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Ebola: I Guess We Are All Going To Die
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About 20 minutes ago, one of the news stations I follow on Facebook reported an unidentified man who has tested positive for the virus. Not completely sure if this is true or not, but I will update when I find anymore information.
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Just heard in the news that a couple that was "monitored" for Ebola was now "free" to go shopping. I have two questions to this.
Firstly, WHAT?! How long did the doctors monitor this couple? I thought Ebola symptoms don't show up until 10 days after they actually contract the virus. Here's evidence to buttress my statement. http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/symptoms/index.html?s_cid=cs_4318
Secondly, CowboyAce57, honestly, many people are being tested positive for the virus as we speak. Well, at least that's what they think.
CNN had an argument earlier about how the first deceased patient in the US tested with Ebola, Thomas Eric Duncan, was 'mistreated' by the hospital, as he didn't get his medicine on time. Thoughts?
Firstly, WHAT?! How long did the doctors monitor this couple? I thought Ebola symptoms don't show up until 10 days after they actually contract the virus. Here's evidence to buttress my statement. http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/symptoms/index.html?s_cid=cs_4318
Secondly, CowboyAce57, honestly, many people are being tested positive for the virus as we speak. Well, at least that's what they think.
CNN had an argument earlier about how the first deceased patient in the US tested with Ebola, Thomas Eric Duncan, was 'mistreated' by the hospital, as he didn't get his medicine on time. Thoughts?
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Anyone in the gtplanet community who lives in North Dakota does NOT need to be worried. Apparently that Facebook post was a statement that came from a site that meant for it to be a joke. So Ebola is not in North Dakota as far as we know.....
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That the family is money hungry & selected Jesse Jackson of all people to represent their claim that Duncan was mistreated.
For someone they claim was not adequately cared about by the hospital, Dr. Weinstein who treated him seemed to break down into real tears describing Duncan's final days.
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CNN stated that because Duncan's nephew claims that. His nephew claims Duncan never helped a pregnant woman or any of that; that Duncan was trying to avoid Ebola altogether & was coming to the US to visit family. He just coincidentally happened to end up being infected with Ebola shortly there after.
Many Dallas folks, myself included, have no sympathy for them alone thanks to Jackson's involvement & playing the race card.
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It's hard to take the CDC seriously anyways today. I trust the World Health Organization over the CDC any day of the week because they don't have a person who has a stick up their butt as a spokesperson and actually knows what they are talking about. It generally takes 21 days for Ebola to incubate and for a person to show symptoms., but to be honest, I don't think that the CDC or the hospital where Duncan died knew how long his family was in contact with him.
They could be showing symptoms as we speak.
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They were just cleared yesterday after 3 weeks in quarantine along with all the other people. The main worry now are the 2 nurses & possibly Nina's boyfriend who checked himself in complaining of a fever.
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Wasn't There a guy who wrote a book 20 years ago that predicted that some virus was coming?
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Yeah, like 50 of them. I am going to guess you are thinking of Outbreak or The Andromeda Strain, but the plague threat has been done time and again.
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Its called "The Hot Zone" Look it up
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That wasn't a prediction. That was about real life events that have already happened.
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Ebola was in a Simpsons episode. Then again what hasn't been...
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...on-the-internet-actually-believe-9786635.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...on-the-internet-actually-believe-9786635.html
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Wasn't there this man/woman once who thought: what if there would be a virus that made people sick
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In 1994, 20 years ago, Laurie Garrett's 700 page book, The Coming Plague was published to wide popularity. Garret later won a Pulitzer prize for a series of works chronicling the Ebola outbreak in Zaire. Today she is a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Garrett
But Laurie Garrett is a professional scaremonger. She is paid to make us worry. On NBC's Meet the Press last Sunday, she said, in an almost hysterical voice, that Ebola was "out of control" in West Africa, and the cases were "doubling every two weeks". Too bad none of the other guests took it upon themselves to challenge or contradict her overblown claims.
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Wasn't that Rainbow Six? I remember because they were planning to release it at the Sydney Olympics, but in a very un-Clancy lack of attention to detail, it was summer in the northern and southern hemispheres at the same time.
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It's a very long time since I read that, I'll have to check. Love a good Clancy, and there are a few amongst the total
In Ebola news, Abbott reports that the USA have now asked for Australia's help in combating Ebola. Digging in a little more (no pun intended) shows that actually the request might have been "to do more", a criticism also being levelled at Abbott from within the Australian government.
Abbott says that Africa is simply too far from Australia to evacuate people in one go if personnel were infected. He says that while volunteers may act as they choose, he's unable to order Australian defence personnel to go until a third-party country can be found to agree any evacuation arrangements.
It doesn't bode well for Abbott in his new self-appointed role as New-World-Statesman-Cum-Putin-Wrestler if at the first sign of trouble he complains about how far away stuff is. That's in the nature of being Australian, mostly.
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@TenEightyOne For any peacekeeping missions, I can see Australia having a bigger role. But in this situation? Evacuating any infected personnel back to Australia would take too long to treat someone properly. Then again, he could strike a deal somewhere to bring those infected people to a country in Europe, but with the current state of everyone freaking out over Ebola I wonder if anyone would accept the extra risk of having patients outside of the EU.
To be honest, i'm not keeping up too well with this whole situation, so I don't know if there's joint effort on treating patients. The news is too much spreading panic, and not enough actual helpful information.
To be honest, i'm not keeping up too well with this whole situation, so I don't know if there's joint effort on treating patients. The news is too much spreading panic, and not enough actual helpful information.
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No, he's a party autocrat. Nobody in his party is allowed to criticise policy - not if they want to keep their nomination for their seat at the next election.
No, this smacks of Morrison, the immigration minister, trying to have the ebola response assigned to his ministry as a part of Operation Soverign Borders (or, as it should be known Operation To Hell With Anyone Who Isn't Us).
