A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Funny, I don’t hear about Saudi Arabia or other Muslim nations stepping up like this. Too “Jewish” and “Science-y” for their tastes, I suppose...
Mmm ... I suppose every donor’s blood should now be tested for the ebola virus.
Israel wages life while Islam wages war.
Share this with any anti Semites out there: Once again, ISRAEL LEADS THE WAY!!!
And be sure to it share with any Jew hating friends and associates.
Israel....smarter than the average bear
soetoro: Damn!
Sounds like a plan.
Well, Israel’s response combined with what’s below ought to get things moving in the right direction on this issue:
MEMORANDUM
TO: Vladimir Putin, President, the Russian Republic
FROM: Sane people everywhere
DATE: As soon as you read this
RE: The spread of Ebola
FACTS:
1. Ebola is a communicable disease that, in its current variant, is fatal approximately 70% of the time, and causes immense suffering.
2. There is no cure (or at least none available to more than a few dozen people), and no vaccine. Additionally, the disease mutates very rapidly, so even if scientists are able to develop a cure or a vaccine, the disease may by then have already mutated to a more easily communicable form. Actually, the more people who are infected, the greater chance of such a mutation.
3. Additionally, the more people that are infected outside of West Africa, the greater chance that a second or third “natural reservoir” of the disease will become established, making it virtually impossible to control future outbreaks.
4. People from the 3 nations where this nascent pandemic originated are traveling to various places around the globe, and cases have occurred in a variety of places around the world including the United States and Europe.
5. The President of the United States, Barack Obama, has repeatedly refused to take any action to stop people who may be infected with Ebola from traveling via air.
ISSUE:
What can be done to stop the spread of this disease before it becomes incapable of being managed?
ANALYSIS:
1. Since the disease is effectively incurable, and since there is no vaccine, the best hope of minimizing the harm created by this disease and minimizing the chance that it will become a pandemic that could literally kill half or more of the human race, lies in containing the disease to its points of origin in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
2. Since President Obama is, apparently, unwilling to do anything of substance to halt air traffic originating from the host nations of this Ebola outbreak, something else must be done by some other nation that is capable of effectively stopping the above-mentioned air travel.
3. The Russian Republic is a nation of vast resources, including vast military resources.
4. You are in charge of the armed forces of the Russian Republic.
CONCLUSION/RECCOMENDATION:
1. Since Ebola is a communicable, highly-lethal and effectively incurable disease, the spread of this disease must be stopped as soon as is practical in order to spare the world a pandemic that could literally kill hundreds of millions or billions of people.
2. Since the United States has abdicated responsibility or initiative in attempting to accomplish the halt of the spread of this disease, some other nation must do so to avoid an unspeakable tragedy.
3. Since the Russian Republic possesses enormous military resources, and since you are in charge of those resources, and since you have displayed tremendous decisiveness over the years of your leadership, it is the conclusion of all sane people everywhere that you may be our only hope. Therefore, and with great humility and respect, we hereby ask you to order the armed forces of the Russian Republic to destroy every airport in the nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, and to do so without delay.
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...