Posted on 08/05/2014 7:44:30 PM PDT by xuberalles
I love how the media, in a frantic attempt to cover Obama’s tracks, is working overtime to convince us Ebola is not deadly or highly contagious. Check, please! There are documented cases of trained experts contracting Ebola while wearing environmental suits and dying. So far, more than 100 health workers that were on the front lines fighting the virus have ended up contracting Ebola themselves. This is happening despite the fact that they go to extraordinary lengths to keep from getting the disease.
I have no problem providing the best possible treatment for those two courageous Americans who were merely trying to remedy the suffering of others, but for the life of me I don’t understand why the CDC wouldn’t secure treatment through a foreign base or hospital? Why risk a pandemic of Ebola, one of the deadliest contagions ever known to man, by consciously introducing it to our urban epicenters? Who doesn’t like to keep napalm in the forest? I could careless about the promise of experimental vaccines, or survival rates, for viruses mutate faster than the legality of an IRS audit at a gun show. Speaking of authority, for the love of God why aren’t international passengers being tirelessly screened at every port, station, checkpoint and airport traveling anywhere near the U.S.? Just don't be alarmed that the CDC has set up an Ebola "quarantine station" at LAX in order to help prevent the spread of the virus once it arrives here; which will be too late to prevent deaths on our soil. American citizens can’t take mouthwash or tweezers on a flight without being questioned or detained, yet somehow Ebola doesn’t rise to that level of discretion because Washington – ground zero for incompetence and corrupt leadership – says so?
Do you want to know what’s even scarier? Me neither! Ever since his youth Obama has blamed America and vowed revenge for the so-called rape and economic colonization of Africa; not that indigenous warlords and rogue dictators continue to enslave and kill their countrymen in the name of humanity. How ironic, utterly tragic, would it be if the modern plague of his native homeland granted Barry the national emergency he so desperately craves in order to consolidate power, bring America to its knees, and enact martial law? Sorry, I put nothing past a man who was raised by Communists, identified with radical Islamists in college and Congress, and spent 20 years in a blatantly anti-American church. And now, at the most opportune time of progressive ambivalence, we have no borders. Illegal immigrants never carry disease, do they? Thank God Mexico has standards and polio. Welcome to Ebola….population “dumb”!
Note: "Barack Obama has just signed an executive order that gives the federal government the power to apprehend and detain Americans that show symptoms of "diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled."
The CDC has just put up a brand new webpage entitled "Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Hospitalized Patients with Known or Suspected Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in U.S. Hospitals.
” Reston virus is non-pathogenic to humans, though hazardous to monkeys;[3][4] the perception of its lethality was confounded due to the monkey’s coinfection with Simian hemorrhagic fever virus (SHFV).”
Not even close to the same thing and no not airborne.....keep spreading the fear
Please be more specific.
I was rude to no one. I quoted studies. Sorry when a lab tech tells me about OSHA protocols and hence that some how applies to an epidemiological study.... that doesn’t cut it.
Part of the reason people are fearful is because they get information that contains half truths and misinformation. There is nothing rude about telling others that the information being spouted is full of half truths.
Interesting because the Daily Times of London attributes this picture to UNICEF (and the watermark in their picture does as well). You cite a Boston paper with a nice little foot note that doesn’t match any other usage of this picture.
This is why I want to know sources of pictures. It is like trying to figure out if the aspirin factory had a bomb making section in the basement. The truth is there exist lots of pictures out there. Some show folks in some form of protective gear and this picture is definitely not in a hospital...maybe in a triage center away from the city) and other pictures show medical personnel treating people with no protective gear.
What does UNICEF say it is?
However that statement is a bit misleading in of itself. Because even the current strain of Ebola is more contagious than AIDS (or the virus that causes AIDS really).
It's not possible, for example, to get AIDS from casual contact with infected individuals, but with Ebola, sweat and tears can spread the disease, if such fluids come in contact with mucous membranes, even only casually. The proof of this is the fact that aid workers who have treated Ebola patients have contracted the disease.
This isn't the case with AIDS or we would've seen cases pop up in those who treat such patients by now and not just homosexuals and/or IV drug users.
“Are you that stupid?” is rude. (IMO, of course)
.....”It is ridiculous to treat something that is NOT an airborne pathogen as if it is. The scare tactics and fear mongering going on over this is beyond silly”......
No it’s not..because they don’t know this ‘with certainty’, as your post indicated.
As for hygiene....well there’s plenty in our country who could fit the bill for lack of.
.....”Part of the reason people are fearful is because they get information that contains half truths and misinformation”.....
Perhaps....but far better to side with safety first when we do know facts and information can and often is misleading...or even kept from the public until after the fact.
Which would mean better to see this as possible to be or become air-born. Why risk otherwise?
I don’t see Obama being as power hungry as the Clintons. They are the ones we should be wary of. Obama is just filling time until he can go into retirement. I think he is sick of the job.
Thou dost protest too much. Go ahead and run with the obabma press releases but as you can see, the photograph released by the hospital do not jibe with your description of some super, high tech isolation room. The claims that you cite fall short of convincing as well. Emory is a reasonably good hospital, parts of it with an “A” rating and others as low as a “C” Things will probably be all right but it was a foolish risk to introduce a disease for which there is no cure to a fresh, new continent when it was unnecessary. Ask the Indians how that worked out for them.
You still haven’t said anything, except that you disagree with all reports of these 4 special infection treatment centers in America and that the one at the Emory hospital designed to isolate CDC personnel in case of contamination doesn’t actually exist as reported.
Sounds like a personal problem, just another goofy conspiracy.
As goofy as your thinking that these two patients at our Ebola treatment center will decide if Ebola reaches the public in America.
CDC just went to “level 1 activation”.
Rather a severe reaction to what you deem a non-issue.
Talk about trying too hard, or more accurately, lying, I have never called it a non-issue, and this is the third Level 1 activation in the last 9 years, Hurricane Katrina was one and Bird flu in 2009.
UNICEF had no tag for it
“However that statement is a bit misleading in of itself. Because even the current strain of Ebola is more contagious than AIDS “
Where did you get that information?
Where in the US do families regularly dine with dead bodies as part of the death and burial tradition?
These third world back waters are cesspools and largely because they live as folks did hundreds of years ago
Heck, I am dressing up as Ebola for Halloween this year. Let’s party...
A health worker, wearing personal protection gear, offers water to a woman with Ebola virus disease (EVD), at a treatment centre for infected persons in Kenema Government Hospital, in Kenema, Eastern Province, Sierra Leone in this August, 2014 handout photo provided by UNICEF August 6, 2014.
Worn out, torn, punctured and threadbare protective gear being reused.
Exactly
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