Can someone explain to me the logic of bringing a Patient with the Ebola virus to the United States to treat. I completely agree with treating them at the highest possible level, but do it over there! If the government doesn't have enough common sense to avoid this situation, we are worse off than I ever thought.
Someone write down the name of patient zero. You'd think that what happened in Reston in the 90s would have taught the a lesson about this. We are one mutation away from this going airborne and killing 50+ percent of the population.
You could say that about most diseases. I'm not worrying about them treating this patient in the U.S. They will be quarantined and it's not airborne. You can all sleep tonight, it's okay.
Very true. I think it's the blood coming out of all your holes/liquifing insides part of Ebola that puts it a cut above most other diseases.
Ebola is already being examined in our labs, and chances are there are Ebola infected people in the United States.
This is no big deal. If Ebola becomes widespread it will be because it mutates into a much less virulent form that doesn't kill it's hosts very often. Syphilis devastated Western Europe in the 1500's when the Spanish brought it home from the Americas. People's skin sloughed off their bodies and they succumbed to failing hearts as the valves in the heart broke down. They went blind and became insane. They died in droves all over the continent. Within a generation syphilis had mutated into what we have today, a slow killer that will destroy you over twenty or thirty years if left unchecked. We have antibiotics to treat it and good detection and public information about it. The only reason this Ebola epidemic has spread at all is that West Africa's public health system sucks. Their cultural way of dealing with the sick, dying and dead is a recipe for spreading transmissible diseases even when the disease has a high mortality rate. If this outbreak had happened in the Congo where two generations of people have learned how to deal with the disease it would have been easily contained. In the US this would be contained almost instantly. People here do not care for their mortally ill relatives when those relatives have a disease known to be transmissible. Hospitals do that. Most people don't ritually wash their deceased loved ones bodies (except for observant muslims - and the ritual washing is done by people trained to do it). The only way Ebola becomes a big deal in the west is if it mutates into a more transmissible form, likely becoming far less virulent in the process.
I saw that world war Z movie and honestly thats what it reminded me of when I first heard about this disease.
The media loves this stuff. Now for the remainder of the summer specials are going to be created talking about this non stop as if 750 dying from it is really such a big deal.
I highly doubt our medical people are incompetent enough to let an outbreak happen. Real life isn't like the movies where doctors are morons. We have good protocols for isolating infectious diseases. But then again, an outbreak would be pretty sweet and save us from over population and could in fact save the human race as a whole. Nothing warms my heart like good ol' genocide. Where are they keeping this guy? I might have to pay a visit.
Just to put things in perspective, according to the media 3000 dying on 9/11 was far worse than the 200,000 that died during the Tsunami. Not saying those situations are related, but the media just stupid. Hundreds of thousands dead is tolerable as long as it ain't Amercans. If 750 Americans died it would be terrible, and people would demand answers, but if it's overseas, then shit happens. NWO needs to take over already.
So there was an outbreak? Sounds like they did the right thing to isolate it so that nobody got sick.
