If it looks like a government manufactured crisis, smells like a government manufactured crisis, and the captured MSM does their part to promote crisis and fear, it’s probably a government manufactured crisis. Do you notice how the MSM and the government have done a 180 degree shift from Putin shooting down an airliner (another false flag) to this new worldwide Ebola crisis? Why would the government allow these two infected Americans back into the country? They won’t let you on a plane if you have the mumps, measles or chickenpox.
The economic situation of this country sucks, no matter what you are told on the boob tube by the corporate propaganda media. US influence around the world is in rapid decline. Everything we touch goes to shit instantaneously (Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Ukraine). The people need to be kept in a constant state of fear from terrorists, the Russians, Iran, and now from the terrible Ebola virus. Throw in a few Plague victims in Colorado for good measure.They don’t want you focusing on the Ponzi scheme and pillaging of wealth being pulled off by TPTB.
This is nothing more than another government method of keeping the sheep penned in and frightened. Trust the government to keep you safe. Sacrifice some more liberties and freedoms. The majority will quiver as they have been conditioned to over the years. When will people wake up from their stupor and realize what is happening?
Don’t Fear Ebola, Fear the State
And mistrust fascist big pharma public-private partnerships
It is difficult to contract the deadly viral disease Ebola.
In order to get it, you have to be in direct contact with blood and other body fluids from an infected person or animal. Aerosol transmission is not possible. The possibility of widespread transmission is extremely low due to a high fatality rate and the remote areas where infections usually occur.
According to some members of the medical establishment and the corporate media, the spread of the disease is out of control in the African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. A chart posted on Daily Mail claims 1,201 people in those countries tested positive for the disease and 672 have died this year. The Daily Mail says Ebola is “as infectious as flu,” a claim that is patently untrue.
As Jon Rappoport told Alex Jones on Thursday, the death rate from Ebola is nearly infinitesimal when compared to seasonal flu, which kills between three and five million people every year. Like previous “pandemic” diseases like Swine Flu and West Nile, Ebola is being exploited and exaggerated as part of a psychological operation by government.
Disease, natural disaster, and man-made crises are routinely exploited by government as pretexts to enlarge and extend its power and reach. The state and its propaganda media thrive on one manufactured crisis after another as part of a systematic effort to ramp up the police state. The goal is not protection of the people. It is an all-encompassing surveillance state with a militarized component designed not to save us from evil terrorists or scary diseases, but control the population and maintain through fear and violence its political monopoly.
A fear-mongered Ebola – far less threatening to the average American than a stay at the hospital or driving a car – will be used to impose new restrictions on the movement of citizens. The CDC website reveals what the government plans to do in the event the difficult to spread disease arrives in America – enforce isolation, quarantine, and government decree enforced at gunpoint. “In addition to serving as medical functions, isolation and quarantine also are ‘police power’ functions, derived from the right of the state to take action affecting individuals for the benefit of society,” the CDC states.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is on its game. “The military has response plans in place for national emergency events that could include anything from a pandemic outbreak to economic collapse, both of which could lead to civil unrest,” writes Mac Slavo. “The Department of Defense informed Congress that it has deployed biological diagnostic systems to National Guard support teams in all 50 states” despite a complete lack of Ebola cases and the improbability of a pandemic.
In addition to providing an excuse for an enlargement of government and military power, hyped up pandemic threats are used by transnational corporations to increase profits.
In 2010 the outgoing Chair of the Council of Europe’s Sub-committee on Health, Wolfgang Wodarg, told the Alex Jones Show that the 2009 swine flu pandemic was a hoax manufactured by pharmaceutical companies in league with the WHO to make large profits while endangering public health. “It is their trick that they always try to monopolize this and we pay much more like this,” said Wodarg.
Fast tracked vaccines that may become mandatory
The National Institutes of Health, a biomedical research facility under the Department of Health & Human Services, has announced it is working with another government behemoth, the Food and Drug Administration, to fast track an Ebola vaccine.
“We are starting to discuss some deals with pharmaceutical companies to help scale it up, so on an emergency basis, it might be available in 2015 for health workers who are putting themselves at extreme risk,” Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Fast tracked vaccines and accompanying pandemic psychological warfare has resulted in the state and its supported institutions – including hospitals, schools and even private daycare centers – making flu vaccines mandatory for workers.
The New York Times and the establishment media are now demanding mandatory vaccinations for children and the elimination of all exemptions. As if that is not bad enough, some are calling for mandatory participation in vaccine clinical trials as well.
“Many societies already mandate that citizens undertake activities for the good of society,” writes Susanne Sheehy for the American Medical Association, a government-sanctioned cartel that specializes in making healthcare unaffordable.
Beware when government and its preferred corporate partners argue in favor of mandatory activities supposedly for the good of society.
This invariably results in authoritarian behavior, conscription, and wealth confiscation at gunpoint.
Yes, absolutely. Its all anyone is talking about which is fucking hysterical. Ask them about Israel/Gaza or the Ukrainian-Russia War and they don’t know a damned thing.
But they know ebola melts you, and its on its way to the US.
I spent 45 minutes at the water cooler just lecturing and assuaging fears. This not something to be worried about, if ebola hit the US I would expect to see single digit deaths at the WORST.
Damn people are lemmings.
American Ebola Patients On Way To Atlanta Hospital, Customs On Heightened Alert For “Ill” Passengers
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/01/2014 10:31 -0400
Two American healthcare workers, described as in ‘grave condition and worsening’ are being infected by the Ebola virus are on their way to Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital for treatment. As WSBTV reports, the hospital has a separate isolation unit set up in partnership with the CDC to treat serious infectious diseases. CDC officials have called this “the biggest and most complex Ebola outbreak in history.” Sentiment across social media appears rather biased towards the negative on bringing the patients back. As we warned last night, there are significant implications should Ebola come to America. WE also note that while the CDC is not screening airline passengers, customs and border agents are on heightened alert for ‘people with flu-like symptoms.”
As WBSTV reports,
The hospital has a special isolation unit set up in collaboration with the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to treat patients with serious infectious diseases.
At least one of the two will be taken to a hospital at Emory University, near the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, according to CNN.
A spokeswoman told Channel 2 Action News she did not know when the patients would arrive, but confirmed the patients are from west Africa. The Associated Press reported the patient is an American aid worker.
“It is physically separate from other patient areas and has unique equipment and infrastructure that provide an extraordinarily high level of clinical isolation,” a spokesman said in a release.
Sources told CNN the two Americans being evacuated are Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol. Both are described as being in grave condition but are stable after their health worsened overnight. Both healthcare workers have been in Liberia with the faith-based charity Samaritan’s Purse.
The hospital said doctors, nurses and staff are trained in procedures to handle this type of patient.
The hospital is only one of four such facilities in the country.
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“This is the biggest and most complex Ebola outbreak in history. Far too many lives have been lost already,” said CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. “It will take many months, and it won’t be easy, but Ebola can be stopped. We know what needs to be done. CDC is surging our response, sending 50 additional disease control experts to the region in the next 30 days.”
Protection…
Airline officials were told to notify the CDC before ill passengers board a plane. The CDC will then investigate ill passengers and quarantine them if necessary.
Channel 2’s Dave Huddleston spoke with officials at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport who said customs and border protection agents are on heightened alert to watch for people with flu like symptoms.
At this time, the CDC will not screen passengers traveling from the affected countries, but will provide guidance to airlines for managing ill passengers and crew for disinfecting the aircraft.
What is the other hand doing?
I remember reading a Tom Clancy novel about terrorists using aerosol cans of ebola to cause a worldwide pandemic. It didn’t even work in the novel.
The decades of dumbing down the populace with government education, social engineering and propaganda is paying dividends for the oligarchs.
They must be laughing as they plunder the remaining wealth of the nation while the sheep are kept frightened and distracted.
Over crowding, poor sanitary conditions and a backward culture in west Africa are some of the things that will bring population control to that area. In the not to distant future antibiotic resistant bacteria will push healthcare in developed countries back 80 years. Nature has a way of adapting to human intervention.
I love it when the MSM hype is crushed by the truth.
ThePessimisticChemist is spot on, as I’ve a background in biological sciences, and I read the first major reportage on this when it came out some 20+ years ago.
Yes, it IS a bad-ass bug, so to speak, but to get semi-hysterical at this point is pointless –unless TPTB are using it as yet one more made-to-order distraction, so that neither the left nor right hands know WtF is going on.
Why fear “works”. Michael Crichton.
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Some of you know that I have written a book that many people find controversial. It is called State of Fear, and I want to tell you how I came to write it. Because up until five years ago, I had very conventional ideas about the environment and the success of the environmental movement.
The book really began in 1998, when I decided to write a novel about a global disaster. In the course of my preparation, I rather casually reviewed what had happened in Chernobyl, since that was the worst manmade disaster in recent times that I knew about.
What I discovered stunned me. Chernobyl was a tragic event, but nothing remotely close to the global catastrophe I was imagining. About 50 people had died in Chernobyl, roughly the number of Americans that die every day in traffic accidents. I don’t mean to be gruesome, but it was a setback for me. You can’t write a novel about a global disaster in which only 50 people die.
Undaunted, I began to research other kinds of disasters that might fulfill my novelistic requirements. That’s when I began to realize how big our planet really is, and how resilient its systems seem to be. Even though I wanted to create a fictional catastrophe of global proportions, I found it hard to come up with a credible example. In the end, I set the book aside, and wrote Prey instead.
But the shock that I had experienced reverberated in me for a while. Because what I had been led to believe about Chernobyl was not merely wrong-it was astonishingly wrong. Let’s review that.
The initial reports in 1986 claimed 2,000 dead, and an unknown number of future deaths and deformities arising in a wide swath from Sweden to the Black Sea. As the years passed, the numbers rose; by 2000 there were 15,000-30,000 estimated dead, and so on…
Now, to report that 15,000-30,000 people are dead, when the actual number is 56, represents a big error. To get some idea of just how big, suppose we lined all the victims up in a row. If 56 people are each represented by one foot of space, then 56 feet is roughly the distance from me to the fourth row of the auditorium. Fifteen thousand people is three miles away. It seems difficult to make a mistake of that scale.
But, of course, you think, we are talking about radiation: what about long-term consequences? Unfortunately for the media, their reports are even less accurate.
So: estimates of 3.5 million, or 500,000 deaths, when the actual number is less than 4,000. That’s the number of Americans who die of adverse drug reactions every six weeks. Again, a huge error.
But most troubling of all, according to the UN report, is that “the largest public health problem created by the accident” is the “damaging psychological impact [due] to a lack of accurate information…[manifesting] as negative self-assessments of health, belief in a shortened life expectancy, lack of initiative, and dependency on assistance from the state.”
In other words, the greatest damage to the people of Chernobyl was caused by bad information. These people weren’t blighted by radiation so much as by terrifying but false information. We ought to ponder, for a minute, exactly what that implies. We demand strict controls on radiation because it is such a health hazard. But clearly Chernobyl suggests that false information can be a health hazard as damaging as radiation. I am not saying radiation is not a threat. I am not saying Chernobyl was not a genuinely serious event.
BUT THOUSANDS OF UKRAINIANS WHO DIDN’T DIE WERE MADE INVALIDS OUT OF FEAR. THEY WERE TOLD TO BE AFRAID. THEY WERE TOLD THEY WERE GOING TO DIE WHEN THEY WEREN’T. THEY WERE TOLD THEIR CHILDREN WOULD BE DEFORMED WHEN THEY WEREN’T. THEY WERE TOLD THEY COULDN’T HAVE CHILDREN WHEN THEY COULD. THEY WERE AUTHORITATIVELY PROMISED A FUTURE OF CANCER, DEFORMITIES, PAIN AND DECAY. IT’S NO WONDER THEY RESPONDED AS THEY DID.
IN FACT, WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT THIS KIND OF HUMAN RESPONSE IS WELL-DOCUMENTED. AUTHORITATIVELY TELLING PEOPLE THEY ARE GOING TO DIE CAN IN ITSELF BE FATAL.
rest of article with plenty of other examples here ——> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1551707/posts
Dammit.
“When fear becomes your lighthouse, it will perpetually lead you to darkness”
I believe you are on the right track, however the hype is not so much to divert your attention from world events as it is a blank check to test martial law, travel restrictions, and door-to-door searches and confiscations. The greatest danger to the virus is not the virus itself, but the unbridled government response. The oppressors will be welcomed with open arms by the frightened populace. Years of zombie movies and other propaganda has paved the way for what this could turn out to be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ship_%28TV_series%29
The Last Ship is an American post-apocalyptic drama television series that is based on a novel of the same name by William Brinkley. In May 2013, the cable network TNT placed a 10-episode order for the series. After a global pandemic kills or sickens possibly over 50% of the world’s population, the crew (consisting of 217 men and women) of a lone unaffected U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer, the fictional USS Nathan James (DDG-151), must try to find a cure and stop the virus in order to save humanity.
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2014/07/all-signs-point-to-a-coming-emp-attack-upon-the-united-states-2464292.html
In the last article, I presented this map and posed the question, why would the military make a decided effort to keep our Navy in a permanent state of readiness by conducting unprecedented and an unparalleled set of war games continuously going on off of our three coastlines and several of our overseas territories? Guesses ranged from positioning the Navy, Marines and a fair amount of the Air Force off the coast to keep Americans from running if they are put in harms way when martial law is declared.
My thoughts exactly. Just like the H1N1 “pandemic” hit just as the banks and economy were crashing.
Which is EXACTLY what I called back then.
Manufactured fear to drive ‘murkins into their docs for pills, and shots, and reassurances. Watch the GDP SOAR!
I am sooooooooooooooo grateful I woke up from this stupor.
WOW!!! That didn’t take long. Fear and Panic. Run. Run. Run.
WHO Warns Ebola Outbreak Out Of Control, “High Risk Of Spread To Other Countries”
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/01/2014 13:36 -0400
Things just went to 11 on the Spinal-Tap amplifier of massive infectious disease outbreaks. As AP reports, the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 700 people in West Africa is moving faster than the efforts to control the disease, the head of the World Health Organization warned. Dr. Margaret Chan pulled no punches in her direct statement, “If the situation continues to deteriorate, the consequences can be catastrophic in terms of lost lives but also severe socio-economic disruption and a high risk of spread to other countries.” Time to panic?
As AP reports,
Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, said the meeting in Conakry “must be a turning point” in the battle against Ebola, which is now sickening people in three African capitals for the first time in history.
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At least 729 people in four countries — Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria — have died since cases first emerged back in March. Two American health workers in Liberia have been infected, and an American man of Liberian descent died in Nigeria from the disease, health authorities there say.
While health officials say the virus is transmitted only through direct contact with bodily fluids, many sick patients have refused to go to isolation centers and have infected family members and other caregivers.
The fatality rate has been about 60 percent, and the scenes of patients bleeding from the eyes, mouth and ears has led many relatives to keep their sick family members at home instead.
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“Constant mutation and adaptation are the survival mechanisms of viruses and other microbes,” she said. “We must not give this virus opportunities to deliver more surprises.”
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“I believe we’re only seeing a small portion of the cases out there … The virus is getting to large, dense, city areas. We’re now getting samples (to test) from all over,” he said Friday.
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Meanwhile, other countries are taking precautions to prevent the spread of Ebola.
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Interestingly, worries are spreading quickly as one Commonwealth Games competitor found:
a cyclist from Sierra Leone competed in the Commonwealth Games after being tested for Ebola. Moses Sesay, 32, was admitted to a Glasgow hospital last week after feeling unwell, and doctors tested him for various conditions including Ebola. Sesay was passed fit, and released from hospital in time to compete in the individual time trial on Thursday.
This is why the US government has done a 180 pivot away from the Ukraine.
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/08/analysis-of-satellite-imagery-released.html
This Is What Is Going To Happen If Ebola Comes To America
Michael Snyder
July 31st, 2014
Economic Collapse Blog
This article has been generously contributed by Michael Snyder. You can follow his regular writings, research and analysis at The Economic Collapse Blog and The American Dream. Read his recent book The Beginning of the End to get an idea of what America may look like in the very near future
If the worst Ebola outbreak in recorded history reaches the United States, federal law permits “the apprehension and examination of any individual reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease”. These individuals can be ”detained for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary”. In other words, the federal government already has the authority to round people up against their will, take them to detention facilities and hold them there for as long as they feel it is “reasonably necessary”. In addition, as you will read about below, the federal government has the authority “to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill”. If you want to look at these laws in the broadest sense, they pretty much give the federal government the power to do almost anything that they want with us in the event of a major pandemic. Of course such a scenario probably would not be called “martial law”, but it would probably feel a lot like it.
If Ebola comes to America and starts spreading, one of the first things that would happen would be for the CDC to issue “a federal isolation or quarantine order”. The following is what the CDC website says about what could happen under such an order…
Isolation and quarantine are public health practices used to stop or limit the spread of disease.
Isolation is used to separate ill persons who have a communicable disease from those who are healthy. Isolation restricts the movement of ill persons to help stop the spread of certain diseases. For example, hospitals use isolation for patients with infectious tuberculosis.
Quarantine is used to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill. These people may have been exposed to a disease and do not know it, or they may have the disease but do not show symptoms. Quarantine can also help limit the spread of communicable disease.
Isolation and quarantine are used to protect the public by preventing exposure to infected persons or to persons who may be infected.
In addition to serving as medical functions, isolation and quarantine also are “police power” functions, derived from the right of the state to take action affecting individuals for the benefit of society.
“Isolation” would not be a voluntary thing. The federal government would start hunting down anyone that they “reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease” and taking them to the facilities where other patients were being held. It wouldn’t matter if you were entirely convinced that you were 100% healthy. If the government wanted to take you in, you would have no rights in that situation. In fact, federal law would allow the government to detain you “for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary”.
And once you got locked up with all of the other Ebola patients, there would be a pretty good chance that you would end up getting the disease and dying anyway. The current Ebola outbreak has a 55 percent percent mortality rate, and experts tell us that the mortality rate for Ebola can be as high as 90 percent.
Once you contracted Ebola, this is what it would look like…
Sudden onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. That is followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function and internal and external bleeding.
The “external bleeding” may include bleeding from the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and just about every other major body cavity.
So how is Ebola spread?
Well, medical authorities tell us that it can be spread through the blood, urine, saliva, stools and semen of a person or animal that already has Ebola.
If you are exposed to the disease, the incubation period can be from anywhere from two days up to 21 days. But the average is usually about eight to ten days.
In other words, you can be spreading it around for over a week before you even know that you have it.
There is no vaccine for Ebola and there is no cure.
Not everyone dies from the virus, but most people do.
Needless to say, this is about the last disease that you want to catch. And the doctors that are treating Ebola patients in Africa are going to extreme lengths to keep from getting it…
To minimise the risk of infection they have to wear thick rubber boots that come up to their knees, an impermeable body suit, gloves, a face mask, a hood and goggles to ensure no air at all can touch their skin.
Dr Spencer, 27, and her colleagues lose up to five litres of sweat during a shift treating victims and have to spend two hours rehydrating afterwards.
They are only allowed to work for between four and six weeks in the field because the conditions are so gruelling.
At their camp they go through multiple decontaminations which includes spraying chlorine on their shoes.
But despite all of those extraordinary measures, multiple doctors have already gotten sick.
For example, one of the doctors leading the fight against Ebola, Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, died on Tuesday…
A doctor who was on the front lines fighting the Ebolaoutbreak in Sierra Leone has died from complications of the disease, Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday.
Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan fell ill early last week while overseeing Ebola treatment at Kenema Government Hospital, about 185 miles east of Sierra Leone’s capital city, Freetown.
He was treated by the French aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres — also known as Doctors Without Borders — in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, up until his death, spokesman Tim Shenk said.
And two American doctors that went over to Africa to help fight the disease are now battling for their own lives…
Dr. Kent Brantly, who was treating victims of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, is currently being treated in an isolation unit in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, the AP reported Tuesday.
“I’m praying fervently that God will help me survive this disease,” Brantly said in an email Monday to Dr. David Mcray, the director of maternal-child health at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. The Texas-born Brantly, 33, completed a four-year medical residency at the hospital, the AP said.
Brantly’s wife and two young children left Liberia to return to Abilene, Texas, days before he began to show symptoms of Ebola. They are being monitored for any signs of fever, a City of Abilene spokeswoman told the AP.
A second American, aid worker Nancy Writebol of Charlotte, N.C., is also stricken with Ebola, according to CBS/AP. Writebol had been working as a hygienist to help decontaminate people at an Ebola care center in Monrovia.
This is not like other Ebola outbreaks.
Something seems different this time.
But instead of trying to keep things isolated to a few areas, global health authorities are going to start sending Ebola patients to other parts of the globe. For example, one German hospital has already agreed to start receiving Ebola patients…
A German hospital has agreed to treat Ebola patients amid widespread fears of a possible outbreak of the deadly disease in Europe. Over 670 people have already been killed by the disease in West Africa with doctors struggling to control the epidemic.
A German hospital in Hamburg agreed to accept patients following a request from the World Health Organization (WHO), Deutsche Welle reports. Doctors assure that the utmost precautions will be taken to make sure the disease does not spread during treatment. The patients will be kept in an isolation ward behind several airlocks, and doctors and nurses will wear body suits with their own oxygen supplies that will be burned every three hours.
Will Ebola patients also soon be sent to hospitals in the United States?
And of course there are many other ways that Ebola could spread to this country. For instance, all it would take would be for one infected person to get on one airplane and it could all be over.
Federal authorities seem to have been preparing for such an outbreak for quite a while. As my good friend Mac Slavo has pointed out, “biological diagnostic systems” were distributed to National Guard units in all 50 states back in April…
The Department of Defense informed Congress that it has deployed biological diagnostic systems to National Guard support teams in all 50 states, according to a report published by the Committee on Armed Services. The report, published in April amid growing fears that the Ebola hemorrhagic fever virus might spread outside of West Africa, says that the portable systems are designed for “low probability, high consequence” scenarios.
Some 340 Joint Biological Agent Identification and Diagnostic System (JBAIDS) units have thus far been given to emergency response personnel. The systems are “rapid, reliable, and [provide] simultaneous identification of specific biological agents and pathogens,” says executive officer for the DOD’s Chemical and Biological Defense group Carmen J. Spencer.
Let us certainly hope for the best.
Let us hope that this latest outbreak fizzles out and that we won’t even be talking about this by the end of the year.
But experts are warning that if a major global pandemic does break out that millions upon millions of people could die.
If that happens, many people will go crazy with fear.
And we got just a little taste of some of the paranoia that an Ebola epidemic in America would create in Charlotte, North Carolina earlier this week…
A corridor of Carolinas Medical Center – Main’s Emergency Room was roped off on the first floor, near the entrance Wednesday.
A security guard was posted outside, to prevent anyone from crossing the line.
During a 4 p.m. press conference Katie Passaretti, who is an infectious disease specialist with CMC, said precautions were put into place when patient was brought in Tuesday night. The patient was traveling from Africa and arrived at the hospital around 11:30 p.m.
Around 3 a.m. the security precautions were put into place at the hospital, Passaretti said.
Passaretti said they determined the patient did not have Ebola. The patient has been discharged home.
It is not too hard to imagine forced quarantines and people being rounded up and shipped off to Ebola detention facilities.
In fact, if Ebola were to start spreading like wildfire in this country, many people would actually start demanding such measures.
For example, one member of Congress is already proposing that citizens of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone (and any foreigner that has recently visited those nations) be kept out of the United States…
In a letter addressed to Secretary of State John Kerry and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Alan Grayson, a Florida Democrat, proposed that citizens of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, as well as “any foreign person who has visited one of these nations 90 days prior to arriving in the United States” be kept out of the country. He urged the secretaries to “consider the enhanced risk Ebola now presents to the American public”.
I vote “no”. Ebola is not a conspiracy. Ebola is Ebola. The US would gladly use any naturally-occurring crisis or incident (volcano, earthquake, Ebola outbreak, etc.) to distract from anything embarrassing, etc., but Ebola is not “an attempt”. Ebola is Ebola. The problem with Ebola – aside from having no cure – is that it doesn’t kill enough people fast enough to stop its spread. The primary means to snuff out an outbreak is to quarantine the afflicted. If it gets here, we ought to quarantine the afflicted. The reason it takes off in Africa (aside from being home for the fruit bats in which it seemingly resides) is that ignorant people don’t understand germs & viruses and often blame outbreaks on witchcraft or even as something promulgated by the white man (since he’s often seen spraying stuff around whenever there’s an Ebola outbreak). But the only way that that ignorance helps the outbreak break out is because it hinders the effort to quarantine people. There have been pandemics in the past and there will be again. Just because H1N1, swine flu and other illnesses haven’t become pandemics doesn’t mean that no disease will ever break out quickly. This is the biggest Ebola outbreak known to have occurred so far. I’d be less concerned that the US government is artificially stoking worry about Ebola than that they are tamping down rightful concern about a disease that could prove damned tough to stop – if people refuse to be quarantined.
The problem with Grayson’s proposal to stop “foreign persons” who have been in affected areas from entering the US is that it doesn’t include Americans as well. I have a brother who’s over in those areas fairly often. If he’s goes to an area where being infected by Ebola is a material risk, he shouldn’t be let back into the US without being parked someplace else for a while. Tough shit for him if he wants to pursue his feel-good do-gooder activities. It’s all real funny until somebody loses an eye.
Keep the sheople living in fear and perpetuate the illusion that the govt and our politicians are the remedy for those fears.
From the article:
“But instead of trying to keep things isolated to a few areas, global health authorities are going to start sending Ebola patients to other parts of the globe. For example, one German hospital has already agreed to start receiving Ebola patients…”
Well that’s a downright brilliant fucking plan for such a dangerous, possibly pandemic level disease!
Can you imagine what it must be like as an airline passenger with any symptoms of illness right now? I’m sure the DHS drones will protect us at any cost. “So you say you are arriving from Finland and you have hayfever? Riiight! Please step into this room please!”
I can’t find it now but I swear I saw a headline in the last few days that said something like 20,000 people possibly infected with ebola had “gone missing”.
@Stuck, I read State of Fear. It’s about climate change/global warming. R.I.P. Michael Crichton.
As to Ebola…DON’T TAKE ANY VACCINATION!!
Next up? A rushed to market vaccination with ZERO trials.
Which will bring even worse horrors with it, and oh yeah, they’ll round us up and force the shots on our children and ourselves.
There were scattered reports of a few school districts allowing health workers in to give H1N1 shots to students WITHOUT parents explicit consent. That vaccine was worthless, if not deadly. I personally know two people that got the H1N1 AFTER they received the recommended two vaccinations. The disease – from the damn shots – nearly killed my nephew.
Maybe next time the vaccine will contain the zombie virus, or maybe chemical sterilizations like the WHO and Bill Gates did in South America and Africa.
They are culling us. Ebola, or whatever, just provides the cover needed to do it in the open and the express consent of the herd of sheeples that inhabits this freaked up country.
Coincidence?
“NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) – The New York City Department of Health conducted a massive emergency preparedness drill at 30 facilities across the city on Friday.
“They tested the delivery of emergency medications in the event of a biological attack, such as anthrax, or other large-scale public health emergency in the city. The majority of the deliveries will take place to public school buildings.
“It’s the largest surprise drill in the city’s history. The drill was scheduled to take place from approximately 6:30 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. The majority of participants were given no notice to better test and simulate a real emergency and response.
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“…The city says it will not share the results of the test due to security concerns. The Health Department says it will use the results to make policy and operational changes to its emergency response plan.”
http://www.myfoxny.com/story/26170612/drill-in-new-york-city
Whilst it is certainly true that Ebola (and other members of the Filoviridae) kill far fewer people globally than seasonal influenza, remember it is the “per case” mortality that is relevant, i.e. if you are unfortunate enough to contract influenza, your average per case mortality probability is very low (about 1.5% in a non-Pandemic season, rising to about 5% in Pandemic outbreaks, per CDC / WHO statistical data).
Compare this per case mortality with Ebola (55 – 60% per case mortality) and you can see the reason for concern. Add in the inability to “cure” (symptomatic management only, requiring high – level medical intervention), and no vaccine (and I’m sorry, it’ll take well beyond 2015 to develop a vaccine), then there is the definite risk of a global problem.
“A disease where spread is aided by squalor and overcrowding” – describes the conditions in many First World ghettoes, doesn’t it – all Western major cities have their “poorer areas” characterised by overcrowding, poor resources, often substandard sanitation, some worse than others, so “pointing the finger” at the conditions in Africa in order to provide a false sense of superiority counts for nothing, when the West has similar problems, which are “conveniently ignored” by the majority.
So, we really don’t know what will happen (as against “could happen”). With any luck, the current outbreak, though large, will be managed successfully. If not, then there really could be trouble ahead, since a poorly-informed public will panic, and that will be when the real containment problems raise their heads, along the lines of “All the best-laid plans of Mice and Men”!
Don’t forget ISIS!
BOO!
The Obomber Admin. would say they had to detain Libertarians & Ron Paul voters first, as their strong immune systems & resistance to pressure need to be studied in a “secret location” so a vaccine can be made for all the stupid people that voted for Obomber or Mittens Romney.
The plane would fly over Ukraine & be mysteriously shot down.
NYC was conducting “planes being hijacked drills” on 9/11 just like England was conducting “bombs on trains drills” on 7/7 when, conincdentally, the real thing happened!
All just a coincidence, just like planes disintegrating on 9/11. No plane wreckage in PA, NYC, or DC & a building collapses that wasn’t hit (WTC 7).
Planes & muslims can defy the laws of physics!
I can’t find it now but I swear I saw a headline in the last few days that said something like 20,000 people possibly infected with ebola had “gone missing”.
Here’s hoping they all go to Washington, DC!
For fun this week, I’m going to go to the airport, pretend to sneeze a lot, act woozy, then say I just got in from Liberia.
See U all on the news.
If I were the Republican party, I’d have all my minions keep misspeaking & calling it the “Obama virus”.
Filed under “What took these idiots so long to figure this out?”
Argentina Economy Minister: “Who believes in the rating agencies?”
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Argentina Economy Minister: Who believes in the rating agencies?
August 1, 2014
Tallinn, Estonia
What a disaster.
For the second time in the last fifteen or so odd years, Argentina has defaulted on its debt. And as we reported a few weeks ago, there was no easy way out.
Years ago, most of the creditors that Argentina had stiffed in 2001 agreed on a settlement; they accepted a much lower payment than they were actually owed, figuring that getting -some- money back was better than nothing.
But a handful of bondholders, known collectively as the ‘holdouts’, didn’t take the deal.
These were the people who, you know, actually wanted to get paid what they are obliged to receive.
This is the basic equation of credit. One person lends money. The other person borrows money. In any reasonable deal, the lender is supposed to have some sort of recourse to recover his/her capital when the borrower defaults.
If you default on a mortgage, the bank takes the house. Stop making car payments and they send the repo guy to take your vehicle. When a business fails, bondholders can often liquidate the company’s assets.
Argentina has plenty of assets. The government has nationalized just about everything they can get their hands on, including the really despicable theft of a Spanish oil company’s assets.
Clearly this is a government that feels perfectly fine taking other people’s assets when it suits them. But they’re not willing for others to do the same.
So the holdouts sued.
Eventually they found a sympathetic judge in the United States who ordered Argentina to STOP making payments to all the other bondholders until the government could reach an agreement with the holdouts.
I know what you’re thinking– what gives some judge in the United States authority over a sovereign nation?
Nothing. Except that he threatened them with the kiss of death: if Argentina failed to comply with his instructions, he would banish them from the US banking system.
Now… imagine you’re the finance minister of some developing nation out there, watching this all unfold in the newspapers.
Would reading about all of this inspire more confidence in the US government? Would it make you want to continue relying on the US banking system? Use the dollar? Or even hold Treasuries?
Probably not.
The Argentina debacle is a lot of things. But one important lesson is that the rest of the world is watching very closely… and thinking, “No way do I want to end up like that.”
This is a HUGE reason why other countries are now starting to form their own international finance system. They’d rather rely on China and Russia than the Land of the Free.
And the US government is practically begging them all to run away like scalded dogs, further accelerating the decline of the US and the dollar’s dominance.
Argentina’s economic minister summed it up best from New York the other day when a reporter asked him about how a potential default would affect the rating agencies’ outlook on his country.
He said, “Who believes in the rating agencies?” After all, these were the guys who completely missed the 2008 financial crisis… who were slapping AAA ratings on toxic debt, and never accepted responsibility for it.
Why do they still have such a dominant role in the global financial system? And for that matter, why does the dollar?
Why indeed. And as the US keeps up this kind of behavior, it won’t for long.
Think about this for a minute: if you have a few patients that might cause a countrywide illness, why would you treat them in a hospital?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to treat them in a FEMA-style trailer or a small building that could be disinfected easily (and later burned) without putting the other patients at risk?
Ebola apparently is not that infectious, but many things are. And they’re treated in hospitals with shared air and doctors/nurses/technicians moving from patient to patient. Just doesn’t make sense.
just great….one plague in progress and another waiting in the wings.adiós República
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saw this floating around the net yesterday..I don;t know if the info is 100% accurate, but I can say it’s all that and more alarming.
http://scgnews.com/ebola-what-youre-not-being-told
A study conducted in 2012 showed that Ebola was able to travel between pigs and monkeys that were in separate cages and were never placed in direct contact.
Though the method of transmission in the study was not officially determined, one of the scientists involved, Dr. Gary Kobinger, from the National Microbiology Laboratory at the Public Health Agency of Canada, told BBC News that he believed that the infection was spread through large droplets that were suspended in the air.
“What we suspect is happening is large droplets; they can stay in the air, but not long; they don’t go far,” he explained. “But they can be absorbed in the airway, and this is how the infection starts, and this is what we think, because we saw a lot of evidence in the lungs of the non-human primates that the virus got in that way.”
Translation: Ebola IS an airborne virus.
…but no fear , Bawler and the Repugs have got your back.
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speaking of deliberately spreading disease… so solly Guatemolly..
U.S. apologizes for Guatemala STD experiments
Government researchers infected patients with syphilis, gonorrhea without their consent in the 1940s
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39456324/ns/health-sexual_health/t/us-apologizes-guatemala-std-experiments/#.U92xKeNdXng
…let this be a reminder kids, whenever engaging in US government sponsored anal rape , always use protection.
Maybe the evacuation of the American aid workers from Africa to America (Emory University Hospital) is a mad push for a cure , before the worst case scenario becomes a reality? ..eh..AWD..HZK..Howard?
Unprecedented Ebola Outbreak. Could It Spread Here?
A new outbreak of Ebola is going on in Africa, and Doctors Without Borders is calling it “an epidemic of a magnitude never seen before”—not because of the number of cases or deaths. There have been more in previous outbreaks. It’s because of how the disease is spreading.
In the past, Ebola has always stayed confined to a small region. This time the same strain of the virus has been found infecting people several hundred miles from the original area.
The questions on the minds of many people who don’t live in Africa are, could it come here? If so, how do I prevent it?
Test to check how you moderate post, seems strange its so 1 sides in here
Dr. Moyes
What the fuck are you talking about? From what I hear the war ravaged Countries in West Africa are getting better with each passing week. Now, maybe this Ebola virus will hit Rhodesia, paybacks a motherfucker.
NANANA says: Test to check how you moderate post, seems strange its so 1 sides in here
Nanana yes post are moderated with the utmost scrutiny. We watch for people posting while drunk, so please don’t drink and post. If you must drink and post stay off the hard stuff, drink mexican beer, Modelo is a good choice. BTW it’s ok to smoke weed and post just don’t tell SSS
Africa without Africans…….now that might be a place to move! But now, not so much, Ebola, work your magic.
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The following bullshit events will be in full swing as the banksters plunder your accounts and slip out of sight:
Full blown race war
Multiple earthquakes from west coast to east coast
Deadly pandemic/Ebola/TB
Nuclear attack in our select major cities/ preplanned of coarse
As soon as financial thievery is complete/ Coronal ejection blackout right after announcement of killer asteroid ELE
After grid is down/invasion by foreign troops/Russian or Chinese…or both
Complete carnage and mayhem followed by UN blue helmets come to save us
Everyone begs for World .Gov and single global currency
**** Anyone who complains goes to camp……….yawn…..we won’t be surprised.