For our loyal readers, this will be tedious though still hair-raising review. For the ever-streaming influx of newcomers, pay attention.
In no particular order (aside from the final item):
1) U.S. hospitals are unprepared.
94% of American healthcare facilities - approximately sixteen out of every seventeen - possess neither the staff training nor the equipment to treat ebola, and it would cost countless billions, maybe trillions, to upgrade them all. Sounds like a Cloward-Pivenesque proposition, no?
2) There already is airborne ("dry") ebola:
In fact, this has already happened with one strain of the virus, Ebola-Reston, that is not involved in the current outbreak. This disease came to Reston, Virginia., in 1989, when a shipment of infected macaques was imported from the Philippines. The disease spread from the macaques to other monkeys housed at a quarantine facility. The infected monkeys all died and four workers at the quarantine facility tested positive for the disease.
The workers never got sick and Ebola-Reston turned out to be the only one of the five forms of Ebola not harmful to humans. But it does show that a virus in the Ebola family can be spread through the air, Sanders says.
3) Asia is screwed:
Health experts are especially concerned that the longer the Ebola outbreak rages in West Africa, the greater chance a traveler infected with the virus will touch down in Asia, a region where billions live in poverty, in crowded conditions, and with public health systems that are often very weak.
In other words, aside from Westernized Pacific Rim countries like Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, Asia is Africa. India? Red China (aside from its Pacific coast token capitalist enclaves)? Most of Russia? Pretty much the entire Middle East outside of Israel? Forget about it. Ebola will cut through those poor, teeming masses like a combine through a wheat field. All it'll take is one "Patient Zero," and let the liquification games begin.
And bear in mind, again, that Westernized countries won't be much better off.
4) 1.4 million cases by January.
We've already covered this on numerous prior occasions. The only punch line is that that prediction comes from the very same Centers For Disease Control that keep assuring us up and down that ebola "can't come here," and if it does it "can't infect anybody," and if it does that "they can handle it," and when they can't it's because local yokels didn't follow their futile "protocols," which would be adequate to the task if only evil, wicked, carnivorous, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, pediphobic, beastiaphobic, mass-murdering Republicans weren't so miserly with the billions or trillions in spending needed to upgrade them. (See #1 above).
5) There already is airborne ("wet") ebola.
Just like colds and flu. Imagine that.
And in this case, we're not talking about "benign" ebola, either.
6) The incubation period is too long.
Patience is a fruit of the Spirit, but it's nowhere to be found in base human nature. Which explains the nurse (Kaci Hickox) who was happy to travel to West Africa to compassionately help treat and fight the ebola epidemic, but couldn't be bothered to wait out the three-week quarantine, prompting her to lob accusations of "human rights violations" at those attempting to protect the rest of us from the virus she may or may not be unwittingly incubating - and securing her premature release at Obama White House insistence.
So much for the New York/New Jersey lapse of common sense.
The punch line here? Three weeks may not be long enough:
A Drexel University study concludes that twenty-one days might not be enough to completely prevent the spread of the virus, estimating a 12% chance that someone could be infected even after the three-week quarantine.
7) Medical personnel have been infected despite protective equipment.
Which means they don't have protective equipment. (See #1 again).
8) The Ebola virus can live up to fifty days on certain surfaces.
Wet or dry:
Under certain conditions at low temperatures, the Ebola virus can remain viable on surfaces for up to fifty days, according to a study by the U.K.’s Defense Science and Technology Laboratory. Tests of the virus showed certain strains can remain on surfaces for nearly two months. The CDC notes that Ebola typically lives on “dry” surfaces like doorknobs and tables for only a few hours. But the U.K. research discovered it can survive for more than seven weeks on certain cold surfaces.
Isn't even just a few hours more than long enough to spread this disease like wildfire? Or is it just me?
And, oh by the way, as with every virus known to medical science....
9) Ebola is incurable and there is no known treatment
There's not a vaccine with which you can be injected. There's not a pill you can take. Hot compresses, cold compresses, vaporizers, chicken soup, orange juice, "plenty of bed rest," all irrelevant. Once you have ebola, it will run its course, the only question whether or not you will survive. And the morbidity rate - 70% - says you will not.
Leading to.....
10) Barack Obama wants America to be "ebola-ized".
Harken back for a third time to #1. Ebola has everything a "fundamental transformer" could ever want for a final crisis to exploit: Public panic, economically ruinous costs, both in terms of combatting the pandemic and in the shutting down of the U.S. economy as the contagion rages out of control, societal breakdown leading to, of course, martial law. And with the American population culled down to a hundred million or so (legal and illegal, but preferably the latter), the traumatized remnant would be both docile and much more easily controlled.
Crazy? Paranoid? I'm just asking questions, folks. Like why The One is absolutely adamant that there be no travel bans into the country from West Africa. Like why his Regime endlessly overestimates its publicly professed ability to "halt in its tracks" the spread of the disease, and constantly downplays its communicability, and urges the public not to "panic," a reaction just as relentlessly stoked with each revelation of their helplessness in the face of this hemorrhagic fever. Even blind zealotry in stubborn adherence to this White House's rancid, despicable, delusional ideology doesn't seem sufficient to fully explain all these factors, at least to me.
The only factor on which I'm waiting is the discovery that the feds can specifically target ebola at "undesirable" societal groups - evangelical Christians, Jews, Tea Partiers, conservatives, and Republicans. It would save the Obama Regime the cost of having to construct concentration camps, after all.
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