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The world is in denial about Ebola’s true threat
WaPo ^
| 23 Oct 2014
| Michael Gerson
Posted on 10/24/2014 7:29:34 AM PDT by Rummyfan
The Ebola virus has multiplied in a medium of denial. There was the initial denial that a rural disease, causing isolated outbreaks that burned out quickly, could become a sustained, urban killer. There is the (understandable) denial of patients in West Africa, who convince themselves that they have flu or malaria (the symptoms are similar to Ebola) and remain in communities. And there is the form of denial now practiced by Western governments a misguided belief that an incremental response can get ahead of an exponentially growing threat.
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:29:34 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
A nurse working at the Ebola holding center at the Ganta Hospital prepares to enter the compounds high-risk zone by putting on protective equipment, on October 18, 2014 in Ganta, Liberia.
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:30:53 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: Rummyfan
Its not “the world” that’s in denial about ebola...
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:32:50 AM PDT
by
Pietro
To: Rummyfan
It is such a relief about that Ebola thing. The threat of a U.S. outbreak turned out to be overhyped. A military operation is underway to help those poor Liberians. An Ebola czar (what is his name again?) has been appointed to coordinate the U.S. government response. The growth of the disease in Africa, by some reports, seems to have slowed. On to the next crisis. Except that this impression of control is an illusion, and a particularly dangerous one.
And I think this article preceded the news from New York.
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:32:56 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: Rummyfan
Maybe Obama will read about this in the newspaper...Does he read the Washington Post?
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:33:08 AM PDT
by
woofie
To: Rummyfan
who will Obama blame this time?
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:37:22 AM PDT
by
JPG
("So sue me". OK, we will.)
To: Rummyfan
Said it before and I'll say it again: when ebola starts breaking out in South America, we're done.
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:44:09 AM PDT
by
caligatrux
(They always said that the living would envy the dead.)
To: Rummyfan
Well...with idiot doctors and a CDC that doesn’t know it’s a$$ from a hole in the ground...
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:47:14 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: Rummyfan; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
Just like FR's very own ex-spurts!
Bring Out Your Dead
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...
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:47:18 AM PDT
by
null and void
("Agoraphobia": fear of the marketplace; "AlGoreaphobia": fear of the marketplace of ideas.)
To: null and void
Some additional Ebola updates for this morning:
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:53:12 AM PDT
by
wtd
To: Rummyfan
Threats: A Christmas tree in the town square, Someone smoking in a bar and the sea level rising 1 foot 100+ years from now.
Non-Threats: Ebola, ISIS
Liberalism is a mental disease
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posted on
10/24/2014 7:53:59 AM PDT
by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
To: caligatrux
A good friend who is a practicing MD and retired military said the same thing to me.
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posted on
10/24/2014 8:04:31 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: qam1
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posted on
10/24/2014 8:05:10 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Rummyfan
Based on the PPE, this nurse is likely to become infected
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posted on
10/24/2014 8:14:34 AM PDT
by
Nifster
To: FreedomPoster
A good friend who is a practicing MD and retired military said the same thing to me.
Well, its true, it will spread in South America almost as rapidly as it has spread in Africa.
Our southern border is wide open, and thousands of South Americans are already streaming across. An ebola outbreak in South America will only increase that flow, as healthy people move away from the outbreak and as sick people come to America for free health care.
After that, it's just dominos. Our health care infrastructure will eventualty be overwhelmed by actual and suspected cases of ebola.
Once there is a significant outbreak in SOuth America, it's only a matter of time.
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posted on
10/24/2014 8:47:42 AM PDT
by
caligatrux
(They always said that the living would envy the dead.)
To: Rummyfan
Yeah, that Doctors without a Clue chap must have been running a maximum exposure trip test around the Big Apple. Rode up and down Manhattan on subway and cab. Went Bowling. Stopped at a bar. And may have stopped at a restaurant ? How does one forget a restaurant stop ?
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posted on
10/24/2014 8:54:12 AM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
(The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
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posted on
10/24/2014 8:57:02 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Rummyfan
With what the nurse is wearing, she’s doomed.
That 10,000 new cases per week will need to be raised once our troops start dropping like flies and more idiot healthcare workers go bowling and there isn’t a mandantory REAL quarantine for any and all who come to the US from the hot zone.
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posted on
10/24/2014 9:29:08 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: caligatrux
That is the ominous vector, and it seems to be inevitable.
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posted on
10/24/2014 9:31:52 AM PDT
by
HMS Surprise
(Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
To: caligatrux
South America Central America.
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posted on
10/24/2014 9:40:40 AM PDT
by
ChicagahAl
(Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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