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.
I haven't seen one of those, do you have a link?
Who really knows? Of course we have complete confidence in their tracking....right?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3188973/posts
It would be easier if you guys would post your links to your source of information.
That doesn’t say what you claimed. Your link totally contradicts your claim.
“”This is only the deadliest outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease because past ones were so tiny. At this writing, there have been 1,603 reported cases in Africa and 887 deaths.
That’s too many. But every day about 600 sub-Saharan Africans die of tuberculosis, and contagious diarrhea claims the lives of 2,195 children, the vast majority of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
Malaria, syphilis, AIDS and probably dozens of other diseases each year kill Africans at higher rates than Ebola is killing right now.””
So you don’t know, but we can assume that it is more than one or two, probably quite a few of them, I think Canada has at least two.
The Council of Foreign Relations reports that the spread of Ebola is out of control. I would edit this to add that infected individuals don’t care if it was airborne or not.
Canadian scientists did do an experiment with pigs and monkeys. Pigs were infected, monkeys caught the virus even though they were separated by a barrier.
They having a little trouble getting volunteers for a human to human experiment.
Ebola virus does survive several days outside the body so indirect transmission would be possible.
Nose pickers beware!
“Everyone’s gotta die of something.”
“We seem to have been dealing with infecting monkeys with the Ebola virus, for years.”
Are you thinking of the Reston ebolavirus that was featured in ‘The Hot Zone’?
If so, that virus is closely related to the Ebola that infects humans but is itself not pathogenic to humans.
No, the Ebola research that is taking place in the U.S. and Canada.
I don’t know what all the labs are doing, but at least the one in San Diego was/is infecting monkeys with it and then trying to cure them.
It is mind boggling to me how easily they have allowed flights in and out of the areas of infected people.
Yes. There are a lot of Liberians in Minnesota trying to get their friends and family here asap from Liberia. So glad I don't live near there.
droplet precautions are three feet.
liberians are desperate to leave the country and are getting out to where ever they can
I think South Africa has some suspected cases too.
This is exactly how very bad situations get worse. Without quarantine these people are getting to where ever they can and infecting others.
Minnesota Liberians struggle to get loved ones out of Ebola-stricken areas
It is just amazing that these countries were not put under quarantine...now it could be too late.
I think we're beyond the "desire to be PC." We've been PC for so long, it's just the way many/most people think. They are so locked into agreement about how things are, they never question it, and if you do, they think you're "weird" or "eccentric."
Neither one....nor anyone who is drunk or insane
Well played
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