The Ebola Thread: Ebola is an economic black swan - outbreak is out of control.; What if Ebola hits Australian shores? Race to notify 131 passengers on flight that carried second infected nurse
Tweet Topic Started: 11 Aug 2014, 01:48 PM (5,786 Views)
... where do you bulls get this shit from that people hope for ebola to buy a house cheap? ...
Bears are just fundamentally bad people Golly. It's in our DNA. With this being wisely recognised by all the reasonable and rational bulls.
So us bears obviously hope for every possible bad thing to happen humanity all the time - Regardless of the fact we don't - Because us bears are obviously all just 'dislikeable persons' - From the perspective of the ever wise 'n reasonable 'n rational bulls ...
A Professional Demographer to an amateur demographer:"negative natural increase will never outweigh the positive net migration"
One thing about Ebola, is that it doesn't spread all that easy unlike the flu or common cold. Techniques to stop the spread if it does become more uncontained are pretty reliable.
Its kinda sad how some people on this forum are so keen for dropping house prices that they actually hope for an Ebola outbreak to cause it.
Just who are these "some people on this forum", Sweetdish? Where has *anyone* on this forum stated that they are "so keen for dropping house prices that they actually hope for an Ebola outbreak to cause it"?
Kindly provide some evidence if you're going to fling shit like that.
And while we're at it let's quit with the 'black swan' announcements.
A black swan is something that completely fucks with our minds because we never thought it would be possible.
Ever
Only ebola for specufestors and associated parasites, like every estate agent and 90% of bankers, ... oh and Joe Hockey and chums too just cause he is the most stupid C to be working the countries schemes and scams. (the last one was so so, this one is a pig)
Workers with the aid group Doctors Without Borders prepare a new Ebola treatment center near Monrovia, Liberia, on Sunday. The facility has 120 beds, making it the largest Ebola isolation clinic in history.
Workers with the aid group Doctors Without Borders prepare a new Ebola treatment center near Monrovia, Liberia, on Sunday. The facility has 120 beds, making it the largest Ebola isolation clinic in history.
The latest numbers on the Ebola outbreak are grim: 2,473 people infected and 1,350 deaths.
That's the World Health Organization's official of confirmed, probable and suspect cases across Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. But the WHO has previously that its official figures may "vastly underestimate the magnitude of the outbreak."
So how bad is it really?
That's the question NPR put to several people who have been carefully watching the outbreak.
There's no scientific way of knowing exactly how wrong the official numbers are, says Joseph Fair, an infectious disease doctor who has been acting as a special adviser to the health minister of Sierra Leone. "At a bare minimum, I would guess they're probably off by 20 percent," he says.
Once public health workers identify someone with this disease, Fair says, they have to find everyone else who might have gotten exposed through contact with that person. And that hasn't been easy.
Even if someone tests positive for , he says, public health workers may return and find that the person has simply disappeared.
"They're traveling, usually by public transport, and coming into contact with a lot more people," Fair says.
The health agencies of these poverty-stricken countries don't have the staff they need to track down all these people who may have been exposed. Unlike previous Ebola outbreaks that hit isolated, rural areas, this one is affecting many more people in a more urban environment.
Adding to the difficulty is a climate of distrust created by years of war and conflict.
"Because people are so afraid, in some instances, if a relative dies in a home, all the others run away instead of going toward the clinic to report themselves," says , a Liberian pediatrician who is president of the Liberia College of Physicians and Surgeons. She's currently in the U.S., trying to raise funds and support to help fight Ebola.
"Obviously, the statistics we're getting is just scratching the surface," Marshall says. "When we say we have so many suspected cases, so many probable cases, so many confirmed cases, that's just the ones who are coming in for testing."
, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, agrees that people running away from hospitals and quarantines are a real problem, making him fear that this outbreak will get worse before it gets better.
"A considerable number of people are going to die before we get it under control," Fauci says. "Obviously, as a physician and as a health person, that bothers me."
But he says some government workers who have been to West Africa actually think the official numbers aren't that far off.
"They think it's likely a bit underreported, but not substantially," Fauci says. The number of people affected is not likely to be "many, many, many-fold greater" than what the WHO has estimated, he added.
One simple reason the numbers are wrong is that there's currently a backlog in getting cases entered into the official counting system, says , an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who has been working on the outbreak.
"We probably will have much more accurate numbers in the coming weeks," she says.
Having good numbers, she says, is key to understanding where Ebola is really spreading and where public health workers need to focus their efforts.
True. I wouldn't be the least concerned myself until there were several confirmed cases in my city. They have a shot for it now anyway so I don't forsee a problem outside of Africa.
This won't cause a crash, we're predominantly white and can afford medication. That's the stark reality, we 're happy to let black Africans die on mass and not even batter an eyelid, a white American doctor however gets an. 'Experimental' drug that cures him completely.
Must of been one hell of an experiment to cure a test subject completely!!! (Sarcasm of cause)
See what I mean about certain peoples righteous ethos on foreign affairs. There is a cure for Ebola that has been given to White American doctors that will not be afforded to the now thousands of Africans dying from this disease. You don't even hear a wimper from BP over that, it's literally controlled manslaughter because we choose to allow them to die but in general no one gives a f$&k.
Or maybe we just care about what we're told to care about??.
If so, care about a crash, not from Ebola but from the bulls!!
We have seen Ebola reach the US and yesterday the euro.
So far , over 3,500 deaths from around 7,000 suposedly diagnosed.
Should we be concerned ?
Will it spread in the US and Euro ?
Will it hit Australia ?
If it does, what will you do ?
It's been suppressed because Africans don't travel that much. Once it hits the west, it will spread much faster. It could become the Spanish flu of our century. How did that one work out?
Whenever you have an argument with someone, there comes a moment where you must ask yourself, whatever your political persuasion, 'am I the Nazi?'
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