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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
Superfly said:
I think you're going to need a bigger notebook.
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True, Apache can't keep track of his lies....but to him, they are magical truths...life in angry-land...LOL
 
beefheart said:
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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Wrong by a year or by a few months ? How long is a college semester ? If you ever attended college you would know that.

Three semesters in a year if you count the summer semester.

Nobody knows any thing about Obama's college records, his college transcripts still haven't been released.

You look pretty stupid defending someones college records if you never seen them.


And your the first person to announce that Obama earned a "Doctorate degree." :eek:
 
I'm certainly not blaming Obama for Ebola. He may not be the greatest, but he is certainly far from the worst that we have seen. He seems to be blamed for every damn thing that happens in the world, from Ebola to homosexuality in Africa.. It is ridiculous ! As for Ebola, it is scary and just recently two people have been isolated in WDC who are believed to be infected with the Ebola virus. One thing is for sure though, if we see more outbreaks in the US, there will be more efforts to contain and eliminate it. What about the spread of the Corona Virus from the Mid East, no one is talking about that anymore, meanwhile the hajj pilgrimage having just ended in Saudi Arabia could see the spread of the virus world-wide. May god protect us from the madness that is our world.

Article on Ebola in D.C. - 1 of 2 possible Ebola patients in isolation at D.C.-area hospitals has malaria | WJLA.com
 
Rainman05 said:
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.
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I'll ask again: what does black have to do with it?
 
APACHERAT said:
Wrong by a year or by a few months ? How long is a college semester ? If you ever attended college you would know that.

Three semesters in a year if you count the summer semester.

Nobody knows any thing about Obama's college records, his college transcripts still haven't been released.

You look pretty stupid defending someones college records if you never seen them.


And your the first person to announce that Obama earned a "Doctorate degree." :eek:
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Stop digging, you are making a fool of yourself.

Obama entered Harvard Law School in the fall of 1988. He was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year,[40] president of the journal in his second year, and research assistant to the constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe while at Harvard for two years. During his summers, he returned to Chicago, where he worked as an associate at the law firms of Sidley Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990. After graduating with a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama


The Juris Doctor (J.D.) is a professional doctorate and first professional graduate degree in law. The degree is earned by completing law school in the United States, Canada, Australia, and other common law countries. Many who hold the degree of Juris Doctor are professionals committed to the practice of law, and may choose to focus their practice on criminal law, personal injury, family law, corporate law, and/or a wide range of other areas.

The majority of individuals holding a J.D. must pass an examination in order to be licensed to practice law within their respective jurisdictions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor


You don't even know what a Juris Doctor is, using your words..."if you ever attended college, you would know that"


Debating you is like shooting very large fish in a very tiny barrel.
 
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Rainman05 said:
Ok, do you want me to copy-paste my response?
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Why do you presume people are blaming Obama because he's black and not because he's President.
 
Way too much inappropriate politicizing of the matter in this thread.

I'm definitely concerned, because my analysis tells me that, for whatever reason, the WHO and the CDC are not accurately presenting the facts about how Ebola, and particularly the Zaire strain which we're dealing with, is spread.

I also have a son who sees patients in an E.R. so my awareness is heightened.

So the situation is definitely on my mind.

I will reserve answering the poll until it's revealed that someone who had contact with Duncan prior to him "showing symptoms" comes down with Ebola.

I'm hoping for the best, that this outbreak can be contained and ended.

But we're dealing with a disease strain that historically has had an 80-90 percent fatality rate in third-world countries populated with undernourished people and a 50 percent fatality rate today with otherwise healthier people receiving a more effective healthcare response.

There is yet no vaccine (to prevent this strain of Ebola) and no specific cure that can be injected.

We are also told by the only study (presented here at DP in another thread) that the virus can linger on materials for over six days, from where it can be picked up.

The incubation period isn't "21 days", it's "2 to 21 days", which depends on how much of the virus enters one's body initially and how depleted one's immune system already is.

My concerns include, not just the loss of life directly from the disease, but the potential to kill our economy if people choose not to go anywhere but the grocery store (and then not without wearing their HAZMAT suit, assuming, of course, they trust that their food isn't contaminated) and other tragic reactive cascades.

Then the government might simply tell us that "we have to keep going to work and we have to keep shopping, or we're as good as dead then for sure, so just keep on keeping on, praying that your number won't be up today, and if it is, then just accept it -- whatever you do, don't panic or spread panic, as that would be worse than dying from the disease itself".

So I'm watching the Dallas/Fort Wt. area closely, and the country as a whole, to see who comes down with the disease next, hoping no one will.

This isn't the flu we're dealing with here -- this is a disease with the potential to kill tens of millions of Americans .. or more .. and very, very painfully, I might add.

It makes intelligent sense to be concerned .. very concerned.
 
Scared? No.


Slightly concerned? A bit yes...
 
No, I'm not personally scared of Ebola. However,

First and foremost, I want the American people to know that our experts, here at the CDC and across our government, agree that the chances of an Ebola outbreak here in the United States are extremely low. We’ve been taking the necessary precautions, including working with countries in West Africa to increase screening at airports so that someone with the virus doesn’t get on a plane for the United States. In the unlikely event that someone with Ebola does reach our shores, we’ve taken new measures so that we’re prepared here at home. We’re working to help flight crews identify people who are sick, and more labs across our country now have the capacity to quickly test for the virus. We’re working with hospitals to make sure that they are prepared, and to ensure that our doctors, our nurses and our medical staff are trained, are ready, and are able to deal with a possible case safely.
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Obama, Two Weeks Ago: 'Chances of an Ebola Outbreak Here ... Extremely Low' | The Weekly Standard

This level of incompetency in dealing with the Ebola outbreak, and it's spread / purposeful importation to our country, has me very concerned.

Seriously. Why isn't there a 3 week quarantine of anyone who has traveled from or through the Ebola outbreak areas in Africa to the US been imposed? Isn't containment of the outbreak the first order of business with the highest of priorities?
 
My concern although the MSM is reporting on this 24/7, there is also a huge effort going on to downplay the threat. Right now my confidence level in my government is at an all time low. I feel we can't count on them to protect us from terrorists infiltrating this country due to feckless policies and for the same reasons have little confidence in their dealing with this disease and we will eventually be dealing with an Ebola outbreak. They have found that public taxis in the areas of the outbreak are one of several ways the disease is being spread. Now if you can contract it sitting in the same seat that another who was infected then this stuff is a lot more dangerous than what people are being led to believe.
 
eohrnberger said:
No, I'm not personally scared of Ebola. However,

Obama, Two Weeks Ago: 'Chances of an Ebola Outbreak Here ... Extremely Low' | The Weekly Standard

This level of incompetency in dealing with the Ebola outbreak, and it's spread / purposeful importation to our country, has me very concerned.

Seriously. Why isn't there a 3 week quarantine of anyone who has traveled from or through the Ebola outbreak areas in Africa to the US been imposed? Isn't containment of the outbreak the first order of business with the highest of priorities?
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Greetings, Erik. :2wave:

:agree: One would think so, but I haven't heard of any quarantine areas being established. I can understand Obama adopting a soothing, "don't worry", persona because of the possibility of public panic, but what happens if cases start showing up all over the world, let alone here? Seems kinda dicey to take a "let's wait and see" attitude. We know it has been rapidly spreading from one country to another in South Africa - and people do travel every day, hence the need for quarantine areas to allow only the healthy to leave.
 
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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I am much more frightened of having a socialist president.
 
beefheart said:
The Juris Doctor (J.D.) is a professional doctorate and first professional graduate degree in law. The degree is earned by completing law school in the United States, Canada, Australia, and other common law countries. Many who hold the degree of Juris Doctor are professionals committed to the practice of law, and may choose to focus their practice on criminal law, personal injury, family law, corporate law, and/or a wide range of other areas.
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Looks like someone wasn't to committed does it ? :lamo

Obama is nothing more than a community organizer. Community organizers are nothing but agitators, trouble makers.

Just don't look at the world today especially in the Middle East and Africa but look at the Obama administration. Third world at best.
 
Has it been determined how this photographer contracted the virus yet? Or how patient zero contracted it?
 
APACHERAT said:
Looks like someone wasn't to committed does it ? :lamo

Obama is nothing more than a community organizer. Community organizers are nothing but agitators, trouble makers.

Just don't look at the world today especially in the Middle East and Africa but look at the Obama administration. Third world at best.
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Nice spin...Hey Apache, what is a Juris Doctorate? LOL

Keep up the ignorance, it is comedy gold.
 
polgara said:
Greetings, Erik. :2wave:

:agree: One would think so, but I haven't heard of any quarantine areas being established. I can understand Obama adopting a soothing, "don't worry", persona because of the possibility of public panic, but what happens if cases start showing up all over the world, let alone here? Seems kinda dicey to take a "let's wait and see" attitude. We know it has been rapidly spreading from one country to another in South Africa - and people do travel every day, hence the need for quarantine areas to allow only the healthy to leave.
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Greetings Polgara! :2wave: Hope you are well.

Usually it takes months for Obama's false statements to come to light, but now he's down to 2 weeks. He must not be trying very hard anymore. ;)
 
eohrnberger said:
No, I'm not personally scared of Ebola. However,

Obama, Two Weeks Ago: 'Chances of an Ebola Outbreak Here ... Extremely Low' | The Weekly Standard

This level of incompetency in dealing with the Ebola outbreak, and it's spread / purposeful importation to our country, has me very concerned.

Seriously. Why isn't there a 3 week quarantine of anyone who has traveled from or through the Ebola outbreak areas in Africa to the US been imposed? Isn't containment of the outbreak the first order of business with the highest of priorities?
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Yes - that and it just being, on the onset, like so many other ailments.

The guy in Dallas - apparently the woman he helped (the pregnant woman in Liberia) whom spread it to a larger number of people was believed to be sick *with pregnancy related complications*

They didn't think she was sick with Ebola.
They didn't think the guy was sick with it, either.

Detection is the essential and missing element as is adequate purging (like the whole 'we bleached' fiasco - where the CDC said they weren't adequately prepared for the cleanup).

So what is it that will tip healthcare provides off to someone *having Ebola* and not just a stomach bug?
 
US govt. is taking matters too lightly. We had our experience with SARS. Quarantine and contact tracing should be relentless.
 
I just like to ask questions like: If it is so hard to catch, why did no less than 3 doctors with good training and proper equipment catch the virus? Why is it also a pandemic?

What we have in America, though, is not Ebola. Ebola is crazy bad. If you get Ebola, it will liquefy your body in 48 hours. Ebola mutates so often, you can't create a vaccine or cure. When they encountered it in the 70's, they quarantined entire towns in Africa until they all died. Ebola should be feared greatly. What we have is bad, but it isn't as bad as Ebola. I don't buy the official line though. If it is so hard to communicate, it shouldn't be spreading so easily.
 
ObamacareFail said:
I am amused by people who don't think "Hussein" is a socialist.
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I am even more amused by people who think he is.... then again, when you sit out on the far right wing, the fuselage looks a lone way to the left. For one, since you seem to be obsessed with Obamacare to the point it is your name, a real socialist would not have taken a capitalistic approach to healthcare (leaving the private sector, not only in place, but making them the centerpiece of the solution).

BTW... One loses all credibility as to political objectivity when they are so obsessed by the President's middle name.
 
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Aunt Spiker said:
Yes - that and it just being, on the onset, like so many other ailments.

The guy in Dallas - apparently the woman he helped (the pregnant woman in Liberia) whom spread it to a larger number of people was believed to be sick *with pregnancy related complications*

They didn't think she was sick with Ebola.
They didn't think the guy was sick with it, either.

Detection is the essential and missing element as is adequate purging (like the whole 'we bleached' fiasco - where the CDC said they weren't adequately prepared for the cleanup).

So what is it that will tip healthcare provides off to someone *having Ebola* and not just a stomach bug?
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I'd refer you to the CDC web page:
[h=4]Symptoms of Ebola include[/h]
  • Fever (greater than 38.6°C or 101.5°F)
  • Severe headache
  • Muscle pain
  • Weakness
  • Diarrhea
  • Vomiting
  • Abdominal (stomach) pain
  • Unexplained hemorrhage (bleeding or bruising)

Symptoms may appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure to Ebola, but the average is 8 to 10 days.

Recovery from Ebola depends on good supportive clinical care and the patient’s immune response. People who recover from Ebola infection develop antibodies that last for at least 10 years.
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Signs and Symptoms | Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever | CDC

Of course, as we all well know from other viral infections, before the systems become pronounced, the carrier is a source of transmission. Just like the common cold viruses.

To my mind, as severe as the consequences are from becoming infected with Ebola the risks are great, so the slightest of suspicion of possible infection needs to met with immediate and strict quarantine until guaranteed infection free is assured. It's the only way, in my view, to effectively keep the outbreak from spreading an infecting a large number of people, putting their lives, and other people's lives, at risk.
 
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