Posted on 10/05/2014 4:34:35 PM PDT by Lazamataz
Does all of the extra ammo the government agencies have purchased start to make sense now.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Awful \Aw"ful\, a.
1. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as,
an awful scene. "The hour of Nature's awful throes."
--Hemans.
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2. Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with
fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear;
profoundly impressive.
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Heaven's awful Monarch. --Milton.
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3. Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken. [Obs.]
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A weak and awful reverence for antiquity. --I.
Watts.
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4. Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding. [Obs.]
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Thrust from the company of awful men. --Shak.
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5. Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively;
as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster. [Slang]
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Syn: See Frightful.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
awful
adv 1: used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful
sorry" [syn: terribly, awfully, awful,
frightfully]
adj 1: exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste";
"abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful
manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible
handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the
room" [syn: atrocious, abominable, awful,
dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable]
2: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful
risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that
London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster";
"polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a
dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions
shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire,
direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful,
fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific,
terrible]
3: offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "in a nasty mood";
"a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a
nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my
funeral?"- Ezra Pound [syn: nasty, awful] [ant: nice]
4: inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence;
"awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed heads"
[syn: awed, awful]
5: extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a
frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money" [syn:
frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous]
6: inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an
amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight";
"the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose
gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul
beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so
vast, so high, so silent" [syn: amazing, awe-inspiring,
awesome, awful, awing]
I think there is serious and counterproductive hysteria on this site, but that said, there’d be a heck of a lot less if anybody felt that the US government had a policy and that the medical authorities were not politically motivated and actually knew what they were talking about and had a plan.
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Club of Rome has your deck chair I believe.....
If ISIS and AL-Queda strap on suicide belts, why wouldn’t they attempt to strike against the great Satan by contracting Ebola and visiting college campuses, restaurants and riding public transportation? All the while spreading as much phlegm and bodily fluids on public surfaces as they can.
I’m not freaked out yet, but I am thinking.
How is are the economies doing in the countries where Ebola is established?
The really fun part is that is what happens to all your internal organs as well, you just can’t see it as easily....
I can easily imagine that entire statement being sung to Dean Martin's classic tune That's Amore!
All of which explain why it requires bio hazard level 4 protections.
What about smallpox?
I read on the internets that a deadly disease mutating into something other than its current state only happens in the movies and on an occasional episode of CSI when the writers partied too much on the weekend just before the table read.
In ‘Executive Orders’, it’s “Ebola Mayinga”, supposedly airborne-vectored and released in several places around the country, all of them being conventions or meetings with large numbers of people. It eventually burned out after a declaration of martial law, plus nation-wide quarantine & travel restrictions being enacted. I no longer have the book, but IIRC the death toll was in the thousands. Without the travel restrictions and quarantine, there would have been more.
In “Rainbow Six”, it was a scientifically-mutated strain of ‘super-Ebola’ that killed faster and spread quicker than ‘regular’ Ebola. The difference is....the eco-terrorist group that was going to use it also developed a vaccine for it, which they all took. They were going to release it at some big sporting event. They were thwarted and were all eliminated in a very imaginative manner.
Even if you survive the Ebola epidemic, YOU ARE STILL GONNA DIE!
which one started out with a nun on a plane who had ebola and was flown to some Arab country
That was ‘Executive Orders’.
The worms crawl in.
The worms crawl out.
The worms play pinochle on your snout.
Your eyes turn red.
Your guts turn green.
Your liver comes out like whipping cream.
Wow. That dumb county judge from Dallas is in for a wild ride!
Yeeeeeeeee-haaaaaaaw, as they say down there!
PING!
” It is a perfect parasite because it transforms virtually every part of the body into a digested slime of virus particles.”
This sounds just like The One’s plan to transform America!
C’mon, I’ve had poison ivy worse than that!
Let ‘em come over. What’s the big deal???
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