When you think about with how many people you have contact everyday and a high incubation time (up to 2 weeks), do you think we have a massive outbreak in the next couple of weeks?
Source http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebo...lation-n223976
When you think about with how many people you have contact everyday and a high incubation time (up to 2 weeks), do you think we have a massive outbreak in the next couple of weeks?
Source http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebo...lation-n223976
No, we won't have a massive outbreak (in the US) in the next couple weeks. Pretty much the only first world cases so far have been from caregivers because they have to be in close personal contact with the patients. People with Ebola aren't very contagious until they develop symptoms, and if it seems Ebola is spreading, I think most Americans are smart enough not to touch people displaying the symptoms.
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Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
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Not likely, but I remain angry at the lack of travel restrictions to and from hot zones. I can't see any valid basis for continuing to issue visas to nations with hot zones.
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We don't know this with anywhere near the certainty that public health officials are presently declaring. This is likely the case, but it remains an understudied virus that we don't have a great grasp on.
Last edited by Aeno; 2014-10-15 at 12:26 PM.
Stop trying to misrepresent what I said. Ebola absolutely has spread to other countries, but it's still isolated cases, with people who had clear obvious connections to other known Ebola cases. What it hasn't done, is spread within the US beyond people who are working very closely with symptomatic Ebola victims.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Ebola isn't airborne, IIRC? Unless it is, I can't see it becoming a problem in countries with decent hygiene.
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Why is it sticking your head in the sand to recognize what's actually going on instead of flipping out and making dire predictions of massive outbreak?
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And my comments you responded to were "No, we won't have a massive outbreak (in the US) in the next couple weeks." I didn't claim it hadn't spread between countries. Just that it hasn't and won't become a massive outbreak.
Last edited by Reeve; 2014-10-15 at 12:34 PM.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
It is not airborne according to CDC officials.
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"and if it seems Ebola is spreading" It is spreading. There is no "seems". You are still incorrect, regardless of whatever you said before it about numbers. It is spreading.
You seem to be fixated on this sentence: "and if it seems Ebola is spreading, I think most Americans are smart enough not to touch people displaying the symptoms."
Should I fix it by adding the words, "and if it seems Ebola is spreading uncontrolled within the country?" I had implied that by the rest of the content of my first post, but you seem more interested in picking nits.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
This newspaper cartoon pretty much sums up my thoughts about this whole issue
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Considering it's still spreading with controls, your edit doesn't have any standing either. Officials are sucking ass at containing it in a quarantine. You can argue semantics all you want. It is still spreading uncontrollably.
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More stereotypical nonsense. People were spouting the same garbage before the 1921 Hispanic Influenza wrecked the world population.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!