There’s something that doesn’t fit in all this ebola talk.
1. They say that it isn’t transmitted through the air, only by personal contact and body fluids.
2. You can’t get it from anyone who doesn’t show symptoms.
3. That means that we need to be careful about kissing, having sex with, or letting someone with symptoms sneeze on you. Or possibly even shaking hands.
So, what’s all the worry about a pandemic?
They did the same thing with AIDS.
I said, even then, that AIDS is the most preventable disease in the world.
This should be close behind.
I can understand how, in the undeveloped world, that it can be spread by careless caregivers.
Here’s an interesting and relevant piece from 2010. Had these regulations been put in place perhaps patient zero in the US would have been dealt with properly. But Obama thought he knew better.
“The Obama administration has quietly scrapped plans to enact sweeping new federal quarantine regulations that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention touted four years ago as critical to protecting Americans from dangerous diseases spread by travelers.
The regulations, proposed in 2005 during the Bush administration amid fears of avian flu, would have given the federal government additional powers to detain sick airline passengers and those exposed to certain diseases. They also would have expanded requirements for airlines to report ill passengers to the CDC and mandated that airlines collect and maintain contact information for fliers in case they later needed to be traced as part of an investigation into an outbreak.
Airline and civil liberties groups, which had opposed the rules, praised their withdrawal. The Air Transport Association had decried them as imposing “unprecedented” regulations on airlines at costs they couldn’t afford. “We think that the CDC was right to withdraw the proposed rule,” association spokeswoman Elizabeth Merida said Thursday.
The American Civil Liberties Union had objected to potential passenger privacy rights violations and the proposal’s “provisional quarantine” rule. That rule would have allowed the CDC to detain people involuntarily for three business days if the agency believed they had certain diseases: pandemic flu, infectious tuberculosis, plague, cholera, SARS, smallpox, yellow fever, diphtheria or viral hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola.
“The fact that they’re backing away from this very coercive style of quarantine is good news,” said ACLU legislative counsel Christopher Calabrese, who was unaware the proposed rules had been withdrawn.”
I wonder if the clown from the ACLU still thinks it was good news?
“Relatives of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan who were put under observation by CDC after they visited him on the day he was taken to hospital are still waiting for an answer about what they should do 24 hours after they begged them for help.
Aaron Yah, 43, and wife Youngor Jallah, 35, yesterday told of their ordeal in isolation and revealed that they had not received direct orders to stay indoors.
Today MailOnline returned to the family’s small apartment to find a family without answers, without power following violent electrical storms that brought down lines and running low on food, water and diapers for their youngest child.”
“Most troubling of all some family members are beginning to show cold-like symptoms.
Ms Jallah repeatedly wiped her eyes – which appeared sticky – with a paper towel while a child sneezed and coughed in the background. While it is unlikely to be related to the Ebola virus, they did not look as healthy as they did when MailOnline visited on Thursday.”
New England’s commitment to perversion is as great as Iran’s commitment to Islam. Both are completely opposed to orthodox Christianity. Texas should not be unequally yoked to either place.
Chas, to put things in perspective, less than 3,000 people have so far been identified as dying from this Ebola outbreak, since it was first reported in the early part of this year. Meanwhile, malaria kills over a half million people each year (as does influenza) and 90% of those deaths are in sub-Saharan Africa; around 122,000 people die of measles in a year, many of them in Africa; and tuberculosis kills about 1.3 million people yearly – once again, many of these deaths are in Africa, due to poor nutrition, little medical care, and the prevalence of HIV (as HIV destroys the immune system, TB is free to wreak havoc on a person with HIV).
So, Ebola really has been spreading and killing incredibly slowly in comparison to these diseases. Two things increase the fear factor with Ebola: the high mortality rate of those who do catch (it is currently slightly less that 50% mortality); and the manner in which some of those people die – the picture of people bleeding to death from every orifice in their body is a terrifying one. Though, like other hemorrhagic fevers, many people do not actually bleed to death with Ebola, but die from kidney and organ failure due to dehydration from diarrhea and vomiting – which is why replacing fluids and electrolytes has been so successful in helping people to survive.
She is also one who swears by colloidal silver, & other natural alternatives. She completely mistrusts the medical community & drug companies, believing most are in it for the money.
” … Here’s one hypothesis: Maybe Obama really isn’t a very good politician after all. Sure, he was a great candidate in 2008, and lucky enough to run against a Republican with even more marginal political skills in 2012 (thus becoming the first president ever re-elected with fewer votes than his first election), but as Noemie Emery pointed out in 2011, look closely and you’ll see someone who isn’t very good at politics and doesn’t even like politics very much. …”
“When someone knocks on my door, I cannot say no. I have to say yes and give any kind of help” …
“Jesus Christ told people, ‘leave everything and follow me,’ ” Zaki said, cradling his 9-month-old daughter, Athena. “So we did.”
“I left without saying goodbye to my parents — their graves. I still see them,” she said, her voice trailing off as she remembered. “My childhood home … I wake up and wish I could go back,” she said, looking at her hands, tears rolling down her cheeks.
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There’s something that doesn’t fit in all this ebola talk.
1. They say that it isn’t transmitted through the air, only by personal contact and body fluids.
2. You can’t get it from anyone who doesn’t show symptoms.
3. That means that we need to be careful about kissing, having sex with, or letting someone with symptoms sneeze on you. Or possibly even shaking hands.
So, what’s all the worry about a pandemic?
They did the same thing with AIDS.
I said, even then, that AIDS is the most preventable disease in the world.
This should be close behind.
I can understand how, in the undeveloped world, that it can be spread by careless caregivers.
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Here’s an interesting and relevant piece from 2010. Had these regulations been put in place perhaps patient zero in the US would have been dealt with properly. But Obama thought he knew better.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-04-01-quarantine_N.htm
“The Obama administration has quietly scrapped plans to enact sweeping new federal quarantine regulations that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention touted four years ago as critical to protecting Americans from dangerous diseases spread by travelers.
The regulations, proposed in 2005 during the Bush administration amid fears of avian flu, would have given the federal government additional powers to detain sick airline passengers and those exposed to certain diseases. They also would have expanded requirements for airlines to report ill passengers to the CDC and mandated that airlines collect and maintain contact information for fliers in case they later needed to be traced as part of an investigation into an outbreak.
Airline and civil liberties groups, which had opposed the rules, praised their withdrawal. The Air Transport Association had decried them as imposing “unprecedented” regulations on airlines at costs they couldn’t afford. “We think that the CDC was right to withdraw the proposed rule,” association spokeswoman Elizabeth Merida said Thursday.
The American Civil Liberties Union had objected to potential passenger privacy rights violations and the proposal’s “provisional quarantine” rule. That rule would have allowed the CDC to detain people involuntarily for three business days if the agency believed they had certain diseases: pandemic flu, infectious tuberculosis, plague, cholera, SARS, smallpox, yellow fever, diphtheria or viral hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola.
“The fact that they’re backing away from this very coercive style of quarantine is good news,” said ACLU legislative counsel Christopher Calabrese, who was unaware the proposed rules had been withdrawn.”
I wonder if the clown from the ACLU still thinks it was good news?
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Well I feel safer already. 🙄
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2779932/CDC-not-contacted-second-family-Ebola-quarantine-24-hours-sneezing-coughing.html
“Relatives of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan who were put under observation by CDC after they visited him on the day he was taken to hospital are still waiting for an answer about what they should do 24 hours after they begged them for help.
Aaron Yah, 43, and wife Youngor Jallah, 35, yesterday told of their ordeal in isolation and revealed that they had not received direct orders to stay indoors.
Today MailOnline returned to the family’s small apartment to find a family without answers, without power following violent electrical storms that brought down lines and running low on food, water and diapers for their youngest child.”
“Most troubling of all some family members are beginning to show cold-like symptoms.
Ms Jallah repeatedly wiped her eyes – which appeared sticky – with a paper towel while a child sneezed and coughed in the background. While it is unlikely to be related to the Ebola virus, they did not look as healthy as they did when MailOnline visited on Thursday.”
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New England’s commitment to perversion is as great as Iran’s commitment to Islam. Both are completely opposed to orthodox Christianity. Texas should not be unequally yoked to either place.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2014/october/gordon-college-studies-same-sex-behavior-ban-accreditation.html
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Sounds like the condition of the Dallas Ebola patient has been downgraded to critical now. 😦
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Chas, to put things in perspective, less than 3,000 people have so far been identified as dying from this Ebola outbreak, since it was first reported in the early part of this year. Meanwhile, malaria kills over a half million people each year (as does influenza) and 90% of those deaths are in sub-Saharan Africa; around 122,000 people die of measles in a year, many of them in Africa; and tuberculosis kills about 1.3 million people yearly – once again, many of these deaths are in Africa, due to poor nutrition, little medical care, and the prevalence of HIV (as HIV destroys the immune system, TB is free to wreak havoc on a person with HIV).
So, Ebola really has been spreading and killing incredibly slowly in comparison to these diseases. Two things increase the fear factor with Ebola: the high mortality rate of those who do catch (it is currently slightly less that 50% mortality); and the manner in which some of those people die – the picture of people bleeding to death from every orifice in their body is a terrifying one. Though, like other hemorrhagic fevers, many people do not actually bleed to death with Ebola, but die from kidney and organ failure due to dehydration from diarrhea and vomiting – which is why replacing fluids and electrolytes has been so successful in helping people to survive.
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Roscuro – A dear friend, who is a touch nutty in some areas, shared this article on Ebola…
http://www.naturalnews.com/047089_ebola_pandemic_government_lies_disinformation.html
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She is also one who swears by colloidal silver, & other natural alternatives. She completely mistrusts the medical community & drug companies, believing most are in it for the money.
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Interesting post on power line today about Obama’s apparent tone deafness when it comes to common sense/smart politics —
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/10/does-obama-secretly-hate-his-own-party.php
” … Here’s one hypothesis: Maybe Obama really isn’t a very good politician after all. Sure, he was a great candidate in 2008, and lucky enough to run against a Republican with even more marginal political skills in 2012 (thus becoming the first president ever re-elected with fewer votes than his first election), but as Noemie Emery pointed out in 2011, look closely and you’ll see someone who isn’t very good at politics and doesn’t even like politics very much. …”
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Moving story about Iraqui Christian refugees find refuge in a Jordan church:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/02/world/meast/isis-christians-jordan-church/index.html
“When someone knocks on my door, I cannot say no. I have to say yes and give any kind of help” …
“Jesus Christ told people, ‘leave everything and follow me,’ ” Zaki said, cradling his 9-month-old daughter, Athena. “So we did.”
“I left without saying goodbye to my parents — their graves. I still see them,” she said, her voice trailing off as she remembered. “My childhood home … I wake up and wish I could go back,” she said, looking at her hands, tears rolling down her cheeks.
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