Yuck!
But, even the Army is indicating that if you are sitting on a bus with someone you could get Ebola...for example, if they sneeze on you.
Are you sure it doesn’t say “if you are sitting on a bus with someone you could GIVE them Ebola.”?
This whole Ebola thing is getting rapidly out of hand with respect to the US Government being able to cogently and honestly reply to and address the realities.
We have a government that in no way had the capability to warn Texas that a traveler from Liberia was coming to Dallas, and we see multiple venues now condemning Perry for his inaction and “going to Europe” when the SHTF. Yet, absolutely no condemnation of Obama’s golf outings, campaign trips, etc.
In fact, we see multiple accounts now about “how mad Obama is about this and that wrt to CDC” (NYT) or how “it’s Perry’s fault” (CBSDFW/Politico. Curiously, it is seen as ACTION! that he has foregone a campaign event to return to Washington blah, blah, blah.
This inept government has lost all control of the narrative and is impotent, frankly. What I foretell is that the US Government will be monitoring and quietly prosecuting multiple online persons who have been vocal in attaching the word “Obama” to “Ebola”.
After all, one has to protect the first African American President at all costs, doesn’t one (even if it destroys us.)
Any chance this makes it to the networks?
I realized two weeks ago that it could be carried in the air, in tiny droplets that are exhaled. That’s airborne.
That bit of information will not not be valid until after the election!
Return it to the memory hole immediately!
THX
Acrive Duty ping.
heads up
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
The USAMRIID BlueBook does NOT confirm natural aerosol transmission of Ebola virus. The fact that infection can occur in a highly artificial laboratory environment using mechanically generated aerosols sprayed directly into animals’ faces does NOT establish that aerosols can be generated in the respiratory tract during the course of a natural infection. Some hospital procedures can generate aerosols or droplets (physician colleagues tell me that droplets are generated, not aerosols)—but, again, that is not something that we would ever see outside of a health care facility.
**IF** you happened to be sitting on a bus next to someone with Ebola, and **IF** that person happened to sneeze on you (Ebola does not cause sneezing, but something else could make them sneeze) and **IF** their snot contained blood, then you possibly could get Ebola. And that would be a direct transmission, not aerosol. That is why the CDC guidelines say that a high-risk contact is someone who has spent a prolonged period of time within 3 feet of an Ebola patient.
I am genuinely curious about why people want so desperately for Ebola to be an airborne disease. Despite the many efforts of the CDC, WHO, etc., to inform people how Ebola is actually spread, and how to protect oneself (stay away from Ebola patients, DOH)—people still want to believe that Ebola is airborne, and seem upset that no one who is familiar with the disease will ever say that it is. Why? This makes no sense to me.
If Ebola transmitted naturally by an aerosol route, we’d currently be picking up the pieces following a worldwide pandemic with millions or hundreds of millions of deaths. That is assuming that it would have the same CFR if it were a respiratory disease, which is a big assumption. Even in the cities where Ebola continues to spread—places with rather high population densities—Ebola has not spread to engulf the entire city (as it would have already done if it were highly contagious), but has affected relatively few people.
There is, however, a disease that is thought to transmit by aerosols, and causes thousands of deaths in the US alone every year. It’s called influenza. People who desperately want to be scared of an airborne disease have a perfect candidate right there. This year, the predominate strain circulating is H3N2—which usually causes a more severe flu season with higher numbers of deaths. I know, influenza is a killer but it is a familiar killer, so it is not scary.
Yuck!