Posted on 08/03/2014 4:48:17 PM PDT by Innovative
ROFL That is precious, BA.
I don't know about this situation, but when we have a government that lies to us as a matter of course, it always leaves room for doubt. The problem we have in dealing with known liars, is that we never know when they are telling the truth.
No, that would be Air India- Not Olympic.
CC
Thank God it was a false alarm... this time.
There’s not much out there as deadly as ebola...
Michigan.
CC
Guessing it was a drill for a just in case scenario.
They reveal their deceit in their haste to get their cover story out.
Allowing anyone from these nations to land is madness; proper, rational decisions about a nation’s health will be derided as xenophobia.
Fortunately, the wise and powerful Barack Obama is not concerned with such precautionary folly; he is bravely importing persons infected with a dangerous, incurable disease in some sort of quixotic search for relevance and efficacy. If they live, he will take credit. If they die, well, it’s on to the next political football.
Sad....but not unusual..
I have been on three airplanes where elderly people died (including the blues singer Solomn Burke).
Air travel is rough on the body.
(Of course, the last time I flew through Heathrow, an airliner from Africa was going through customs at the same time and they caught some folks trying to bring in a suitcase full of bush meat....so, it’s only a matter of time.)
We are still grappling with flesh eating disease that killed some Americans this week. And we don’t freak out.
You know, my limited reading makes me think that it takes about two weeks to die of Ebola after total organ shut down and nasty welts covering your body and bleeding from every pour and stuff.
This women vomited on the run way then died that same day.
Doesn’t quite sound like Ebola.
Probably some bad airline food.
Those things aren't always present, according to an interview I read this afternoon from someone with Doctors Without Borders. She said usually the patient is just really sickly and weak, and it isn't as dramatic or bloody as the books or movies (though I am sure it certainly is in some cases). That was how she described her experience working with Ebola Sudan and Ebola Marburg anyway, which was the strain of Ebola at the beginning of the book The Hot Zone. I think that is the reason that some people don't think a death is Ebola-related because it can look a lot like Malaria.
>> Her symptoms could also have been related to other travel related illnesses. <<
Please, one begs of you, don’t try to spoil the magnificently imaginative conspiracy theories on this thread. Paranoia can be fun! /s
So a woman flys out of a city which has thousands of people infected with Ebola. This same woman shows symptoms similar to Ebola in flight, collapses and dies shortly after landing and it is “imaginative conspiracy theories” to wonder if she died of Ebola? Really?
Simply wondering? No, of course not. On first glance, anybody is probably going to "wonder" if Ebola was involved -- at least until they learn some basic facts about the case.
Anyway, I believe you're posing a "straw man" in your rhetorical question. I was referring to posts on this thread (and similarly lame posts on the other recent "Ebola" threads), which go beyond mere wondering, and which either speculate or downright assert that there's some kind of conspiracy (maybe led by Obama & Co.) to inflict Ebola on a gullible American public.
Moreover, this thread is particularly egregious, because some of the posters here appear so determined to find an Obama-friendly conspiracy that they neglect this relevant fact:
The case of the collapsing woman was in the UK. In other words, certain Freepers are hinting that the UK health authorities might be working the with the White House, Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse, the CDC and similar conspirators, in some kind of attempt to undermine public health in the USA. Sick, sick, sick.
You don’t have to believe in conspiracies to know, for a fact, that rapid field tests are frequently wrong. Especially in the early days of VHF infections.
Dr. Brantly tested negative after symptoms appeared. And then tested positive at a later time.
BTW, so did the Nigerian healthcare workers if you’ve been following that situation.
Some of those workers began running fever and displaying symptoms at the end of last week/Saturday but tested negative for the disease. It wasn’t until today that one of them actually tested positive for the disease.
So the little old lady at Gatwick could have had a heart attack, deep vein thrombosis, or some other affliction. But a negative test for ebola doesn’t mean she did not in fact have it.
They put the plane back into service, crew and passengers went home, and my guess is that the woman’s body will be returned to her home.
I doubt that they are wrong about the test results.
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