are worried about Mears with that group.

Why? What did she do?

28 posted on 10/13/2014 6:42:04 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Now is not the time for fear. That comes later.")
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To: yarddog

the progressives think a lower population can have a higher standard of living ... It is an elitist view. There are too many of us. Of course Obama may think only the white population needs lowering


29 posted on 10/13/2014 6:50:47 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: truthfinder9

30 posted on 10/13/2014 6:50:51 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: yarddog
"I know this sounds odd but I really think Obama wants Americans to get Ebola. He doesn’t think it is fair that Africans have it and Americans don’t.

I can’t imagine any sane president sending our military to the middle of a highly contagious epidemic."

I believe you're absolutely right!

31 posted on 10/13/2014 6:54:53 PM PDT by Hillbillary
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To: truthfinder9

What’s a Derrick dean?


32 posted on 10/13/2014 6:55:35 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: steve86
Influenza much more communicable in a room with a sick patient -- no comparison. Half of Dallas would be sick with Ebola by now if it were communicable like flu.

I take your point, but a lot of the reassurance from the CDC seems to be based on the fact that Ebola is not an airborne virus. But influenza isn't spread solely by airborne droplets of mucus from people sneezing. Touch a surface infected by a flu sufferer's mucus and you can carry the virus to your own nose or mouth. And as far as I can see, Ebola can be spread in exactly the same way.

If this is the case, I'm not reassured - all it takes is for the people in your hypothetical room to touch a door knob, a drinking fountain, a pen, a TV remote that has been handled by the Ebola sufferer while he has some bodily secretions on his hands. The fact that Ebola sufferers are subject to bleeding - e.g. nosebleeds, internal bleeding resulting in vomiting - means mucus isn't the only possible source of infection, either.
33 posted on 10/13/2014 7:05:07 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: luv2ndamend

“P.S. Where’s Duncan’s family??”

Well, I really don’t know...

I think they were put (incommunicado) after all the hoopla over the hospital and their subsequent accusations...

If I had to venture a guess, I would say that they are still being monitored, until their 21 days are up..just a few more days and that they are staying with a benefactor. (who I cannot possibly know)

So no....I don’t have a clue where they are.


34 posted on 10/13/2014 7:08:22 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: bushwon

Yes - see post #11. It’s all fine.


35 posted on 10/13/2014 7:09:41 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Why? What did she do? “


Oh my lord,my secret is out !!!!

Good laugh here.

MRSA,MRSA Me. (Marvin Gaye)

:-)


37 posted on 10/13/2014 7:44:18 PM PDT by Mears
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To: truthfinder9

How worried someone is or sin’t really does not matter. Prudently addressing real cases and preventing new cases is all that matters.

The left obsesses over feelings. That’s why they focus more on reaction and feelings than on facts. There will always be a wide range of reactions to various threats — different personalities and experiences — and so what? As long as feelings do not cause criminal actions it really makes no difference whatsoever. See a priest or a pastor or a counselor or a psychologist about your feelings. Government and health officials should focus only on real cases and the prevention of real cases. The media should focus on facts. When they try to shape facts to produce or minimize reactions they wrongly write themselves into the story.


38 posted on 10/13/2014 9:07:08 PM PDT by Penny 4 Thoughts
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