Posted on 08/28/2014 5:10:41 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
MONROVIA, Liberia — Some people are swimming in and out of the Ebola quarantine zone in this seaside capital. One man slips out every day to reach his job at a Western embassy. Another has turned his living room into a tollbooth, charging others to escape through his apartment at the edge of the cordoned area. Countless others have used a different method: bribing their way out with fees that soldiers determine according to a person’s appearance, circumstances and even gender.
Christian Verre, a 26-year-old clothing salesman, sneaked out through an abandoned building with his girlfriend, Alice Washington, 21, and eight friends. “Go back! Go back!” soldiers and police officers yelled, he recalled, but the conversation quickly took on a different turn: “What do you got?”
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I must have misheard. I was surprised when I did hear mishear it.
Just a big ‘effing cauldron.
They are lying. Pretty simple. And understandable. Otherwise, the guards would be shooting.
If there are 20k cases, there will be 200 million cases.
Your screen name made me remeber something that happened today. I was getting in my mandated swimming a mile this afternoon.
There was a skinny blind man at the pool with a girl who was also blind. He was teaching her how to swim in the pool, and count the laps and find the stairs etc.
Right as they finished and were getting ready to get out of the pool he coughed up a bunch of phlegm and spit it out onto the side of the pool where the suction takes it to the filtration system.
It made me want to vomit, and I really wanted to ask him if he had been traveling outside the country or around any one from Africa. The chlorine is pretty strong, so I am hoping that whatever he has was killed between the filter and the chlorine.
A lady was complaining about it, and said he had done it 15 times before I even came out and got in. So I figured, I was already exposed, and did my swim. Next time I go, I am going to complain to the management, but it unsupervised lap swim with no lifeguards, so he’d likely still do it anyway.
They pee in the pool too. essentially clean their orifices as well..that is what the hellish chlorine is for..
I can hardly stand to be in the same room with someone coughing and hacking up phlegm.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
“...the EU countries should be able to step in and seize all natural resources.”
They’ll have to fight China for it since the Chinese have been entrenching themselves on the dark continent for more than a decade.
How does Achmed the dead terrorist spell his name?
A-Phlegm-M-E-D!
Thanks for the ping!
That’ll raise the hairs on the back of the neck.
“I heard on the radio that the CDC is expecting 20K US cases.”
It’s not CDC, it’s WHO, and they’re expecting 20K cases in West Africa (which is a ridiculous low number).
US cases will be sporadic, if there are any.
No doubt a sinus problem with the chlorine etc..I resemble that,,,,
I have not been in a public pool in at least 45 years. But I do swim when I get a chance, but in reasonably clean lakes. (not the shallow ones..) Or the Ocean.
But even Ebola can’t live in chlorinated and treated pool water..nor can anything else, including me..:-)
I wonder if the irony of that sentence struck anyone at the NY Times? For them I have a question: when it's New York's turn, what will you pay to escape?
You are assuming the virus will not mutate.
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
The Dark Continent, indeed.
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You are assuming the virus will not mutate.
Not sure why it would have to mutate to make it more than sporadic in the USA. While we may have better medical care and healthier conditions than Africa, and don't eat bat meat and share plates or hug our recently deceased Ebola victims; there are numerous ways the virus is transmitted (sweaty palm on the door at the airport that can leave the Ebola there for a few days, etc.)
And it won't take much for it to overwhelm the capacity of approved, secure facilities. And how many Americans, at the first sign of symptoms will be going to get treated once they realize it will mean 21 days of quarantine before they can go back home, go to work, etc.
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