[Qiviut]

*ping*

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Health/life BUMP!

[donozark]

Billy Ayers is ecstatic...

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Bump.

America is apparently sleeping about this.

I believe.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Baloney.

It's already here.

[null and void]

The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re 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...

[Nip]

I am sorry, but.

You can and, unfortunately, we must consider the probably of actually quarantining ourselves.

Next to impossible - yes. But take a realistic look at the alternative. While Ira Longini put the best possible spin in the article there was also a clear warning - the Ebola virus, like all viruses, can mutate. It is this mutation that could make a national quarantine necessary.

As for the US medical system being able to cope with Ebola; IMHO the doctor is too optimistic. The larger cities probably could; but, what about the “one horse” towns that still make up a large percentage of America? Those medical systems are, unfortunately, very small and hence very fragile. A force of a half dozen doctors and twenty nurses are going to provide 24/7 life support for 45 plus days while also providing “normal” care and preventing the spread of Ebola?

Fear mongering?

I hope that is what I am doing. But, if you take a hard look at the last worldwide pandemic, the Spanish Flu 1918-1920, the few areas that escaped that pandemic and its associated deaths were island nations/states that enforced a very strict quarantine.

My bottom line - it is better to discuss and plan for a crises over coffee and snacks than trying to do it a midnight when the crises is upon you.

[moovova]

100% chance it’s already here.

Obama made sure of that.

[unread]

You get an African Present...you get African diseases...

Why, it makes perfect sense to me.... I wonder what else we're going get... :(

[cuban leaf]

I thought I’d just touch this thread to say that Ebola is a distant side story to me. I don’t have TV so the only time I am even made aware of it is the headlines on FR. And its impact on 6+ billion people is statistically zero. And it is very localized. And there are rumblings of multiple cures - several americans, 35 monkeys, etc.

I’ll concern mysefl with it when the number reaches 100,000 and more than 5% of those are in the US. In the meantime, drunk driving and home accidents are a much bigger killer.

[BigpapaBo]

Ping

[Slambat]

“there is a 20 percent chance that the deadly virus will begin spreading within the U.S. in the next two weeks.”

It’s intentional, it’s the Obamas ultimate get back at
whitey.

[Uncle Miltie]

Oh noes!

Last week it was RELIABLY reported that there was and EXACTLY 18% chance of ebola coming to America.

Wow! What happened?

These predictions are so accurate, that the increase from 18% to 20% must put us all in a permanent tizzy!!!!

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping…

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

[hemogoblin]

I know it’s inconceivable that the media would allow such a thing, but we are being set up. Count on it arriving just prior to the election.

[Georgia Girl 2]

So basically an 80% chance it won’t.

[wildbill]

If Obama sends boots on the ground to Africa to aid in the fight against ebola, won’t that change the odds dramatically in favor of ebola coming to our shores?

[metmom]

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