Purposely bringing Ebola the virus onto North American soil. WTF were you idiots thinking? http://us.cnn.com/2014/08/02/health/ebola-outbreak/index.html
What, you think we wanted those knuckleheads to bring that here? They didn't ask us. They never ask us.
We can handle it. We have lots of experience with nasty diseases, considering we have third world shitholes to the south and north of us.
Great, my daughter just came back from a week at Emory. If I stop posting, I guess you'll all know why.
Like so many other things the President does and allows to happen, this is yet another move he chose without interest in public opinion.
The person is an American citizen. We have the ability to both treat the patient and provide proper safeguards. Liberia has neither. Unlike third world shitholes, we actually take care of our citizens.
Because what was really needed here was a plebiscite. "Should we let these Americans die overseas while we discuss whether or not they deserve treatment? Y/N/Other" And of course if they'd been left in Liberia, the Other Side would be yowling about "abandoning our citizens overseas!1!!"
Wasn't there a scandal recently about the CDC leaving horrible diseases lying around the office in zip loc bags? What could possibly go wrong?
So the good of the one outweighs the good of the 300-million? You're an idiot. This person voluntarily decided to go to Africa to help. For that, I applaud him. But to expect to return home when he's contracted a contagious disease with a 60 to 90% mortality rate is nothing short of selfish. There is no fucking way I would expose my family or friends to that. I'd rather die alone in a crappy African country.
This is a weird government we've got. They'll shoot through women to get Osama Bin Laden, they'll drop bombs on kids to get an Al Queda 9/11 planner, they'll torture a guy to get bombing plans he doesn't have, and they'll burn up children to get 1 little guitar playing cult leader, but they won't shoot a couple health care workers to prevent the zombie outbreak? Starting to think we need elections every year.
I haven't been following the story all that closely. Was the decision to move him based on some demand he was making?
For someone constantly harping on 'woo' and wishing death on those that spread it, you do realize you're swimming around in it Scrooge McDuck Moneyvault style right?
No. Pre they were created pre-CDC. It was actually an FDA cold storage room attached to a lab. The building had been National Institute of Health but was handed over to the FDA in the 70s. And they weren't in zip lock bags but in sealed glass vials (molten glass used to seal IIRC).
Ebola while very deadly is not easily transmitted. It requires direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person. In other words, not really an issue in countries with a cultural understanding of and basic infrastructure for proper sanitation. In other words, not a First World Problem. You being Canadian and all though, I can understand your terror.
That's retarded, you've been Foxed. There has been no evidence whatsoever that we had the ability to get the CIA guys out of Benghazi once the situation was understood. And likewise there is no evidence that the Marine is being mistreated in Mexico, much less that he is likely to die.
I've a bet for you and anyone else who wants to take it. If this leads to a major outbreak I'll use an Av saying "I'm a fucking moron" for a month or 50 posts, whichever is longer. If it doesn't lead to a major outbreak in the US, you have to use an Av saying "I'm a fucking moron" for a month or 50 posts, whichever is longer. Sound good?
Oh, and if multiple morons want to sign up for this bet, I'll increase the duration on my end an equivalent amount. So if six ignorant fucks agree to this bet and I lose, it'd be six months or 300 posts, whichever is longer.
There might not be an outbreak - I hope there's not - but will we even really know how close we came to one? It's like Russian Roulette - was the bullet in the next chamber up to bat or still several trigger pulls away?
Want to make a side bet on how many posts it'll take before one of 'em calls you an "Obama apologist"? Yanno what? Why don't you read up on the disease instead of trying to make silly comparisons?
Did I say they SHOULD shoot the people? I'm saying they should be consistent with their established patterns of behavior. Otherwise, it's all a bunch of random bamboozling nonsense.
They are consistent. You are just comparing apples (things we are willing to do to non-Americans in order to protect Americans) to oranges (things we will do to Americans). If you have actually read up on Ebola instead of just diving headfirst into the woo you'd know that under the right conditions (such as in the US and most of the world) Ebola poses almost zero threat (what threat does exist extends only to those working with the fluids of the infected person, and as a precaution those people are also quarantined). On the other hand US citizens abroad who are infected face almost certain death. Their odds of survival are greatly increased with proper treatment, which we can provide.
I think the problem (aside from hers mentality and PANIC!) is that a lot of people have a hard time distinguishing between 'deadly' and 'dangerous' (in terms of an outbreak). In order to explain this, lets travel back in time, to a magical place called 'The Eighties'. At this time there was a VERY deadly disease called AIDS that killed almost everyone who got it. It was called by a mysterious virus called HIV. Now in comparison to Ebola HIV is actually MUCH more dangerous in terms of outbreak potential due to it's linger dormant phase and easier transmission. However, lets put that aside. Imagine that back in the 80s some Americans caught HIV in Africa and the government flew them to the US for treatment. They were going to kept in quarantine, and even those treating them were as well. Then imagine a bunch of ignorant Americans (and Canadians) peed in their panties over it. Now imagine how stupid those people would feel today.
