Posted on 09/20/2014 1:42:23 PM PDT by blam
Benjamin Hale, Slate
September 20, 2014
As the Ebola epidemic in West Africa has spiraled out of control, affecting thousands of Liberians, Sierra Leonians, and Guineans, and threatening thousands more, the world’s reaction has been glacially, lethally slow. Only in the past few weeks have heads of state begun to take serious notice. To date, the virus has killed more than 2,600 people. This is a comparatively small number when measured against much more established diseases such as malaria,HIV/AIDS, influenza, and so on, but several factors about this outbreak have some of the world’s top health professionals gravely concerned:
Its kill rate: In this particular outbreak, a running tabulation suggests that 54 percent of the infected die, though adjusted numbers suggest that the rate is much higher.
Its exponential growth: At this point, the number of people infected is doubling approximately every three weeks, leading some epidemiologists to project between 77,000 and 277,000 cases by the end of 2014.
The gruesomeness with which it kills: by hijacking cells and migrating throughout the body to affect all organs, causing victims to bleed profusely.
The ease with which it is transmitted: through contact with bodily fluids, including sweat, tears, saliva, blood, urine, semen, etc., including objects that have come in contact with bodily fluids (such as bed sheets, clothing, and needles) and corpses.
The threat of mutation: Prominent figures have expressed serious concerns that this disease will go airborne, and there are many other mechanisms through which mutation might make it much more transmissible.
Terrifying as these factors are, it is not clear to me that any of them capture what is truly, horribly tragic about this disease.
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Tell that to the people who got blood tranfusions and died during the early years of AIDS. Tell that to the kids today who are being hospitalized for Enterovirus-68. While it may not be the end of your happy little world, these diseases are the end of the world for the victims and their loved ones.
This may seem trivial to you, but your comment is very interesting to me.
In my end times studies, I have been operating under the assumption that the four seals (Revelation 6:1-8)
Seal 1 - White Horse
Seal 2 - Red Horse
Seal 3 - Black Horse
Seal 4 - Pale Horse
happen in sequence, not in parallel.
If you have any additional insight on the Four Horsemen riding together, rather than one after another, would you please expand on your comment?
Thank you for any insight you may have to share.
We’ve wondered...and worried...about the same thing on United (IAH) flights. Now, we can worry even more....knowing the planes are only cleaned (if they’re even cleaned) with....FANTASTIK :(
Letting sick kids into the US with Enterovirus, being so lax with Ebola quarantines to the US....can we call it population control. A lot of old people the socialists would like to bump off.
He seems to be intent on doing everything he can to bring this disease HERE.
Add it to the list of his Impeachable offenses and outright Treason.
Going to Africa? -— Ta-ta pal, you’ll stay there and won’t be coming back. Planning to come here from Africa? -— Sorry -— you’re not welcome here. But no one with authority in the US will enforce a quarantine until people start to croak. By then, it will be here and be too late.
To enforce a quarantine?
Keep the infected in 'the' infected area?
If this thing keeps spreading, won't some people have to stay home and die or create a worldwide problem.
Buy 5000 IU pills at Sam’s or Costco for a nickel a pop. Have 2 a day with a fatty meal to increase absorption.
" Remember that Medicins Sans Frontieres, Samaritan's Purse, the CDC, and WHO all agree that the number of reported cases already vastly underestimates the true size of the epidemic. They say by a factor of 2 to 4. "
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Firstly, I would say that throughout history we see famine and war and pestilence and death. Such things tend to accompany one another. It's a fairly casual observation.
Regarding the End Times, I do not doubt that there will be a sequence, and that the sequence is determined. It may be mincing words to say that the 4 Horsemen do arrive in a sequence 1-2-3-4 -- but they are all coming, are they not? Therefore I say that they ride together. They simply don't all arrive at the same time. But they will arrive.
bfl
Are We seeing this actually happen before our Eyes?
What will be the event that Absolutely tells You that it’s Happening ?
Destruction of the Temple,perhaps?
Rapture?
Aids has killed about 36 million people so far, and kills about 1.6 million every year.
Can you please tell me how exactly to use the oil of oregano? I have some but don’don’t know of its uses other than as a decongestant when mixed with a little oil or added to steaming water.
I'm in the process of trying to eat up all my old canned food, a little of it from as far back as 2004 and 2003 (tuna), plenty of it from 2008 and 2010, These are BEST BY dates, not purchase dates.
I am refreshing my canned goods with fresher stock.
you can put it in a nebulizer and inhale to help the lungs.
you can get it in spray form - oregaspray - and use as mouthwash, and swallow to help clear the tongue/throat. one spitz will do ya.
cn be used topically on skin and diluted for wounds. one of the most potent antibiotics around.
Me too...slowly.
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