Unfortunately, there are five more reasons to panic ... each terrifying in their own right ... listed in this article.
Unfortunately, there are five more reasons to panic ... each terrifying in their own right ... listed in this article.
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Funny, I was listening to the epistles in the bible on my way to work yesterday and I was specifically told not to panic, though not in those exact words.
But the hitchhiker’s guide also says “Don’t Panic”.
Life is a mist.
1) The Government has its head planted firmly up its rectum.
2) The CDC is trying to take over and micromanage the entire problem
3) Decisions are being made on the basis of political correctness over common sense and scientific fact.
4) Goal is not to prevent an epidemic but to protect the political future of the Democrat Party
5) Media will glady salute and spread false info to the public once given their marching orders to do so.
6) see above
Everything the regime puts its hands on is worrisome to me, but I’m not at panic time yet with Ebola.
“If you like your Ebola, you can keep your Ebola”
We are all going to die, horribly. See, the thing about Ebola is that you bleed painfully from every orifice, including your eyes and ears and even your skin pores. Your eyes gush blood, like you were a fire hydrant. In fact, you resemble a fire hydrant SO closely, that during the summer you will see young urban children were playing in the blood fountain. Your skin becomes easy to tear, so easy in fact that the slightest breeze will open huge disgusting tears in your body that make the sound of ripping cloth as they open. Your tongue sloughs off in a black bloody dead mess, and you scream and scream and scream and then your vocal cords pop out when you vomit them out, and even then the vocal cords lie on the floor and continue to scream.
And there will be consequences for those that brought about the fall. This is not the middle ages when civilization knew not from where the plague came. We know exactly who it is not defending the us from this terrible disease.
I think he’s figured out the refusal to halt commercial flights from Africa: that would be the beginning of the end of our longstanding open borders policy.
I understand the points. But when someone goes hyping an R2 virus and fanning the flames of emotional panic, my hackles go up.
Values of R0 of well-known infectious diseases
Disease Transmission R0
Measles Airborne 12–18
Pertussis Airborne droplet 12–17
Diphtheria Saliva 6–7
Smallpox Airborne droplet 5–7
Polio Fecal-oral route 5–7
Rubella Airborne droplet 5–7
Mumps Airborne droplet 4–7
HIV/AIDS Sexual contact 2–5
SARS Airborne droplet 2–5
Influenza
(1918 pandemic strain) Airborne droplet 2–
Ebola
(2014 Ebola outbreak) Bodily fluids 1-2
The Enterovirus is spreading through the population, brought here by our government, too. Is there a new case in your locale this week? There was in mine...four. Tell me with a reputed R-factor of 5-7 that there won’t be many, many more in the coming weeks while we’re focused on this keystone-cops routine by our medical community and government officials, with the spigot turned FULL-ON both from Africa and from Mexico.
I have all the confidence in the world in my fellow citizenry having an emotional reaction to all of this.
Theater, at its worst...and this article helps not with its title, save for the article content’s righteous critique of the response to this...
I don’t read any articles reporting that Congress’ phones are ringing off the hooks...yet. /s
-cynicus-
And number seven: Look who’s in charge!
Panic is the last stage of the Cloward-Piven plan to overthrow the Constitution, why else deliberately import it, then put the CDC circus on national TV?
Hey, does smoking weed cut down on the Ebola symptoms?
We’ve had more than six reasons to panic over obola and the rest of our government and nothing has been done.
Yawn.
I remember reading some years ago a worst case scenario for African Ebola was it reaching a large city... this fear was usually dismissed because people became sick in a debilitating fashion very quickly with earlier versions of the virus. They were not going to walking or riding to cities...
When this outbreak started one of the early reports was from a doctor who commented that people with the disease looked 'healthy' almost up until the point they died. That's a nightmare situation if the concern is the number of people that could be infected by one person. One person with the virus - in a bed - very sick and unable to move around much is safer than a person who can get up with the virus and spend a few days walking around town infecting hundreds...
Good article!
OK, Freepers, it is time for action.
More is needed NOW than just posting here.
Call your reps in DC and tell them the flights from West Africa through any hub and admittance of anyone from these countries into the USA HAS TO STOP!
The place to fight this disease is at its source, not here.
The “screening” process at our airports is a joke and ineffective. 150 people a day are coming here from West Africa—that is 4500 a month. Some may show a fever and yet may be carrying the virus. The second nurse is proof of that.
Our healthcare system will shutdown if this continues.
We already have cases in Kansas, Nebraska, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Texas.
The first order of business of a government is to protect their citizens. And this government is failing to do so.
Make the calls.
The family you save may be your own.
Words to live by. The problem I'm having is that these are reasons for concern, not panic, and it is a false media trope that to express concern is to panic. Come on, guys, it's a communicable disease with a 70% mortality rate. That alone is a subject for concern.
I find three things of major concern because they lead to so many others: first, that there simply is no body of research that confirms the blithe announcements we're getting about how the thing can or cannot be contracted; second, that medical protocols are highly suspect given that after the usual random victims, the biggest class of victims is health care professionals; and third, that if it does become more widespread in North America the disease may find a reservoir species as the plague bacillus Yersinia pestis did. An acute problem then becomes a chronic one, as it is in Africa.
Liberal concern - good God, is everything political to these people? - that eeeevil conservatives may use this as an argument for border control, is a little superficial: it absolutely IS an argument for border control, one of the most serious, and it always has been. Now, instead of hypothetical, it's real, and all we have in reply is mockery and stubborn denial. That is the recourse of fools.
