I am not trying to pick a fight. Honest.
But if you work the logic, there are many, many more insects flying around Africa than there are here. Wouldn’t there be a million cases there by now? As there are with Malaria?
And second, who is going to do this testing? One of the reasons there is not much known about this stuff is that no one wants to be the one to work the needles and what not. No one wants to touch this virus, even in a level 4 habitat.
I’m not trying to pick a fight either.
This research should have been done months ago. Past Ebola strains killed so quick that a lot of this research was moot. This one takes up to 21 days. This should have been a clue. HCW’s dying in droves, even if they only came into contact with the equipment. That’s a clue.
They should have been worried about transmissibility in June.
There are labs that do nothing more that experiment with beasts like the one we are dealing with now.
The Reston Monkey Die Off back in the 80’s was a case of Ebola that was proven to be airborne. The dodged bullet there was the strain didn’t infect humans.
Transmisability is the first, second, and third question that has to be answered in any infectious disease outbreak. It dictates everything in the response protocol.
It’s clear they have not done this work.
This is the VA scandal, only this time the incompetence is going to be historical.
I will take science over logic any day of the week. Logic has failed us so often in science that the examples could fill (indeed, do fill) libraries.
Example - time slows down as something is accelerated to the speed of light. In addition, distances shrink, and mass ‘increases’ (momenergy increases). The speed of light, wherever it is observed, is what’s constant. There is zero logical about that.
They should be assuming less and proving more. This is the reason why Al Gore is flying about the planet, spewing thousands of tons of CO2, heralding the end of the world.
CO2 is a heavy gas. Heavier than air. It settles to the bottom of any volume. It’s use as a ‘greenhouse gas’ (no such thing in science) is horrible. (Water vapor is a good ‘greenhouse gas’)
Other questions we should answer about Ebola Guinea:
1. How long can it live on a hard surface?
2. Are there any surfaces that reduce its viability?
3. Does sunlight or UV light kill it?
4. If so, how fast?
5. What substances kill the virus on surfaces?
6. What foods, vitamins, spirits, beverages found in the market kill the virus, if any (quinine was effective on yellow fever)
It might be that “ebola” has been around a long time in Africa. Those in Africa may have some immunity or resistance to the virus. Those in Africa that got sick/died may have a flawed gene. Modern medicine has only studied this since 1976.