Sounds like the fire is getting out of control.

 

A World Health Organization official says there could be up to 10,000 new cases of Ebola per week within two months.

Referring to location Africa I assume...........

 

Let me guess. WHO is requesting boat loads of money to handle the crisis. I am waiting for all the TV ads from the (usual suspects) charities requesting donations. I am hearing how the Democrats are using the idea that the Republicans did not fund the CDC adequately so you should not vote for them.

The money train is gathering momentum. Expect to see hands being held out all over the place.

 

Let me guess. WHO is requesting boat loads of money to handle the crisis. .

They actually have a boatload of money right now, problem is that they don't have any pesonel to send. Can't blame the people, I would never fly off to Sierra leone to scrub blood-puke off walls, no matter what the money is. I guess some enlisted soldiers very soon will have their weekend leave cancelled though.

 

Ebola is spreading the way it is in west Africa due to the lifestyle and average IQ of west Africans.
You can't educate them out of their cultural choices. You can't change their ability to understand and comply with common sense practices with press statements and public awareness campaigns...

They'll continue to gather and eat contaminated bush meat.
They'll continue to ignore basic food and personal hygiene steps.
They'll continue to avoid proper medical care, instead relying on tribal medicine and 'witch doctors.'
They'll continue to be suspicious of outside help, to the point of killing those that are sent to help them (already happened multiple times).

A more basic way of stating it is, 'you can't fix stupid,' and West Africans are stupid. It's not very compassionate to say, but it's the reason they live the way they do. It does us no good to pretend that they're somehow on a par with western nations intellectually.
There are some well meaning and intelligent people there, and many are westerners, but where the rubber meets the road - or more appropriately, where the African meets the meat - there isn't the capacity to effect change.
Our 'do-gooderism' won't change that one iota.

 

Ebola is spreading the way it is in USA due to the lifestyle and average IQ of Americans.
You can't educate them out of their cultural choices. You can't change their ability to understand and comply with common sense practices with press statements and public awareness campaigns...

They'll continue to gather and eat McDonalds.
They'll continue to ignore basic food and personal hygiene steps.
They'll continue to avoid proper medical care, instead relying on Urgent Care and the best Heath Care system in the World.
They'll continue to be suspicious of outside help, to the point of killing those that are sent to help them (already happened multiple times).

A more basic way of stating it is, 'you can't fix stupid,' and Americans are stupid. It's not very compassionate to say, but it's the reason they live the way they do. It does us no good to pretend that they're somehow on a par with western nations intellectually.
There are some well meaning and intelligent people there, and many are westerners, but where the rubber meets the road - or more appropriately, where the America meets the smart phone to the face - there isn't the capacity to effect change.
Our 'do-gooderism' won't change that one iota.

There you go.

Wait a month and this can publish. :taped:

 

Its funny to hear from my friends NOW that they should look into moving out into the hills. NOW, how about years ago so you can weather stuff like this if it gets away from them. I like being many, many miles away from people.

 

Not sure that the hills is such a great place when panic spreads. Every sheeple will "run to the hills" because "we will be safe away from all the infected people"

 

They aren't gonna contain nothing. This virus can last in a man's semen for 60 days for those that survive. Plus up to 20 days for the original incubation. Far past the point of containment unless areas affected go into total shut down. But that would require:

a. money and food to keep those still alive in affected areas at home (fed and bills paid) to keep them from going out.
b. military to keep this strictly enforced.

^Until that happens there will be no containment and the exponential growth of this virus to the rest of the population. From what we read this virus can survive a very long time to keep spreading.

 

These numbers are very concerning. If they closed the borders and stopped all international travel perhaps that might contain most of these cases to Africa but that is not going to happen because doing so would crash the global economy. Therefore, it is a no win situation. This is happening in real time, and I can't see any way to avoid a global pandemic at this point.

 

I don't see whats so "alarming", sounds logical to me, these West African countries are so poor and their health services are in such a mess that this was inevitable. hopefully it will burn itself out when there are no more(live) people to infect.

 

Great, and where does that leave Texas?

 

You are both correct so quit whizzing! Lol, the problem big P, is that this whole thing in w Africa started with one child that survived the "burn out" of a village in Liberia. Actually the kid only survived long enuff to infect two of its care takers. Our "child from the bush" was Duncan.....

At this point the only way to contain it would require thermo nuclear energy

 

no the way to contain it is to stop people leaving, cordon the whole area and then deal with the infection inside the cordon.

 

WHO is aiming to have 70 percent of cases isolated within two months to reverse the outbreak.

The incubation period is between 7 days and 21 days. Afterwards, you start showing signs of infection at which you are highly contagious. How on earth does WHO or any other entity think that isolating "within two months" is going to reverse anything? The only thing it's going to reverse is over population (which may be a goal...).