I don't want to panic anyone, but Ebola may be coming to a town near you

[Skyy God]

At least we won't have to slog through another 7-9 Chiefs season....

Now there are American casualties.

Not in Gaza, and not on the ill-fated Malaysian airliner. Now there are American casualties in another war very far away so maybe, goddammit, somebody should start paying more attention to it.

Kent Brantly, 33, an American doctor who has been working in Liberia since October for the North Carolina-based aid organization Samaritan's Purse, is receiving intensive medical treatment after he was infected with Ebola, according to a spokeswoman for the group. Melissa Strickland said Brantly, who is married and has two children, was talking with his doctors and working on his computer while being treated. A second U.S. citizen, Nancy Writebol, also has tested positive for Ebola, Samaritan's Purse said. Writebol is employed by mission group SIM in Liberia and was helping a joint SIM/Samaritan's Purse team treating Ebola patients in Monrovia. Writebol is married with two children, the organization said. "Both of them tonight are in stable condition," Ken Isaacs, Samaritan Purse's vice president of programs and government relations, said Sunday. "But they are not out of the woods yet."

That's some serious Damien-at-Molokai hero stuff right there, still being at your computer while you're being treated for one of the most vicious diseases on the planet. Other medical professionals, alas, are not as lucky.

A Liberian government official said Sunday that one of that country's highest-profile doctors has died in what the World Health Organization (WHO) calls the largest recorded outbreak of the disease...The first Liberian doctor to die of the disease was identified as Samuel Brisbane. He was working as a consultant with the internal medicine unit at the country's largest hospital, the John F. Kennedy Memorial Medical Center in Monrovia. Brisbane, who once was a medical adviser to former Liberian President Charles Taylor, was taken to a treatment center on the outskirts of the capital after falling ill with Ebola and died there, said Tolbert Nyenswah, an assistant health minister. He said another doctor who had been working in Liberia's central Bong County also was being treated for Ebola at the same center where Brisbane died. The situation "is getting more and more scary," Nyenswah said.

Yes, you could say that. The disease is now in both Nigeria and Liberia, and not in the backwater places any more, either, but in the capital cities. The ones with millions of people. And airports.

Over the weekend, health officials in Nigeria raced to stop the spread of Ebola after a man sick with the disease arrived on a flight in Lagos, Africa's largest city with 21 million people. He later died. The man's ability to board an international flight raised new fears that other passengers could carry the disease beyond Africa because of weak passenger inspection and the fact that Ebola's initial symptoms can resemble those of other illnesses. Isaacs said in an interview that "where it gets really scary" is that the disease, which was previously seen only "in very remote, small villages in Africa" is now being contracted by people in the capital cities of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. "Now the disease has been introduced into the big urban areas with millions of people," he said. "In the big cities, people can get on an airplane and fly out." Isaacs does not believe this outbreak his peaked. "I think the worst is yet to come," he said. "I hope I'm wrong."

Meanwhile, the local customs aren't helping a lot, either.

Koroma, 32, a resident of the densely populated Wellington district, had been admitted to an isolation ward while blood samples were tested for the virus, said Sidi Yahya Tunis, a health ministry spokesman. The results came back on Thursday. "The family of the patient stormed the hospital and forcefully removed her and took her away," Tunis said. "We are searching for her."

Jesus save us. I don't mean to sound like a cultural imperialist -- although I seriously doubt that the people in rural Sierra Leone are acting out of what they know about the Tuskegee experiments, or what happened in Guatemala in the 1940's -- but snatching an Ebola patient out of the hospital doesn't sound like a very good way to fight the disease, family networks notwithstanding. (The purloined patient eventually died.) This thing is one airplane flight away from being an international catastrophe, but there is no boom-boom, and without boom-boom, there is no news. However, you know, Americans are getting sick now. Hey, Wolf! Over here?

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politic...Ebola_Outbreak

[Donger]

Originally Posted by rabblerouser

Are you serious??

Yes. Where would they wait for 21 days?

[TimBone]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Wow, what a ****ing dumb bitch. She's getting deleted ASAP.

Thank you for clearing that up. People are seriously ****ing idiots and they piss me off.

Does she have nice tits? Maybe you should keep her around.

[TimBone]

Originally Posted by kstater

Not sure if true or not. But heard from the grapevine that blowing a goat will help prevent Ebola as there's a specific protein that fights it off

Well, Direckshun is good to go.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Donger

Yes. Where would they wait for 21 days?

Somewhere in their own country, or wherever place from which they came.

Somewhere not in America.

That's where.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by BWillie

They can be quarantined in Dongers rape lair.

As long as it's not in America

[Donger]

Originally Posted by rabblerouser

Somewhere in their own country, or wherever place from which they came.

Somewhere not in America.

That's where.

But unless they were quarantined and completely isolated for 21 days before leaving, it would serve no purpose. This is in response to this:

21 day waiting period for anybody wanting to fly out of affected parts of W Africa

If you are in favor of completely barring anyone from West Africa from entering our country, that isn't what is said above.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Donger

But unless they were quarantined and completely isolated for 21 days before leaving, it would serve no purpose. This is in response to this:

21 day waiting period for anybody wanting to fly out of affected parts of W Africa

If you are in favor of completely barring anyone from West Africa from entering our country that isn't what is said above .

Sure. ALL of Africa, for all I care.

[Aries Walker]

Most of those countries can't even afford to build their own hospitals, much less a massive quarantine unit. It would a de facto (and easily bypassed) travel ban that would do untold damage to business, relations, and trade, for an extremely rich country that has had a grand total of one death and one transmission. Don't hold your breath.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

Most of those countries can't even afford to build their own hospitals, much less a massive quarantine unit. It would a de facto (and easily bypassed) travel ban that would do untold damage to business, relations, and trade, for an extremely rich country that has had a grand total of one death and one transmission. Don't hold your breath.

I know, the dollar is the bottom line.

Besides...this may explain all those body bags at the new FEMA camps around the country, and the bullet shortage.

[Aries Walker]

You must be joking.

[rabblerouser]

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-new...tober_10012014

A public tweet from a large government supplier of emergency response products specializing in “high risk events” says that Disaster Assistance Response Teams were told to prepare to be activated in the month of October. The shocking revelation, made on the Goldenstate Fire/EMS*Twitter page, suggests that not only did someone know that the Ebola virus would be reaching America, but that they knew exactly when it would happen.

“What we are now hearing is just the tip of the iceburg as we enter October,” noted the company’s Twitter spokesperson. “Ebola virus will cripple EMS and hospitals.”

What if...

[Donger]

[ThaVirus]

"EVERYONE WILL DIE"

[Donger]

WTF is "marshal law"?



That is absolutely priceless.

[Sorter]

Originally Posted by Donger

WTF is "marshal law"?



That is absolutely priceless.