Posted on 08/16/2014 1:23:08 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Experimental drugs and airport screenings will do nothing to stop this plague. If Ebola hits Lagos, we're in real trouble.
Attention, World: You just don't get it.
You think there are magic bullets in some rich country's freezers that will instantly stop the relentless spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa? You think airport security guards in Los Angeles can look a traveler in the eyes and see infection, blocking that jet passenger's entry into La-la-land? You believe novelist Dan Brown's utterly absurd description of a World Health Organization that has a private C5-A military transport jet and disease SWAT team that can swoop into outbreaks, saving the world from contagion?
Wake up, fools. What's going on in West Africa now isn't Brown's silly Inferno scenario -- it's Steven Soderbergh's movie Contagion, though without a modicum of its high-tech capacity.
Last week, my brilliant Council on Foreign Relations colleague John Campbell, former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, warned that spread of the virus inside Lagos -- which has a population of 22 million -- would instantly transform this situation into a worldwide crisis, thanks to the chaos, size, density, and mobility of not only that city but dozens of others in the enormous, oil-rich nation. Add to the Nigerian scenario civil war, national elections, Boko Haram terrorists, and a countrywide doctors' strike -- all of which are real and current -- and you have a scenario so overwrought and frightening that I could not have concocted it even when I advised screenwriter Scott Burns on his Contagion script....
(Excerpt) Read more at foreignpolicy.com ...
>> live on Walden Pond
It’s gonna be crowded — hope you already reserved your campsite. Catch and release only. And it’s Mass — don’t even THINK about shooting anything. You’ll have to chase down your deer on foot and strangle it.
:-)
>> *cough*
Uh oh... are you not feeling well already?
Waiting for when Ebola shows up in Mecca
That should be fun.......
Just read The Hot Zone..........
Reading it now... he describes the virus as a “Lifeform”..
Quite chilling
Book of Armaments, Chapter 3, Verses 4 through 7.
(Immediately preceded by Chapters 1 & 2 containing the revealed word concerning site selection and canned good storage.)
Brother Maynard! Bring forth the Fruitbats, Anchovies and Breakfast Cereals, that we may feast to stave off our fear of the plague!
This article states that a special ebola only hospital with 80 beds filled up in one day, with more patients being turned away before the day was even out. The author's conclusion that new cases are being badly underestimated tends to support my hypothesis that the rate of change in ebola infections/fatalities is still rising rapidly. But with no data I have not been able to graph the increase to see what kind of form it has (ie. arithmetic, geometric, exponential, etc.). Somebody knows this.
If the virus continues to spread, I believe that by next spring medical care providers will be forced to give up. The only thing to be done at that point is to shoot the infected and burn their bodies. Pretty gruesome stuff.
Fortunately, as yet, none of the idiots running the world have been able to weaponise this class of viruses.
I heard it was eating fruit bats that started the whole ebola thing in the first place!
Exactly. Usually though, those who pay attention know how to respond ahead of game on.
I have read THE HOT ZONE. If you get through the FIRST PARAGRAPH you can’t stop reading.
It is called “the hook”. Get them hooked on the first paragraph or page and you got them for the rest of the book.
That is beyond bone-chilling! And I’m only on pg 22!
And still, we have a FReeper who thinks we should send a private jet to rescue any American suffering with full blown Ebola and bring them back to America for treatment!
First, the reported death toll and actual growth in the disease, appears to be a drop in the bucket compared to numerous other fatal diseases running rampant in Africa, that we seem to not care about. Second, since no history is taught, nobody remembers the influenza epidemic of the early 1900’s that killed far more people than WWI. Really, it seems that unless Ebola, kills a movie star, starts infecting social media or interrupts service on our EBT cards, it can’t be that important.
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...
Hmmmmmm. Maybe we can get liberal movie stars to go to Africa? A concert for Ebola maybe?
Like lying about ObamaCare and the passing of the humanitarian crisis in Iraq, the media and the propagandist-in-chief are telling us everything is just fine with the Ebola outbreak. This president and his minions in the media truly believe they can manufacture reality and that will be no consequences, and the bulk of Americans will figure it out too late.
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