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Outbreak, by Richard Preston
New York Magazine | Autust 11, 2014 | Richard Preston

Posted on 08/02/2014 8:30:08 AM PDT by Raebie

Can't post here but for those interested, Preston's take on the outbreak. Not comforting.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/11/outbreak


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: ebola; ebolaoutbreak; preston
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1 posted on 08/02/2014 8:30:08 AM PDT by Raebie
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To: Raebie

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/11/outbreak


2 posted on 08/02/2014 8:32:15 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (‘You can avoid reality, but you can’t avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.’)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

The film “Contagion” might be a glimpse of our future.


3 posted on 08/02/2014 8:33:08 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (‘You can avoid reality, but you can’t avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.’)
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To: Raebie

I simply do not understand the reasoning of bringing the one patient here to the states. It’s incredible the stupidity in this thought process.


4 posted on 08/02/2014 8:38:46 AM PDT by oust the louse (The Democratic Party might as well be called the Death Party. Abortion & ObamaCare/death panels.)
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To: Raebie

Wow that is worse then I though, scary read.


5 posted on 08/02/2014 8:39:01 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: oust the louse

Check your premise.

You are assuming the goal isn’t the utter destruction of western civilization.

Remove that premise and everything obama and his ilk have done abruptly snaps into perfect alignment and focus.


6 posted on 08/02/2014 8:42:09 AM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: oust the louse

Misplaced pride in the saying: “Leaving no one behind.”


7 posted on 08/02/2014 8:43:55 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Raebie

According to Preston, the virus is transmitted through contact with bodily fluids yet even workers wearing hazmat suits have contracted it.


8 posted on 08/02/2014 8:45:46 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

I know. We are not being told the truth here.


9 posted on 08/02/2014 8:50:43 AM PDT by Raebie
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To: Drew68

Probably aersolized blood/body fluids that were inhaled

Just a guess......


10 posted on 08/02/2014 8:51:09 AM PDT by njslim (T)
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To: jpsb

Yeah, yeah, that really does not jibe with what we’re being told.

This is the money line “[The doctors and nurses] had been working in biological-hazard suits, yet they got sick anyway.”

What is up with that?

And if his other details are true, that bodies are being left in the street, etc. Well, I just don’t see how it will be stopped. I doubt they even have enough bio-hazard suits to supply people.

But I’d think we could rush a bunch of them over, that would be one thing that could be done.


11 posted on 08/02/2014 8:51:32 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: Raebie

So they’re leaving the stiffs lay in the streets to rot in the heat and get eaten by animals. I can’t imagine why it’s so out of control.


12 posted on 08/02/2014 8:51:59 AM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: oust the louse
I simply do not understand the reasoning of bringing the one patient here to the states. It’s incredible the stupidity in this thought process.

You may not understand responsible people bringing Ebola patients to the USA, but it makes more sense when you think it through. Barack Hussein Obama is bringing a deadly disease to the USA. That should be no surprise.

13 posted on 08/02/2014 8:52:18 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: njslim

It certainly emphasizes the difficulty of isolating the patient. The smallest contact with even an incredibly small amount of virus containing fluid and you’re finished.


14 posted on 08/02/2014 9:04:08 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Pollster1

We’ll know something is up when he next plays golf wearing a hazmat suit and an oxygen tank.


15 posted on 08/02/2014 9:05:47 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Slump Tester
So they’re leaving the stiffs lay in the streets to rot in the heat and get eaten by animals.

And then eating the animals. Like bats. ummmmmmm gooooood.

16 posted on 08/02/2014 9:08:41 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Slump Tester
BBQ bats on a stick. Ummmmm....


17 posted on 08/02/2014 9:10:46 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Raebie; All

Pick up and read Preston’s book “Hot Zone”... Great read and very scary. We are not being told the truth!


18 posted on 08/02/2014 9:12:00 AM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary & remove the son of a kenyan mooslimb)
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To: Raebie

A long read but a very informative book on viruses, how they work, where they started and what we have in store for us.

19 posted on 08/02/2014 9:14:20 AM PDT by jetson
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To: miss marmelstein

“We’ll know something is up when he next plays golf wearing a hazmat suit and an oxygen tank.”

You’ll know something’s up when he is a no show for the glad-handing, elbow-rubbing and worship by the masses of fools in this country. When we only see and hear this POS broadcasting from his bunker studio you’ll also know your about to be sacrificed for the greater good of mankind.


20 posted on 08/02/2014 9:15:56 AM PDT by chulaivn66 (Meine antwort ist nein. Ende der Debatte.)
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