Posted on 08/14/2014 12:26:42 PM PDT by DannyTN
What’s also stunning is FR is a fair representation of the CONSERVATIVE RIGHT.
Uh,oh. We may be further along than we thought...
I have to wonder about ebola being transmitted, perhaps inefficiently, by mosquito.
The current outbreak appears to be contained until 3 or 4 weeks after the beginning of the rainy season in West Africa. End of April/Early May is the beginning of rainy season there. Just about enough time to hatch out a batch or two of new skeeters, them to bite a victim and subsequently bite someone else (easier in urban areas, because more people there) and then symptoms in the new victims to show up.
Yes, and there is no shortage of freeper doomers.
You know what I think. I think your starting point is to distrust whatever the government is trying to spoon-feed you. Make THEM prove their case. The presumption should be on the side of historical fact: governments are pathological liars, big governments lie BIG, and government has the burden of proof to overcome that presumption.
You first... or if you prefer, you can read my prior comments to get the context.
Check out this article on ‘why mosquitoes cannot transmit AIDS’. I would think a lot of this would apply to Ebola. Just something more to think about and ‘chew on’.
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/aids.htm
For example (one of the several reasons given in this article):
Mosquitoes Are Not Flying Hypodermic Needles
Many people think of mosquitoes as tiny, flying hypodermic syringes, and if hypodermic needles can successfully transmit HIV from one individual to another then mosquitoes ought to be able to do the same. We have already seen that HIV-infected individuals do not circulate enough virus particles to result in infection by contamination. However, even if HIV-positive individuals did circulate high levels of virus, mosquitoes could not transmit the virus by the methods that are employed in used syringes. Most people have heard that mosquitoes regurgitate saliva before they feed, but are unaware that the food canal and salivary canal are separate passageways in the mosquito. The mosquito’s feeding apparatus is an extremely complicated structure that is totally unlike the crude single-bore syringe. Unlike a syringe, the mosquito delivers salivary fluid through one passage and draws blood up another. As a result, the food canal is not flushed out like a used needle, and blood flow is always unidirectional. The mechanics involved in mosquito feeding are totally unlike the mechanisms employed by the drug user’s needles. In short, mosquitoes are not flying hypodermic needles and a mosquito that disgorges saliva into your body is not flushing out the remnants of its last blood meal.
That is basically Paul’s point, which is pretty hard to argue with.....
True.
However, that same ‘instrument’, the little needle thingie need only pick up ONE viron from an infected person and deposit that somewhere on YOU. And that’s not just the pokie-in part of the skeeter. That’s his little feet as well.
Particularly if you’re in the latter stages and sweating.
Or if you’re a fly and land on urp or poop or blood from an infected patient and then fly off and land on someone’s sandwich. Or face. Or eating utensil.
Flying fomites!
Yes. Plenty, unfortunately.
That, I think is the more likely scenario ... a fly would definitely be attracted to the bodily fluids (blood, vomit, feces) and after stomping around in it, could deposit it somewhere else/on someone. Maybe not so much in a hospital where they try to keep the mess cleaned up & burn soiled linens, etc., but those bodies left in the street have to attract flies .... also in people’s houses. The bodies are known to be infectious for three days after death.
So many questions are unanswered .....
if he thinks the Ebola threat is being hyped then perhaps he should go over to Africa and demonstrate it. Hey Rand - show us ... don’t tell us
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