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originally posted by: Mr Mask
I do not feel safe in trusting the CDC to contain this.
originally posted by: Mr Mask
I do not feel safe knowing they couldn't keep it from entering our country from across an entire ocean. Am I to trust they can now stop it from crossing the street?
originally posted by: Mr Mask
I also do not feel relaxed at the fact that its just "one" person as people keep saying. Its one person we were warned could eventually come to infect America. Well its verified now that it has happened. In under a handful of weeks this has happened.
originally posted by: Mr Mask
How many more are on the way? How many more will this man infect?
originally posted by: Mr Mask
I'm not a doom-porn lover, but I do not feel "at ease" with this news as so many "cool headed folks" seem to be.
originally posted by: Mr Mask
Don't panic...of course don't panic. But don't be lulled to sleep by the people who brush off every scary report because they think its hip and smart to call every approaching scare as "doom porn".
MM
originally posted by: championoftruth
did you know that africa has more guns than people?
originally posted by: championoftruth
why don't you people study blood electrification,colloidal silver,ozone bagging as treatments against ebola?
vast amount of information on the net.
originally posted by: deadeyedick
You seem to wanna down play the virus a bit.
originally posted by: deadeyedick
Let's not forget that the virus has just jumped land masses so it is currently in a state of growth. Hopefully it will play out soon but now it is becoming a real danger and that level of danger was not present last year. It went from over there to over here. The best case is that we are able to stop it but now that is not what is happening.
originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: grandmakdw
I'm already right, because we have a conservative right here on this thread who has told me she would rather risk catching ebola than have her freedom to travel in the U.S. curtailed by the government. I am a liberal who would rather have my freedom to travel curtailed temporarily than to risk the spread of ebola to me and my family.
originally posted by: deadeyedick
a reply to: Rocker2013
Really your gonna respond by putting words into my mouth. I never told the class who i think you work for. A couple cures at best.
originally posted by: Rocker2013
originally posted by: deadeyedick
a reply to: Rocker2013
Really your gonna respond by putting words into my mouth. I never told the class who i think you work for. A couple cures at best.
I'm done.
Go and buy a gas mask, hazmat suit and seal up your doors and windows, it's the only way to be safe!!!!!!
originally posted by: Rocker2013
Your solution seems to be to either use common sense and don't panic, or... PANIC!
originally posted by: Rocker2013
Read my point again.
They could stop all flights in and out, but that would then mean stopping all flights from any other country accepting flights from these nations too, right?
You can stop all flights from African nations, but what about Europe? Russia? Asia?
Yes! Lets stop ALL FLIGHTS in or out of anywhere, end the airlines, put hundreds of thousands of people out of a job because you don't know the difference between Hollywood Sci-Fi and reality! lol
Right, so now we're setting up internment camps in the USA? Yeah, that's sounds like a great idea considering the massive legal ramifications (that you, the tax payer, will have to deal with). Lets waste billions of $'s in an already struggling economy to set up massive open prisons. Great idea![/post]
I didnt say to put them in internment camps, I said quarantine them for a couple of weeks. I was giving an example of how it had been done before on a much larger scale when you had said that it COULDN'T BE DONE. Dont go off the deep end here, try to stay a little logical.
originally posted by: [post=18480539]dizzie56
Also, I dont consider it fear mongering when a disease makes you bleed out of orifices that you never thought you would bleed out of. And there is NO cure for it as of yet. Its really not that treatable. The treatment is to drink/iv fluids as much as possible and cross your fingers right now...thats it. Well, besides the experimental drug that was taken by the dr. who went over to west africa and dosed himself as a last ditch effort. But even that isnt totally proven yet. Also with it being so spread out in west africa it has a great potential for mutation. I just rather take caution and this just gives me another reason not to go to texas.
Wrong on almost every count.
The Ebola virus IS treatable, and they are working on a vaccine that seems to actually be working very well. As stated (and as you completely ignored) African nations have far less infrastructure, far fewer medical staff, far less training and far less money to deal with this outbreak over a massive area, the same DOES NOT APPLY to the US.