Posted on 10/01/2014 8:49:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Community leaders plan vigil for unidentified male patient at local Texas hospital on Thursday.
Cynjoe African Market is the sort of miraculous little shop that manages to sell a bit of everything, from hair braids to DVDs, shawls to soft drinks. Its fridges stock the usual selection of mainstream American beers but lettering on the front window advertises matooke, gari, pondu and fufu: African dishes that sound especially exotic given the store’s prosaic location in a north Dallas strip-mall just off the Lyndon B Johnson Freeway.
A Liberian flag hangs in one corner of the window. One customer on Wednesday morning was deeply familiar with the American-esque, single-star and stripes design: Helen Brent was born in the west African nation but grew up in Philadelphia and moved to Dallas six years ago.
She found out the previous evening that the Texas city is the site of the first US case of Ebola, the disease that is ravaging her homeland. Less than four miles south-west of Cynjoe a thicket of television trucks has sprung up in a parking lot at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital, where the as-yet unnamed patient is being treated.
The hospital borders densely populated Vickery Meadow, among Dallas’s most diverse areas and long home to many of its poorest refugees and immigrants....
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*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!
Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!
Bring Out Your Dead
We’re gonna need 
a bigger cart!
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
why are Liberians here?...I thought they wanted their nirvana in Africa......why are they coming here?
Great idea. Let’s get all the potentially infected people together for a vigil. No sneezing!
We don’t need no steenkeeng librarians bringing in that Ebola!
Haven’t you noticed? Everyone from everywhere is heading here.
Because we are letting EVERYONE in.
EVERYONE!
As you know, I've only been here for going on 5 decades. When I first relocated to Texas, the demographics were good. It seems that since the 80s, the world's debris has been coming here. I call them the M&Ms -- the messkins and muzzies. It saddens me to see Texas becoming so Africanized with Trayvon types sprouting up everywhere. The good part is the further you get out from the cesspools of the cities, the people get better. Ft. Worth stayed nicer than Dallas but it's now being taken over by a bunch of foreigners babbling in incoherent tongues.
Fundamental Transformation - a planned destruction.
But fruit bat fritters are to die for...yum.
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