Ebola (2 Viewers)

[Parrothead]

Here's one thing that does scare me:

- ISIS sends someone to Liberia to catch the ebola

- The person flies to the U.S. to hide out during the incubation period

- Once the infected person gets sick another ISIS member collects infected mucus and starts traveling around the country spreading it

- People will be contracting it for weeks before showing symptoms. Once they do show symptoms people won't immediate think it's ebola inadvertently spread it to other people.

it would have to be a hot chick going from bar to bar spreading her fluids over drunk and willing guys.

Or a john gives it to a bunch of prostitutes and they spread it from there.

hmm.. apparently ebola lasts up to 3 months in semen.. brilliant plan

 

[NorvilleBarnes]

Okay, it looks like I have to be a voice of reason.

 

[fantasycurse42]

Thread is basically unreadable. There two sides of stupid here. Over-paranoid & over-passive. Just like all things, there is a middle ground here.

I think a travel ban is a good idea to prevent any real possibilities here, but that doesn't get to the core of this issue. Until the spread in Africa is slowed, the danger will still be present. Africa needs an international response with supplies and assistance.

Unfortunately the real dangers appear that it isn't just is who are unprepared to handle this.

Sorry for talking rationally, I know that isn't what this thread is about.

Wouldn't the international response involve.....travel to Africa?

Commercial flights, this isn't difficult to understand.

 

[ghostguy123]

Do you think that the walking dead can somehow work the Ebola angle into an episode or 2?

haha, didnt they pretty much do that in the prison already?

 

[ghostguy123]

Thread is basically unreadable. There two sides of stupid here. Over-paranoid & over-passive. Just like all things, there is a middle ground here.

I think a travel ban is a good idea to prevent any real possibilities here, but that doesn't get to the core of this issue. Until the spread in Africa is slowed, the danger will still be present. Africa needs an international response with supplies and assistance.

Unfortunately the real dangers appear that it isn't just is who are unprepared to handle this.

Sorry for talking rationally, I know that isn't what this thread is about.

A huge part of the problem will be the fallout, as in, the results of closings, travel bans...................list goes on. It goes above and beyond JUST the ebola virus itself.

 

[ghostguy123]

And of course it needs to be stopped at the source, in Africa. It's a little out of control over there wouldn't you say for this to happen any time soon? Unless a treatment for it is found and administered, it will be out of control. Better yet, a vaccine, but they are saying they are a few years away from that possibility. In the meanwhile, the death toll over there is just heart breaking and will continue to rise.

Heartbreaking? The death toll is 4,000 so far. I'm sad for those people and their loved ones, but the death toll for AIDS in Africa is 1.7 million a year! Not mention all of the other diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of Africans every year along with famine.People are losing all perspective over this.

EBola COULD kill 1.7 million people who do not currently have it within the next month if there was a huge outbreak.

You have any idea how long it would take HIV to kill the same number of people?

You are also a total idiot becuase you painfully do not understand how much more communicable and disastrous a full blown ebola outbreak would be than any of the other diseases you mentioned.

If you are TRYING to sound stupid, you are........................WINNING.............charlie sheen

 

[Dan Lambskin]

This has gotta be a top 5 all time thread for dumb####ery

 

[ghostguy123]

PNC bank closes processing center as precaution

Everything ghostguy said is coming true!!!!!1111!!!

Yeah, nice, I only said this 12 hours before the article came out.

But nope, if it aint confirmed, then GG is just CRAZY!EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

All these other school and business closings going on in the area right now are just over the top. Send sick people home, sure. But cmon, no need to shut it all down.

 

[Stinger Ray]

And of course it needs to be stopped at the source, in Africa. It's a little out of control over there wouldn't you say for this to happen any time soon? Unless a treatment for it is found and administered, it will be out of control. Better yet, a vaccine, but they are saying they are a few years away from that possibility. In the meanwhile, the death toll over there is just heart breaking and will continue to rise.

Heartbreaking? The death toll is 4,000 so far. I'm sad for those people and their loved ones, but the death toll for AIDS in Africa is 1.7 million a year! Not mention all of the other diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of Africans every year along with famine.People are losing all perspective over this.

EBola COULD kill 1.7 million people who do not currently have it within the next month if there was a huge outbreak.

You have any idea how long it would take HIV to kill the same number of people?

You are also a total idiot becuase you painfully do not understand how much more communicable and disastrous a full blown ebola outbreak would be than any of the other diseases you mentioned.

If you are TRYING to sound stupid, you are........................WINNING.............charlie sheen

You must drink a lot at night.

 

[timschochet]

And of course it needs to be stopped at the source, in Africa. It's a little out of control over there wouldn't you say for this to happen any time soon? Unless a treatment for it is found and administered, it will be out of control. Better yet, a vaccine, but they are saying they are a few years away from that possibility. In the meanwhile, the death toll over there is just heart breaking and will continue to rise.

Heartbreaking? The death toll is 4,000 so far. I'm sad for those people and their loved ones, but the death toll for AIDS in Africa is 1.7 million a year! Not mention all of the other diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of Africans every year along with famine.People are losing all perspective over this.

EBola COULD kill 1.7 million people who do not currently have it within the next month if there was a huge outbreak.

You have any idea how long it would take HIV to kill the same number of people?

You are also a total idiot becuase you painfully do not understand how much more communicable and disastrous a full blown ebola outbreak would be than any of the other diseases you mentioned.

If you are TRYING to sound stupid, you are........................WINNING.............charlie sheen

Wow. OK. I'm going to spend the next month at the zoo making friends with all of the apes...just in case they take over later on.

 

[ghostguy123]

And of course it needs to be stopped at the source, in Africa. It's a little out of control over there wouldn't you say for this to happen any time soon? Unless a treatment for it is found and administered, it will be out of control. Better yet, a vaccine, but they are saying they are a few years away from that possibility. In the meanwhile, the death toll over there is just heart breaking and will continue to rise.

Heartbreaking? The death toll is 4,000 so far. I'm sad for those people and their loved ones, but the death toll for AIDS in Africa is 1.7 million a year! Not mention all of the other diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of Africans every year along with famine.People are losing all perspective over this.

EBola COULD kill 1.7 million people who do not currently have it within the next month if there was a huge outbreak.

You have any idea how long it would take HIV to kill the same number of people?

You are also a total idiot becuase you painfully do not understand how much more communicable and disastrous a full blown ebola outbreak would be than any of the other diseases you mentioned.

If you are TRYING to sound stupid, you are........................WINNING.............charlie sheen

You must drink a lot at night.

Sorry man, just silly to me people (well, usually Tim), can't remotely tell the difference between a problem that is ongoing that needs a ton of attention, and a problem that needs immediate attention NOW or else everyone is royally screwed.

Resources should be put into those other diseases of course, and they are.......................but ya gotta prioritize. Get this #### straight FIRST.

 

[ghostguy123]

Wow. OK. I'm going to spend the next month at the zoo making friends with all of the apes...just in case they take over later on.

Sadly, no clue if you are joking. No clue.

 

[Stinger Ray]

And of course it needs to be stopped at the source, in Africa. It's a little out of control over there wouldn't you say for this to happen any time soon? Unless a treatment for it is found and administered, it will be out of control. Better yet, a vaccine, but they are saying they are a few years away from that possibility. In the meanwhile, the death toll over there is just heart breaking and will continue to rise.

Heartbreaking? The death toll is 4,000 so far. I'm sad for those people and their loved ones, but the death toll for AIDS in Africa is 1.7 million a year! Not mention all of the other diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of Africans every year along with famine.People are losing all perspective over this.

EBola COULD kill 1.7 million people who do not currently have it within the next month if there was a huge outbreak.

You have any idea how long it would take HIV to kill the same number of people?

You are also a total idiot becuase you painfully do not understand how much more communicable and disastrous a full blown ebola outbreak would be than any of the other diseases you mentioned.

If you are TRYING to sound stupid, you are........................WINNING.............charlie sheen

You must drink a lot at night.

Sorry man, just silly to me people (well, usually Tim), can't remotely tell the difference between a problem that is ongoing that needs a ton of attention, and a problem that needs immediate attention NOW or else everyone is royally screwed.

Resources should be put into those other diseases of course, and they are.......................but ya gotta prioritize. Get this #### straight FIRST.

What's your drink of choice?

 

[ghostguy123]

What's your drink of choice?

Coffee, cant you tell?

 

[ghostguy123]

What do you expect from a 12 year old? He's the Doogie Howser of nurses.

Doogie was always right

 

[timschochet]

And of course it needs to be stopped at the source, in Africa. It's a little out of control over there wouldn't you say for this to happen any time soon? Unless a treatment for it is found and administered, it will be out of control. Better yet, a vaccine, but they are saying they are a few years away from that possibility. In the meanwhile, the death toll over there is just heart breaking and will continue to rise.

Heartbreaking? The death toll is 4,000 so far. I'm sad for those people and their loved ones, but the death toll for AIDS in Africa is 1.7 million a year! Not mention all of the other diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of Africans every year along with famine.People are losing all perspective over this.

EBola COULD kill 1.7 million people who do not currently have it within the next month if there was a huge outbreak.

You have any idea how long it would take HIV to kill the same number of people?

You are also a total idiot becuase you painfully do not understand how much more communicable and disastrous a full blown ebola outbreak would be than any of the other diseases you mentioned.

If you are TRYING to sound stupid, you are........................WINNING.............charlie sheen

You must drink a lot at night.

Sorry man, just silly to me people (well, usually Tim), can't remotely tell the difference between a problem that is ongoing that needs a ton of attention, and a problem that needs immediate attention NOW or else everyone is royally screwed.

Resources should be put into those other diseases of course, and they are.......................but ya gotta prioritize. Get this #### straight FIRST.

Link to when I ever wrote that we shouldn't prioritize spending on Ebola? If the doctors think we should, then we should. And we will.

I was responding to Curlynight's comment that the 4,000 deaths are heartbreaking. They certainly are, but when you compare them to the millions of Africans who die each year from other diseases, it seems pretty minor to me. But then again, what do I know? I'm just an idiot.

 

[timschochet]

Wow. OK. I'm going to spend the next month at the zoo making friends with all of the apes...just in case they take over later on.

Sadly, no clue if you are joking. No clue.

That Caesar ape seems pretty nice. But I'm staying away from Koba. He always gives me this angry stare...

 

[ghostguy123]

Link to when I ever wrote that we shouldn't prioritize spending on Ebola? If the doctors think we should, then we should. And we will.

I was responding to Curlynight's comment that the 4,000 deaths are heartbreaking. They certainly are, but when you compare them to the millions of Africans who die each year from other diseases, it seems pretty minor to me. But then again, what do I know? I'm just an idiot.

So millions of deaths are worse than 4000. Umm, no ####. That wasn't ever the point.

I keep forgetting to not comment on anything you say, my bad. Broke my own rule.

 

[Uwe Blab]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/10/16/texas-health-presbyterian-hospital-releases-first-video-of-nurse-being-treated-for-ebola/

:(

 

[timschochet]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/disaster-domain-dealer-selling-ebolacom-for-150000,37207/

Jon Schultz, a “disaster domain dealer” who currently owns the rights to the websites birdflu.com and H1N1.com, announced that he is selling the internet domain Ebola.com for $150,000.

 

[UniAlias]

Paper cuts COULD kill 1.7 million people who do not currently have them within the next month if there was a huge outbreak.

I know a guy whose aunt told him that the local envelope manufacturing company in Pflugerville is shutting down operations just in case.

I'm not saying it WILL happen, but it's definitely a serious issue and I feel like many people in here aren't taking this seriously enough.

 

[ghostguy123]

Better ban paper

 

[Milkman]

Ban air! It's airborne!

 

[ILUVBEER99]

the swine flu thread was eerily similar. people love doomsday scenarios.

 

[ghostguy123]

the swine flu thread was eerily similar. people love doomsday scenarios.

Well I have seen likt 50-60 zombie movies and like 20 other post apocalyptic movies....................could explain why I am Krazeee nurse Ghost Guy.

I mean, thats why I keep telling everyone to hide under the table for 8 months.

 

[cstu]

Here's one thing that does scare me:

- ISIS sends someone to Liberia to catch the ebola

- The person flies to the U.S. to hide out during the incubation period

- Once the infected person gets sick another ISIS member collects infected mucus and starts traveling around the country spreading it

- People will be contracting it for weeks before showing symptoms. Once they do show symptoms people won't immediate think it's ebola inadvertently spread it to other people.

Hell, an infected person with a suicide vest could spread the disease pretty effectively at a mall on a saturday - assuming the virus would survive the blast

True, but it would much easier to contain. Imagine 1000's of people all over the country touching ebola infected doorknobs, spreading it to their family, their kids spreading it to their classrooms, those kids spreading to their family - all before the country realized what has happened.

 

[joffer]

BREAKING NEWS ON CNN: Nina Pham is riding in an ambulance

 

[[icon]]

I heard rumors that ISIS is planning sprinkler drones with ebola pee!!!!!1!

 

[Bucky86]

I'd imagine ISIS would probably have meat grinders to put the Ebola infected people through, and then spray the liquid everywhere.

 

[ntz08]

Okay, it looks like I have to be a voice of reason.

no gracias

 

[Hilts]

I started exhibiting ebola like symptoms a few hours ago.

 

[CurlyNight]

And of course it needs to be stopped at the source, in Africa. It's a little out of control over there wouldn't you say for this to happen any time soon? Unless a treatment for it is found and administered, it will be out of control. Better yet, a vaccine, but they are saying they are a few years away from that possibility. In the meanwhile, the death toll over there is just heart breaking and will continue to rise.

Heartbreaking? The death toll is 4,000 so far. I'm sad for those people and their loved ones, but the death toll for AIDS in Africa is 1.7 million a year! Not mention all of the other diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of Africans every year along with famine.People are losing all perspective over this.

EBola COULD kill 1.7 million people who do not currently have it within the next month if there was a huge outbreak.

You have any idea how long it would take HIV to kill the same number of people?

You are also a total idiot becuase you painfully do not understand how much more communicable and disastrous a full blown ebola outbreak would be than any of the other diseases you mentioned.

If you are TRYING to sound stupid, you are........................WINNING.............charlie sheen

You must drink a lot at night.

Sorry man, just silly to me people (well, usually Tim), can't remotely tell the difference between a problem that is ongoing that needs a ton of attention, and a problem that needs immediate attention NOW or else everyone is royally screwed.

Resources should be put into those other diseases of course, and they are.......................but ya gotta prioritize. Get this #### straight FIRST.

Link to when I ever wrote that we shouldn't prioritize spending on Ebola? If the doctors think we should, then we should. And we will.

I was responding to Curlynight's comment that the 4,000 deaths are heartbreaking. They certainly are, but when you compare them to the millions of Africans who die each year from other diseases, it seems pretty minor to me. But then again, what do I know? I'm just an idiot.

I never said other deaths aren't heartbreaking. What's heartbreaking about these right now is so much is still unknown and there is no real treatment for it while there is with HIV and famine. Unfortunately they don't have the technology and means like we do to deal like these issues like we do and there is only so much people in and out of the country can do. I don't think anyone expects Africa to ever be out of the woods with famine and diseases like non-3rd world countries, but it sucks even more that ebola is up front and center again and worse than it was.

 

[Rohn Jambo]

Are the Dallas nurses all really cute? They sure act like they are.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/17/cruise-ship-carrying-texas-ebola-nurse-refused-entry-in-belize/

 

[Tom Servo]

I'm still traveling several times a week for work and in street clothes, no latex anywhere.

So...bareback?

 

[Tom Servo]

the swine flu thread was eerily similar. people love doomsday books.

Fixed

 

[NorvilleBarnes]

I started exhibiting ebola like symptoms a few hours ago.

Have you booked your flight yet?

 

[Buddy Ball 2K3]

Oh you are going on a cruise right after you handled Ebola samples?

 

[Parrothead]

Oh you are going on a cruise right after you handled Ebola samples?

man, with how bad this has been mismanaged, we are lucky to only have 2 cases.. plane, cruise.. what's next?

 

[ArbyMelt]

Oh you are going on a cruise right after you handled Ebola samples?

Good friends of ours daughter got married Saturday and guess where they are for their honeymoon? Yep that cruise ship!

 

[jon_mx]

Oh you are going on a cruise right after you handled Ebola samples?

man, with how bad this has been mismanaged, we are lucky to only have 2 cases.. plane, cruise.. what's next?

The problem is we won't know for another three weeks if we only have two cases.

 

[Parrothead]

Oh you are going on a cruise right after you handled Ebola samples?

man, with how bad this has been mismanaged, we are lucky to only have 2 cases.. plane, cruise.. what's next?

The problem is we won't know for another three weeks if we only have two cases.

if we get another case somewhere other than the Dallas hospital, all hell is going to break loose.. people are already going crazy

 

[GroveDiesel]

Oh you are going on a cruise right after you handled Ebola samples?

man, with how bad this has been mismanaged, we are lucky to only have 2 cases.. plane, cruise.. what's next?

The news from Belize seems to indicate that he actually has symptoms too.

http://belizean.com/belize-confirms-patient-with-ebola-symptoms-on-cruise-ship-off-its-coast-1814/

 

[Buddy Ball 2K3]

Oh you are going on a cruise right after you handled Ebola samples?

man, with how bad this has been mismanaged, we are lucky to only have 2 cases.. plane, cruise.. what's next?

The news from Belize seems to indicate that he actually has symptoms too.

http://belizean.com/belize-confirms-patient-with-ebola-symptoms-on-cruise-ship-off-its-coast-1814/

If you are on this ship are you going ape ####?

 

[ntz08]

I am voluntarily isolating myself from the stupid in this thread.

Have fun storming the CDC.

 

[TheIronSheik]

Dallas nurse, you've just handled the Ebola virus. What are you going to do next?

I'm going to Disney World!

 

[3C's]

Oh you are going on a cruise right after you handled Ebola samples?

cruise ships suck enough already but now this person has to stay in the cabin for the entire cruise. my last cruise (which will be my last) I had to stay in my cabin the last day since I caught the cruise ship virus (aka norovirus). never been so sick.

 

[shader]

Oh you are going on a cruise right after you handled Ebola samples?

I read some opinion pieces a few weeks ago about ebola in the US. The gist was kind of a "what if" the American way of life is more conducive to the spread of ebola than the way of life in Africa. I dismissed it as fluff.

IF this person on the cruise ship has ebola...I may have to re-analyze that.

The facts are, the practice of quarantine began in the middle ages. If we are not going to use quarantine, than we have a problem on our hands.

There is a way to stop ebola. It's called quarantine and it needs to be used.

 

[TheIronSheik]

Oh you are going on a cruise right after you handled Ebola samples?

I read some opinion pieces a few weeks ago about ebola in the US. The gist was kind of a "what if" the American way of life is more conducive to the spread of ebola than the way of life in Africa. I dismissed it as fluff.

IF this person on the cruise ship has ebola...I may have to re-analyze that.

The facts are, the practice of quarantine began in the middle ages. If we are not going to use quarantine, than we have a problem on our hands.

There is a way to stop ebola. It's called quarantine and it needs to be used.

So far the US's method for handling Ebola is "If you've come in contact with it, please travel somewhere." This policy may need to be changed.

 

[shader]

It looks like she is not showing symptoms but Belize found out she worked in that hospital and quarantined her in her room. So very low risk of any danger. But I still like the reaction by the gov't of Belize. These people who are at risk shouldn't be on cruises.

 

[TheIronSheik]

Not sure if this was mentioned, but now the CDC is saying that the nurse who traveled to Cleveland may have been sick prior to leaving Dallas. They are now notifying passengers on her first flight.

So much for "she wasn't showing symptoms until after she got home."