Posted on 10/15/2014 2:31:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
With scientists projecting that the West African Ebola epidemic will mushroom, many people are asking how experts can be so sure it will hit a peak and come back down, considering there’s no vaccine or reliable treatment yet. Right now, the trend is steep and upwards. Of the more than 8,000 cases so far, most infections occurred in the last 3 to 4 weeks, said David Peters, Chair of the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins University, where he and other experts gathered for a meeting Tuesday. The World Health Organization has projected a possible 10,000 new Ebola cases per week in West Africa by the end of this year.
How do they know when this frightening upward curve will level off, or if it will level off at all, as opposed to spreading around the globe and ravaging the human race like the pandemic in the movie Outbreak? The most dire forecast comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which predicted 1.4 million cases by early 2015. But even their graph levels off and then falls as the number of new cases eventually go to zero.
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Even without a vaccine, he said, the current outbreak will eventually “run out of fuel” as infected people either die or become immune. So far, at least, it appears that people who survive the disease aren’t vulnerable to reinfection.
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They know because Obama told them
Of course, the elites think the planet is supporting too many people as it is. They just can't decide if the ideal global population is 500 million, where it was for most of human history before capitalism came along, or maybe closer to three or four billion thanks to the technological advances which had nothing to do with capitalism.
That's what happened in Europe in the 1500s during the plagues there, after half the population was dead. That plague, the Black Death was very much like Ebola.
I have always said that this POS would find a way to extend his presidency. It’s all coming together as he has planned.
A month or so ago these same experts were telling us how it was ‘impossible’ for Ebola to spread outside Africa. I have no reason to believe them now.
Squirrels and deer, rats... lots of vectors besides humans.
All the hosts will die. That slows it down.
Ask that tool if he'd risk his kids' lives on that graveyard whistling assertion.
Better yet, ask his kids what they think about daddy's moronic optimism.
The author is one “F.D. Flam”...is his first name “Flim”?
We have nothing to worry about.
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Squirrels and deer, rats... lots of vectors besides humans.
Cats, Dogs, Hamsters, Richard Gere’s Gerbil....
In the last scene from the movie, the neighbor, who is a pilot, is shown going thru the airport to get on his flight. They then show him as a dot, connecting to other dots; that are connecting to other dots. He is flying a transatlantic flight, so after it lands in Paris, more dots. Pretty soon the globe is engulfed, and it happens quickly.
It's only a movie, but this one depiction of how a virus can travel extensviely, even jump continents, in a very short time stuck with me; and, I've been thinking a lot about it recently.
Although this is likely a completely accurate predication, how does that help the thousands presently infected or the millions who could die before it exhausts itself? If 50% of the world’s population is going to die, I rather hope that includes this fellow.
The last great outbreak of bubonic plague was in London, 1667. Over the previous three centuries they’d blamed rats, cats, witches and foul miasmas but finally got around to dogs at that point. Never was any of those, it was fleas.
“Even without a vaccine, he said, the current outbreak will eventually “run out of fuel” as infected people either die or become immune.”
so just as soon as everyone is exposed to the virus and succumbs, then those of us living in an alternate universe will be able to return safely to earth.
How is this of any practical value? I have to get an Ebola infection and survive, then they’re pretty sure that I won’t get it again...
> After it killed about 35% of Europe’s population from 1345-1360.<
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It took so long to kill so many because, at that time, Europe’s population was not as mobile as ours is, today.
They were not cooped up in airplanes, trains, busses, malls, Walmart, barbershops, theaters, bars, bath houses, etc.
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