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deepcgi
2014 Oct 2, 3:36am
Fear is the problem alright. Too much and not enough.
Last week, the CDC said that the chances of Ebola migrating to the United States were remote. That was very, very irresponsible. In an effort to keep everyone calm and fear-free, the staff at the Dallas Hospital sent a symptomatic, contagious patient home with pain killers.
We now know that Mr. Duncan vomited outside of his apartment on the way back to the hospital.
A little bit of fear could have saved lives.
I need to lose some weight. I'm off to lick the hand-railings from around his apartment complex. Wanna come along? Not afraid are you?
I need to lose some weight. I'm off to lick the hand-railings from around his apartment complex
excellent, take cic with you. hit the ambulance also while you are there.
indigenous
2014 Oct 2, 4:00am
Biden Advises Shooting Shotgun Through Door
As with all advise from Joe or O, just do the opposite and you are good.
Vicente
2014 Oct 2, 4:53am
Seriously why not shut down flights to the afflicted countries?
You isolate the country from the very help they need. Not to mention people can and do walk across borders and catch flights in other countries. If you allow flights to only go in, but return empty, they will be unprofitable and they will stop flying altogether.
indigenous
2014 Oct 2, 4:57am
You isolate the country from the very help they need. Not to mention people can and do walk across borders and catch flights in other countries. If you allow flights to only go in, but return empty, they will be unprofitable and they will stop flying altogether.
Bullshit, what percentage of the help comes from this country?
It will be harder for them to spread the virus.
It is more important to prevent the spread the virus that could kill millions than the profit of an airline for a short period of time for Air Liberia.
Rew
2014 Oct 2, 4:58am
Or essentially ... we aren't there yet. The risk isn't seen as big enough yet and I think the West African governments are also asking for more time to control and inform before something like that is implemented. Again, Ebola really bad ... panic riot violence and Ebola ... whole new ball game.
Rew
2014 Oct 2, 5:09am
CiC if you think Fox is not selling fear and blatantly playing to emotions just go look at their front page. One story acknowledging the issue does not a network, fair and balanced, make.
(My fave article over there - Bush blaming Iraq's issues on their inability to defend themselves. Jackass. What did we expect when we disban the army and install a nobody as leader.)
Vicente
2014 Oct 2, 5:16am
You isolate the country from the very help they need. Not to mention people can and do walk across borders and catch flights in other countries. If you allow flights to only go in, but return empty, they will be unprofitable and they will stop flying altogether.
Bullshit, what percentage of the help comes from this country?
It will be harder for them to spread the virus.
It is more important to prevent the spread the virus that could kill millions than the profit of an airline for a short period of time for Air Liberia.
Apparently you are unfamiliar with modern travel. There are few direct flights there. This guy came through Brussels. Or perhaps you were envisioning a world alliance to ring them in, forbid travel to ANY country, and watch them die. The same country that can't control a border with Mexico will remotely manage one in another country too? Awesome.
A more possible solution would be require quarantine on arrival for anyone with a Liberian passport.
In any case, here again ridiculous out-of-proportion panic on your part. FEAR FEAR FEAR!
Rew
2014 Oct 2, 5:16am
I mean, I'm not contagious until I have symptoms. Everyone tells me so.
Liberals are always right, unless they are lying.
It doesn't matter if conservatives are wrong. They are carrying out God's will.
(One thing they have in common with IS)
indigenous
2014 Oct 2, 5:19am
In any case, here again ridiculous out-of-proportion panic on your part. FEAR FEAR FEAR!
You're right, no need to get all worked up over a virus said to be spreading exponentially.
Panic is not being prudent, panic is when the virus increases exponentially and people leave Tx in droves, further spreading the virus, and poof millions go bye bye.
justme
2014 Oct 2, 5:19am
There are people drawing blood of the infected/recovered to use as cures on themselves,
Reference?
It's all over the news. Just google search it.
Black market forming for the stuff.
I think your original post was very unclear. You made it sound like random "people" were extracting blood from known Ebola victims and injecting themselves with it. Who would be that stupid?
Rather, there is a market, black and otherwise, for the blood from people who had Ebola *but survived*, and I suppose especially if they survived through the strength of and by no other means than their own immune system.
The phrase "infected/recovered" is at the heart of the problem. You should have said recovered.
Vicente
2014 Oct 2, 5:25am
panic is when the virus increases exponentially and people leave Tx in droves
Texans deserting the Alamo? Never! No number of dead bloody bodies could make that happen. They will SECEDE and bootstrap their way out of it on their own.
I'm not clear why Real Conservatives wouldn't welcome a good plague on the country through. They may not believe in evolution, but they certainly blather on about Survival of the Fittest. And obviously only pansy liberals and brown people will die, the Real Americans will rise from the ashes and install Mitt Romney. Finally a GOTP Congress and the United Corporations of America can vulture capitalize us to Utopia.
indigenous
2014 Oct 2, 5:33am
THAT is what you should fear, not the virus...
FDR said we have nothing to fear but fear itself. I would like to amend that to we have nothing to fear but the politicians and our own indifference.
There I fixed it.
deepcgi
2014 Oct 2, 5:38am
In investing, marketing, or even philosophy, doing nothing and ignoring the squeakiest wheels is almost always a wise mantra. Not this time.
We aren't nearly afraid enough of ebola.
I am certain that this outbreak will be looked back on as one of the greatest failures of the US federal government in our lifetimes.
This bug is going to spread all through the third world. It could take years, but it will be a part of our lives from now until it's cured. Eventually the list of problem nations will be so extensive that we will have potential ebola cases passing through our hub airports every single day of the year. Not fear, not wishful thinking, just math. I called and spoke with an old family friend who retired from the CDC not long ago. He/She called their actions "mind-bogglingly stupid". and "People are going to lie about anything to get away from it."
justme
2014 Oct 2, 5:49am
Good to see you did a little reading to become more informed.
I hope it helped you as well.
Rew
2014 Oct 2, 6:14am
In any case, here again ridiculous out-of-proportion panic on your part.
The panic part will come from your friends in Washington... We know how they love to make knee-jerk reactions without logic..
Everything I see says "our friends" and "your friends" in Washington are exactly the same with regards to this. Agree?
Perfect example was their rush for a nationwide assault rifle ban after a few verifiable nut cases went on a shooting spree... 100 million firearm owners, but they wanted to pass a nationwide rifle ban because of a few crazy people.... Very logical!!
The "FEAR" with Ebola will cause your representatives in Washington to pass some emergency, area wide, quarantine Bill in the name of "protecting us"...
THAT is what you should fear, not the virus...
Right. So let's all just take a freaking breath and stop pointing fingers at the cases in TX and crying out for our wonderful administration to do something. I've got high faith the CDC is keeping the administration well informed, and they don't need any reason to start a panic spiral with the media and us already being in a big fervor over this one small instance.
I bow out of this thread now in that spirit.
Wash your hands and don't hug dead things.
Peace. ;)
Shaman
2014 Oct 2, 8:36am
Feds report they are testing an experimental vaccine. Looks like Obama is laying the groundwork for releasing the cure they've had all along, but been reluctant to part with. With the knowledge that he has a cure, it's easy to make the choice to keep flights going.
The good news is that Ebola might be nothing to panic over after all.
The bad news is just more typical military industrial complex bullshit where they weigh the value of a powerful (if highly illegal) weapon against a bunch of people dying in increasing numbers from a truly horrifying disease.
Now they have to have this "experimental" vaccine to test, then it'll work and America to the rescue! Queue the ticker tape!
Tenpoundbass
2014 Oct 2, 8:43am
They locked the Victim's family in their apartment with his dirty laundry and bed sheets.
You kinda get the understanding how and why it's spreading so fast. If the SOP is to round up all of the Victims family and make them spend a week or so until they develop symptoms. The people probably would not have gotten sick had they not been confined with the pathogens.
Don't get me wrong I'm all for confining it, but these people should be sent to a sterile location, with nothing but a tile floor, a smock and a cot. While they are there they send over the Haliburton decontamination squad to have a go back at the flat.
Tenpoundbass
2014 Oct 2, 11:58am
Where in the fuck is the Hazmat people?
Everytime corn starch is found in an envelope the E.T. extraction unit is sent out with a bubble built around the building and decontamination chambers.
This case hasn't gotten squat.
Welp, uh, no, there's Rodger and his son in law with a Stanley 30psi pressure washer.
Shaman
2014 Oct 2, 12:19pm
Obviously the USA is at least as much at risk as "barbaric superstitious backward" African countries. Our emergency rooms are already packed, our hospitals are already loaded with sick people or old people on palliative care. Where the hell do we put Outbreak cases? Africa is more prepared.
Rew
2014 Oct 2, 12:27pm
Obviously the USA is at least as much at risk as "barbaric superstitious backward" African countries. Our emergency rooms are already packed, our hospitals are already loaded with sick people or old people on palliative care. Where the hell do we put Outbreak cases? Africa is more prepared.
Rew
2014 Oct 2, 12:28pm
Only in America, send a clean-up crew in to mop up high contagious Ebola vomit, give them a power washer so they can blow it all over the place. Oh, and don't give them any personal protection equipment....
But, some people here feel that the authorities have everything under control and there is no chance of it spreading...
Sure.....
*
UV light, heat, and oxygen all kill Ebola dead. It doesn't live for long outside the body. Spray it down the gutters, and put a little yellow caution tape up.
Good to go joe!
Rew
2014 Oct 2, 12:37pm
What is the ratio of Liberal to Conservative on this forum?
Start a new thread and find out. I'll play.
Rew
2014 Oct 2, 12:47pm
It doesn't live for long outside the body.
Here, since I know you won't do the research....
How long does Ebola live outside the body?
Ebola on dried on surfaces such as doorknobs and countertops can survive for several hours; however, virus in body fluids (such as blood) can survive up to several days at room temperature.
When did we start paving our streets in room temperature body fluids in the US?
Again, oxygen, UV light, heat ... all denature and kill the virus. It is very similar to Aids, except Ebola makes you ooze your body fluids out to help spread the disease and when you are symptomatic you have a huge viral load to spread around.
Rew
2014 Oct 2, 1:10pm
When did we start paving our streets in room temperature body fluids in the US?
Temperature in Dallas right now is 75 degrees.
Quiz: How long would the virus in the vomit on the sidewalk last at that temperature?
It was just dispersed all over in water (highly oxygenating action) and washed into all the little cracks in the sidewalk, down the gutter, etc.
Ebola deactivates in literally minutes in water. It is not water born.
EDIT: PEOPLE of the internets ... CALM THE F* DOWN! You will survive this one, just like SARS, H1N1, PIG FLU, BIRD FLU, AIDS, etc. etc.
Obviously the USA is at least as much at risk as "barbaric superstitious backward" African countries. Our emergency rooms are already packed, our hospitals are already loaded with sick people or old people on palliative care. Where the hell do we put Outbreak cases? Africa is more prepared.
"US sends medical experts to study how Nigeria tamed Ebola". BTW, Nigeria has travel ban from Liberia.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/us-sends-medical-experts-study-nigeria-tamed-ebola/
Y
2014 Oct 2, 1:15pm
'zactly what obama did to clean up benghazi...
Only in America, send a clean-up crew in to mop up high contagious Ebola vomit, give them a power washer so they can blow it all over the place. Oh, and don't give them any personal protection equipment....
But, some people here feel that the authorities have everything under control and there is no chance of it spreading...
Sure.....
*
Rew
2014 Oct 2, 1:27pm
Obviously the USA is at least as much at risk as "barbaric superstitious backward" African countries. Our emergency rooms are already packed, our hospitals are already loaded with sick people or old people on palliative care. Where the hell do we put Outbreak cases? Africa is more prepared.
"US sends medical experts to study how Nigeria tamed Ebola". BTW, Nigeria has travel ban from Liberia.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/us-sends-medical-experts-study-nigeria-tamed-ebola/
Sounds prudent for a country in close proximity.
"Nigeria appears to have contained Ebola, but not without significant assistance from the Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization, Unicef, the Red Cross and even the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Nigeria’s less developed neighborhoods will need considerably more help."
http://www.suntimes.com/opinions/30215528-474/lets-get-a-grip-on-ebola-fear-in-us.html#.VC4XCr65OS0
Sounds prudent for a country in close proximity.
It is prudent for any country in the world. The logic is ridiculous.
Rew
2014 Oct 2, 1:48pm
Sounds prudent for a country in close proximity.
It is prudent for any country in the world. The logic is ridiculous.
Negative. It's about risk and not putting up a false guise of being protected.
There are few direct flights to West Africa. Anyone going or coming is already being screened and getting health advisory before they go. Ebola can lay dormant for many many days.
You advocate something that simply doesn't really matter much in terms of prevention and control at this stage. You would have to shut down travel all together to stop the spread.
Edit : People already dying of MERS here. Shall we shut down air travel to the whole mid-east? Guess how many flus are brought to the US every day from other parts of the world?
"In the past decade, the United States had 5 imported cases of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) diseases similar to Ebola (1 Marburg, 4 Lassa). None resulted in any transmission in the United States."
That's the CDC saying that. Guess what? Lassa is more stable outside the body than Ebola!
Rew
2014 Oct 2, 2:06pm
"Nigeria appears to have contained Ebola,
Yeah, one small piece of the puzzle... when someone walks into the ER with symptoms in Nigeria, they KEEP him there...
They don't let him leave and walk among the general public for days with the virus...
Gosh. I wonder what the US will do now that we know it is Ebola and people who may have had contact show symptoms? Meh ... probably just let them go about their day.
The solution being projected by the panic mongers here seems to be "stop air travel cold and isolate anyone with flue like symptoms across the whole country".
F* that!
Oh my gosh, know what, I bet there will be another instance of Ebola in the US! I bet some people may even die! *gasp*
You going to be too afraid to live in the meantime while you are waiting for whatever to happen? Not me. I'll surf (sharks), dance in the rain (lightning), breathe (lung cancer), walk in the sun (skin cancer), eat cheeseburgers (heart disease +100 other things), and drive (crash bang boom).
If it makes you feel better CiC, just don't touch anyone, ok?
Tenpoundbass
2014 Oct 2, 2:25pm
Great now they are saying Ebola medicine is in short supply.
I sure hope the Liberals are right Like they always are. *sarcasm off
Rew
2014 Oct 2, 2:28pm
The "FEAR" with Ebola will cause your representatives in Washington to pass some emergency, area wide, quarantine Bill in the name of "protecting us"...
THAT is what you should fear, not the virus...
That will do more damage then the virus.
Then flipping act like it, Mr. "OMG! They hosed off the sidewalk we are all gonna die."
This reminds me of you back pedaling when confronted with housing data. 'Sorry I'm on the east coast and really don't care about CA.' -- paraphrased ... but you get the idea.
Lame!
Rew
2014 Oct 2, 2:30pm
Great now they are saying Ebola medicine is in short supply.
I sure hope the Liberals are right Like they always are. *sarcasm off
Since most Drs and their schools are from urban, Democratic, bastions of prosperity ... why haven't you already figured out our master plan? Drop Ebola "deep into the heart of Texas". (We have plenty of cure here in California (wink))
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While you dorks worry about Federal Reserve or the price of milk....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/20/ebola-west-africa_n_5515140.html