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Are You Personally Scared About the Ebola Virus?

Are you personally scared about the Ebola virus being in the US?

  • Yes

    Votes: 7 10.9%

  • No

    Votes: 57 89.1%
  • Total voters
    64
No, I am far more worried about this Enterovirus Respiratory Infection hitting kids hard in some 46 (ish) States today than I am Ebola. At least for now.
 
OrphanSlug said:
No, I am far more worried about this Enterovirus Respiratory Infection hitting kids hard in some 46 (ish) States today than I am Ebola. At least for now.
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Even more of a concern.

A handful get Enterovirus - taxing the healthcare system further (as has happened in several places already) - and then become more susceptible to contracting and spreading other ailments while at the doctor / hospital.

So one serious concern has a cascading effect - and then becomes two. All while a war is going on and people are deploying and coming home left and right. Seriously - we do not live in abubble.
 
OrphanSlug said:
No, I am far more worried about this Enterovirus Respiratory Infection hitting kids hard in some 46 (ish) States today than I am Ebola. At least for now.
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Barack Obama Is Bringing Disease to America

>" With a southern border so unguarded that even a federal bulletin has warned that it may be the source of an imminent terrorist attack, there is strong suspicion that another threat has crossed it: disease.

News stories have appeared recently about a strange outbreak across the Midwest of Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), which is related to the common cold but causes severe respiratory illness. The disease has sent a multitude of children to the hospital, with some requiring treatment in intensive-care units. And while the Center for Disease Control (CDC) is blaming the outbreak on “seasonal allergies” and the school year’s start, many critics are asking an obvious question: Is it a coincidence that this outbreak occurred right after the Obama administration allowed tens of thousands of illegal-alien minors to cross our border and then shipped them all over the United States?

And this thesis seems ever more valid with reports that the federal government has coerced schools into accepting possibly sick illegal-alien children. Writes the Daily Caller’s Eric Owens, “The Obama administration has not subjected a large number of these children to proper medical screening processes. Instead, the federal government has sent the unaccompanied minors to various U.S. locations to live with relatives or, in some cases, to live as foster wards. The children then enroll in local, taxpayer-funded public schools with no questions asked — by law.” Professor of medicine at New York University’s Langone Medical Center Dr. Marc Siegel warned about this as far back as July, writing in Slate, “As many as 50,000 children, mostly from Central American countries … are not being detained for the purpose of identifying illness, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement relying on self-report of symptoms, and many have already been sent to other states, where disease can spread.”

So has south-of-the-border disease already spread? While ABC News Chief Health and Medical Editor Dr. Richard Besser has said that we “have no idea why it [EV-D68] showed up this year,” others have a very definite idea. They point out that Besser also said, “Viruses don't tend to respect [state] borders”; this is true because people can freely travel among states (as they should be able to). But is it any different if people can freely travel across international borders, as they should not be able to? Will disease respect the southern border any more than trespassing illegals or open-borders Obama?..."<

continue -> Barack Obama Is Bringing Disease to America
 
Rainman05 said:
People should be blaming that other black guy, Thomas Eric Duncan for bringing ebola to the US, not obama.
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What does black have to do with it?


WCH said:
Sounds like PC won.
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Doesn't it seem kinda stupid to misinterpret a social object and then use it as ones boogeyman. I'm sure you don't like it when people do so regarding Christianity.


Ebola coming to the US.
Sounds like Christianity won!
 
ecofarm said:
What does black have to do with it?




Doesn't it seem kinda stupid to misinterpret a social object and then use it as ones boogeyman. I'm sure you don't like it when people do so regarding Christianity.


Ebola coming to the US.
Sounds like Christianity won!
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Those were PC reasonings for not using the CDC recommended quarantine protocols. This President listening to no one at our peril.
 
Scared? Not really. A bit worried, just because of how humans can act with any little disruption in their way of life, yes.
 
I'd be willing to bet that more Americans will die of the flu in the next 12 months than will die of ebola in the same time.
 
How many people die every year in the US from influenza?

Not worried.

Wasn't worried when I flew to SE Asia during SARS, (although Los Angeles, where I connected had more cases than where I flew to).

And, I came back, and a very ignorant twit at work who was pregnant convinced management that I couldn't come back into the office for 2 weeks (yet, I could go to a planning meeting in the same building, that was behind a few doors).

Paranoid folks who are ruled by fear, not logic.
 
Not even slightly.
 
APACHERAT said:
We should be scared that Obama still has 27 more months in the White House.

The Obama administration State Department issued the visa to the individual (Duncan) who became infected with Ebola in his home country in Liberia.

Obama's Department of Homeland Security allowed the Ebola infected individual into the United States.
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Normally I would not be afraid but under this inept, incompetent president and administration, hell yes I am scared, not so much for me but my family.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Ok.. So this Ebola virus seems to have everyone all in a upheaval. The media is covering non-stop, people are scared ****less, some are blaming that damn guy named Obama! Are you personally scared about the Ebola virus being in the US?
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anonymous polls-like ebola-need to be stamped out
 
Navy Pride said:
Obama said we don't have to worry about Ebola but now its here in the USA.
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Tell you what...you worry...worry yourself to death.

I'll live in the rational world with rational folk.
 
Navy Pride said:
Obama said we don't have to worry about Ebola but now its here in the USA.
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President Ebola, oops, I have to remain PC, President Obama also said that ISIS was "JV."

Is anyone keeping track of all of the lies since 2009 ?
 
ecofarm said:
What does black have to do with it?
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Thomas Eric Duncan is black.
Obama is black.

The OP said that people are blaming obama and I said that no, they should blame the other black guy, eric duncan. And yes, eric duncan is black. And he has family in both the US and liberia. It's all in the news.
 
I am afraid of it, but in a sense that I have been afraid of it for years and years. It's not something that I'm overly worried about, that will come knocking on my door, but you'd be crazy not to have something like that stuck in the back of your mind.
 
APACHERAT said:
President Ebola, oops, I have to remain PC, President Obama also said that ISIS was "JV."

Is anyone keeping track of all of the lies since 2009 ?
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I've been keeping track of your lies...new ones every day.
 
Ebola in the US is not likely to kill more people than hernias. I wouldn't get my panties in a knot over it, if I was American.
 
APACHERAT said:
You made the personal attack, now back them up.

List all of those lies.

You do know what the definition of a "lie" is ?
I seriously doubt it.
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We went over this many times, you lied about how long it took Palin to get a degree (you were short a year), you lied about how long it took Obama to get a undergrad degree (you went a year long), and you lied about how long it took for him to get his Juris Doctorate degree (you went long again).

Pointed out to you numerous times, quit playing dumb.

Apache, I don't think you even know when you are not telling the truth any more, ODS
 
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