I’m a born skeptic. When I’m told that 3,300 people in Africa have died from the disease over the last few months, I don’t go running for my bunker. There are 7 billion people on this planet and a miniscule fraction of them died from ebola. To put that in perspective, 1 million people die from Malaria in Africa every year. For the math challenged, that is 2,740 people PER DAY. So why is the world in such an uproar about ebola? The American healthcare workers who contracted it, were cured within a couple weeks after getting treatment in the U.S.
Is ebola a nasty disease? Yes.
Is it going to become an epidemic in the U.S.? No.
Will it be used by doomer websites to drive visitor counts? Yes.
Will it be used by media outlets to increase ratings? Yes.
Will it be used by “scientists” and drug companies to increase their funding and profits? Yes.
Will it be used by the government to further restrict my liberties and freedoms? Hell Yes.
Will it be used to instill fear in the sheep and keep them distracted from how badly they are getting fucked by those in control? Absolutely.
Will I be losing any sleep over the ebola fear mongering? Not one minute.
Now for my wise and sage advice. DON’T GO TO AFRICA. DON’T HAVE SEX WITH AN AFRICAN. DON’T LET AN AFRICAN SNEEZE IN YOUR FACE.
The slimy Wall Street shysters are already profiting from the fear mongering by convincing muppets to buy obscure drug companies and hazmat suit makers. If there were justice in this world, dozens of infected ebola victims would be unleashed into the executive offices of every Wall Street banking entity and told to spit in the faces of Jamie Dimon and the rest of the criminal cabal. A man can dream, can’t he?
Now back to your regularly scheduled financial doom.
Sen. Rand Paul sounds Ebola alarm
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, warned that the U.S. could be underestimating the potential for Ebola to wreak havoc in the U.S. because of “political correctness.”
“It’s a big mistake to underestimate the potential for problems worldwide,” Paul said on “The Laura Ingraham Show” Tuesday.
Citing reassurances by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Tom Frieden, that there was little risk of a traveler bringing Ebola to the United States and causing an outbreak, Paul countered, “I really think that it is being dominated by political correctness and I think because of political correctness we’re not really making sound, rational, scientific decisions on this.”
The CDC announced Tuesday that the first U.S. case of Ebola had been confirmed in a Liberian man who had traveled to Dallas to visit family.
“We should not underestimate the transmissibility of this,” Paul, an opthamologist by trade, said, noting that even doctors and nurses wearing gloves, gowns and masks are contracting the disease. “My suspicion is that it’s a lot more transmissible than that if people who are taking every precaution are getting it. There are people getting it who simply helped people get in or out of a taxicab.”
The World Health Organization says that health-care workers have frequently become infected while treating patients with the virus because of “close contact with patients when infection control precautions are not strictly practiced.”
Paul, who is thinking about running for president, also questioned President Obama’s decision to dispatch 3,000 military personnel to West Africa to help combat the spread of the disease.
“Where is disease most transmissible? When you are confined on a ship,” Paul said.
He also assailed doctors like Ezekiel Emanuel – the brother of former White House Chief of Staff and current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel – who said on MSNBC Tuesday that people who suggest there will be an outbreak in the U.S. are “fear mongering.”
Paul pointed to past outbreaks, including the Spanish flu in 1918 and the Bubonic plague in the 14th century that killed millions to demonstrate that disease pandemics can spread rapidly.
Earlier in the show, he sarcastically said to Ingraham, “I can’t believe that you don’t think it’s enough of a plan to prevent worldwide pandemic to cough into your elbow. If you just bring your elbow up to your mouth and cough into it, surely that will stop a worldwide pandemic,” a reference to the president’s instructions to the American public in 2009 to sneeze into their sleeves, rather than their hands, to help stop the spread of the H1N1 flu virus.
Not all politicians share Paul’s view that the U.S. is taking insufficient precautions. On the other end of the spectrum Wednesday was Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who held a news conference to calm residents of his state, ground zero for the first U.S. Ebola case.
“There are few places in the world better equipped to meet the challenge that is posed in this case,” said Perry, who is also considering a presidential bid. “Texas is one of only 13 states certified by the CDC to conduct diagnostic Ebola testing. And we have the health care professionals and the institutions that are second to none. The public should have every confidence that the highly trained professionals involved here will succeed in this very important mission,” Perry said.
“This case is serious. Rest assured that our system is working as it should,” he continued. “Professionals on every level of the chain of command know what to do to minimize this potential risk to the people of Texas and of this country, for that matter.”
I’m most afraid of the future vaccinations/cures.
And I’m afraid that this disease really was created in a lab.
We are already being overtly culled. Ebola is just ramping it up a bit more successfully.
“..“There are few places in the world better equipped to meet the challenge that is posed in this case,” said Perry, who is also considering a presidential bid. “Texas is one of only 13 states certified by the CDC to conduct diagnostic Ebola testing. And we have the health care professionals and the institutions that are second to none. The public should have every confidence that the highly trained professionals involved here will succeed in this very important mission,” Perry said….”
This is extremely humorous in light of the revelation that the hospital sent the guy home AFTER he presented in the ER.
“Better equipped” he says. Tool.
The combination of media focus + Obama focus + strange and ineffectual government responses has me wondering if ebola is either lab-created as TE says, or naturally occurring but being seen by the cabal as convenient and useful to cull the population and terrify and control the ones who remain. No idea though.
For now, staying away from Africa is a good idea, as it always has been for basically all of recorded history.
“DON’T GO TO AFRICA. DON’T HAVE SEX WITH AN AFRICAN. DON’T LET AN AFRICAN SNEEZE IN YOUR FACE. ” ———— Admin
Does this apply only to African Africans, or also to African-Americans?
I have a 50-50 shot of getting a FREE blowjob from a female African-American this evening, so it is important for me to know. Thanks.
Stuck
I think you should run your FREE BLOWJOB opportunity by Ms. Freud.
Let us know how that goes.
American Ebola News Wrap: Up To 100 Potential Cases In Texas, 1 In Hawaii
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/02/2014 08:20 -0400
UPDATE: TEXAS HEALTH OFFICIALS INCREASE NUMBER OF POSSIBLE CONTACTS OF EBOLA VICTIM TO 100
Despite promises by all asunder that any Ebola epidemic in America will be “contained” the dreadful news this morning appears to confirm this is not the case. From one patient, Eric Duncan, just 2 days ago, to 4 schools and 18 people yesterday (according to Texas Governor Rick Perry) to today where NBC News has confirmed with the Dallas county health and human services that 80 people came into contact with the Dallas Ebola patient or his family (including 12-18 direct). The ambulance workers are also under close watch after Duncan vomited on the ground outside an apartment complex as he was bundled into an ambulance. In addition, CBS is reporting one possible Ebola patient in isolation in Hawaii. Contained? Perhaps it is time to rethink the ethics of disease control once again.
After being sent home by a Dallas hospital,
The Dallas patient had initially sought treatment at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital late last Thursday and was sent home with antibiotics rather than being observed further, even though he told a nurse he had recently returned from West Africa. By Sunday, he needed an ambulance to return to the same hospital, where he was admitted.
A nurse asked about the travel as part of a triage checklist and was told about it. “Regretfully, that information was not fully communicated throughout the full teams. As a result, the full import of that information wasn’t factored into the full decision making,” Texas hospital official Mark Lester said.
Duncan rapidly fell ill…
Two days after he was sent home from a Dallas hospital, the man who is the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States was seen vomiting on the ground outside an apartment complex as he was bundled into an ambulance.
“His whole family was screaming. He got outside and he was throwing up all over the place,” resident Mesud Osmanovic, 21, said on Wednesday, describing the chaotic scene before the man was admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Sunday where he is in serious condition.
Duncan’s family took action…
That was the day “I called CDC to get some actions taken, because I was concerned for his life and he wasn’t getting the appropriate care,” Duncan’s nephew, Josephus Weeks, told NBC News on Wednesday night. “I feared other people might also get infected if he wasn’t taken care of, and so I called them to ask them why is it a patient that might be suspected of this disease was not getting appropriate care?”
Weeks added that he hoped “nobody else got infected because of a mistake that was made.”
Which has led to…
NBC has confirmed with the Dallas county health and human services that 80 people came into contact with the Dallas Ebola patient or his family.
Director Zachary Thompson said these 80 people were not in close contact, but they did have some kind of contact with or exposure to the patient.
Separately, Texas health officials have ordered four family members who had contact with the Dallas Ebola patient to stay home and not have visitors to prevent the potential spread of disease.
The order, hand delivered to Thomas Eric Duncan’s relatives Wednesday night by Texas Department of Health Services officials, legally requires the family to comply until at least Oct. 19, when the incubation period has passed and the family is no longer at risk of having the disease.
And then there is this….
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As we noted previously, it is perhaps time to discuss the ethics of disease control a little more broadly before the totalitarian weight of government comes to bear.
Too Little Too Late for Rand.
“I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime for the presidency unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party,” Paul said on Glenn Beck’s show on TheBlaze in an interview that aired Thursday. “And it has to be a transformation, not a little tweaking at the edges.”
“…Republicans haven’t gone to African-Americans or to Hispanics … I will struggle to make the Republican Party a different party, a bigger party, a more diverse party.
What we have to read between the lines with Rand Paul’s “political correctness”
How about a bunch of Negros from epidemic locals attaining Visas just prior to Hussein declaring amnesty after the November elections ? Especially, if the Democrats hold the Senate.
Ebola is very dangerous, otherwise why are so many doctors getting the disease? Political correctness in dealing with Ebola is even more dangerous and I think it will magnify the problem.
Doesn’t sound like a fun way to spend your vacation. I hope Mr Duncun’s return ticket to Africa doesn’t expire.
The CDC is very suspect. Either they are just a other incompetent government bueracracy or they are clueless or they are captured and driven by politics instead of science. If they were a reliable source they would have figured out that the entero virus outbreak was brought to us via the illegal immigrant children that Obama dispersed all over the country. I would love to see a map of where entero virus cases are overlaid with where all the Central american children where spirited away to after their plight ceased being the OMG! Story of the week a month or so ago.
I suspect the docs at the CDC know where this came from, but their political supervision is making them play dumb. I don’t trust them anymore than I trust BLS reports or the NSA saying they are not spying on me illegally. Why would I put any credence into what they say about Ebola?
Regardless of whether Ebola was created in a lab, it is dangerous. If it was created intentionally, it would be considered a form of population control or military tactic. The problem is that politicians (via airline influence) are allowing many into our country from affected regions in Africa. Thus airline profits trump the health, safety (and national security) of citizens and our country. The government won’t be able to control the spread of Ebola despite typical lies and misleading statements.
Absolutely criminal.
All I have to tell Ms Freud is that the Freebie is part of a Psychological Study I’m conducting …. and I should be good to go.
I guess when I say I’m concerned about ebola I should add, ‘and what big brother is willing and able to do’.
But in general, low probability-high consequence events are all around us. A little caution doesn’t hurt.
Everyone thinks the CDC is the be all, end all . I can recall several reports of their sloppy lab mistakes.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/17/reports-of-incidents-at-bioterror-select-agent-labs/14140483/
Stuck…I bet Mrs. Freud will tell you about her circumcision experiment…which will probably take place after the blow job .
Note to self:
Better get some C2A1 filters and Clorox early for this years Christmas gift exchange.
hey guys
don’t worry
be happy
the CDC’s got this
repost from Avianflutalk
hat tip Jacksdad
“I’m watching CNN right now, and Anderson Cooper is talking about the woman who shared an apartment with Thomas Duncan as he fell ill. She’s been quarantined in her home with three other people that were also potentially exposed, and the bed that Duncan slept on still has the sheets and pillows he used, and she put the towels he cleaned himself up with in a plastic bag because nobody from the CDC gave her any indication as to what to do. The CDC said they would check on her every day, but nobody has shown up today, and she’s waiting for food which the Red Cross was supposed to bring. Someone gave her some bleach, and she’s been left to clean the apartment up herself.
WTF?”
and if I remember correctly
no one much worried about the 1917 flu
the 1918 version on the other hand….
A better question is why are there so many Liberians in the US?
Who brought them here, who pays for their housing, schooling, transportation, food, and most importantly MEDICAL! I bet they also all have their gov’t issued cell phones, because as a group, I have never seen West Africans NOT taking continuously on cell phones. How many “takers” can this country import, before it will collapse.
Another thing, the gov’t keeps telling us that Ebola is extremely difficult to contract, and the carrier can only infect others after they are ill and it has affected their blood cells. If that’s the case, why are they trying to locate all the people that this person was in contact with, BEFORE HE HAD ANY SYMPTOMS. They are saying one thing and doing the other. It’s just a matter of time, and most likely not very long.
To quote the above: “For the math challenged, that is 2,740 people PER DAY. So why is the world in such an uproar about ebola?”
The reason is that ebola is contagious from person to person. Civilized people who don’t live in grass huts don’t get malaria.
Have a nice day, and remember to pay “your fair share”.
Dutch, I take it you’ve stopped patronizing the Liberian restaurants in Brooklyn Park, MN? Brooklyn Park is basically Monrovia West. I guess we’ll know in a month whether the CDC is right in saying it’s so hard to catch. My guess is that they’re understating the risks out of political correctness and a misguided attempt to “quell panic”. It’s the standard leftist attitude of “We know better than all of you people” and “we’ll tell you what you need to know. Trust us.” I don’t think the CIA could craft AIDS or Ebola. That’s because the CIA is run by the government and the government couldn’t find its own ass with both hands. The CIA is usually busy telling us how Assad gassed his own people or letting their own top CIA personnel get blown up by a suicide vest-wearing double agent in Afghanistan (the Camp Champman attack).
Is ebola good for global warming?
Stuck –
Don’t tell anyone, but sometimes I PAY for a black blow. I know, I know, what a fucking hypocrite, right?
Well, goddamn! Have you ever had a black blowjob? That shit will knock you out! Incedible!
Lest we forget ….
The CDC is a … wait for it ….. a FEDERAL AGENCY under the Department of Health and Human Services.
So, you (we) really have to take everything they say with a large grain of salt. Doctors are as proficient in bullshitting as a BLS statistician.
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Prepared? When Ebola hits your town you will want to be antifragile.
Submitted by hedgeless_horseman on 10/02/2014 14:38 -0400
Back in July, I was pointing out my concern about air travel
between Africa and Texas.
Then some time passed.
Back on September 8th, thinking about my personal situation, I asked the following questions:
At what point do we implement:
tele-commuting
home schooling
top off the farm tanks
close the gate
no guests
staycation
Do I wait until Ebola cases confirmed in USA?
Do I wait until Ebola cases confirmed in my state?
Do I wait until Ebola cases confirmed in my city?
Do I wait until Ebola cases confirmed in my neighborhood?
Then some more time passed.
Well, now that Ebola has actually traveled on a plane from Africa to my home state of Texas, thanks to our government’s inaction, I can eliminate the first two questions. Let’s discuss some practical steps we all might take at this point. For the sake of this article, I will assume that many ZH readers have made at least some zombie-apocalypse preparations, maybe even along the lines of my article from 2012, Fear we are returning to a time in history where it is a common occurrence to fight for one’s life?
Item 2
Develop a basic mindset. Here are some ideas. Commit to prepare for zombies, so that currency collapse, EMP, hurricanes, revolution, world war, [edit: Ebola Pandemic] or anything else will seem relatively mild. Understand that the time to make a plan and prepare is before, not after a zombie invasion. Understand that there is no way you can plan or prepare for every contingency, but doing something today goes a long way to peace of mind, and eliminating any regrets should the shit actually hit the fan. Realize that everything is likely to cost more next year, if you can get it, so better to buy it now. Acknowledge that nobody really knows if, what, when, or how anything in the future is going to happen…it is all just speculation. Finally, always remember that, “on a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero,” so don’t get too worked up, or go into debt, just because of this little exercise in paranoia.
One place we do tend to start our preparations is by trying to define the peril, or perils. Today, the obvious one is infection of myself, or family member, by the Ebola virus. But is that really the biggest peril? Maybe a bigger risk, for me, is financial. How might my business be affected by quarantine? Maybe, if someone in my family were dependent on dialysis, then the big peril is a collapse of the healthcare system, like in Liberia. Maybe, if the local grocery clerks decide that they would rather not risk infection for $7.50/hour, the big peril is starvation. Maybe, if others don’t have food to eat, and I do, the big peril is looters. Maybe, our current government will never let a good crisis go to waste, and the biggest peril is to our freedom. Maybe, Taleb is correct, and we would all be better off if we stop trying to predict what exactly the Black Swans will be (not likely), when a Black Swan will arrive at our doorstep (less likely), and instead we start trying to be more antifragile, as described in his book of the same name.
“Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty. Yet, in spite of the ubiquity of the phenomenon, there is no word for the exact opposite of fragile. Let us call it antifragile. Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”
Apart from option straddles on airline stocks, and going long MIC leaps, how can I become more antifragile? By thinking about Ebola arriving in my home state, I may have discovered that it isn’t as difficult as it sounds, although becoming antifragile is not something that we can do in a hurry.
Sure, over the last month, I topped off the propane and diesel tanks on the farm. Why? First, it is easy, because I already have the tanks, and I already have an account with the suppliers, so all I had to do was make a couple of phone calls. Second, if our prayers for the best work out, then I am not out anything, because I will use the fuel over time. Third, if delivery drivers start thinking twice before going to work, and gas stations start closing down for lack of fuel, I will have options, and will not be put into the perilous situation of searching for fuel and waiting in lines to get a little. Taleb doesn’t say this, exactly, but my interpretation is that being antifragile is mostly about having options when shit goes down in unexpected ways, as it always does. As an aside, what can you do if you don’t have a farm or farm tanks? You could seek advice from the fuel can oracle.
I admit that I also made sure we have plenty of examination gloves, masks, gowns, rubber boots, and decontamination supplies. But does that make me more or less antifragile? Would I really benefit from having these things if Ebola cases started popping up in our school district? We do not have the inventory to sell these supplies, and if we did, I would just give them away, rather than profit from others misery. I guess it comes down to one’s definition of benefit, and interpretation of antifragile.
In reality, I feel that most of the actions I can take to be more antifragile are long-term lifestyle actions, habits, not quick fixes or purchases in a panic. For example, as you all know, we live on a small farm where we grow healthy food for our family. We exercise regularly, and are not on any medications. We take our personal defense seriously. We take some responsibility for our children’s education. We work on strengthening our relationships with each other. We seek to remove the middlemen from our lives through disintermediation. I believe that these are some practical ways to be more antifragile, although Taleb might disagree with me on several accounts, and so may you, dear reader, in the comments below.
Have we pulled the kids from school, closed the farm gates, and started an extended staycation because there is an African Ebola patient in Dallas? No. Have we stopped eating out at restaurants, traveling in airplanes or any public transportation, and consuming sugar in amounts that weaken our immune systems? Yes.
Peace be with you!
h_h
hedgeless_horseman (above) strikes me as a world-class pussy.
Bill Gates highest goal is Human Depopulation and states that Vaccines are a good way to reduce the population.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WQtRI7A064
Bill Gates owns the patent on the Ebola Vaccine.
http://lightworker29501.com/2014/09/18/the-cdc-nih-bill-gates-own-the-patents-on-existing-ebola-related-vaccines-mandatory-vaccinations-are-near/
Looks like he has a very powerful tool to achieve his goal.
Don’t Worry? 10 Quotes From Health Experts Promising That Ebola Will Not Be A Problem In America
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The End of The American Dream blog,
Health experts all over the United States are promising us that we do not need to be worried about Ebola whatsoever. Even though one case has already been confirmed in Dallas, Texas and another potential case is being monitored, health authorities assure us that we have the greatest health system in the history of the planet and that we will be able to handle any isolated cases very easily. And all over the mainstream media on Wednesday, there were headlines declaring that the arrival of Ebola in America is a non-event. One example is this headline from Bloomberg: “Ebola in America? Don’t Worry About It”. So are they right? Should the rest of us just kick back and relax because a bunch of really smart guys are assuring us that our health system can easily deal with anything that Ebola can throw at us? The following are 10 quotes from prominent experts promising us that Ebola will not be a problem in this country…
#1 Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: “We feel confident that there won’t be an outbreak.”
#2 University of Chicago professor Michael Z. David: “While this all sounds very frightening, there’s no need to worry at this point about Ebola spreading widely here.”
#3 Gerardo Chowell-Puente, an associate professor of mathematical epidemiology at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University: “Math and history show us that decisive efforts to isolate those who are infected with Ebola and to follow up quickly with the potential contacts of the infected can help to get an outbreak under control. We’re lucky that we have such capacities in the United States; even with the Ebola case in Dallas, the epidemic should not get much of a foothold here.”
#4 Texas Health Director David Lakey: “This is a very sophisticated city, a very sophisticated hospital, … and the chances of it being spread are very, very scarce.”
#5 Zachary Thompson, director of Dallas County Health & Human Services: “This is not Africa. We have a great infrastructure to deal with an outbreak.”
#6 Dr. William Shaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center: “We’re very prepared: Infection-control people in hospitals over the past two months have been reviewing all their infection- control procedures because we anticipated just this sort of thing happening—a person coming from West Africa, they were healthy at the time they traveled, but got sick here.”
#7 Thomas Frieden, the director of the CDC: “It is certainly possible that someone who has had contact with this patient could develop Ebola, but there is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here.”
#8 Dr. William Shaffner: “Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent—I bet we can do substantially better than that here.”
#9 Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston: “The Ebola virus is not easily transmitted from person to person, and we have an outstanding infrastructure in place both to contain the virus and trace contacts. There will not be an Ebola epidemic in the United States.”
#10 Thomas Frieden: “The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that we will control this importation or this case of Ebola so that it does not spread widely throughout this country.”
So are they right?
I don’t know.
I hope that they are.
But considering how out of control the Ebola pandemic in West Africa is, I wouldn’t be as dogmatic as those experts are being.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama continues to act as if nothing has changed either. Even though a number of other nations have shut down all air traffic to Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, Obama still refuses to restrict air travel to and from those countries…
After U.S. officials disclosed another potential case of Ebola in Dallas, Texas, this morning, the question remains whether the Obama administration will finally stop flights from Ebola-stricken countries as multiple nations did over a month ago.
In mid-August, Korean Air and Kenya Airways announced they were halting flights to the West African countries ravaged by Ebola, and British Airways and Air France also decided to suspend service to the Ebola hot zone a few weeks later.
“France is recommending that its citizens leave Sierra Leone and Liberia, two of the countries hardest hit by the worst ever outbreak of the disease,” Jessica Plautz reported for Mashable. “The government said the increasing spread of the disease prompted its request that the airline to suspend flights.”
Yet the Obama administration made no such request to U.S. airlines and government flights, despite the Center of Disease Control advising Americans to avoid “non-essential travel” to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea several weeks ago.
Obama says that he has a tremendous amount of confidence in the “extensive screening” at our airports.
Would that be the same “extensive screening” that some CNN employees recently experienced?…
CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen said when she and two colleagues recently returned from reporting in Liberia, they got a mixed bag of responses from Customs and Border Protection officers.
“We all said we were journalists who had just been in Liberia covering Ebola,” Cohen said. “One of my colleagues was told, ‘Oh, OK, welcome back home, sir’ — and (was) just let in — that was it.”
Cohen herself got a different response.
“I was told, ‘Wait a minute, I think I got an email about this,’ and the border patrol officer went and consulted with his colleagues,” Cohen said.
That officer later told her she should check her system for 21 days.
“I said, ‘What should I be checking?’ And he wasn’t sure,” Cohen said.
And even though it has already been demonstrated that someone from West Africa can bring Ebola over to the U.S. on an airplane, authorities all over the country seem content to proceed with business as usual.
For example, according to Fox News, college students from West Africa “may be subject to extra health checks“.
Or they might not.
No big deal, right?
After all, if a case or two of Ebola does pop up, our health authorities can easily take care of the situation like the experts are saying.
Right?
The truth is that we aren’t talking about measles or the flu here. We are talking about one of the deadliest diseases ever known to mankind.
I think that John Little summarized what we are potentially facing very well…
When you look closely at this virus, it’s hard to see any reason for optimism. It really is one of the most horrifying viruses known to man. It is massively contagious. It has an extremely low survival rate. Those that survive will often die later on – from organ failure, because of the massive internal damage this virus causes to even those who survive.
So those experts better be right.
They better be able to stop this virus just like they are saying.
Because if not, they are going to have to deal with millions of Americans that are extremely angry that they got lied to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NK05EPGX-k
You have doctors saying “No problem-o”.
You have fear-mongering obsessive CuNNT saying “Look out!!”
You have governmentfuks saying both.
WTF? My head hurts.
Why are there so many Liberians here Dutch, really?
Liberia is the country formed by white guilt and American former slaves. They have relatives here and vice versa.
Vitamin C people, vitamin C. Having high blood serum levels of vitamin C is the best way to avoid viruses.
The problem arises because our intestines are clogged with chemicals and no longer process food the way they were meant to. It is true that most illness starts in the gut.
Huh, trapped in your home for 20 days. Ready.gov says to keep 3 days of food. Janet Napolitano told her troops that “hoarding” food can be a terrorist act.
Time to dig into savings and go forth to buy extra foodstuffs. No way in hell will my family be relying on the government or Red Cross to eat everyday.
Listening to our health “experts” leads me to believe if you want to stay healthy, stay the hell away from them and research it while we still can.
I’ll die on god’s terms, not the f’ing US.gov or WHO, or Bill, We “Accidentally” Sterilized You Gates, terms.
This shit could overwhelm the system so quickly.
As for the Entero virus and the continued blaming of immigrant children. It has been here for a LONG time, and all over the country. Even in areas without large immigrant populations.
My guess it is something that was harmless (it IS in most US adults bodies already, did you know that?), or usually harmless, and the new give the kids shots from pre-birth until they drop dead is causing the changes in reactions.
People without young children just have no idea the number of vaccinations being doled out. And we argue about autism and allergy causes. Increases in those numbers have directly correlated to increases in vaccinations. Won’t even go into the increase in child cancer rates, but that seems to have made the same jump.
Our immune systems are being intentionally compromised to being trained to only be able to fight off what we are given chemicals for. Which would mean vaccinations are leading to future decimation of our already compromised health.
Every major system in this country has been taken over by corruption, greed and hubris. I’m done believing anything they tell me. Anything. Lining their vaults and bugout shelters with our blood and futures. Screw them.
Too bad this wasn’t hitting WDC, state capitals, and Elite/Wall Street bunkers first.
One can dream.
Remain calm, Uncle Ass-Raper has this.
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Ebola Outbreak: The Latest U.S. Government Lies. The Risk of Airborne Contagion?
We begin with the Public Health Agency of Canada, which once (as recently as August 6) stated on its website that:
“In the laboratory, infection through small-particle aerosols has been demonstrated in primates, and airborne spread among humans is strongly suspected, although it has not yet been conclusively demonstrated (1, 6, 13). The importance of this route of transmission is not clear. Poor hygienic conditions can aid the spread of the virus.”
No more; the “airborne spread among humans is strongly suspected” language has been cleansed:
“In laboratory settings, non-human primates exposed to aerosolized ebolavirus from pigs have become infected, however, airborne transmission has not been demonstrated between non-human primates
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Viral shedding has been observed in nasopharyngeal secretions and rectal swabs of pigs following experimental inoculation.”
Are we to suppose that very recent and ground-breaking research was conducted that indicated there is no longer reason to “strongly suspect” that airborne Ebola contagion occurs? Surely, the research was done three weeks ago, and we only need to wait another couple of days until the study is released for public consumption. Feel better now?
If not, perhaps the 9/30 words of the Centers for Disease Control accompanying the Dallas Ebola case will provide some solace. Or, perhaps those words just contain another pack of U.S. Government lies. Let’s investigate.
Before addressing the CDC’s Statement, we should articulate some pivotal Ebola Outbreak facts we’re apparently not supposed to mention or even think about, since they’ve been buried by the Government/MSM complex. So, consider this from an earlier Global Research contribution by this author, drawn from a 2014 New England Journal of Medicine article:
“Phylogenetic analysis of the full-length sequences established a separate clade for the Guinean EBOV strain in sister relationship with other known EBOV strains. This suggests that the EBOV strain from Guinea has evolved in parallel with the strains from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon from a recent ancestor and has not been introduced from the latter countries into Guinea. Potential reservoirs of EBOV, fruit bats of the species Hypsignathusmonstrosus, Epomopsfranqueti, & Myonycteristorquata, are present in large parts of West Africa.18 It is possible that EBOV has circulated undetected in this region for some time. The emergence of the virus in Guinea highlights the risk of EBOV outbreaks in the whole West African subregion…
The high degree of similarity among the 15 partial L gene sequences, along with the three full-length sequences and the epidemiologic links between the cases, suggest a single introduction of the virus into the human population. This introduction seems to have happened in early December 2013 or even before.”
The take-home message is that we now confront a brand spanking new genetic variant of Ebola. Furthermore, we still have no idea at all how the “single introduction of the virus in the human population” of West Africa occurred. And, the current Ebola outbreak appears to be orders of magnitude more contagious than previous outbreaks. It also presents with a fatality count that far exceeds all previous outbreaks combined. But it’s certainly not airborne, so who cares about nit-picking details such as these!
In spite of the above facts, we are supposed to believe that all questions regarding the current Ebola outbreak can be answered with exclusive reference to what has occurred in connection with previously encountered—in terms of genetic composition—and known—in terms of initial outbreak source—Ebola episodes.
Here are a couple of questions. When was the last time an Ebola outbreak coincided with instructions to U.S. funeral homes on how to “handle the remains of Ebola patients”? Not to worry, since Alysia English, Executive Director of the Georgia Funeral Homes Association, is quoted (click preceding link) as saying “If you were in the middle of a flood or gas leak, that’s not the time to figure out how to turn it off. You want to know all of that in advance. This is no different.” So it’s just about being prepared, you see. Of course, nothing resembling this sort of preparation has ever transpired alongside any other Ebola outbreak in world history, so what gives now?
“Oh, it’s because we now have that Ebola case in Dallas.” True, but this response suffers from two fatal defects. First, we’re not supposed to worry about one tiny case as long as it’s in America, right, since according to the CDC on 9/30:
…there’s all the difference in the world between the U.S. and parts of Africa where Ebola is spreading. The United States has a strong health care system and public health professionals who will make sure this case does not threaten our communities,” said CDC Director, Dr. Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. “While it is not impossible that there could be additional cases associated with this patient in the coming weeks, I have no doubt that we will contain this.”
If the U.S.’ strong health care system (which is apparently far superior to hazmat suits) is so effective at containment, what explains the funeral home preparations again? If U.S. containment procedures are so superb and the virus is no more contagious than before, what difference does it make whether the case is in Dallas, Texas or Sierra Leone? To be sure, maybe the answers to these questions are simple, and it’s just about corrupt money and the like.
However, the corrupted money explanation isn’t very plausible (at least on its own) either, for the very simple, and extremely disturbing, reason that the “funeral home preparations” article was first published on 9/29 at 3:36 PM PST—a day before the Dallas case was confirmed positive. Of course, this makes the following language at the very head of the article all the more eerie:
“CBS46 News has confirmed the Centers for Disease Control has issued guidelines to U.S. funeral homes on how to handle the remains of Ebola patients. If the outbreak of the potentially deadly virus is in West Africa, why are funeral homes in America being given guidelines?”
If the rejoinder is that “well, people thought the Dallas case might turn out positive”, the reply must be that there were several other cases, in places like Sacramento and New York, that might have turned out positive, but resulted in neither funeral home preparations nor a rash of CDC “Ebola Prevention” tips (wash those hands, since they’re running low on hazmat suits!)
Hopefully, you are in the mood for two more big CDC lies, because they really are quite important. From the 9/30 CDC statement: “People are not contagious after exposure unless they develop symptoms.” This is a lie for three basic reasons. First, the studies that inform the CDC’s professed certainty on this issue relied upon analyses of previous outbreaks of then-known known Ebola variants. The current strain, as stated here early on, is novel—genetically as well as geographically. Second, the distinction between “incubation” and “visible symptoms” is a continuum, not discrete in nature; a few droplets might not be rain, but they’re not indicative of fully clear skies either—so the boundary drawn by the CDC is, like nearly everything else the U.S. government does, arbitrary. Third, as even rank amateurs at statistics know, previous outbreaks have consisted of too few cases to confidently rule out small but consequential probabilities of asymptomatic transmission—completely leaving aside the fact that we have a new genetic variant of Ebola to deal with.
The last major CDC lie mentioned in this article is the claim, repeated ad nauseam, that “infrastructure shortcomings” and the like is wholly sufficient to explain the exponential increase in the number of cases presented by the current outbreak. We should believe that only when presented with well-designed multivariate contagion models that properly incorporate information about Ebola outbreaks and generate findings that socioeconomic differences as between West Africa and other regions of Africa (such as Zaire) alone can fully explain observed differences associated with the current outbreak. It seems to this author that we should strongly doubt that the current contagion can be fully explained without at some point invoking features of the novel genetic strain.
Dr. Jason Kissner is Associate Professor of Criminology at California State University. Dr. Kissner’s research on gangs and self-control has appeared in academic journals. His current empirical research interests include active shootings. You can reach him at crimprof2010[at]hotmail.com
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