Author Topic: THE.. Ebola Thread (Read 39397 times)

Dannyboy53 · « **Reply #60 on:** October 15, 2014, 12:24:50 PM »

Worm you pretty much hit the proverbial nail on the head. I think we are about to witness what I call the popcorn effect, starts off slow with a couple of kernels popping, then....

Greasemonkey · « **Reply #61 on:** October 16, 2014, 01:59:48 PM »

You have to love an article that in the second sentence about Ebola states "But even scientists — who have thought very deeply about Ebola and pandemics — are beginning to worry."

The nightmare Ebola scenario that keeps scientists up at night - Vox

And it gets even better

Liberia thinks it needs 84,000 more body bags for the Ebola outbreak - Vox

Dannyboy53 · « **Reply #62 on:** October 16, 2014, 03:54:12 PM »

We had an Ebola scare in our area this morning, an oil field worker from this neighborhood that has been working in the Dallas/Fort Worth area was admitted to the Clinton, Arkansas hospital 24 miles from here with Ebola-like symptoms. A short while ago they announced that it was determined after testing he does not have Ebola. I guess we'll see in a week or so!

http://www.ozarksfirst.com/story/d/story/hospital-in-clinton-arkansas-on-lockdown/16460/9Eqiib4MdUqWSecyepGGxw

I trust my government...

...we're safe here!

Greasemonkey · « **Reply #63 on:** October 16, 2014, 04:55:20 PM »

Quote from: Dannyboy53 on October 16, 2014, 03:54:12 PM

I trust my government... ...we're safe here!

I trust mine as well, .45-70 Government, I'm safe behind it

Dannyboy53 · « **Reply #64 on:** October 16, 2014, 05:05:41 PM »

Quote from: Greasemonkey on October 16, 2014, 04:55:20 PM

Quote from: Dannyboy53 on October 16, 2014, 03:54:12 PM
I trust my government... ...we're safe here!

I trust mine as well, .45-70 Government, I'm safe behind it

That's what I'm talkin' 'bout!! As my granddaughter says..."yeah buddy"!

routeus1 · « **Reply #65 on:** October 16, 2014, 05:18:34 PM »

A letter carrier's bola info & info video - Dept. of Defense...

Ebola Outbreak Information Video ? PostalMag

Greasemonkey · « **Reply #66 on:** October 16, 2014, 06:35:10 PM »

Quote from: routeus1 on October 16, 2014, 05:18:34 PM

A letter carrier's bola info & info video - Dept. of Defense...

Ebola Outbreak Information Video ? PostalMag

Dept. of Defense

They probably had a hand in orchestrating the whole mess, along with the rest of the alphabet agencies. You might as well go ahead and post some wonderful CDC, DHS and FEMA instructional videos as well. We see where the CDC got us thus far.

Loose}{Cannon · « **Reply #67 on:** October 16, 2014, 07:55:47 PM »

Obummer just stated.

"Ebola is extremely difficult to get"

Worm · « **Reply #68 on:** October 16, 2014, 10:51:57 PM »

A good post I stole from survivalistboards:

When Doctors refer to a pathogen being airborne, they mean it in a very different way than I think most of us do... They mean it possesses two simple traits. 1. It is very light and can stay suspended in the air, Like DUST but millions of times smaller. And 2. It can survive for long periods of time in that state, or once it lands on something. You can literally catch an Airborne virus by walking into a room where a sick person was an hour before, even if you walk back out without touching anything. Or through the HVAC vents in a building. Breathing infected air is enough.

That's not Ebola... (And hopefully it never will be...)

Ebola is spread through the air via DROPLETS. Meaning a sneeze. A cough. A touch of the nose or mouth and an unwashed hand. etc... A microscopic drop of snot or blood on a table can have thousands and millions of ebola virus in it. The virus can live in that drop for many minutes to a few hours depending on the nature of the fluid and the amount, etc... But will eventually die because its fairly fragile outside the host. Touch that drop, before the virus dies, and you risk getting infected, either through a cut in the skin or a mucous membrane. Compare this to HIV which is neither airborne, nor spread by droplets. You can't get HIV from a cough or a sneeze. You pretty much have to get an "ejection" of body fluids into your body to catch HIV, because simply exposing the virus to air is enough to kill it. And yet 50,000 people get infected with HIV every year.

So what does this all mean for us? Well, it is true many influenza causing viruses are in fact "airborne" in the medical sense. However, research suggests that the vast majority of influenza cases are transmitted via droplets. An uncovered sneeze... An unwashed hand... The same way Ebola is...

Between 5% and 20% of the American population contract influenza every year (despite a vaccine, which we dont yet have for Ebola).

Lets say Ebola runs on the low side of that- 5% That's 17 million infections... And 50-90% of those will be fatal.

20% means 70 million cases... and 40 million+ dead.

Worm · « **Reply #69 on:** October 17, 2014, 11:16:46 PM »

Worm · « **Reply #70 on:** October 17, 2014, 11:45:07 PM »

On the radio last night and they were talking to an "expert" on Ebola. She said that during the late stages of Ebola a single drop of blood has as many virus particles in it as 50 liters of HIV infected blood contains by way of comparison.

Not sure if that's abnormal or not but that sounds pretty messed up.

Worm · « **Reply #71 on:** October 17, 2014, 11:56:32 PM »

Greasemonkey · « **Reply #72 on:** October 18, 2014, 12:49:58 PM »

Quote from: Loose}{Cannon on October 16, 2014, 07:55:47 PM

Obummer just stated.

"Ebola is extremely difficult to get"

If it is so hard to get, he should volunteer to walk the streets of Liberia, visit the sick, shake their hands, look them in the eye and say everything is going to be just fine. We have it all under control.

Dannyboy53 · « **Reply #73 on:** October 18, 2014, 01:10:17 PM »

Great idea Greasemonkey, if we could get him out of the greens long enough to go. But I would not be surprised to find that maximum effort is being made to protect our Criminal in Chief and the Congress.

Greasemonkey · « **Reply #74 on:** October 18, 2014, 01:27:16 PM »

I bet they have a cure, if a high ranking official got it, or say Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, or someone came down with it, we would hear nothing, they vanish from public view for a while and reappear.

You gotta pay if ya wanna play, gotta have that clout if ya wanna get out. Survival of the richest, the evoloution in Darwin's theory.

Worm · « **Reply #75 on:** October 18, 2014, 04:59:32 PM »

Pretty much gm. nailed it

Dannyboy53 · « **Reply #76 on:** October 18, 2014, 09:23:48 PM »

Quote from: Worm on October 18, 2014, 04:59:32 PM

Pretty much gm. nailed it

Agreed

Worm · « **Reply #77 on:** October 23, 2014, 09:09:59 PM »

Patient in New York City Tests Positive for Ebola

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/nyregion/craig-spencer-is-tested-for-ebola-virus-at-bellevue-hospital-in-new-york-city.html?_r=0

Umm.. Something doesnt sound right here.

Even as the authorities worked to confirm that Mr. Spencer was infected with Ebola, it emerged that he traveled from Manhattan to Brooklyn on the subway on Wednesday night, when he went to a bowling alley and then took a taxi home.

All while they were trying to confirm he was positive? This S.O.B. is a PHYSICIAN. HE KNOWS how this thing spreads. Sounds to me like he knew he was infected, got pissed or had(has) an agenda and went around spreading it.

Dannyboy53 · « **Reply #78 on:** October 23, 2014, 10:03:14 PM »

In a city crowded with 8½ million people...uh oh.

Loose}{Cannon · « **Reply #79 on:** October 23, 2014, 10:08:27 PM »

"Extremely hard to contract" ARE YOU ****ING KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!

If I hear this crap come out of some ignorant political asshats mouth just one more time, Im going to lose my mind. What part of bodily fluids in a snotty, sweaty, puking, diarea frenzy touching everything in bublic sight do these "panic suppressors" not understand. What part of (lives in bodily fluids on inanimate objects for DAYS) do they not understand? What part of (lab monkeys contracted ebola from an aerosol) do they refuse to comprehend? Do they really think we are that stupid. If its "so hard" to contract.... WHY DO PEOPLE HAVE IT??. Why are doctors treating ebola in west Africa allowed to come home with symptoms and not be locked down for X amount of time? Why are we waiting for symptoms and reacting post-activly? Why are we still allowing planes with passengers from west African countries to land in every major city in the US??

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