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Ebola......Now on our shores. what happens next?

  • Tiernan
    Dallas will fall first and then the entire state of TX. OK and LA national guard will roadblock anyone trying to cross their borders out of TX. But a desperate mob of infected losers will make it thru and then the entire SEC will fall one state after another.
  • fish82
    majorspark;1660168 wrote:The only reason people are croaking in the numbers they are from this is because they live in 3rd world countries with shitty healthcare systems.
    That, and their incredibly poor sanitation practices. Some areas literally try and filter their own shitter water for drinking.
  • gut
    fish82;1660373 wrote:That, and their incredibly poor sanitation practices. Some areas literally try and filter their own shitter water for drinking.
    Someone from the CDC (I think) was on the other day and said they've handled dozens of outbreaks (most, if not all in Africa) over the years. And, like you said above, conditions in 3rd World countries are far more favorable for outbreaks yet they've still been able to manage and contain it.

    We might see dozens, perhaps hundreds, of cases in the US (although that may be an extremely aggressive estimate - may not end-up being more than a handful). Mortality rates of at least 70% are scary if you contract it, but the odds of that are way below many other ways you can die.
  • Tiernan
    Keep burying your heads in the sand you naive twits...meanwhile im building an underground impenetrable shelter and stockpiling weapons, food, water waiting for Mr. Ebola to wipe the rest of you
    out by the millions.
  • baseballstud24
    sleeper;1660070 wrote:Reminds me a lot of SAR and Swine Flu. Basically a few worthless boomers will perish and we will be better off in the long run as a society.
    this x 1000000000
  • 1_beast
    would you heat up in a skillet or just eat it cold?
  • WebFire
  • WebFire
  • Tiernan
    Maybe the entire scUM football team has it.
  • wkfan
  • sleeper
    Went to the doctor this morning and had to fill out an Ebola document stating I had not been to certain countries and didn't have these symptoms. Really bizarre.
  • Heretic
    WebFire;1661623 wrote:
    Damn diseases ruining all that is good on this planet!
  • Tiernan
    Capt. Trips is heeeere!

    ...for you Stephen King fans
  • sleeper
    wkfan;1661742 wrote:Ebola patient in Dallas has died.....

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/08/health/ebola-us/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
    This is now a race issue since he was black and die white white people in the US were treated and lived.
  • Belly35
    How many Ebola victims have to show up in America before the public panics?

    I can see this coming ISIS using Ebola to unset the economy of other nations, spread Ebola to Europe and the USA, creating a massive stress on the medical and financial of many nations.
    Massive diversion and bio war without the use of chemical but people infected.
  • BR1986FB
    Saw this morning that a cop in Dallas who visited the family of the victim who died is now showing symptoms. Sooooo, unless this cop licked their toilet seat, had a shit sandwich or a blood & piss "cocktail", I'm skeptical there aren't other ways it can be transported, like airborne.....
  • ZWICK 4 PREZ
    BR1986FB;1662017 wrote:Saw this morning that a cop in Dallas who visited the family of the victim who died is now showing symptoms. Sooooo, unless this cop licked their toilet seat, had a shit sandwich or a blood & piss "cocktail", I'm skeptical there aren't other ways it can be transported, like airborne.....
    Sweat and mucus too. So pretty much anything he touched.
  • friendfromlowry
    BR1986FB;1662017 wrote:Saw this morning that a cop in Dallas who visited the family of the victim who died is now showing symptoms. Sooooo, unless this cop licked their toilet seat, had a shit sandwich or a blood & piss "cocktail", I'm skeptical there aren't other ways it can be transported, like airborne.....
    Is the family showing symptoms? Because they would have to be infected and showing symptoms. Also, the early symptoms are the same as the flu, so I'm skeptical the cop out visiting people has Ebola.
  • ernest_t_bass
    Belly35;1661980 wrote:How many Ebola victims have to show up in America before the public panics?

    I can see this coming ISIS using Ebola to unset the economy of other nations, spread Ebola to Europe and the USA, creating a massive stress on the medical and financial of many nations.
    Massive diversion and bio war without the use of chemical but people infected.
    You forgot Obama.
  • queencitybuckeye
    BR1986FB;1662017 wrote:Saw this morning that a cop in Dallas who visited the family of the victim who died is now showing symptoms. Sooooo, unless this cop licked their toilet seat, had a shit sandwich or a blood & piss "cocktail", I'm skeptical there aren't other ways it can be transported, like airborne.....
    or the symptoms presented were consistent with Ebola and any other number of illnesses, and the medical professionals are being extremely and rightly overly-cautious.
  • Scarlet_Buckeye
    This whole ebola thing has blown absolutely way too far out of proportion.

    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>A little perspective on Ebola. <a href="http://t.co/gxVFJuADsu">pic.twitter.com/gxVFJuADsu</a></p>&mdash; SciencePorn (@SciencePorn) <a href=" 9, 2014</a></blockquote>
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  • bases_loaded
    Ebola 505ed your link. I clicked on it, now I probably have it too. Thanks scarlet
  • WebFire
    Scarlet_Buckeye;1662128 wrote:This whole ebola thing has blown absolutely way too far out of proportion.

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    Dumb graph. Are you saying something should be ignored until after it causes a bunch of deaths? I also can't contract heart disease from someone else. Or lung cancer, or an auto accident, or an unintentional fall.<iframe id="rufous-sandbox" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="display: none;"></iframe>
  • Scarlet_Buckeye
    WebFire;1662157 wrote:Dumb graph. Are you saying something should be ignored until after it causes a bunch of deaths? I also can't contract heart disease from someone else. Or lung cancer, or an auto accident, or an unintentional fall.<iframe id="rufous-sandbox" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="display: none;"></iframe>
    I thought the graph was pretty self-explanatory.
  • WebFire
    Scarlet_Buckeye;1662305 wrote:I thought the graph was pretty self-explanatory.
    I didn't say it wasn't self explanatory. I said it was dumb.