Ebola is now running wild in America

[laklak]

Sniper Poles.



Just ask the Wehrmacht.

[pErvinalia]

Sugar holes. They're ok..

[laklak]

Booger goals.

Ok, I'm reaching. I admit it.

[Brian Peacock]

I remember griping on here a few weeks ago about an Ebola patient being brought back to the UK, and getting accused of being a scaremongerer, that our Western quarantine was perfect, and there was no risk to anyone, and that I was an idiot for "overreacting".

I would just like the record to show that I, once again, was right.

How many confirmed cases of Ebola does the UK have?

[Brian Peacock]

They are assuming it was something like that. Probably passed via a cough a and is contagious in that way?

Direct droplet contact via lungs, eyes or broken skin.

[cronus]

....they are waiting until it is too late. A classic case of situation denial. Now they are sending troops in who are likely to be stranded as the global economy implodes in consequence to trade disruption amid the coming panic. A 'in time' trade system with no flex and adaptability for anything like this emergency. This is not a biological emergency it is a man made catastrophe owing its origin to poor social organisation on a species scale. To see it as a mere disease is a tragic miscalculation.

[Seth]

....they are waiting until it is too late. A classic case of situation denial. Now they are sending troops in who are likely to be stranded as the global economy implodes in consequence to trade disruption amid the coming panic. A 'in time' trade system with no flex and adaptability for anything like this emergency. This is not a biological emergency it is a man made catastrophe owing its origin to poor social organisation on a species scale. To see it as a mere disease is a tragic miscalculation.

Yup. People will begin to starve before the virus gets them when the delivery of foodstuffs is disrupted. Seven days. Only seven days of food reserves available on average, if that.

I predict some neck-stretching if they don't get their shit together right fucking now!

[mistermack]

There is SOME hopeful news.
Nigeria is now almost certainly free of Ebola. They got on top of the outbreak fairly quickly, and the health message got out to the public and was heeded to some extent.
The man who brought it to Nigeria died, and so did a doctor who treated him, sadly.
There were about 12 cases in all, of which at least four died.

It would be insane for Nigeria to continue with flights to and from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
I don't know if they are or not, but having had such a scare, and having had entire towns in lockdown for weeks, you would think that flights from those countries couldn't be contemplated.

Where is the logic in locking down your own country, but still letting people fly in from places where ebola is rife?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/worl ... /16865421/

[Brian Peacock]

....they are waiting until it is too late. A classic case of situation denial. Now they are sending troops in who are likely to be stranded as the global economy implodes in consequence to trade disruption amid the coming panic. A 'in time' trade system with no flex and adaptability for anything like this emergency. This is not a biological emergency it is a man made catastrophe owing its origin to poor social organisation on a species scale. To see it as a mere disease is a tragic miscalculation.

How many confirmed cases where you are?

[cronus]

....they are waiting until it is too late. A classic case of situation denial. Now they are sending troops in who are likely to be stranded as the global economy implodes in consequence to trade disruption amid the coming panic. A 'in time' trade system with no flex and adaptability for anything like this emergency. This is not a biological emergency it is a man made catastrophe owing its origin to poor social organisation on a species scale. To see it as a mere disease is a tragic miscalculation.

How many confirmed cases where you are?

People dropping dead in the streets this afternoon around here, albeit that might have been from a heartattack with the overheard conversation. Could be Ebola next year though....let's see if they pull through?

[mistermack]

Ebola still running wild in America.

Situation is now twice as bad as at the start of this thread. Two confirmed living cases in Texas, with 77 being monitored.

And now we know for sure that Ebola is NOT hard to catch, like we were told at the start. It's so incredibly easy to catch that nursing staff, fully protected with the latest equipment, are catching it.

So much for all the reassurances that we were fed at the start of all this.
So much for the notion that it would easily be controlled in a modern western environment.

I hope nobody else gets it, but what the fuck have they learned? Nothing, it seems.
People are still allowed to travel from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
I haven't even heard a travel ban mentioned on the news, either to be discussed or dismissed.
It just doesn't seem to be on the agenda, and I simply can't see why not.

I personally don't give a fuck about people from there being able to travel. That's their problem.
International travel isn't a human right.
Any country taking flights from those three countries should be blacklisted for flights to this country. And if every country did the same, it would be very hard for Ebola to spread.

[cronus]

Ebola still running wild in America.

Situation is now twice as bad as at the start of this thread. Two confirmed living cases in Texas, with 77 being monitored.

And now we know for sure that Ebola is NOT hard to catch, like we were told at the start. It's so incredibly easy to catch that nursing staff, fully protected with the latest equipment, are catching it.

So much for all the reassurances that we were fed at the start of all this.
So much for the notion that it would easily be controlled in a modern western environment.

I hope nobody else gets it, but what the fuck have they learned? Nothing, it seems.
People are still allowed to travel from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
I haven't even heard a travel ban mentioned on the news, either to be discussed or dismissed.
It just doesn't seem to be on the agenda, and I simply can't see why not.

I personally don't give a fuck about people from there being able to travel. That's their problem.
International travel isn't a human right.
Any country taking flights from those three countries should be blacklisted for flights to this country. And if every country did the same, it would be very hard for Ebola to spread.

You are hoping for rationality? It wasn't even a option in the old days before the interweb made everything crazee...

[laklak]

Twenty years from now those of us who survive will be sitting around the fire, telling the youngsters about electricity and supermarkets. We'll point to the rusted hulks of cars and tell them how they used to take us places, moving all by themselves without a horse. Well, if we have horses, maybe the Ebula got them all. The kids won't believe us.

What's the scariest thing in the world? A pickaninny chewing on a fruit bat wing.

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29632433

Flight alert over new US Ebola case

A nurse diagnosed in Dallas with Ebola took a flight from Cleveland the day before she showed symptoms, US health officials have confirmed.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking 132 passengers on Frontier 1143 on 13 October for interviews.

The nurse, the second to contract the disease in the US, reported symptoms of Ebola on 14 October.

She had treated a Liberian national who died in Dallas on 8 October.

(continued, Earth abides....)

[Tero]

All we know, by guessing, is that a late stage parient is deadly. Possibly by just touching the skin with your hand. People healthy enough to travel have not been shown to infect while in the air.

Why were 70 people herded into Duncan's room to care for him?