Posted on 08/02/2014 9:22:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I’m more worried that what would happen if it mutated with the Staph bacteria that are prevalent in American hospitals that cannot be killed by antibiotics. Or even better if it comes into contact with H1N1. Spanish flu x 100. Nature has a way of thinning the herd, problem is that man has learned how to beat nature. It happened before with the Spanish Flu. The next time will be worse because of air travel. The next highly infectious virus that is airborne and has a high mortality rate will be unstoppable. It will be something we’ve never seen before. Something grown in a lab somewhere out in the desert or forest that no one knows about. Genetics are a huge newer technology that most Westernized countries have strict laws governing things like that. But I’m sure somewhere out there is a group of mad scientists breeding diseases and viruses. Chances are somewhere they have something that would kill every human on earth if released on an international flight, or in a major international hub.
If I want a thrill I’ll take up base jumping or bungee jumping off bridges. No way am I getting within a thousand miles of an Ebola outbreak and I don’t respect these Western doctors and aid workers who do. They are looking for thrills and bragging rights back home. Yes there is some altruism and religious motivation but it is misguided. The need to find another outlet for their do-goodism.
1. What is Ebola?
You're right. I NEVER thought I'd ask that question about Ebola.
Yeah I really don’t understand how they can say it would be easily to keep a handle on here.
A simple way to screw up everything:
We have an outbreak during regular influenza season. So people are having those “early symptoms” by the millions and 999 out of 1000 are common flu. You can’t just put them all in ebola isolation ward with the rest of the ebola patients. For one thing there would be too many and for another you’d end up infecting them all with ebola when all they had was the flu.
And in the time it would take to run tests on them all, they’re all infectious... but you don’t know if they are the 999 with the flu or the 1 with ebola... until after the test.
How on earth would we handle that?
They’re just assuming that it simply could not get that far. But all that would have to happen is just a handful of cases in inner city areas of a few cities and suddenly you’d have no idea whether any given case was flu or ebola.
You’d have to trust the population to self isolate anyone sick and not touch them or their clothes or bedding. And the few poor souls who have ebola... it would be too late to help them by the time the advanced symptoms show up.
This is why I don’t understand their “don’t worry” attitude. Yes, it’s not super easy to transmit because it isn’t airborn but even in western countries you’re likely to have human contact during the early infectious period.
I’m confused...
I’ve read that article, it looks like we are ahead of the game, we have already started preparing for it and are treating an American doctor with great experience with it, and who has contracted the disease.
After 38 years, the death toll is approaching 2,000 dead and it is time to try to put it out.
When I ask for a bowl of chili, do I need to worry about being mistakenly served ebola?
And when you die, what’s left of you isn’t much more than a skinbag full of bones and liquefied guts, and a lot of amplified virus looking for a new home.
Freind, have you had a big hot heaping bowl of ebola lately??
Well, that’s too long!
What’s eating you today?
Spiraling out of control in three third world cesspools where disease runs rampant. They don’t have the sanitation, the personnel, facilities or the manpower to deal with this. America does. I wouldn’t worry about it.
If I’m made mayor of I told you so town. I’ll eat my keyboard.
Only if the cook, waiter, busboy or hostess happened to cough, sneeze or sweat on the bowl, silver ware, glasses or menu.
Menu? Better add in all of the other patrons that may have held the menu in the last several days. (The virus can survive on hard surfaces at a large range of temperatures for several days).
lolz
flesh eating bacteria... yum!
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Only 2,000 cases. Not one case in America. 2,000?
The common flu is laughing at Ebola.
Now typhus can be tough, but it’s treatable nowadays
The local meat market guy was in the hospital for 3 weeks with typhus... he looked like a wreck who could barely stand when he came back to work...
I didn’t eat the turkey he cut for us that day
Aids came out years later than Ebola, and it has killed 36 million since 1981, it killed 1.6 million in 2012, and we don’t even think of it anymore.
Yep. Ebola is not a big deal.
I just wonder where AIDS came from. I wonder where half of these viruses came from, they were never around until the end of the last century. Any thoughts?
The ACLU will sue to stop any quarantining and the condom will again be trotted out as the "magic bullet" that will prevent spreading the disease so that indiscriminate anal sex can continue with multiple partners.
To suggest that public health should be more important will get you labeled a bigot and a hater.
Human/animal sex. Also the fact they eat weird food in Africa like monkeys, rats, and bats.
Okay, maybe. But people were having sex with animals and eating strange food since the dawn of time. Why not then, why now?
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