we can beat this ebola thing

in reality, all of this has been a total load of old bollocks

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Re: we can beat this ebola thing

Postby Jimbo » 24 Oct 2014, 07:13

From what I read the outbreak began in Zaire back in 1976 and one skeptic wonders how the disease hopscotched 3500KM miles to Liberia and Guinea. He postulates that since Liberia and Guinea are not signatories to the biological weapons ban the US biological war guys are using their territory as a testing ground. http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf ... e40012.htm
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Re: we can beat this ebola thing

Postby WG Kaspar » 24 Oct 2014, 08:08

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Re: we can beat this ebola thing

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Re: we can beat this ebola thing

Postby Snarfyguy » 24 Oct 2014, 15:08

Copehead wrote:About the same number of people are killed every day by Malaria as by Ebola in its whole history

I think this statistic, or factoid, or whatever it is is interesting but perhaps kind of misleading, inasmuch as the epidemiology of the two diseases is so different that they're perhaps not so comparable - with the one, you pretty much have to go to a particular zone and get stung by an illness-bearing mosquito and with the other you can apparently get it just by being in the same room with someone who has it, so the potential for that to spill out of control into a widespread health crisis is the issue, rather than the aggregate number of deaths.
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Re: we can beat this ebola thing

Postby kath » 24 Oct 2014, 15:17

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i always went for his "love is hell"...

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Re: we can beat this ebola thing

Postby kath » 24 Oct 2014, 15:23

Snarfyguy wrote:
Copehead wrote:About the same number of people are killed every day by Malaria as by Ebola in its whole history

I think this statistic, or factoid, or whatever it is is interesting but perhaps kind of misleading, inasmuch as the epidemiology of the two diseases is so different that they're perhaps not so comparable - with the one, you pretty much have to go to a particular zone and get stung by an illness-bearing mosquito and with the other you can apparently get it just by being in the same room with someone who has it, so the potential for that to spill out of control into a widespread health crisis is the issue, rather than the aggregate number of deaths.


agreed. malaria's not exactly gonna turn into the plague.

my sunshiny sister thinks we might get wiped out by it. her response: time to plan another vacation right now, bitches. don't worry all that much about wiping down yer tray tables or yer seat belts, in the long term.

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Re: we can beat this ebola thing

Postby Minnie the Minx » 24 Oct 2014, 15:28

Snarfyguy wrote:
Copehead wrote:About the same number of people are killed every day by Malaria as by Ebola in its whole history

I think this statistic, or factoid, or whatever it is is interesting but perhaps kind of misleading, inasmuch as the epidemiology of the two diseases is so different that they're perhaps not so comparable - with the one, you pretty much have to go to a particular zone and get stung by an illness-bearing mosquito and with the other you can apparently get it just by being in the same room with someone who has it, so the potential for that to spill out of control into a widespread health crisis is the issue, rather than the aggregate number of deaths.


You don't get Ebola by being in the same room as someone who has it.
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Postby harvey k-tel » 24 Oct 2014, 15:30

Minnie the Minx wrote:
Snarfyguy wrote:
Copehead wrote:About the same number of people are killed every day by Malaria as by Ebola in its whole history

I think this statistic, or factoid, or whatever it is is interesting but perhaps kind of misleading, inasmuch as the epidemiology of the two diseases is so different that they're perhaps not so comparable - with the one, you pretty much have to go to a particular zone and get stung by an illness-bearing mosquito and with the other you can apparently get it just by being in the same room with someone who has it, so the potential for that to spill out of control into a widespread health crisis is the issue, rather than the aggregate number of deaths.


You don't get Ebola by being in the same room as someone who has it.


What if it's a really really tiny room?
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Re: we can beat this ebola thing

Postby kath » 24 Oct 2014, 15:40

Harvey K-Tel wrote:
Minnie the Minx wrote:
Snarfyguy wrote:I think this statistic, or factoid, or whatever it is is interesting but perhaps kind of misleading, inasmuch as the epidemiology of the two diseases is so different that they're perhaps not so comparable - with the one, you pretty much have to go to a particular zone and get stung by an illness-bearing mosquito and with the other you can apparently get it just by being in the same room with someone who has it, so the potential for that to spill out of control into a widespread health crisis is the issue, rather than the aggregate number of deaths.


You don't get Ebola by being in the same room as someone who has it.


What if it's a really really tiny room?


mwhahahaaha.

minnie's right, but it's a pretty fine line. the people who know best are getting it. if you *are* in the same room as a person with ebola, you better make damn sure not to inhale part of a sneeze or touch anything that person has touched... and for fucque's sake, oral sex is right out.
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Re: we can beat this ebola thing

Postby Snarfyguy » 24 Oct 2014, 15:42

Minnie the Minx wrote:
Snarfyguy wrote:
Copehead wrote:About the same number of people are killed every day by Malaria as by Ebola in its whole history

I think this statistic, or factoid, or whatever it is is interesting but perhaps kind of misleading, inasmuch as the epidemiology of the two diseases is so different that they're perhaps not so comparable - with the one, you pretty much have to go to a particular zone and get stung by an illness-bearing mosquito and with the other you can apparently get it just by being in the same room with someone who has it, so the potential for that to spill out of control into a widespread health crisis is the issue, rather than the aggregate number of deaths.


You don't get Ebola by being in the same room as someone who has it.

Okay, well, what do I know? So somebody who's got it bad coughs on you. The point being, it travels.

I'm not trying to be an alarmist, just maybe a better thing to compare it to is, like, measles or something.
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Re: we can beat this ebola thing

Postby copehead » 24 Oct 2014, 15:50

Snarfyguy wrote:
Copehead wrote:About the same number of people are killed every day by Malaria as by Ebola in its whole history

I think this statistic, or factoid, or whatever it is is interesting but perhaps kind of misleading, inasmuch as the epidemiology of the two diseases is so different that they're perhaps not so comparable - with the one, you pretty much have to go to a particular zone and get stung by an illness-bearing mosquito and with the other you can apparently get it just by being in the same room with someone who has it, so the potential for that to spill out of control into a widespread health crisis is the issue, rather than the aggregate number of deaths.


You cannot get by being in the same room as someone who has it.

You can get it by getting the bodily fluids of someone who is in the terminal stages of the disease into your bloodstream.

If the person is not showing symptoms of the disease they are not contagious, if they are showing symptoms of the disease you would notice pretty quickly, basically if someone has been to West Africa recently and appears to be shitting their brains out of their ears and their liver out of their arse it may be advisable not to get their bodily fluids on yourself, or at least your mucus membranes, eyes or open wounds, on your skin is fine unless you then suck your thumb or rub your eyes.

The reason why such a deadly disease as Ebola, which kills a high % of the people it infects unless they have quick access to very high standards of health care, has killed so few people in its known history is because it isn't easily transmissible.
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Re: we can beat this ebola thing

Postby kath » 24 Oct 2014, 16:10

Copehead wrote:
Snarfyguy wrote:
Copehead wrote:About the same number of people are killed every day by Malaria as by Ebola in its whole history

I think this statistic, or factoid, or whatever it is is interesting but perhaps kind of misleading, inasmuch as the epidemiology of the two diseases is so different that they're perhaps not so comparable - with the one, you pretty much have to go to a particular zone and get stung by an illness-bearing mosquito and with the other you can apparently get it just by being in the same room with someone who has it, so the potential for that to spill out of control into a widespread health crisis is the issue, rather than the aggregate number of deaths.


You cannot get by being in the same room as someone who has it.

You can get it by getting the bodily fluids of someone who is in the terminal stages of the disease into your bloodstream.

If the person is not showing symptoms of the disease they are not contagious, if they are showing symptoms of the disease you would notice pretty quickly, basically if someone has been to West Africa recently and appears to be shitting their brains out of their ears and their liver out of their arse it may be advisable not to get their bodily fluids on yourself, or at least your mucus membranes, eyes or open wounds, on your skin is fine unless you then suck your thumb or rub your eyes.

The reason why such a deadly disease as Ebola, which kills a high % of the people it infects unless they have quick access to very high standards of health care, has killed so few people in its known history is because it isn't easily transmissible.


dude? i am extremely glad you aren't in charge of the centers for disease control. or in charge of any medical staff directly dealing with ebola.

speaking of the CDC, do you know the types of diseases categorized by the CDC as the highest priority, select category A, on the national threat list? ya know, the ones which "...pose a risk to national security, can be easily transmitted and disseminated, result in high mortality, have potential major public health impact, may cause public panic, or require special action for public health preparedness..."?

you might wanna look over the list.

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Re: we can beat this ebola thing

Postby Snarfyguy » 24 Oct 2014, 16:30

kath wrote:speaking of the CDC, do you know the types of diseases categorized by the CDC as the highest priority, select category A, on the national threat list? ya know, the ones which "...pose a risk to national security, can be easily transmitted and disseminated, result in high mortality, have potential major public health impact, may cause public panic, or require special action for public health preparedness..."?

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Re: we can beat this ebola thing

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kath wrote:speaking of the CDC, do you know the types of diseases categorized by the CDC as the highest priority, select category A, on the national threat list? ya know, the ones which "...pose a risk to national security, can be easily transmitted and disseminated, result in high mortality, have potential major public health impact, may cause public panic, or require special action for public health preparedness..."?

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Re: we can beat this ebola thing

Postby GoogaMooga » 24 Oct 2014, 16:43

so it's "life is hell", not "life in hell" - makes more sense
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Re: we can beat this ebola thing

Postby copehead » 24 Oct 2014, 19:23

kath wrote:
Copehead wrote:
Snarfyguy wrote:I think this statistic, or factoid, or whatever it is is interesting but perhaps kind of misleading, inasmuch as the epidemiology of the two diseases is so different that they're perhaps not so comparable - with the one, you pretty much have to go to a particular zone and get stung by an illness-bearing mosquito and with the other you can apparently get it just by being in the same room with someone who has it, so the potential for that to spill out of control into a widespread health crisis is the issue, rather than the aggregate number of deaths.


You cannot get by being in the same room as someone who has it.

You can get it by getting the bodily fluids of someone who is in the terminal stages of the disease into your bloodstream.

If the person is not showing symptoms of the disease they are not contagious, if they are showing symptoms of the disease you would notice pretty quickly, basically if someone has been to West Africa recently and appears to be shitting their brains out of their ears and their liver out of their arse it may be advisable not to get their bodily fluids on yourself, or at least your mucus membranes, eyes or open wounds, on your skin is fine unless you then suck your thumb or rub your eyes.

The reason why such a deadly disease as Ebola, which kills a high % of the people it infects unless they have quick access to very high standards of health care, has killed so few people in its known history is because it isn't easily transmissible.


dude? i am extremely glad you aren't in charge of the centers for disease control. or in charge of any medical staff directly dealing with ebola.

speaking of the CDC, do you know the types of diseases categorized by the CDC as the highest priority, select category A, on the national threat list? ya know, the ones which "...pose a risk to national security, can be easily transmitted and disseminated, result in high mortality, have potential major public health impact, may cause public panic, or require special action for public health preparedness..."?

you might wanna look over the list.


There is no doubt that it is an extremely nasty disease that kills a high proportion of the people it infects, there is also no doubt the fact that it isn't transmissible through the air and that people are not contagious until rendered immobile by the disease means it has never killed as many people as donkey attacks or dirty di1d0s,

Unless you are in physical contact with someone who is within hours of dying from this disease, as medical staff and family members would be, then your chances of catching the disease are effectively nil.

There is being well prepared and aware of a disease and there is getting hysterical I am just trying to ensure we are all on the right side of that line
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Re: we can beat this ebola thing

Postby bobzilla77 » 24 Oct 2014, 19:25

So, the government wants us all dead. Well, that sucks!

But we elected them so I'm sure they have our best interests at heart. Maybe it's time to get behind the idea. People are already throwing away their rights so that corporations can have more control of them, perhaps it's time to say "in for a penny, in for a pound."

In which case, all this mucking about with infectious disease is a big waste of time and only makes everyone nervous. Can't we petition them to accelerate the process?
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Postby zoomboogity » 24 Oct 2014, 19:33

bobzilla77 wrote:But we elected them so I'm sure they have our best interests at heart.


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Re: we can beat this ebola thing

Postby kath » 24 Oct 2014, 20:41

Copehead wrote:
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dude? i am extremely glad you aren't in charge of the centers for disease control. or in charge of any medical staff directly dealing with ebola.

speaking of the CDC, do you know the types of diseases categorized by the CDC as the highest priority, select category A, on the national threat list? ya know, the ones which "...pose a risk to national security, can be easily transmitted and disseminated, result in high mortality, have potential major public health impact, may cause public panic, or require special action for public health preparedness..."?

you might wanna look over the list.


There is no doubt that it is an extremely nasty disease that kills a high proportion of the people it infects, there is also no doubt the fact that it isn't transmissible through the air and that people are not contagious until rendered immobile by the disease means it has never killed as many people as donkey attacks or dirty di1d0s,

Unless you are in physical contact with someone who is within hours of dying from this disease, as medical staff and family members would be, then your chances of catching the disease are effectively nil.

There is being well prepared and aware of a disease and there is getting hysterical I am just trying to ensure we are all on the right side of that line


really? people aren't contagious until they are rendered immobile? well, yeah, they're contagious after they're dead, too... but i wonder... what exactly is yer infectious symptom run here? i dunno, that "within hours of death" sounds suspiciously ignorant to me. after all, even when a guy has recovered from the disease, his semen can still carry the virus and infect a partner for up to seven weeks. i assume if he's doin the wonkytonk, he's not entirely immobile/dead.

of course, physical contact can also mean indirect contact, touching sumthin an infected person has touched. you do realize that, right? as ebola can be transmitted through things like sweat trace as well.

by the way, i myself am not hysterical about ebola. i'm not hysterical about anything, actually. i doubt places like the CDC or the world health organization classifying it as highest-level threat represent those agencies being hysterical, either. maybe they're just a lil moody.

but i'm not blind about the potential for exponential infection, either. i think i'm a realist. and i think writing it off as harmless and easily zapped is just as stoopit as moving into an underground bunker and fondling yer canned food supply. see, the problem is, it takes just a few out-of-standard-controls, off-center-stage cases, non-protocol-zoned episodes to exponentialize lightning fast. i am glad you are so confident in the establishment's ability to quickly and effectively counter all potentially bad outcomes. i don't quite share yer confidence.

that doesn't mean i think we'll all be re-enacting the stand tomorrow. but i do think it will get worse.

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Re: we can beat this ebola thing

Postby copehead » 24 Oct 2014, 21:25

kath wrote:
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kath wrote:
dude? i am extremely glad you aren't in charge of the centers for disease control. or in charge of any medical staff directly dealing with ebola.

speaking of the CDC, do you know the types of diseases categorized by the CDC as the highest priority, select category A, on the national threat list? ya know, the ones which "...pose a risk to national security, can be easily transmitted and disseminated, result in high mortality, have potential major public health impact, may cause public panic, or require special action for public health preparedness..."?

you might wanna look over the list.


There is no doubt that it is an extremely nasty disease that kills a high proportion of the people it infects, there is also no doubt the fact that it isn't transmissible through the air and that people are not contagious until rendered immobile by the disease means it has never killed as many people as donkey attacks or dirty di1d0s,

Unless you are in physical contact with someone who is within hours of dying from this disease, as medical staff and family members would be, then your chances of catching the disease are effectively nil.

There is being well prepared and aware of a disease and there is getting hysterical I am just trying to ensure we are all on the right side of that line


really? people aren't contagious until they are rendered immobile? well, yeah, they're contagious after they're dead, too... but i wonder... what exactly is yer infectious symptom run here? i dunno, that "within hours of death" sounds suspiciously ignorant to me. after all, even when a guy has recovered from the disease, his semen can still carry the virus and infect a partner for up to seven weeks. i assume if he's doin the wonkytonk, he's not entirely immobile/dead.

of course, physical contact can also mean indirect contact, touching sumthin an infected person has touched. you do realize that, right? as ebola can be transmitted through things like sweat trace as well.

by the way, i myself am not hysterical about ebola. i'm not hysterical about anything, actually. i doubt places like the CDC or the world health organization classifying it as highest-level threat represent those agencies being hysterical, either. maybe they're just a lil moody.

but i'm not blind about the potential for exponential infection, either. i think i'm a realist. and i think writing it off as harmless and easily zapped is just as stoopit as moving into an underground bunker and fondling yer canned food supply. see, the problem is, it takes just a few out-of-standard-controls, off-center-stage cases, non-protocol-zoned episodes to exponentialize lightning fast. i am glad you are so confident in the establishment's ability to quickly and effectively counter all potentially bad outcomes. i don't quite share yer confidence.

that doesn't mean i think we'll all be re-enacting the stand tomorrow. but i do think it will get worse.

cmon baybeee don't fear the reaperrrrr


I suggest you google the disease and look at its effects and epidemiology that's all I did.

It obviously isn't harmless, it's epidemiology explains why so few people catch it and die from it.

If it was transmissible via the air and lungs and asymptomatic people could transmit half the world would have died from it centuries ago like the Black Death.

Now a vaccine is being fast tracked that will hopefully stamp it out within a few years and we can all worry about the next thing.
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