Posted on 08/03/2014 1:38:28 PM PDT by PoloSec
(Newser) – The US is treating the American doctor who contracted Ebola, and isn't about to turn tail on the virus. "Ebola’s scary, and it’s understandable that with a deadly disease, people are concerned," says CDC director Tom Frieden, but for those who would have us turn victims away, "the plain truth is, we can stop Ebola. We know how to control it. We’re not going to hermetically seal the borders of the US. We’re reliant and interdependent with the world for travel, for trade, for the economy, for our families and communities." Frieden tells ABC, via Politico, that the CDC is sending 50 staffers to West Africa because, he says, "The single most important thing we can do to protect Americans is to stop this disease at the source in Africa."
People have reacted to the disease in various ways and it is the atypical sufferers that we should be worrying about...some don’t get as sick at first and the symptoms not recognized as for what they are(some may even recover). That is why this illness is so dangerous. Even if you have a serious case and a recovery, blood and semen will still carry the virus for several months. Also this particular strain seems to be infecting and killing folks in much larger numbers than previous outbreaks, so I don’t think the facts are fully known about this strain. Given the political filter that the government agencies are straining their news thru, the tendency will be to understate info with an eye towards protecting certain desired voter groups from having their sensibilities violated.
You are citing the main facts, assuming adequate quarantines and controls. Yet certain groups will be at most risk for very bad out breaks and your facts don’t cover the atypical sufferer and we all know there are some.
When Janet Napolitano 'retired' from Homeland Security she warned of cyber attacks and "a natural disaster - the likes of which the nation has never seen - is also likely on its way".
I wondered how she could predict such a grave 'natural disaster'. DISEASE is considered a natural disaster. Epidemic and Pandemic.
Both the Catholic and Baptist Churches were paid many millions of dollars in 2010 and 2012 to care for the "unaccompanied illegal children PROJECT". Yes, it was called a project in 2010!
Janet Napolitano knew it was 'in the works'.
Cloward-Piven strategy...
Sorry, meant to make the connection between Ebola and the “illegal children’ in my last comment. There is already mention that Ebola may already have been brought in by the illegals.
One site harboring children is already under quarantine, supposedly for ‘chickenpox’, but that’s questionable.
Border Patrol are now even posting signs in Chinese at the border!! Who knows who all and what all has come in?
zer0 and his CDC will spread it to white middle class communities using free blanket giveaways(figuratively speaking). And inoculate his ‘Amish’,LaRasa and Islamics for his takeover move. “ i’m pretty good at killing people”
Damn Nazi.
Thatz the way muh phone spelled it...
LOL
Very true...
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...
We won’t seal our borders period:
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...
Well, we SHOULD want to.
Yet the US still allows commercial flights to and from the endemic areas in West Africa.
You're right - it's compartmentalized thinking on their part...
If the CDC cared about AMERICANS rather than seeing themselves as 'citizens of the world' they would STOP ALL flights in and out of cities with ebola cases. It's not a sure bet, but it would go a long way toward stopping the disease from coming here.
The Marburg Virus, a related Filovirus, has been proven to have been transfered sexually. One of the original victims in Germany gave it to his wife in this manner. It almost certainly isn't as much of an issue as other direct bodily contact, but it doesn't seem to be "out there" as a possibility, either.
Thanks for the ping; post; thread.
Life/health BUMP!
Unless a high ranking CDC person's child or a WH admin's child is stricken with something before hundreds of the lowly peons, you're right. Even then, it's a toss up with these lib whackadoodles.
Fixed it.
Ah, good to know. Next time someone sneezes or coughs on me, I'll quickly jump up in the air.
I read she got sick from eating seafood on the plane. That aside, what exactly is "not symptomatic"? We keep hearing they aren't contagious until they show signs. They make is sound as if you could have sex with them and share a strawberry sundae up to the very second he spews the cherry out onto your nose. Who's really buying that? http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ebola-terror-gatwick-passenger-collapses-3977051#ixzz39OGHF8ei Follow us: @DailyMirror on Twitter | DailyMirror on Facebook
so national suicide is what the thugocracy wants
Quarantine for chickenpox??? A pox on whomever came up with that lame excuse.
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