WHAT’S NEXT? WHO KNOWS … WHICH MAY BE WHY PEOPLE ARE FREAKING OUT
By FITSNEWS || So there’s this disease … maybe you’ve heard of it. It’s called Ebola.
Yeah … funny, huh? Anyway this website has been covering the deadly Ebola virus extensively in recent weeks like the rest of the media. Maybe too much, some say. Anyway, we were on the story when Ebola was halfway around the world … after it arrived on our shores … and after our government failed miserably in its promise to “stop it in its tracks.”
(We’ve also been following efforts by S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control director Catherine Templeton to prepare for the disease in our home state of South Carolina –HERE and HERE).
So what’s the latest? Well, according to Northeastern University professor Alessandro Vespignani, there could be as many as two dozen confirmed U.S. Ebola cases by the end of the month.
That’s the good news. The bad news?
“We have a worst-case scenario, and you don’t even want to know,” Vespignani told Bloomberg. “That would be like a bad science fiction movie.”
Wow … comforting (editor’s note: sarcasm alert).
No wonder people are freaking.
According to a new Fox News poll, 68 percent of respondents were concerned about the Ebola virus spreading. Meanwhile 55 percent believed the government was ready to deal with it. Also sixty percent of respondents said they believed flights should be banned from West African countries where the disease is running wild.
And finally, respondents were split 46-46 percent as to whether the government is hiding information about Ebola from the public.
Fox surveyed 1,012 registered voters nationwide (on landlines and cell phones) from October 12-14, 2014. Its survey has a margin of error of plus or minus three percent.
First discovered in 1976, Ebola is a virological taxin that is spread through bodily fluids. Its current outbreak – which began in December 2013 in West Africa – has killed 4,500 people and infected 9,000.
After an incubation period ranging from two days to three weeks, Ebola victims begin experiencing nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea – at which point they are contagious. Eventually their kidneys and livers begin to shut down, a process accompanied by mass internal hemorrhaging. There is no treatment and no cure for the virus. Also, Ebola has a fifty percent mortality rate – meaning one out of every two people who contract the disease die from it.
This week the World Health Organization (WHO) made some frightening projections regarding the disease – estimating that 5,000-10,000 new cases could be seen per week in West Africa. WHO officials also estimated the mortality rate for the disease at 70 percent.
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RAPID REACTION
@fitsnews Write one more post on Ebola and I'm gonna force-feed you from that Ebola-infested Chocolate Fountain until u submit to my will!
— Andrew Schweiger (@TheSchwig) October 16, 2014
94 comments
Put a blue painted coat hanger on their heads and they’d look just like Tinky Winky!
lol…+10 if I could on that one dude
Dude, shoulda left just the “Tinky Winky” comment before your edit…I’m taking back my +10 now.
TL;DR
Less is more.
Give ’em what they want I always say…
I want to frag you. In the ass would be the utopia. You are a asshole that does not need to live. If you have family and they think like you, they need to go also.
I always say it, I don’t always mean it. What have I done to offend you now?
Ha! Thanks!
The bottom line of the free market too!
I’m taking back my +10 now.
Indian giver!
If anyone would know, it’d be you.
:)
Teletubbies!!!
[tries not to sound LGBT…fails]
My sister in law was convinced they were designed to lead her children into homosexuality….
I used to work with a guy who had a kind of purple complexion who was short and chunky. In conversation, somehow, I began referring to him as TInky Winky. Our supervisor tried to be politically correct as much as possible so there was no fallout on him for not doing so, but even he began referring to the guy as that, calling him that in the office by accident a time or two.
Sorry, purple and chunky? Where the heck were you working, Willie Wonka’s chocolate factory?
Some days, it really seemed as though we were, Colonel.
Come on,Colonel,they’re sexy as hell.
My ‘religious right’ sister ‘disowned me’,a long time ago.
The Center for Confusion and deception (CDC) contradicts itself on key comments:
“Stopping flights from Africa will not protect the US”
“Health care workers administering to Ebola patients, should not be allowed to fly, to prevent spreading disease”
“You cannot catch Ebola on a bus”
“You can transmit Ebola while on public transportation”
Do these idiots have a clue?
What happens IF Ebola shows up in central America, or Mexico? Our borders are wide open porous, tens of thousands of children just waltzed across. These people will flee to US to escape the PLAGUE, or for medical care. Will OUR incompetent Government assimilate these people throughout the USA and spread Ebola and God knows what else?
The entirety of the Federal Govt. is impotent, ineffective and INCOMPETENT!
Even if you are cured from Ebola, there are life long health dangers and repercussions from having had the disease! You are never totally healthy and subject to many, many health problems for the remainder of your life!
“You are never totally healthy and subject to many, many health problems for the remainder of your life!”
Thank you for brining up that very important piece of information. I got hit with the flu twice in one year a few years ago. Apparently it mutated or something as the symptoms were identical both times. I still have not completely gotten over the effects of it.
—- hoping there are better days ahead for you
Thank you, Shifty!
“What happens IF Ebola shows up in central America, or Mexico?”
Look at the bright side, if Ebola keeps spreading here maybe they’ll stay in their country.
Those idiots worrying about this have used up all the tin foil in making hats for themselves. The government and the CDC have told us repeatedly that there is nothing to fear. They have it under control.
I’m going back to bed by way of the bathroom. Been shittin’ my guts out all day as well as throwing up. This fever makes me weak, too. Funny, why am I bleeding from my eyes?
Let’s hope you’re more comedic than prophetic!
what ya got, more rich shit for you ?
Our military and the American people are expendable. So, what if a few million do die. You will be helping the land of my father and if we can get a few million across the border, the Democrats will NEVER loose another election. Don’t worry about the disease, the crime, the terrorist, it’s a small price for our Democrat votes. Besides the more old people who die out, the less Social Security and medicare we will have to pay! The more we will have for Welfare, Obama phones, food stamps, etc!
Obama will get Holder to take care of the small legal problems and all will be OK.
In Africa, Ebola is known as “The nurse killer” , many, many of the nurses who provide care to Ebola victims become victims themselves, dead victims. And now, Obola sends our troops there and has brought Ebola here!
It’s all part of the plan…
I watched the hearing today and the bureaucrats gave non-answers to many questions.
I’m guessing,Northeastern University is somewhere in the northeast…
And,anyone who’s dumb enough to buy this bullshit,should go on over to Africa,and die.This world will be a better place without you.
Stay classy!
OK.I shouldn’t have said that.PEACE.
May be, may be not, Northwestern University is in Chicago.
Everyone relax. I’m organizing swat teams to get a handle on this.
If that doesn’t work, I’m authorizing the Army to release their Zmapp compound in the form of giant pills that look like my Peace Prize to distribute among the infected population.
We’ll get it straightened out folks, have faith in your Dear Leader & our glorious government.
If this doesn’t work, then I’ll drone strike the fuck out of the infected and demand a return of my Peace Prize pills.
Our M1’s are secure, we’ll blast Africa until they are in the stone age. Kill everyone not in the US,.
Naturally, we can also get a lot of African Muslim’s too. Perhaps I’ll issue a duel mandate and we’ll mine the continent for glass afterwards.
All bene’s will be good for rich ass=holes
Try 70% mortality, according to WHO.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/10/ebola-outbreak-killing-70-percent-victims-20141014132345720164.html
In,WEST AFRICA,idiot.
So what are we at right now, 30%? Two cured, one dead.
You need some courses in math and logic,but I’ve accepted the ignorance of The Boys On The Blog.Wait till this BS is over.You’ll be eating some serious crow.
Dead – Duncan
Alive – Witbol, Brantley and I forgot Sacra
So that makes us 25% tell me where I got it wrong.
Same here, man! I hope I am as wrong as a priest wearing ladies’ underwear. My gut feeling tells me I won’t be but I hope my gut and me are both wrong.
Man, I would happily “eat some serious crow” if that means ebola is eradicated…or flares back down.
Does that make me a bad guy? I’m confused.
Be careful.Bird Flu is a bigger threat than,Ebola.
Bird flu, West Nile Virus, Entero Virus are all “bigger threats” and H5N1 has a similar CFR at roughly 50%
No he won’t.
Like most Right Wing kooks,he will be on to something else or back to,you guessed it,
BENGHAZI!
You’ll be eating some serious crow.
Just. Don’t. Eat. The. Fish.
Shirley fish can’t be affected.
90% on the African Continent!
“…55 percent believed the government was ready to deal with it [Ebola}…” wow, I wonder what rock those folks live under!?!
When Ebola was discovered in 1976, it killed 284 people before it died out (of it’s own accord)
In 1995, 254 people died of Ebola
In 2000, 224 people died of Ebola
In 2003, 128 people died of Ebola
in 2012, 29 people died of Ebola
Since December 28 2013 when the current outbreak began, more than 4,500 people have died. The current version has slowed its incubation process down from 6-16 days in ’76 to 6-21 days now. Why is that important? It allows the virus to be spread further before killing the host.
Better treatment procedures really haven’t changed the prognosis much, the Case Fatality Rate hovers between 53% (1976) and 73% (2000) but some outbreaks have had a CFR of 90% (2003)
u need to rethink
What should I rethink? Everybody involved with Mr. Duncan has admitted they screwed up, including last but not least, the CDCP, well everyone but the President: “… our experts, here at the CDC and across our government, agree that the chances of an Ebola outbreak here in the United States are extremely low. We’ve been taking the necessary precautions, including working with countries in West Africa to increase screening at airports….”
That don’t add up to much,man,considering.When I was a kid,I heard those same kinda numbers about kids who ate their boogers.
That don’t add up to much,man,considering.When I was a kid,I heard those same kinda numbers about kids who ate their boogers.
There is more fear to be molested as a child than ebola in SC. republican conservatives, that take care of anyone in SC should be looked at.
Since I haven;t been a child in about 40+ years…I worry about teh ebola.
This shit is a joke right ?
You guys are a bunch of suckers;there’s one born every minute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6YNHq1qc44
Put a blue frag on your head to be the man that is not.
Feel for you y’all. If Ebola hits SC, you guys are goners.
Feel for you y’all.
Think you youse guys will have it better?
If Ebola is not an airborne pathogen, why is everyone getting their panties in a wad about domestic air travel?
Is anyone else having weird dreams involving an elderly black woman called Mother Abigail?
Tango….you planning to hit Vegas anytime soon?
ISIS… crop dusters, chemtrails, weaponizing ebola corpses, super soakers, water balloons, coffee shops, buffets, hot air balloons, football stadiums… how can you keep a terrorist infected with ebola from getting on a subway or into a football stadium?
“Don’t put your Ebola finger in my coffee please sir.”
Yeah;The Stand;)
I’m a hell raiser, risk taker, full speed ahead
Till I’m dead in the fast lane
Live wire, wild fire
I’d rather burn up in flames than fade away
You gotta live it up
You gotta live it up
You gotta hit and run
You gotta live it up
The devil may care, but I don’t give a damn
To hell with the reason, it’s all a scam
You got the invitation, I got the booze
Life’s a vacation when there’s nothing to lose
I hear you,but I’m old skool.If we’re all gonna die,let’s do it rite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKggnBh2Mdw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdcs7F-MWhA
Yeah.I saw them in Atlanta over 40 years ago.IMO,their best album was,American Band(produced by Frank Zappa).I’m a treasure trove of useless pop culture trivia..
Todd Rundgren produced;mea culpa.When we die,they’re gonna put us in Greyhound buses and dump us in the Grand Canyon…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDhF-OF7zQ0
Fuck that’s good. I was just a kid when my dad played all this shit on the radio(43)…I still think the late 60’s through the 70’s produced some of the best music of the last century across a lot of genre’s.
I should refer to the musician caliber of that era, I just noticed it’s a fairly recent song….still amazing.
Nah.The Last Ride was 1st released in 1974.It’s one of my favorite songs.Glad you like
Oh yeah.
Does she sit on your face, too?
Tonto,
The doctor warned you about mixing the Zoloft with grain alcohol…
Tonto,
The doctor warned you about mixing the Zoloft with grain alcohol…
Truth be told, TBG’s doctor said that firewater “could enhance the effect” of the Zoloft. TBG looked at this as more of a recommendation than a warning.
Face it and accept it. Sad to say, there are going to be alarming deaths in the USA from ebola before it is brought under control. We can all see the chaos in government. We can all see the contradiction from one federal agency director to the next. We can all read the reports that are non stop on this very alarming and serious matter. The DHEC director, all she did was pull a narcissistic political stunt to get her name out their. Come on. Get real. MUSC can not manage anything like this. Look all around you. Do you really see competence in these government entities? Catherine Templeton is far from ever being any type of hero. Believe whatever you want. But its clean to keen kinds, that she was just looking for attention – directly upon ‘herself.’
Amen to that..she was/is an attorney with absolutely no training in the health fields. Just look at the TB scandal…the person in charge of that fiasco has since received a raise/promotion..
MUSC is kidding themselves if they think they can do better. The place is in shambles since 2011. Pisano devastated the place. Faculty left. Revenues declining. Debt rising. Now they think they can manage Ebola. This would be a disaster. They can’t even wash their hands down there!
It only gets worst —- China’s bank is imploding from loans to countries like …. care to guess? Here comes another great depression.
Are those dudes dancing?
The Teletubbie Twisty Dance!
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Teletubbies+Twisty+Dance&form=VQFRVP&first=1#view=detail&mid=D6401D0E07FEC380E820D6401D0E07FEC380E820
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsUDdhegmME
I’ve used that video in a history class before.
In basic training, they had a “survival” thing in the dead of night. They told us to avoid capture and let us out.. some were captured by drill sergeants behind the bushes.. some tripped on shit… and got picked up.. all of those guys went to a psuedo P.O.W. camp… you know, bags on your head.. head down, in line… questioned… etc. all night.
I ran my ass off and jumped a fence… there were three of us together… we got as far away from there as we could.. by morning we were a *long* way from the drop off, and it started to occur to us we might be in trouble… one of us climbed a high power support, and found a road…. when we got there, we hid behind the bushes.. and sure enough, after about an hour a truck came by with a loudspeaker telling us to come out and get in the truck….
instead, we went down the road until we found the POW camp… and waited until we saw them getting ready to go… and then walked up to one of the officers and asked what we won.
They put us in a truck and never said anything about it.
You did better than I did. At a school down at Elgin AFB, I “escaped” and stayed free about six hours, long enough to completely exhaust myself. When the “guards” caught me, they put me in a wall locker laying in the back of a duece and a half. I’m sure we covered twenty miles on those bumpy, washed out pan handle roads with me inside that locker bouncing around in the bed of that truck while they looked for other escapees. When they finally let me out, I was ready to tell them anything they wanted to know, fortunately my fellow “captives” choose that moment to stage another breakout attempt and they forgot about me in all the confusion.
Ah, fellow SERE grads, no? I do have plenty of fun stories of trudging through the wilderness at night….trying to avoid being “rolled up” and eventually giving in (after days of sleep deprivation) only to find that you end up at “camp slappy” and endure lots of “fun.”
Colonel….surely if you do “bidness” with fellow 151 folk, they know a thing or two about SERE.
BG E.J. Sinclair (took command of Ft. Rucker in 2006-ish) published an order requiring all aviators to complete SERE “C.” That was eye opening for some…and pure sadistic fun for others. Either way…….it sure helped build some fun stories.
Granted…all Army Aviators had to take SERE B years before any of this.
I went to the “C” course because of where I worked I’m not an advisor though I did once ride around in the back. The young men and women I know with 151 Aviation all have stories to tell that vaguely sound like what I went through, maybe a little kinder and gentler…
You did better than I did. At a school down at Elgin AFB, I “escaped” and stayed free about six hours, long enough to completely exhaust myself. When the “guards” caught me, they put me in a wall locker laying in the back of a duece and a half. I’m sure we covered twenty miles on those bumpy, washed out pan handle roads with me inside that locker bouncing around in the bed of that truck while they looked for other escapees. When they finally let me out, I was ready to tell them anything they wanted to know, fortunately my fellow “captives” choose that moment to stage another breakout attempt and they forgot about me in all the confusion.
Never fear….. Templeton is here to save the day! While she bungled the TB fiasco – so we won’t mention that again in public – she is full out bat chit crazy trying to show how much of a trendsetter her and her cronies are gonna be in the war against the Ebola virus, bacteria, prion, vector….oh, whatever, she’s a lawyer she doesn’t need to be bothered by the epidemiology of it all. She’s got TV (not TB) to get out in front.
Coming next week is Templeton in her Teletubbies outfit marching to the Statehouse ground to show how prepared she….er, her agency is…
This sucks. I can’t leave the house, go shopping, forget the mall. Ebola is everywhere. I heard there are three people in a trailer near Florence already quarentined, a a dozen or so being hidden in a hospital in Columbia, Lexington Medical Center is on alert, and the high surf from the hurricane offshore will start to push airborne Ebola germs in off the ocean onto Charleston and Hilton Head. And I heard it can spread by simply thinking of kissing a hot chick at the grocery store. The world is over. Repent you sinners, and prepare to meet your maker.
Well you can’t say we didn’t stop it in Texas yet. Still no cases in the US outside of Texas. That is why we need to quarantine both Africa and Texas. No one in or out of a country or the state of Texas until all Ebola cases in the country or state have either been cured or the patients have died and 45 days has elapsed with no new cases.
We need to ship all the Ebola Patients we are treating elsewhere back to Texas for Treatment. Set up a facility there to treat them.
“What Everyone Else Should Learn From Ebola-Free Nigeria” – TheBlaze.com – Oct. 20, 2014 – Liz Klimas ( http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/10/20/what-everyone-else-should-learn-from-ebola-free-nigeria/ )
” … The accomplishment comes after Nigeria reached 42 days without a new infection – this is two times longer than the longest incubation period for Ebola. … The country [previously] experienced 20 cases resulting in eight deaths.
… “We agreed that the thing to do was not to let [the first patient] out of the hospital,” [Benjamin Ohiaeri], [a doctor from a Lagos hospital,] said, even after he became aggressive and demanded to be set free. ”If we had let him out, within 24 hours of being here, he would have contacted and infected a lot more people.” …”
Quarantine Works!