Posted on 10/02/2014 9:07:16 AM PDT by justlittleoleme
Stunned by the entrance of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, into America, the United States’ Center for Disease Control and Prevention has dispatched its personnel to study how Nigeria contained the killer disease.
The US reported on Tuesday that it has discovered a case of EVD in Dallas, Texas, but its health officials said “the crisis is under control and the public has nothing to fear.”
A statement released by US CDC Director Tom Frieden said “it’s clear the nation needs a quick and thorough response to its first Ebola patient”
He said although Nigeria was not completely out of the woods, “their extensive response to a single case of Ebola shows that control is possible with rapid, focused interventions.” Apart from Nigeria, the US will also visit Senegal to study its model.
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Yeah, you got it!
So, is ebola like a bad flu or something?
What’s the big deal?
That is not to say that I don't trust the CDC, and that this Administration sucks for not applying sensible air travel restrictions from the infected areas -- but I just don't see this as the 'Great Plague'.
>I think this Ebola scare is just another in the long line of Avian Flu, Swine Flu, SARs, Flu du Jour scares.
School, it’s not just for skipping and partying.
They know how to contain....quarantine.
Wanna guess....this trip and "expertise" will cost us a million bucks.
Then there's the research grants....and on and on and on...
Its possible that “they” are not all dead because a significant number have developed some type of immunity (one source I read speculated 40%) and “they” do not live in a highly mobile tech society where the spread of fomites could occur in literally thousands of interpersonal transactions
there is no precedent to see what ebola will do once unleashed into a modern society with no history of the virus and no immunity factors - but perhaps provide an interesting pool of new viruses to intermingle, and mutation possibilities
“small pox and measles in the new world
It’s a tropical disease, and I have read that it would be limited upon meeting the weather that we have here in much of the US (drier and often very cold).
If it gets established in Florida...I’m getting out of town! It could conceivably make it in Florida and PR and maybe some other parts of the Lower South.
Ok, that is a possible scenario I hadn't considered. I know that there have been previous outbreaks that died out with very limited damage. I assumed that they would have easily hopped from village to village and throughout the Country - if the virus was as contagious as advertised. But your scenario that the previous occurrences were in isolated hamlets - and the virus died out because it killed all of the limited hosts - is one I hadn't considered. We will see. I will consider the effects in Liberia/Sierra Leone as a reasonable canary in the coal mine. So far, I believe the numbers are a few thousand (in a third world cesspool). If, as contagious as advertised, you'd expect those numbers to leap to millions soon.
I agree. I think the "Nigeria and Senegal have it under control" meme is just more of the "public has no reason to panic" meme being put out by the government bureaurats. If they had it under control, they wouldn't be asking Nigeria how to stop it (which hasn't happened anyway, I'm sure).
Fauci knows there’s a cure. CNN has him on record. What Nigeria did no first world government could afford to do. An autocrat could, of course, and, well, never mind.
Fauci could move things rapidly and break the back of this outbreak in less than two weeks.
If the USG stands in the way of a dispositively effective cure, then the potential for civil war is real.
The day you show me cured Nigerians (versus charred bodies buried in mass graves) is the day I will believe any kind of happy horses**t claims like this piece of obvious nonsense. And the proof of how obviously stupid this is, is that the 0bama administration believes it.
Yeah, go study how the Nigerians controlled the outbreak. Would you be surprised if they buried suspected people ALIVE, FFS?
And we should believe what the Nigerian government tells us?
My mom and I are supposed to drive down to Ft. Lauderdale from Chicago for Christmas and New Year.
If people are disciplined and would stay put and not move around in a panic when symptoms appear, I'd say no prob. But most humans don't behave that way.
What ARE the ground rules for playing through a blast crater?
Free drop no closer to the hole?
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