Posted on 10/05/2014 9:06:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I’m glad you feel safe. I don’t.
I feel safe because I understand the virus. Despite the fact that it is too small to see, it is still a biological entity and behaves according to very predictable and understandable principles.
Likewise, when certain microorganisms scare me, it is because I understand them. Influenza season is coming up, and several thousand Americans are going to die from it. Even some people who get vaccinated will die from it. *That* should scare just about anyone.
Dengue is coming to the US, and it seems there is little we can do about it. There are four kinds of dengue. If you get dengue, you probably will survive it. But if you later get another kind of dengue, you have a high chance of dying from it because your first bout of dengue primed you to die.
If you ever want material to keep you up at night, try attending an American Association of Microbiology conference. There, you get to learn just how on-the-edge we are with respect to infectious diseases. The CDC and state public health agencies work all the time to control infectious disease—thousands of people work full time at it, and even then, people still get sick.
Ebola... it’s mostly a distraction. Other diseases that are here right now are killing us every day. Oddly, no one seems to care about those diseases, because they don’t make the news.
Good for you. Maybe you should travel to Liberia and volunteer.
I would have no problem doing that.
There are not less than a few doctors who understood this virus more than you who have managed to contract the disease and are dead.
Did you read Thomas Sowell’s latest column?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3215278/posts
Care to take back some of those statements you made about how much you knew about this disease and how it was not capable of being transmitted through the air?
It seems that there are a lot of people who think otherwise.
No. I still will attempt to educate people about how Ebola is really spread, using actual research data published in actual medical journals by the actual people who do the research.
That ad for PAPRs published by CIDRAP does not constitute "proof" that Ebola can aerosolize. None of the references that the PAPR ad uses actually say that Ebola is aerosolizable.
There are many physical reasons that Ebola cannot naturally aerosolize; the chance that Ebola will suddenly make the thousands of mutations necessary to change its structure and mode of transmission is just about nil.
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