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crazyspaz

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Marco Polo said:
Allowing ebola on American soil is the dumbest thing I have ever seen.

The MINUTE they found out an airliner was carrying an infected passenger, that airliner should have been ordered OUT of United States airspace and/or shot down if it refused to comply. It should never have been allowed to land here in the first place.

The affected areas in Africa should be nuked and quarantined for an extended period of time.

I'm sick and tired of seeing the US bailing out these garbage nations, wasting our money and now risking civilian lives by bringing their diseases here. They need to keep that shit at home and not spread it around. We are having enough disease issues what with anti-vax imbecile parents and their plague-ridden howler monkeys :rolleyes: we do not need EBOLA on top of it.
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No, you need to keep your racist bullshit to yourself. Nuke a country because a few thousand have a disease? How do you honestly live with yourself, thinking thoughts like that? I mean this with every fiber of my being- you disgust me.
You should be ashamed of yourself. Maybe one day when you grow up, you will look back and realize "Wow, I was a massive dickhead."

Marco Polo said:
I'm in favor of using any means necessary to get rid of ebola here, and the same to keep it from coming back. Under no circumstances should ANY aid workers be sent there to die for somebody else's country.

And while I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I'm not convinced our government would be honest with us about how serious the problem is. This is the kind of situation where I'd expect them to tell whatever lies they need to in order to keep things in order. Maybe the disease "doesn't work right" to cause an epidemic, do you want to risk it? Clearly it's not so easy to stamp out or else it would have been done already, and if things don't improve then an escalation of measures will eventually be necessary.
If that makes me uncompassionate, too bad. Rather that than be dead of some third-world disease.
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Yes, it does, and it also makes you a giant raging asshole. I would take a world where everyone was infected with ebola over a world where everyone acted and spoke like you do.

Blarg King said:
Really? Nuke a huge area thats probably home to millions over a few thousand people infected? Kill a bunch of innocent people, including children and babies?

That would be like me burning my house down over getting ants.[/SIZE]

Regardless, its not any other nations right. Governments can certainly restrict travel to/from these places, but thinking they have any right to destroy them is beyond stupid.

And "garbage nations"? Yes these countries may be less developed and have a lot of problems, but that in no way invalidates them as people or their right to live.

And you would do well to remember that "garbage nation" is in the eye of the beholder. I'm certain there are plenty of nations out there who think the US is a big shit pile.

Better hope people in other nations don't take your stance if the US ever needs help.
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Exactly. It is not normal to want to nuke a whole country just because of a disease. Valuing your life over an entire nation is obscene. See, as BK pointed out, us NORMAL human beings first thought when we hear of a disease isn't "Nuke 'em all!."
 
InfinitusEquitas

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Looks like with early diagnosis and immediate treatment Ebola may be treatable;

Nurse Vinson to be transferred from isolation
Texas nurse Amber Vinson, being treated for Ebola at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital, is steadily regaining her strength and her spirits are high, her family said. Doctors can no longer detect the virus in Vinson's body, and she'll be transferred from isolation, her mother said.
Nurse Pham getting better
The condition of Nina Pham, who, like Vinson, contracted Ebola after treating Duncan, has been upgraded from fair to good.
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Unfortunately unlike the nurses who were specifically monitoring themselves, and knew to be tested to it immediately with any symptoms, a typical person will ignore a low grade fever and only seek help when symptoms become severe, and at that stage treatment may no longer be effective.
 
Hemlock_Mike

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WOW -- Ebama and the CDC says it isn't airborne. What if I sneeze or cough? Aerosol emissions?? Also, It may now be in our environment through the sewer systems since there's rodents down there but they never interface with humans so no problem.
Humans are not the primary vector and we don't yet know for sure where it starts. There may be more than one strain of the virus too.
Sooo many unknowns yet.
To Your Health :beer::beer:!!!!
HMike
 
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InfinitusEquitas

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Also highly suggest reading this article: How The Hot Zone Created the Worst Myths About Ebola

Is it scary if you catch it? Yes. Are you odds of catching it high... nope, ridiculously low. You should be more worried about falling out of bed in your sleep and hitting your head, or of some idiot slamming into you in his car.

Just like the world laser, or gun, tend to elicit strong baseless fear reactions, so does ebola.
 
Blarg King

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I believe ebola spreads through bodily fluids (?)

Luckily I keep mine to myself and don't partake in anyone else's XD
 
Hemlock_Mike

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OK --- I read the Wiki report on ebola for the
second time. It confirms my concerns about
its ability to spread. True --- it is likely
a low possibility but in dense populations -- maybe.
I'm not in a panic here where I live. I simply
observe.
HMike
 
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Elektrotechniker

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wtf, why wash the hands at the very end, since he was wearing gloves all the time? do they have to go through this procedure every f*cking time?
 
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ARG

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Elektrotechniker said:
wtf, why wash the hands at the very end, since he was wearing gloves all the time? do they have to go through this procedure every f*cking time?
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And shower too.

I'd rather be overly cautious than have ebola :p
 
InfinitusEquitas

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Doesn't matter how skilled he is, there are parts of that procedure impossible to do alone.

It would be very very strange if there is no design that permits one person to do it, maybe with the assistance of some well placed loops, hooks and zipper.
 
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