An Ebola update

[Harbringe]

Done

Edited December 8, 2014 by Harbringe

[Vagrant0]

 

And finally @ Vagrant0 in the previous ebola thread your post #34 you stated

 

Ebola is something that has killed maybe 20,000 people world wide since it's discovery in the 90's.

 

Well that is completely incorrect , since its discovery in 1976 it had killed 1300 roughly up til the current outbreak . This current outbreak is around 4x the previous 38 year totals combined . This is a very different beast we are dealing with compared to what we have previously dealt with. Very different.

Either way, more people die each year due to drunk drivers in just the United States than anyone has died to Ebola. Meaning that, as it stands, the average person's chance of contracting it is statistically near zero. Although it might still be a threat if efforts to contain it fail, it is far from being some sort of panic inducing doomsday situation. This is still being used mostly as a political tool.

[Tidus44]

Watched the entire video (33 minutes wasted) and read through the website and the referenced web pages and there wasn't one thing anywhere that I wasn't told in regards to ebola when I was in Africa in September/October.

 

There wasn't one thing that I have not been instructed on since returning to Canada and my job as an emergency responder. Yes, ebola is an issue that has emergency responders doing some planning IN CASE an ebola patient is found on a emergency call. No one is predicting some huge outbreak so don't make anything out of it other than what it is, precautions just in case the unexpected does happen.

 

There wasn't one thing that I have not already read in public information made (readily) available by Health Care agencies.

 

Because good information is ignored by the sensationalizing media, ignorant politicians and petty, self important bureaucrats, it does not mean there is some conspiracy or no good information. And honestly, if you get your health advice from the media or politicians or some conspiracy website, then you probably deserve what happens to you.

Considering how much good and accurate information is available and information that the website totally ignored or deliberately misinterpreted, one would have to be pretty dim to believe the website has any motivation other than to spread misinformation in order to cause fear and support some idiotic theory dreamt up in a delusional stupor, ("StormCloudsGathering", now there's a website that isn't in conspiracy mode and has nothing but 100% accurate information).

They should be in the "Sensationalism run amock" (amok) thread.

 

As for how many people one thing or another kills, I fail to see what is the point. Is it preferable to be killed by ebola or a drunk driver or some other event one can take precautions to avoid?

 

I didn't see anything of value or an update on the website, just more misinformation from another website on a mission.

[kvnchrist]

I wonder if their use of the term aerosol means weaponized as in the case of dispensers spraying this bug.

[Tidus44]

I wonder if their use of the term aerosol means weaponized as in the case of dispensers spraying this bug.

 

The term refers to very fine solid or liquid particles in air. In referring to ebola in most instances it is liquids (body fluids) that may be sprayed into the air, as by cough or sneeze.

 

The one report referenced by the website identifies the US Army as having an interest in ebola as a possible biological weapon and they (as well as others) are likely still looking at ebola as a possible weapon. And biological weapons do tend to have aerosol delivery systems.

[kvnchrist]

 

I wonder if their use of the term aerosol means weaponized as in the case of dispensers spraying this bug.

 

The term refers to very fine solid or liquid particles in air. In referring to ebola in most instances it is liquids (body fluids) that may be sprayed into the air, as by cough or sneeze.

 

The one report referenced by the website identifies the US Army as having an interest in ebola as a possible biological weapon and they (as well as others) are likely still looking at ebola as a possible weapon. And biological weapons do tend to have aerosol delivery systems.

 

 

 

Thank you, sir!

[Vagrant0]

As for how many people one thing or another kills, I fail to see what is the point. Is it preferable to be killed by ebola or a drunk driver or some other event one can take precautions to avoid?

 

 

The comparison was eluded to in the previous thread. It was brought up in response to people being panicked because of it being something that is mostly fatal, but which they can contract just by being around someone who is infected. In short the "Someone coughed in the room and now I've suddenly gotten ebola" stupidity which was prevalent at the start and was the leading edge of the paranoia. In response I drew the comparison between this "deadly infectious disease that you cannot prevent on an individual level" and deaths from drunk driving which; while being something that individuals usually have no control over, and while having more deaths annually just in one country, you don't see anyone refusing to go about their lives in fear of.

[Tidus44]

 

As for how many people one thing or another kills, I fail to see what is the point. Is it preferable to be killed by ebola or a drunk driver or some other event one can take precautions to avoid?

 

 

The comparison was eluded to in the previous thread. It was brought up in response to people being panicked because of it being something that is mostly fatal, but which they can contract just by being around someone who is infected. In short the "Someone coughed in the room and now I've suddenly gotten ebola" stupidity which was prevalent at the start and was the leading edge of the paranoia. In response I drew the comparison between this "deadly infectious disease that you cannot prevent on an individual level" and deaths from drunk driving which; while being something that individuals usually have no control over, and while having more deaths annually just in one country, you don't see anyone refusing to go about their lives in fear of.

 

 

 

I didn’t follow the previous thread very far and probably should have gone there to see what the specific point was about.