Smokin Joe just sent me a comment that the CDC has again revised the 3’ to 6’ distance on sneezing/coughing...and scientists have revised some things including days to weeks Ebola lives on a dry surface, so your whining about ‘conspiracies’ is just more information containment by those who refuse to realize that they don’t know as much as originally claimed. That is not conspiracy-mongering.
All these new revisions make us all realize that the CDC or Scientists do not know as much about Ebola as they originally claimed. So that affects the safety factor for everyone who comes within a visual distance of an ebola patient....”X factors unknown”. Now enough said until the whole healthcare system figures it out correctly!
My “whining” about conspiracies refers to the constant claims that the CDC is lying about Ebola. No one can actually point at a specific item and identify it as a lie, but, nevertheless, they insist that the CDC is lying.
I think the reason the CDC keeps revising the poster is that people still keep insisting that Ebola is airborne, and the CDC is trying to dumb down the information enough to get it through people’s heads that Ebola is NOT airborne. Unfortunately, the CDC is staffed by scientists who generally are not exciting people, and these calm, rational people are trying to communicate with a public that is drawn to emotionalism and sensationalism. The posters about spread of Ebola have not changed the information, but they revised its presentation.
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/infections-spread-by-air-or-droplets.pdf
The fact that a lot about Ebola is unknown does not invalidate the data that we *do* have about it. No new information is going to show up “proving” that Ebola is airborne. And you don’t need a PhD to figure out that it is not airborne—you only need to observe the behavior of Ebola and compare it to the behavior of influenza (which is thought to be airborne and is highly contagious). We can’t stop influenza. If Ebola spread as easily as influenza, we wouldn’t be able to stop it, either.