Posted on 10/24/2014 6:45:16 AM PDT by NOBO2012
Is this the precursor to Escape from New York?
Take a bite of the Big Apple.
Don’t mind the ebola.
Should be a quarantine from anyone coming from west Africa.
WHO says that the incubation time is 42 days. We put the Dallas folks (Duncan family) on a 21-day quarantine. Their kids are now back in schools.
Sure hope that 3-5% chance they are infected doesn’t hit...
Also, there’s a story out today (Alex Jones, but still...) confirming something I thought weeks ago:
To prevent “public panic” and in the interest of “public health” the feds are now “disppearing” the infected.
They show up to hospitals bleeding from body orifices, fever, etc. and the doctors and medical staff are told later they had “malaria” and were taken away.
No telling how many actual cases are out there.
What happened to the nurse’s boyfriend (Pham’s boyfriend)?
Just one example.
I wonder... do they believe their own bullsh*t?
Unlike the situation in Dallas, the one in New York City worries me because of the higher population density, and that runs the risk of a higher rate of infection even if the Ebola virus doesn’t transmit like the common cold and influenza viruses.
Let’s go ebowling.
Doctors are permitted a choice of oaths. Some take the Hippocrates oath. Some take the Mengele oath. The ebowler obviously took the latter.
You would think this guy would of known better being a doctor who actually treated Ebola patients. As we’ve seen so many times in life smart people hardly ever use common sense.
Those two cops need to be quarantined too. Toute suite!
Help me finish the theme song, sung to the tube New York, New York:
Start spreading Ebola...I’m dying today...
If you read the WHO report carefully, what they’re saying is the 90-th percentile of cases seem to break out in 42 days. I think. I’ve got the report here somewhere, but it doesn’t matter.
The WHO was saying quite recently they didn’t understand why they were having such a hard time stopping the spread/outbreak.
This would explain why: your basic data and assumptions of a 21 day incubation period as an absolute are wrong.
Your assumption that the virus isn’t spread through airborne aerosolized secretions is WRONG.
Your assumptions about this being a fragile virus which doesn’t persist in the environment: wrong.
The US Army has known of airborne transmission for decades (read The Hot Zone).
German studies demonstrated persistence of Marburg agent for upwards of 4 to 5 days.
Thing is, the basic science hasn’t been completed with Ebola yet. It hasn’t been consolidated and packaged in a way it can be presented to small-minded entrenched government socialist bureaucrats at the CDC, NIH and WHO so they can make sense out of it.
The data are there, putting it together is, apparently, beyond the capacities or capability of said agencies.
They not only fervently believe it, they don't think that it even stinks.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
What I don’t understand is, why groups like MDs Without Borders don’t have mandatory quarantine policies in place for personnel working in areas with deadly viruses, before said personnel return to their home countries.
It’s hard to do considering that the natural sources, especially monkeys, are dead before we figure out that the natural reservoir has ebola. The efficiency of ebola in killing the infectees makes it hard to understand.
Brantley, I believe, saved a kid, but at least they had him taken into the isolation unit in Atlanta upon arrival.
Welcome to NYC: Hotels Without Boarders.
There is not a "3-5% chance they are infected." The WHO stats suggest that 3-5% of people who are infected begin showing symptoms between 21-42 days after exposure, NOT that 3-5% of people who are exposed begin to show symptoms between 21-42 days. Huge difference.
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