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What We're Afraid to Say About Ebola
New York Times ^
| 9/11/2014
| MICHAEL T. OSTERHOLM
Posted on 09/11/2014 11:23:51 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Justa
So all these health professionals, experts and agencies basically: -Have no plan. -Can do nothing. -Explain the disease as nature taking its course. Useless bureaucrats doing nothing but making excuses. Cashier them all! they're just following obama's leadership style.
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posted on
09/12/2014 5:11:57 AM PDT
by
ealgeone
(obama, borderof)
To: driftdiver
Why? Roughly 50% of people dont wash their hands after a bowel movement so we arent any cleaner. I see it at work all the time. thank goodness I don't have to touch anything they touch like paper, etc.
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posted on
09/12/2014 5:14:01 AM PDT
by
ealgeone
(obama, borderof)
To: DouglasKC
If Ebola was coming to the United States to vote Republican, the government would find a cure.
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posted on
09/12/2014 5:20:45 AM PDT
by
spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
To: null and void
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posted on
09/12/2014 5:21:32 AM PDT
by
SisterK
To: SisterK; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
The game of Ebola Roulette continues...
*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin
Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!
Bring Out Your Dead
Were gonna need
a bigger cart!
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
09/12/2014 5:30:59 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Only God Himself watches you more closely than the US government.)
To: DouglasKC
What the New York Slimes is afraid to say about Ebola is that pResident Ebola is actively bringing it into the United States for the final stage of his "fundamental transformation."
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posted on
09/12/2014 5:36:04 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
To: driftdiver
I learned a long time ago to wash my hands BEFORE using the lavatory and also not to shit and piss on my hands. Your mileage may vary.
Oh, and I don't eat donuts.
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posted on
09/12/2014 5:48:17 AM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: piytar
And this is not even the scariest bug running around right now. Sigh. Just curious what you think is scarier?
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posted on
09/12/2014 5:51:06 AM PDT
by
Lou L
(Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
To: Rodamala
Well aren’t you special.
You’re also disgusting.
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posted on
09/12/2014 6:05:48 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: anton
Does anyone remember the AIDS epidemic Now, think about the datum about recovered Ebola patients still being able to transmit Ebola in semen for weeks afterward, and consider the effect of just one recovered gay man going back to work as a trucker and making the rounds of gay bars around all the truck stops across the country he may visit over those weeks.
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posted on
09/12/2014 6:06:59 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: silverleaf
planeloads of Africans are now departing for the hajj in Mecca Where they will live in crowded tent cities.
And mingle closely in large crowds. "What could go wrong" -- indeed.
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posted on
09/12/2014 6:16:27 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
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posted on
09/12/2014 6:25:38 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Cowboy Bob
40 years ago there were productive grain farms in a land known as Rhodesia.
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posted on
09/12/2014 6:34:49 AM PDT
by
kitchen
(Even the walls have ears.)
To: silverleaf
Have you ever had the experience of using a 3rd world “public restroom”? The hole in the floor is usually surrounded by a slimy floor covered with much unpleasantness. Hygiene is a foreign concept.
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posted on
09/12/2014 6:50:58 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or eradication Camp?)
To: hal ogen
Have you ever had the experience of using a 3rd world public restroom? The hole in the floor is usually surrounded by a slimy floor covered with much unpleasantness. Hygiene is a foreign concept. I would like to add that there is usually no toilet paper, soap or hot water at the sink as well.
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posted on
09/12/2014 7:12:04 AM PDT
by
bayliving
(Democrat. The word ascribed to those who are intellectually dishonest with themselves.)
To: dayglored
“But air transmission makes that advantage worthless.”
Mode of transmission is the best kept secret in this outbreak.
Nobody is talking about it.
To: ealgeone
I see it at work all the time. thank goodness I don't have to touch anything they touch like paper, etc.You almost inevitably touch common fomites all day long at work or in school. Can you go through the day without coming in contact with door knobs, light switches, pens and pencils, buttons on the coffee maker, desktop surfaces, computer keyboards, etc. etc. etc.? Researchers studying the spread of germs in office environments have sprayed a doorknob with harmless tracker germs and found that they managed to migrate to 60% of the surfaces of other fomites in the office within two hours.
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posted on
09/12/2014 7:18:37 AM PDT
by
Spartan79
(I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man. Jefferson)
To: Justa
The biggest threat to humanity since the Black Plague in the fourteenth century...and our government and health officials are totally immobilized with fear of being labeled un-PC. They are putting the entire world at risk by having not shut down all traffic into and out of Africa.
It's interesting that the Black Death was spread along the major transportation routes of the 1300s, so we've been down this road before...
The Black Death is thought to have originated in the arid plains of central Asia, where it then travelled along the Silk Road, reaching the Crimea by 1343. From there, it was most likely carried by Oriental rat fleas living on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships. Spreading throughout the Mediterranean and Europe, the Black Death is estimated to have killed 3060% of Europe's total population. All in all, the plague reduced the world population from an estimated 450 million down to 350375 million in the 14th century...It took 150 years for Europe's population to recover. --Wikipedia
To: ealgeone
My husband had a Secretary who happened to sit outside the men’s room...she could hear whether men washed their hands...and if they did not would say something to them when they came out!
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posted on
09/12/2014 7:19:19 AM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
To: BunnySlippers
“I still do not think it can take hold here like it can in Africa.”
If it gets loose in East LA or Camden, it’s game over. Even though our sanitation processes and clean water and food will disrupt the virus, there will come a tipping point where it won’t matter what is done, it will become uncontrollable.
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posted on
09/12/2014 7:23:13 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Manchuria Called. They want their Candidate Back!)
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