Posted on 11/01/2014 9:42:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
But 130 cases is more than enough to wipe out the economy.
You may be on to something. The fear factor. So far, a few nurses became ill. What happens when dozens, then hundreds of nurses and doctors become ill? Hospital costs are very high as it is, and would skyrocket under these conditions. The health industry would fall into chaos, and take the economy down with it.
The recent cases, such as Nina Pham, recovered because they received a blood transfusion from a cured patient. I would imagine this blood supply is extremely limited.
If you look at the curve....it’s a very soft curve. I was watching some news segment five days ago and they noted that Nigeria has dropped their curve drastically, and all cases there might be ended shortly. They noted that they went to intense quarantine, used better medical procedures, and the public weren’t hand-washing bodies after death (like they did in west Africa).
Rather than hype the public on some wonder-drug....the test procedure is what needs to have emphasis. If you had a simple five-minute test with results...it’d really help to cut down problems.
I should add...I expect some Islamic nuts to weaponize it by spring of 2015. That will be the next wave to make people frustrated and hostile.
I was only kidding of course.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Regarding the 2.5% lethality: This quote from Wikipedia posits a much higher number. "The global mortality rate from the 1918/1919 pandemic is not known, but an estimated 10% to 20% of those who were infected died. With about a third of the world population infected, this case-fatality ratio means 3% to 6% of the entire global population died.[30] Influenza may have killed as many as 25 million people in its first 25 weeks. Older estimates say it killed 40–50 million people,[4] while current estimates say 50–100 million people worldwide were killed.[31]"
When this current Ebola outbreak runs its course, the actual number of fatalities will probably be unknown, as well.
It is called the nurse killer in West Africa
I read an article by a photographer in Liberia. After his 21 days he published his essay with photos. Some of them were of a new Ebola ward that was set up in one of the slums. Of the 23 staff that started it, 21 were dead now.
According to all of the Ebola “experts” here on FR, there must be dozens already infected here in the U.S., or more likely hundreds, so it’s already a foregone conclusion that we, along with the rest of the world, are DOOMED!
Yeah. So far ( excluding patient zero ), those infected have been citizens and professionals. When it starts coming across the border with illegals and you have some that don't speak the language and are afraid to go into a hospital, you may have them dying in an ally somewhere in LA and the body not discovered for a few days. That is when it will start to spread. ( Of course all of the Hollywood liberals who are for open borders will be the first out of town on their private jets if that happens )
I don't know, but this is what happened after one (1) doctor contracted Ebola.
I doubt that the hospitals in most US cities could handle more than one or two Ebola cases at the same time.
The man in charge who hates this country and feels that ebola is not “fairly” distributed will take act after Nov 4 to redistribute ebola more “fairly”.
The model is nonsense, AND influenza synchronously
will make R0 quite high.
Since the time of infectivity is >21 days and no one care,
Obola's bioWMD-against-America plans are still ongoing.
But, those 130 cases could each shut down an ER for a long time and close many businesses just like 9/11 shut down the airline business.
When we have isolated villages where everyone touches the dying, wash bodies, keep authorities away from paranoia, etc then that will happen here too. But in the meantime we can expect local health authorities to aggressively isolate the sick so that won't happen.
With very large numbers of false positives in flu season some people will be tossed into an ebola tent without ebola and catch ebola there. Likewise some people with ebola will escape the screening then die on the street and infect first responders and HCWs. But our culture (so far) does not support the family member to family member spread nor isolated village spread that is found in West Africa. Duncan is one example, and his case will probably be typical, no family infected but HCWs put at increasing risk.
We need not even find out how typical if we just stopped the 150 Duncans a day from coming in. The handful of infected health care workers will be much more manageable than bringing in large numbers of infected and ignorant people.
Obola does not want to waste this opportunity to bankrupt the health care industry. His goal all along is federalization, and this will get there faster.
There will be some of those. The authorities will know about Ebola at that point, and so will most of the population so it won't spread much. There will be infections among scavengers looking for a wallet on the body, and maybe a good samaritan or a first responder. The chances of it spreading further than that are kind of slim.
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