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Ebola outbreak: Asky bans flights in West Africa (Maybe the US should as well)
BBC ^ | 10/1/2014 | Staff

Posted on 10/01/2014 7:53:25 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus

A major West African airline has stopped flying to Liberia and Sierra Leone amid growing concern about the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Asky said it took the decision to keep "its passengers and staff safe during this unsettling time". The number of people killed by the virus in West Africa has now reached 672, according to new UN figures. In Sierra Leone, the doctor who led the fight against Ebola, Sheik Umar Khan, has died of the disease. Government officials hailed Dr Khan, 39, as a "national hero". The government disclosed last week that he was being treated for Ebola and had been quarantined. His death follows that of prominent Liberian doctor Samuel Brisbane at the weekend. Police deployed Ebola kills up to 90% of those infected, but patients have a better chance of survival if they receive early treatment. It spreads through contact with an infected person's bodily fluids.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: barackobola; ebola
Please, No flights from West Africa. We need like a 7 year cooling off period!

By the way, get some tuna fish in the basement, this could be a long haul before you leave the house again. Walking dead zombies, laden with Ebola, banging at your door trying to get in,...I'm doing as Joe Biden advised and blasting through the door with my shotgun....It's all coming true, we're living in a B-Grade horror movie under Obama!

All the survivalists out there - it is your time to shine.

1 posted on 10/01/2014 7:53:25 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus
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To: Titus-Maximus

thanks, already there.


2 posted on 10/01/2014 7:55:11 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Titus-Maximus
Ebola outbreak: Asky bans flights in West Africa (Maybe the US should as well)

Maybe? Maybe?! Try like it should have been done already and should be done now, today, instantly.

There is no maybe about it.

3 posted on 10/01/2014 7:58:08 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: Titus-Maximus
My 25 yo granddaughter teaches at an international school in Ghana. Maybe we should ban all cars, trucks, or beer or anything else that mass kills our people daily
4 posted on 10/01/2014 8:00:08 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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To: Titus-Maximus

Definitely. Isolate West Africa. I’m prepped.


5 posted on 10/01/2014 8:02:10 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Coldwater Creek

Ok, beer is taking it too far. LOL.


6 posted on 10/01/2014 8:02:52 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

I suspect they know that it’d never be effective. Flights would still continue from one African country to another. You’d skip over to Egypt, and catch a flight into Paris, and eight hours later be in Atlanta. So, it’d have to be an absolute ban on all airlines, period, within Africa for at least six weeks. Fat chance.

I’d also take a guess that some nutcase has already acquired a specimen or two, and could just drop some stuff into the subway system of DC, and have a 1,000 people dead from this within a month.


7 posted on 10/01/2014 8:03:35 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Titus-Maximus; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

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...

8 posted on 10/01/2014 8:03:38 AM PDT by null and void (If the wage gap were real, American companies would be hiring millions of women to save a buck)
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Nully, I don't mind the volume of pings - it's the raison d'etre of the list. However, the proliferation of pictures is really cluttering up my comments page. Are they all really necessary?

Perhaps you could include the pictures in a comment, and then send the ping with just the standard BOYD graphic.

9 posted on 10/01/2014 8:06:35 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Feeling fine about the end of the world!)
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To: Titus-Maximus

Of course we SHOULD ban flights from infected areas.

But we won’t because “the optics look bad”.


10 posted on 10/01/2014 8:07:11 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (I'd use the /S tag but is it really necessary?)
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To: Coldwater Creek

>My 25 yo granddaughter teaches at an international school in Ghana.

Yesterday would be a good time to get away from that cesspool.

>Maybe we should ban all cars, trucks, or beer or anything else that mass kills our people daily.

Any vector of this plague should be refused admittance to the USA until quarantined.


11 posted on 10/01/2014 8:07:20 AM PDT by soycd
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To: Coldwater Creek

Ummm...what?


12 posted on 10/01/2014 8:07:53 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (I'd use the /S tag but is it really necessary?)
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To: Titus-Maximus

Note that they did this on the 29th of JULY. Just after the Sawyer case became known widely.

Meanwhile, Brussels Airlines (from the city that houses the EU corruptocracy) still flies to Monrovia daily. It’s how the Dallas case got to travel internationally.


13 posted on 10/01/2014 8:09:50 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Titus-Maximus

There is a effective spray that will work.

“DDT” is effective, it has saved many lives. True it was used indiscriminately and in incorrect ways ... It is also true many other insect treatments are used incorrectly.

HOWEVER” DDT” worked and saved many peoples lives. Many thousands/millions of people have died of malaria that came with the removal of “DDT” from use, as a result of the Book “Silent Spring”. There is a time and place for proper “DDT use. This is it!!! MOO


14 posted on 10/01/2014 9:12:48 AM PDT by geologist ("If you love me, keep my commands" .... John 14 :15)
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To: Titus-Maximus

We should have a month ago. It’s eventually going to happen.

They’re so stupid.

Our government works for us but we let them run things on a single digit approval status


15 posted on 10/01/2014 9:16:25 AM PDT by stanne
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