I still do not think it can take hold here like it can in Africa.
> I still do not think it can take hold here like it can in Africa.
Only true if it does not become air transmissible. Your statement works because we are better at keeping clean, which is impossible in tropical Africa. But air transmission makes that advantage worthless.
Well, it’s spread by sweat and can live for days in the shade down to 40 degrees.
Now think about pubic transportation, taxis, elevators, restrooms, etc.
The Liberian who took it to Nigeria was well enough to pass exit screening and subsequently infected the person sitting next to him on the airplane -who subsequently died.
I think if it ever gets to a major city in America that it will spread much faster then it is in Africa.
I think if it ever gets to a major city in America that it will spread much faster then it is in Africa.
Actually, far worse. We have political correctness to prevent the isolated quarantines imposed on the populations in Liberia. Does anyone remember the AIDS epidemic and how there was no quarantine of the affected homos?
this is a belief based on what?
Why? Roughly 50% of people don’t wash their hands after a bowel movement so we aren’t any cleaner.
Our hospitals are better but how long would that last once you have an overwhelming number of patients.
Spend two hours in the emergency room of the largest hospital near you on a Friday or Saturday night. Then get back to me. After you have visited WalMart on your way back home, and counted the times you have touched your eyes, nose, or mouth before disinfecting them.
Good thing it is not airborne then.....oh wait, there is that pesky little 2012 Canadian study that sort of puts that line firmly in the bs category. Airborne now requires a Clinton explanation of I guess it depends on what the meaning of airborne is.
With the CDC now acting its political role, I respectfully disagree. Think of the new diseases that have arrived via our southern border for which the American public has no immunity. What makes you think the administration would all of a sudden start being honest?
“I still do not think it can take hold here like it can in Africa.”
If it gets loose in East LA or Camden, it’s game over. Even though our sanitation processes and clean water and food will disrupt the virus, there will come a tipping point where it won’t matter what is done, it will become uncontrollable.
I wouldn't count on that. I think that's just wishful thinking t this point.
Not only *can* it, but it will.
Cities will not be safe.
I don't know why not? ... The only differences I see between big swaths of the US and Africa are a few hippos and giraffes.