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To: flamberge

We are a long way from death dealing triage of Americans in Africa.

You already have us letting Americans die and are already creating your conspiracy theories on how the rich and powerful introduce Ebola to America through bribery.

Try to get a grip on yourself and your imagination.


48 posted on 09/28/2014 7:35:04 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: ansel12
We are a long way from death dealing triage of Americans in Africa

Actually we are not such a long way. That's the problem with exponential growth processes.

If the doubling time for new infections continues to be every three weeks, we will easily reach 1 million cases by the end of January 2015. That is a CDC estimate, published about 6 days ago. Nothing has improved since then.

"Treatment Centers" in Africa might be effective in theory. In practice, too many of the staff die and there aren't enough people left to run the places. So the patients wind up back in their homes where they continue to spread the infection.

Of course the doubling time may slow down - or even halt. Once the population density falls below a critical level, the epidemic will stop. It could be a long, tragic fall.

As far as "conspiracy theories" go, finding wealthy and powerful people who think that the rules do not apply to them - is not such a big stretch.

Bribery to get past a quarantine line is already observed in the hot zone countries. Somebody will almost certainly try it to get their relatives out of Guinea or Senegal and into the US.

51 posted on 09/28/2014 8:08:47 PM PDT by flamberge (What next?)
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