These poll results confirm how far gone we are as a society. A full 58% of the ignorant masses have confidence in the Federal government to protect them from ebola. One out of five have no doubt that Obama, the CDC, and a plethora of government drones are on top of this. Have they seen the government response thus far? The CDC told an infected nurse it was alright for her to fly. They haven’t taken the basic step of stopping flights from the countries with the outbreak. The government does nothing well, except spend our money.
After witnessing the last 14 years of government at its finest, how can any critical thinking human being believe the government won’t fuck up anything they touch in an instant?
Fears about a global Ebola pandemic seem to be rising by the day. Over 3,800 people have died in the world’s worst outbreak of the virus, according to the World Health Organisation. Interestingly, one place where there isn’t too much concern is the United States. This is despite the fact that the first person diagnosed with the disease on American soil died, while a nurse that treated him has also become infected.
20 percent of people surveyed by the Pew Research Center said they have a great deal of confidence in the federal government preventing a major Ebola outbreak while 38 percent indicated they have a fair amount of confidence. There is still a small element of fear in American society, however, with just under a quarter stating they do not have much confidence in authorities handling any pandemic.
You will find more statistics at Statista
The CDC approves sending an Ebola patient’s nurse off on a commercial airplane just about when symptoms might first manifest and do…on the fucking airplane no less!!!?? And this year’s Darwin Award goes to……drum roll….. The US Federal Government!! Even with a Congress of whores and a PR flack for president, this is astonishing.
Almost feels like they are trying to thin the herd some.
PS: That was graveyard humor, I don’t actually think their incompetence was planned.
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
-Hanlon’s Razor
What’s with the captcha?
Dutchman
It’s a security feature we had to put in after the denial of service attack. It gets triggered by certain comments and links occasionally.
TBPers and the few others like us are in the minority, the majority will of course wait for the gov to tell them how to think and what to do.
Trust the government…. to save me? The same tools who let this clusterfuck happen in the first place?
I’m sorry. I don’t understand the question…
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1. Assclownery
An act, or series of acts, performed by an assclown, that would appear absolutely rediculous to a non assclown. Note: Assclownery may occassionally be committed by a non assclown. This usually occurs to a non assclown when they are experiencing a lack of sleep or lack of a caffeinated beverage. An Assclown which commits assclownery at an above average level is known as a feeb.
Maybe if they used their heads for something other than a butt plug and showed an iota of competence, I might not be so cynical… I still wouldn’t trust them. I just wouldn’t be so cynical…
The Idiotic Explanation Why The “Idiot With The Clipboard” Was Unprotected
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/16/2014 11:21 -0400
Phoenix Air has released a statement explaining why the now infamous non-HazMat-wearing ‘clipboard man’ seen in close proximity to Dallas Ebola patient Amber Vinson (while the rest of the members of staff are fully protected) was unprotected… and it will blow your mind.
Why is “Clipboard Man” not wearing protective gear?
Phoenix Air responds (via ABC News)…
The airline confirmed to ABC News that the man was their medical protocol supervisor who was purposefully not wearing protective gear.
“Our medical professionals in the biohazard suits have limited vision and mobility and it is the protocol supervisor’s job to watch each person carefully and give them verbal directions to insure no close contact protocols are violated,” a spokesperson from Phoenix Air told ABC News said.
“There is absolutely no problem with this and in fact insures an even higher level of safety for all involved,” the spokesperson said.
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So – in summary – due to the restrictive vision when wearing an Ebola-protective suit, one member of staff must be sacrificed/exposed to ensure no one trips?
And these are who we are supposed to trust?
Sorry… this was supposed to go with that post.
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Sad commentary is a lot of the sheep will nod their heads to that story.
An urgent message from the Ministry of Government Healthcare and Human Stupidity
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I don’t doubt the “thin the herd” story one bit. This is mighty reminiscent of “Katrina”.
One of the functions of government is to appear to fail in order to achieve objectives. To appear as a dolt, an idiot, is much more acceptable than to appear as a highly intelligent person who has a plan.
Researchers Expect Over 20 US Ebola Cases In Weeks, “You Don’t Want To Know Worst Case”
Tyler Durden on 10/16/2014 15:01 -0400
Washington D.C.
“We have a worst-case scenario, and you don’t even want to know,” warns Alessandro Vespignani, a researcher creating simulations of infectious disease outbreaks, but there could be as many as two dozen people in the U.S. infected with Ebola by the end of the month. The projections only run through October because it’s too difficult to model what will occur if the pace of the outbreak changes but, as Bloomberg reports, Vespignani warns if the outbreak becomes more widespread in other regions, it “would be like a bad science fiction movie.”
As Bloomberg reports,
Alessandro Vespignani, a Northeastern University professor who runs computer simulations of infectious disease outbreaks warns there could be as many as two dozen people in the U.S. infected with Ebola by the end of the month.
The projections only run through October because it’s too difficult to model what will occur if the pace of the outbreak changes in West Africa, where more than 8,900 people have been infected and 4,400 have died, he said. If the outbreak isn’t contained, the numbers could rise significantly.
“If by the end of the year the growth rate hasn’t changed, then the game will be different,” Vespignani said. “It will increase for many other countries.”
The model analyzes disease activity, flight patterns and other factors that can contribute to its spread.
“We have a worst-case scenario, and you don’t even want to know,” Vespignani said. “We could have widespread epidemics in other countries, maybe the Far East. That would be like a bad science fiction movie.”
The worst case would occur if Ebola acquires pandemic status and is no longer contained in West Africa, he said. It would be a catastrophic event, one Vespignani says he is confident won’t happen.
The CDC disagrees…
It’s unlikely that Ebola will ever exceed 20 cases in the U.S. or Europe because of their extensive health care infrastructures, said Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, a non-profit think tank in Washington, D.C. The problem in the developed world will center more on the economic impact, he said.
“The damage is not as much in the number of deaths as much as in the panic it creates and all the disruption it creates in trade and travel,” he said. “It’s important for public health officials to strike a balance between being serious and certainly not creating panic.”
“It’s not going to be like the movie ‘Contagion,’” he said.
And Eli Perencevich, professor of epidemiology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, said average Americans shouldn’t see any risk from the virus outside of the medical community because patients aren’t terribly infectious until the disease peaks…
“There’s a high probability that there will be another person who comes in, no matter what we do, but the risk is in the hospital,” he said in a telephone interview. “As long as people who know they have been exposed to the virus get themselves quickly to the hospital, even after they have started a fever, it should be OK because they aren’t that infectious.”
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Let’s hope he is right!
Billy’s Halloween costume.
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“Billy’s Halloween costume.” — Admin
Fair enough…
I’ll wear that if you wear any of the following:
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Isn’t the 3rd picture down what you wear to church on Sundays?
“Isn’t the 3rd picture down what you wear to church on Sundays?” — Admin
Why, you wanna borrow it?
Figured you were smart enough to find a sandwich board and a red marker in New York City without my help…
How can any at all have any confidence what so ever that the government will stop Ebola and keep us safe from it when everything they have done up to this point seems to have been designed to spread the virus to as many places as they could.
The poll just confirms that at least 59% of your fellow citizens cannot be trusted to pay attention, looks at facts, and do any sort of reasoning at all. I do not trust them to ‘save’ me from ebola or anything else, they would be no better than the government at it.
“White House says it wasn’t looking for an Ebola expert in choosing Ron Klain to head up Ebola response, but rather an implementation expert.”
Implementation of what, is the question….