Posted on 10/18/2014 11:11:30 AM PDT by Rummyfan
As a rule, one should not panic at whatever crisis has momentarily fixed the attention of cable news producers. But the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which has migrated to both Europe and America, may be the exception that proves the rule. There are at least six reasons that a controlled, informed panic might be in order.
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(2) General infection rates are terrifying, too. In epidemiology, you measure the “R0,” or “reproduction number” of a virus; that is, how many new infections each infected person causes. When R0 is greater than 1, the virus is spreading through a population. When it’s below 1, the contamination is receding. In September the World Health Organization’s Ebola Response Team estimated the R0 to be at 1.71 in Guinea and 2.02 in Sierra Leone. Since then, it seems to have risen so that the average in West Africa is about 2.0. In September the WHO estimated that by October 20, there would be 3,000 total cases in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. As of October 7, the count was 8,376.
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I appreciate the fact that they were being cautious, since nobody really knows what the hell is going on.
Good thing I was cleared to go back to the office on Monday...I didn't like my first foray into teleworking. I just prefer having a place to work, separate from my abode.
Not correct. There are multiple ways to get infected by direct contact with fluids, the most common being improper protocol when removing the protective garments.
You may be right, but it's just not correct to say that by definition they got it through the air.
I would also suggest that when a person is in the final stages of Ebola and has explosive diarrhea and projectile vomiting and is bleeding from multiple points, there is a lot of stuff being put into the air in his immediate vicinity that makes it a little different from what we normally think of as "airborne."
How many are freaking about the virus (I’ll agree that it isn’t none, and how many are freaking out about the profound multi-layered incompetence of this administration? ...and then the transparent attempts at deception on top of it. I don’t think people in general should be panicking over the virus, but there SHOULD be a freak-out at the political level.
It’s almost like a guy whispering in your ear every few hours that you have nothing to fear from the ceiling falling, because no one ever trips over the carpet that’s rolled up and laying across the hallway. Enough of that obvious lie, and it can make you wary of the ceiling creaks.
In Obala’s sick dreams, Americans have a single neck to
choke, and a single child to infect.
I’m wondering why America had been as “lucky” as it was with respect to Ebola. This is a world in constant contact. There is no countrywide quarantine on Liberia. Hands that shook hands with Ebola carriers probably have been in the USA for years if not decades.
Perhaps there are other factors that influence an attack of Ebola to be specially deadly, factors that are present in Africa. Without such a factor present, perhaps the sufferer usually survives and nobody knows it was not a common flu.
Just remember, he hasn’t exhibited the Christian mindset, but on more than one occasion exhibited very Satanic belief systems. In his thinking, if he can sacrifice human lives to demons, he will gain more worldly power and spiritual control of his adversaries.
His staunchest supporters share the same thinking. If they can mass slaughter believers without accountability, he will be tempted to perform such heinous activity.
The New Covenant declares that because of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus on the cross "for the sins for the whole world" (1 John 2:2), "their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more" (Heb 8:12, 10:17).
It would also help to remember that even in the Old Testament, God would not judge Sodom until AFTER ONE MAN, righteous Lot, was no longer there. I think there's many more righteous per capita in America than there was in Sodom.
Several researchers have become infected over the years. I don’t think Americans have any special immunity. As for Ebola carriers, they would either recover or die. Most that recover would have shown some serious symptoms along with way. They would know and would not mistake it for the flu. But they could be around carrying both viruses and antibodies for some period.
I’m skeptical if he has the force of mind that even Hitler had. Passive ice-cream eater taking orders even from his own wife, is what we seem to see. Of course the devil loves this. He loves all the attention lavished on Obama which means not on his puppetmasters.
Problem is they will likely take a lot of Americans with them.
They WILL be tried and hung for their crimes. And that is going to happen much, much sooner than anyone now realizes.
Ebola has the POTENTIAL to completely alter world history and so far I don't see Mankind with the ability to much influence that.
If I survive I hope to be one who pulls the lever for dozens.
I am not saying immunity, I am saying lack of a factor in America that would be present in Africa that exacerbates the severity of an illness. Perhaps another germ which by itself is harmless.
Death is not a deterrent to the Jihadists. When they die fighting for Jihad, immediate admittance to Allah’s heaven with 72 beautiful virgins waiting. That has to be a huge incentive after looking at only burkha clad women all their life.
Other pestilences have also overwhelmed the science or “science” of their day. It seems such an ill understood disease even now. Why are there survivors walking around? That is the question which ought to be asked.
I’m sure, like the black plague in its day, it has the potential to seriously bend world history. Wipe out the whole world, probably no.
Symptoms of Ebola are not much different than a serious attack of flu. Thousands of Americans die from flu every year. May be Ebola can go undiagnosed in many cases.
It’s also because there is no other Koranic promise of heaven. Allah is inscrutable beyond that. Might damn you, might bless you. Is he grumpy that day?
It isn’t just the Ebola. It’s the potential of a perfect storm of diseases overwhelming the medical care syatem.
Except ebola can range from 65%-95% fatal in the population infected with it, while less than 2% of the common flu is fatal. Additionally, the destruction of all flesh and internal hemorrhaging of VHFs isn't the common influenza.
It is true that many of the symptoms associated with ebola are secondary and tertiary symptoms from other bodily systems under attack, as occurs with other viral infections, but they are more deadly with ebola than say the common cold or untreated HIV.
What if its 20?
If you have a chance to hang a millstone around Obola’s neck, this is it. This will crush his illegal immigrant push.
Think about it.
A hidden excuse for Martial Law, just wait and see!!!
Naw, that wouldn't be "fair", don-cha-know.
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