Ebola Globalization

[nnuut]

Maybe a SG could determine how these diseases got across our border, wait I forgot we don't have a border!

 

[burrocrat]

[h=1]As Ebola Spreads, U.S. Still Without a Surgeon General, per GOP/NRA Obstruction.[/h]

How the NRA is making the Ebola crisis worse | MSNBC


How the NRA is making the Ebola crisis worse


Every day brings more details about the first case of the Ebola virus to be diagnosed in the U.S. And while experts say there is essentially no risk of a significant outbreak here in the states, much of the public remains worried. A poll by Harvard found that 39% of U.S. adults are concerned about a large outbreak here, and more than a quarter fear someone in their immediate family could get sick with Ebola.

If only there was someone around who could educate the American public about the actual level of risk. Someone who was trusted as a public health expert and whose job it was to help us understand what we really need to worry about and what precautions we should take.

Actually, that is one of the primary responsibilities of the United States surgeon general. There’s just one problem: Thanks to Senate dysfunction and NRA opposition, we don’t have a surgeon general right now. In fact, we haven’t had a surgeon general for more than a year now — even though the president nominated the eminently qualified Dr. Vivek Murthy back in November 2013.
The lack of a surgeon general is now becoming more than just one more abstract example of government gridlock.

(snip)

So thanks to NRA power and Senate cowardice, we are left with no surgeon general during a time when, we not only have Ebola arriving on our shores, but are also dealing with the mysterious Enterovirus, which is infecting and contributing to the deaths of children in the U.S.

“We need all hands on deck, and a surgeon general to echo and amplify the messages coming from the CDC, and to provide evidence-based advocacy to shape our response,” said Dr. Paul Farmer, chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

In other words, now would be a great time to have someone in the role of top doctor.

oh my god, a new and totally different level of absurdity! i just had to mark this one for posterity. the nra is responsible for ebola! see how that works kids? (the only difference between james, hillary clinton, and a straw man is i don't want to screw james or a straw man!).

 

[nnuut]

This is a good one, I guess hammers are bad for your health too?

As I reported previously, Murthy’s nomination has been held up by Republicans and a few red state Democrats due to this surprisingly controversial stance: He believes that guns can impact your health.

How the NRA is making the Ebola crisis worse | MSNBC

 

[Buster]

Just running the numbers given by the CDC..

This one person (Duncan) that snuck into our country to bang is GF, mother of his kid..He put 50 people on the monitor list and if those 50 each came in contact with 50, that would be 2500 people and if they all came in contact with 50 each, that would be 125,000 more people and if they all came in contact with 50 people each that would be.. 6,250,000...and that is just three generations of contact...

 

[burrocrat]

Just running the numbers given by the CDC..

This one person (Duncan) that snuck into our country to bang is GF, mother of his kid..He put 50 people on the monitor list and if those 50 each came in contact with 50, that would be 2500 people and if they all came in contact with 50 each, that would be 125,000 more people and if they all came in contact with 50 people each that would be.. 6,250,000...and that is just three generations of contact...

and it's all the nra's fault!

 

[RealMoneyIssues]

Question remains unanswered...what was it you felt the gov't did wrong on the (Texas) Ebola case?

I was under the strong impressiion that "The Private Sector" screwed this one up (Hospital which released him into the public after he came in with symptoms and explained he just came from Africa).

My comment wasn't that the government screwed anything up... maybe I missed something here... which, BTW, I am willing to claim I (and my opinions) are not perfect, where you are quite the opposite (aka yours ARE perfect and should be considered facts).

Anyway, my point was that you were all about adding Texas before every noun you could find because you hate non-liberal leaning states. Although I am not Texan, I am married to one and both of us believe Texas is a great state (sans Austin) and we are considering retiring there as the last bastion of sanity in the mass of liberal cliff diving states.

So, to answer your question, unless (and I do not know the answer) the hospital was state run, then it was not the government's fault, although I don't remember claiming it was (please don't confuse me with Norm).

This, by no means, should make anyone think that I believe this hospital should now be over-run by government (don't care, state or fed) bureaucrats (not burrocrats) because the government can do things better (see Norms comment)...

Should the hospital be held accountable for their actions and any repercussion from those actions... ABSOLUTELY... Everyone, including your beloved government, should be held accountable for their actions... I just wish it happened more often than it does.

Ok, off to do something actually productive... Have a great day folks!

 

[Warrenlm]

CDC guy said we won't have a "large" Ebola outbreak in the USA. He talked of the ability to contain outbreaks so it would appear we can expect many "small" outbreaks? Then again, they say it's only "unlikely" the virus would mutate...... CDC: Airborne Ebola possible but unlikely | TheHill

 

[Warrenlm]

Well, General Kelly is not given to fear mongering so in breaks from Facebook we ought to think .... we absorbed 100,000 kids up to age 23 and only got EV expansion. Turns out that was a dry run.

Those looking for good news on the fight against Ebola will not find much encouragement from Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly, the commander of the U.S. Southern Command. As Jim Garamone of Department of Defense News reports, Kelly told an audience at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday that, if the disease reaches Central America, "it’s literally, ‘Katie bar the door,’ and there will be mass migration into the United States." He also said with certainty that "there is no way we can keep Ebola [contained] in West Africa."

“By the end of the year, there’s supposed to be 1.4 million people infected with Ebola and 62 percent of them dying, according to the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]..."
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“So, much like West Africa, it will rage for a period of time,” Kelly said.
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This is particularly possible scenario if the disease gets to Haiti or Central America, he said. If the disease gets to countries like Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador, it will cause a panic and people will flee the region, the general said.
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“If it breaks out, it’s literally, ‘Katie bar the door,’ and there will be mass migration into the United States,” Kelly said. “They will run away from Ebola, or if they suspect they are infected, they will try to get to the United States for treatment.”
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Kelly said that human trafficking could be an additional wrinkle in the battle to contain the disease. He related a disturbing anecdote from a recent visit to Central America where some men from Liberia were headed to the United States:

General: If Ebola Reaches Central America, 'There Will Be Mass Migration into the U.S.' | The Weekly Standard

 

[Buster]

[h=1]Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan dies at Dallas hospital[/h]At least now we won't need to waste money prosecuting him for sneaking in to the US after lying he wasn't exposed to Ebola...Yes, I have No sympathy for him, only the people he could have infected.

 

[PLANO]

Jesse Jackson comes to town, now Duncan is dead. Thanks Jesse.

 

[Warrenlm]

Ahhh, but now we and the twittersphere and the handwringing MSDNC commentators have a whole new topic. Equality of treatment. He did not get any experimental doses. What will be the allocation procedure?

 

[Warrenlm]

Correction. He did get some drugs, albeit late. The issue is equality of access because it's the time delay that is generating allegations.

 

[nnuut]

Maybe Old Mother Nature is going to solve our population Explosion problem?

 

[RealMoneyIssues]

Maybe Old Mother Nature is going to solve our population Explosion problem?View attachment 30528

Anyone watch the TV show "The Last Ship"

Could this strain of Ebola be "engineered" on purpose or by accident

 

[nnuut]

Yes and it's probably the TREE HUGGERS doing it!

 

[nnuut]

[h=1]Ebola is scary; this virus that has paralyzed and killed children is scarier [/h]


Published: Oct 8, 2014 9:13 a.m. ET


[h=2]Enterovirus D-68 presents like a common cold but can become much worse[/h]
As Americans watch the Ebola story unfold in Africa, Dallas, and now Spain, many are unaware of a threat far closer to home — and more contagious.
Enterovirus D68, a respiratory illness, has been making its way across the country since August, and has been diagnosed in nearly 600 people, in 43 states and the District of Columbia. Nearly all the confirmed cases this year of EV-D68 infection have been in children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The enterovirus, also known as EV-D68, can only be diagnosed through specific lab tests often administered only by government health departments. There isn’t an antiviral medication available for people who are infected with EV-D68, the CDC says. [more]

Ebola is scary; this virus that has paralyzed and killed children is scarier - MarketWatch

 

[PLANO]

Thanks Jesse

Jesse Jackson may have spread ebola virus to another Dallas area suburb

Ebola scare in Frisco: Patient identified as deputy
FRISCO — Crews are transporting a patient exhibiting "signs and symptoms of Ebola" from a Frisco CareNow to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.

"Right now, there are more questions than answers about this case," said Wendell Watson, a spokesman with the hospital.

The patient was identified as Sgt. Michael Monning, a deputy who accompanied county health officials Zachary Thompson and Christopher Perkins into the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan stayed in Dallas.

 

[PessOptimist]

Anyone watch the TV show "The Last Ship"

Could this strain of Ebola be "engineered" on purpose or by accident

You Navy guys. I caught the first couple episodes but haven't watched lately. I guess I should catch up. I was wondering if at some point the Captain of the DDG would decide that they were the future of the human race and order that hand picked officers would impregnate hand picked female sailors. This would go along with a scene from Dr Strangelove.

Just the way my mind works.

PO

 

[burrocrat]

I was wondering if at some point the Captain of the DDG would decide that they were the future of the human race and order that hand picked officers would impregnate hand picked female sailors... Just the way my mind works.

your mind works just like all the guy's minds do in a narcissistic testosterone fantasy, but in the real world everybody knows it's the females that pick, and usually they go for the bad boys not the officers. i know i know, it's not fair, it shouldn't work that way, but it does.

 

[konakathy]

Glad to know you both are having fun on that E ticket ride in Fantasyland.