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As Ebola Grips Liberia’s Capital, a Quarantine Sows Social Chaos
New York Times ^ | August 28, 2014 | NORIMITSU ONISHI

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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To: prairiebreeze

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21 posted on 08/28/2014 7:21:45 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: prairiebreeze

I must have misheard. I was surprised when I did hear mishear it.


22 posted on 08/28/2014 7:23:42 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Just a big ‘effing cauldron.


23 posted on 08/28/2014 7:30:42 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: Atomic Vomit

They are lying. Pretty simple. And understandable. Otherwise, the guards would be shooting.


24 posted on 08/28/2014 7:32:22 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: Chickensoup

If there are 20k cases, there will be 200 million cases.


25 posted on 08/28/2014 7:33:04 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: Atomic Vomit

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.


26 posted on 08/28/2014 7:45:24 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: greeneyes

They pee in the pool too. essentially clean their orifices as well..that is what the hellish chlorine is for..


27 posted on 08/28/2014 7:48:22 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: Cold Heat
Yeh, they do, but at least they have to shower first before they get in. I guess I am just un-naturally squeamish when it comes to Phlegm.

I can hardly stand to be in the same room with someone coughing and hacking up phlegm.

28 posted on 08/28/2014 8:03:11 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping…

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

29 posted on 08/28/2014 8:09:58 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

“...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.


30 posted on 08/28/2014 8:12:24 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: greeneyes

How does Achmed the dead terrorist spell his name?

A-Phlegm-M-E-D!


31 posted on 08/28/2014 8:15:11 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for the ping!


32 posted on 08/28/2014 8:19:24 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Jack Hydrazine

That’ll raise the hairs on the back of the neck.


33 posted on 08/28/2014 8:21:18 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Chickensoup

“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.


34 posted on 08/28/2014 8:28:34 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: greeneyes

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..:-)


35 posted on 08/28/2014 8:35:52 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: PJ-Comix
Others point to a political system long dominated by an elite out of touch with the population and more focused on jockeying for power.

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?

36 posted on 08/28/2014 8:35:58 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Jim Noble
US cases will be sporadic, if there are any.

You are assuming the virus will not mutate.

37 posted on 08/28/2014 8:48:14 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Alamo-Girl

You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!


38 posted on 08/28/2014 8:51:54 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: hal ogen

The Dark Continent, indeed.


39 posted on 08/28/2014 8:54:10 PM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
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To: UCANSEE2
US cases will be sporadic, if there are any.

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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.

40 posted on 08/28/2014 9:26:12 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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