Posted on 10/22/2014 11:56:32 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
The outcome of the midterm elections will have a dramatic effect on Obama’s ability to continue his destruction of the U.S. economy and other policies.
One man has died of Ebola in the U.S. and he came here from Liberia. Two of the nurses that tended him are in intensive care and likely to survive. A third was thought to be infected, but wasn’t. That news has been sufficient to keep most Americans calm as the media has done its best to exploit Ebola-related news.
The public absorbed the facts and came to their own conclusion.
An October 8 Pew Research survey found that “Most are confident in Government’s ability to prevent major Ebola outbreak in U.S.” That reflects the way we have all been conditioned to look to the federal government to solve our problems, but the public mood had not changed by October 20 when a Rasmussen Reports analysis of a survey concluded that “Americans are keeping their cool about Ebola, but some acknowledge that they have changed travel plans because of the outbreak of the deadly virus in the United States.”
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Well, the first sentence is wrong in that it won’t matter who wins as no one is doing anything as the 3 Branches will be split, in some manner, between the parties.
As for the Public ... good for them. Finally, evidence of common sense.
The sheeple are exhibiting normalcy bias.
They will die in disbelief some time after they find out that the Titanic on which they are sailing does not have enough lifeboats to save all of them.
We are all pretty sure ebola isn’t over yet ...but I am thankful for the lull. It needs to be a little easier to catch before it goes wild. I am convinced that will happen.
Exactly, it takes a bigger threat than a few people dead to really scare people into panicking. If there were thousands dead in various places throughout the nation, that probably would trigger panic. As it stands, however, our nation is extremely vulnerable to some given epidemic, should it be both contagious and deadly enough.
“They will die in disbelief some time after they find out that the Titanic on which they are sailing does not have enough lifeboats to save all of them.”
There are many things to worry about. Ebola isn’t high on the list in this country.
Obola is a much bigger threat to our nations future.
As far as we currently know, it’s not an immediate threat. As I said before, if the death toll was more people, there would be more panic.
Yeah, good old Normalcy Bias. “This hasn’t been a big problem, ever, therefore it can’t be a big problem, ever.”
Morons. How about the fact that Africa is about to “enjoy” a large ramp-up in the number of Ebola patients? http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2014/10/ebola-update-remain-calm.html
When even W.H.O. (not the guy on first base) says that there will be 10,000 cases/week within 2 months, you KNOW that this isn’t over. It is definitely a lull before the next wave of this storm hits. NOTE: A new Thomas Duncan, who was asymptomatic when he arrived and who lied about his contacts, could get in with no problems. So much for our preparedness, and so much for the jackasses at the CDC and higher up in government protecting us.
Top. Men. Yeah, right!
Ebola is coming back, it is only a matter of when...and the only remedy for surviving Ebola is to stay the heck away from anyone that has it. This means staying isolated, not even going to the store for food...which means to start storing up NOW if you haven’t, so as to have the means to stay away from sick people WHEN (not if) it comes back.
2 more articles (note: I am NOT the blog writer, nor related to him in any way - I just read and occasionally comment):
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2014/10/ebola-this-is-what-science-sounds-like.html
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2014/10/risk-assessment.html
The fact that it takes elite, expensive, medical procedures to give a person a good chance, like the missionaries and nurses, should be a good indicator that we should do whatever neccessary to control the spread.
Just in case folks don’t want to click the link, here is PART of the “Risk Assessment” article I referenced in #8, above:
We can’t breed people fast enough to get numbers on your side. If the earth’s population doubled, we’d only buy three more weeks at the back end. That’s the power of an R-naught of 2 and logarithmic growth. It’s why Albert Einstein once replied that the greatest power on earth was “compound interest”. Ebola is compounding at a return of 100% for just about every 3 weeks so far.
Just like with fire, you can’t choke it by giving it more fuel. But you can suffocate it, or take the heat away.
Cooling Ebola off requires taking people away from the heat of the virus. And what works for that, since forever, is keeping people away from the virus. Contain it where it is, and keep infected people away from uninfected people. That means absolute isolation, travel bans, and quarantines. It’s the only thing we have right now that works, and it’s also the only thing thing the idiots in charge refuse to consider, with the thoughtless stubbornness of the offspring of horses and donkeys.
We do it because that buys time, so that the current outbreak runs out of fuel (people), and multiplies slower. We desperately need that time, because at the present rate of spread, we’re headed for a world-changing pandemic. If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, telling us “So far, so good” at 10,000 feet isn’t the behavior of a rational person. Neither is pointing out how beautiful the view is, or marveling at the approaching scenery. The critical components are your velocity downward, the distance to the ground, along with a basic grasp of math and the physics of falling bodies.
And hopefully, we cool Ebola off enough for it to burn out, or if we’re very, very lucky, someone comes up with a vaccine to prevent getting it, and more effective treatments for it, and we can then suffocate it.
But we aren’t anywhere close to there yet, and therefore anyone suggesting you blithely go about your business is a moron. Anyone that’s saying “Hey, it’s tough to catch, look, Duncan only gave it to two people” has the brain of a stegosaurus. The thing to note is that Duncan infected two people who had on every possible piece of protection, knew all the techniques, and yet STILL caught it.
That more people, including those exposed to him early on and more casually, do not show symptoms and may not have been infected is nothing but fate among the random happenstance of a neutral universe, or the tender mercies of a benevolent deity.
What it’s not is cause for relief nor celebration.
We’ve merely been fortunate, like the guy who hits the Powerball on the one time he buys a ticket.
And only a jackass expects that to happen every time, or jumps off a cliff a second time because the first didn’t happen to kill him.
The media are, by and large, jackasses.
The CDC is run by a monumental jackass.
And the president is the Grand Panjandrum of the Jackass Party.
And not just by coincidence.”
“The fact that it takes elite, expensive, medical procedures to give a person a good chance, like the missionaries and nurses, should be a good indicator that we should do whatever neccessary to control the spread.”
Agreed. So are the fact that this thing is doubling every 3 weeks like clockwork, and that it is 70% lethal (at best) even with treatment, and it kills you by liquifying your internal organs. Me, I’d like to avoid this for as many people as possible...the politics be damned. Of course, for Obola the @ssclown and his jackass minions, that’s as close to sacrilege as anything comes.
Info lock
Stands with alcohol-based hand sanitizer have popped up inside the entry doors of many if not most retail and restaurant chains here, even Domino’s Pizza. And, people are using them. Other than that, I haven’t noticed any changes.
http://www.whatwouldthefoundersthink.com/rules-for-radicals-by-saul-d-alinsky
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/22/us-health-ebola-who-idUSKCN0IB23220141022
Shoes off in the garage.....paper money?....clean hands....
I don’t know about anyone else, but I have an infant at four months and a toddler as my children. Plus my wife, who gave birth to the infant. There are exceptions, but when it comes to disease, a weak immune system usually means the highest vulnerability. I would be in serious trouble if I while infected with TB knowingly, put a person with recent chemotherapy or AIDS at risk for infection. My worst instinct is that a weak immune system makes Ebola deadlier to people. If it hits those with a weak immune system and/or children with their saliva and other germ sharing by touching surfaces, it could very well be a serious killer virus.
Yup, I live across the highway from Presby. The Walgreens right next door to the hospital was decently busy, but otherwise there’s almost nothing here to indicate any kind of non-normal situation. My roommate’s girlfriend works in a mental hospital, and a lot of the nurses there are worried (they have little training/no ppe, tons of patient contact), and my Mom is an RN downtown. Methodist I think? BUt there’s some concern amongst the medical people, but like some other people have said, until it spreads a lot more, a lot quicker, or a lot easier, there won’t be much of a public situation.
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