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Stick_Shift wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2019 4:23 pm Dr. Kent Brantly, the doctor who contracted Ebola and returned to the US for treatment is returning to the region as a missionary physician.

https://christianchronicle.org/amid-ebo ... pite-fear/

I know him, not personally, but we’ve met and the guy is not making this decision lightly. He’s from Fort Worth.

Thing is, epidemiologically speaking, Ebola is not easy to get. It’s a blood borne pathogen, like HIV. It just kills you a lot faster. You gotta really be exposed to this stuff to get it. Over there, their idea of hygiene is vastly different than ours. It’s nothing for someone to carry a dead body through the streets on the way to burial. People hug and kiss the deceased goodbye.

Contrary to popular belief, Ebola is not airborne and it would take a lot of mutation before it could infect lung tissue the same way as influenza. Ebola likes your liver, not your lungs. Its capsid is engineered to attach to hepatic cells, it would take very long time before it changed its vector.

sjfcontrol wrote:

anygunanywhere wrote:Is this a good example of Darwin at work?

Bandits steal suspected ebola blood samples.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/bandits-guine ... 00372.html

Or an example of terrorists getting weaponry for an upcoming attack.

KD5NRH wrote:Aw heck, let's put on the tinfoil hats, stop looking at what they're talking about and look at what they've stopped talking about: EV-D68.

Nothing in major media since 10-5, but 19 confirmed in Ohio last week. Over 1,100 confirmed cases since August for a bug that had only turned up 26 times in the previous 30 years. Why the utter silence from the media when it's killed more people than have even thought they caught Ebola on US soil?

VMI77 wrote:

sjfcontrol wrote:

philip964 wrote:http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/ny ... &referrer=

Doctor in New York City tests positive for Ebola.

Went bowling yesterday.

According to a website I can't vouch for, Ebola patients are disappearing from hospitals. They come in with Ebola symptoms, but arnt there the next day when hospital staff ask about a patient who came in the night before. Seems far fetched that the CDC could keep this under wraps.

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I know the website of which you speak. The claim may be balderdash or come from paranoia, but I fully expect a government that continually lies and obfuscates to lie about and cover up what is really happening with Ebola....especially before the November elections. One could make the case for incompetence over deception but I think it's both a lying government and an incompetent government. A government that is probably more competent at lying than at anything else it does (not counting actual military action...the military being the only part of government left with a vestige of integrity and competence).

baldeagle wrote:So let's recap. Four people lived with Duncan for several days while he was symptomatic. Almost 100 people had contact with Duncan (how much we don't know) and have now passed the 21 day incubation period. None of them contracted Ebola. Doesn't that prove that it is not transmitted through the air? Two health workers who cared for Duncan contracted Ebola. Other healthcare workers from several countries have contracted Ebola. Doesn't that prove that the current protocols are tragically insufficient? While the jury is still out, it looks like Ebola isn't the hair-trigger threat that it's been made out to be.

MeMelYup wrote:Ebola gets a foothold in the U.S., what part of the cities will be hit the hardest?

The shocking competence gap and the cavernous honesty gap — brought to you by the “most transparent administration in history” — make our heads spin as we careen from debacle to government-induced debacle. In the tumult, we can miss the main point: Why do we have a federal government?

Excaliber wrote:I'd appreciate it if those who believe that our country's response to Ebola is due to ordinary incompetence could help me understand by explaining this latest bit of news under that theory.

Washington, DC – Judicial Watch has learned that the Obama administration is actively formulating plans to admit Ebola-infected non-U.S. citizens into the United States for treatment.

Keith B wrote:

anygunanywhere wrote:Clipboard Man

A supervisor with Phoenix Air escorted the second nurse onto the flight to Atlanta. He was not in Hazmat gear.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -them.html

Picture at link.

As long as he had no direct contact with her, then there should be no risk. He would not be able to fly in a hazmat suit anyway.