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Offline Slate

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Ebola coming to a town near you.
« on: August 01, 2014, 07:35:18 AM »
   Well the Center of Disease Control is allowing 2 Doctors that have contracted the Ebola Virus to be brought to the US and treated in Atlanta Georgia.

  It is just insanity not to try to keep this deadly outbreak confined to Africa until a possible treatment is found. Also several hundred aide workers are being brought back with known exposure to an infected individual.

    Don't worry they have this finely constructed device.  :rolleyes:



  More reason to stay inside and play Aces High.   
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Offline Cremator

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Re: Ebola coming to a town near you.
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2014, 07:48:27 AM »
There is something fishy going on with this mess for sure. Who in their right mind would allow these individuals to return? Smoke and mirrors..
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Offline Greebo

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Re: Ebola coming to a town near you.
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2014, 08:08:39 AM »
I suspect they are trying to get more doctors to volunteer to contain this outbreak before it goes global. Abandoning infected doctors in Africa probably wouldn't help this.

Ebola is carried via a patient's fluids like AIDS, it is not an airborne threat. The risk is not so much from known sufferers like these unfortunates, but on someone arriving on an airliner with a "cold" and giving it to carers or sexual partners.
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Offline Copprhed

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Re: Ebola coming to a town near you.
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2014, 08:11:25 AM »
Come on folks, are conspiracy theories the only defense to trying to save AMERICANS who have given their all to help people who are dying? There's no difference between them and soldiers who have given their all in a foreign country. Opposing helping them is defenseless.
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Offline Coalcat1

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Re: Ebola coming to a town near you.
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2014, 08:15:18 AM »
Now I have a reson to buy that hazmat suit I always wanted... And to Copprhed, would you like to contract Ebola when it could be at least contained to a small area? I ain't trying to start a fight, but this seems like a poor idea. Just my thoughts.
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Offline Copprhed

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Re: Ebola coming to a town near you.
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2014, 08:28:04 AM »
It's no more contagious than the aids virus, so that's a crock. You have to physically contact BODILY FLUIDS with a cut to contract it. Fear is no excuse to deny the best help possible for those who risk all to help others. Denying them help is frankly, inhuman.
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Offline Hap

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Re: Ebola coming to a town near you.
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2014, 08:52:36 AM »
Right . . . so we leave 'em in Africa.  Sheesh.  I think the guy who wrote Lord of the Flies was right based on much of what I read in the O'Club.
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Offline Yankee67

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Re: Ebola coming to a town near you.
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2014, 09:13:49 AM »
Quote from: Cremator on August 01, 2014, 07:48:27 AM
There is something fishy going on with this mess for sure. Who in their right mind would allow these individuals to return? Smoke and mirrors..

I heard from the dentist of the guy who cuts the lawn of the accountant for one of the IT guys at the NSC that they're bringing them back to try and weaponize it.    :old:

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Offline MiloMorai

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Re: Ebola coming to a town near you.
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2014, 09:17:00 AM »
Quote from: Copprhed on August 01, 2014, 08:28:04 AM
It's no more contagious than the aids virus, so that's a crock. You have to physically contact BODILY FLUIDS with a cut to contract it. Fear is no excuse to deny the best help possible for those who risk all to help others. Denying them help is frankly, inhuman.

Did the doctor and the aid worker have a cut?

This strain of Ebola is said to have a 90% mortality rate. If they haven't arrived in the US by now, they are dead persons 'walking'.
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Offline Yankee67

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Re: Ebola coming to a town near you.
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2014, 09:22:39 AM »
Quote from: Greebo on August 01, 2014, 08:08:39 AM
I suspect they are trying to get more doctors to volunteer to contain this outbreak before it goes global. Abandoning infected doctors in Africa probably wouldn't help this.

I'll bet everyone a sandwich that this is very high on the list of things that compelled the CDC to allow them back.

On a side note, has anyone ever read The Hot Zone?  You should.  Excellent story of what might happen if Ebola ever broke out here.  Steven King went so far as to call it one of the most horrifying things he's read in his whole life.
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Re: Ebola coming to a town near you.
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2014, 09:26:12 AM »
Yes, Ebola is a blood transmitted virus like HIV, but it is a hemorrhagic disease. Unlike AIDS, when Ebola victims crash they bleed from every body orifice, even the eyes.
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Offline Yankee67

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Re: Ebola coming to a town near you.
« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2014, 09:29:36 AM »
Holy crap, I just found my copy of the Hot Zone, and it was a true story.  

If you want to inform yourself on this disease, buy this book.  Five bucks on Amazon Kindle.  Crazy true story.
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Re: Ebola coming to a town near you.
« Reply #12 on: August 01, 2014, 09:33:35 AM »
Two quarantined ebola patients is nothing compared to the diseased illegals being allowed to come across our southern boarder.
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Re: Ebola coming to a town near you.
« Reply #13 on: August 01, 2014, 09:40:59 AM »
Skuzzy, please lock this, the nutcases are out.
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Re: Ebola coming to a town near you.
« Reply #14 on: August 01, 2014, 09:42:48 AM »
   Two Doctors who should know the precautions in treating an infectious disease were infected.
  There is a real risk here.      You can hope they will take better precautions when they arrive in the US.

    

    
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