Ebola
 

What are your thoughts?

It's freaking me out. The media is downplaying the severity of the situation. Bringing two patients back to America, and a possible 3rd in NY, is a very, very bad idea.
It also seems like nobody is paying attention.

For me, I'm always thinking worst case. If you ask my wife I'm always saying the most random crap, but for Ebola I'm shocked it took 30 years to bring it over to the United States. I'm more worried about the after effects of the drug they used, it could change the virus into something more deadly.

It could, but it's a virus, which typically doesn't respond to antibiotics, which means the drug is something different.

I'd be more concerned that it's in NY. They should have contained it off shore.

Really concerned about this, but I heard that they gave them a vaccine and that they seem to be doing well with it, so that's a good thing.

I live on an island, and I don't think our government is quite stupid enough to bring any infected people over, so I'm not sweating it.

If it does make it over here, I've got a pretty adaptable apocalypse plan that I could put into action, but that's only if the worst comes to the worst.

Provided people adhere to quarantine procedures illnesses like Ebola will "burn themselves out."

Of course we live in a world where people misuse antibiotics, and crow about how they're anti-vaccination, so...there's that.

We must keep in mind that diseases are a lot deadlier in Sub-Saharan Africa due to the awful conditions most people live in there. Remember that plenty people die of diarrhea in Africa. And that HIV is still pretty much a death sentence there that doesn't take many years to kill you, even though starvation and such are likelier to kill you first, obviously.

That doesn't mean Ebola isn't dangerous, though. And honestly, I'm surprised there haven't been more reported cases of Ebola infected people coming to Europe or North America and spreading the virus to locals.

You serious dude!? :lol:
We're stupid enough to let everyone else in....:roll:

Not on my watch. 2 things you should know about me: It's part of my job to process people coming into the country, and I LOVE abusing my power...:lol:

It's bad, but that pastor who said that it was "God's judgement" is an idiot. I despise religion and people like that. Screw that guy. If he got Ebola I won't care.

I may have spoken too soon. Because we deal with a lot of post and other stuff from the parts of Africa that are affected, we had to have an emergency ebola briefing (easily one of the most surreal moments of my time there), as there's a possibility, however slight, that some contaminated material might come through.

Long story short, they've given us latex gloves to wear. They're one size fits none, and are less than a single molecule thick so they tear as soon as you look at them.

I think I need a new job...

"There's no cause for panic."

Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Director
- Michael VanRooyen


I'm siding with Harvard guy on this one.

Besides, I'm a half-hour from Ferguson, MO....I've had enough crap to worry about these past 2 weeks. An Ebola outbreak that hasn't happened in my country (or continent) isn't a concern at the moment.

When the National Guard was in the neighborhood it sure as hell wasn't for an Ebola outbreak, I can tell you that much.