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2014-10-29 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Ebola expert says CDC lied to the people and gives large indepth look at ebola

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Posted by anon1 2014-10-29 10:55|| || Front Page|| [17 views ] Top

#1 Pretty much everything the federal government does now days is lies and pure incompetence.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-10-29 11:13|| 2014-10-29 11:13|| Front Page Top

#2 yep and the worst bit: political appointments. for science and medicine, that's gotta be fatal

Posted by anon1 2014-10-29 11:32|| 2014-10-29 11:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Steven Hatfill fell out of favour with the U.S. Government during the anthrax investigations a few years back. His prior associations in South Africa made him a convenient target for Federal Law Enforcement. Everyone knows white, male, virologists and bio-weapons expert in Africa had to be up to no good.

Excellent article by the way.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-10-29 11:59|| 2014-10-29 11:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Focusing on Hatfill also let them ignore the evidence of a foreign source.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-10-29 12:17|| 2014-10-29 12:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Per this article at the NEJM this week, 10% of fatal cases, and about 12% of non-fatal cases, of Ebola virus infection do not demonstrate a fever. See figure 2.

That fact alone means people who have been exposed need to be isolated: they may not run a fever.

Posted by Steve White 2014-10-29 17:09|| 2014-10-29 17:09|| Front Page Top

#6 I think aerosol transmission is a bit of a red herring.

It's persistence on surfaces that is the big unknown.

Posted by phil_b 2014-10-29 19:46|| 2014-10-29 19:46|| Front Page Top

#7 glad everyone liked this article. It really is a cracker. Makes me so angry when government and compliant media sanctimoniously push "happy lies" on the people, telling themselves it is justified to prevent a panic. When people are not panicking! It is necessary to have an adjustment period where you talk about and make changes to accommodate the new threat. if you don't prepare properly and make the right choices, chances are you could die. The Kenyans aren't silly.

Posted by anon1 2014-10-29 19:59|| 2014-10-29 19:59|| Front Page Top

#8 To me, one of the greatest concerns is as follows:

FTA "The World Health Organization classifies the Ebola virus in the highest-risk category of infectious pathogens, Risk Group 4, denoting that infected people should be handled with BSL-4 precautions. But since its outbreak in the United States, Ebola guidelines from the CDC have treated the virus under the much less stringent BSL-3."

Posted by tipover 2014-10-29 21:53|| 2014-10-29 21:53|| Front Page Top

#9 So, the actions of the United States government seem to be in lockstep with the U.N.

Lewis Carroll could be used in a Poly-Sci class nowadays.

Posted by LouieLouie 2014-10-29 21:56|| 2014-10-29 21:56|| Front Page Top

#10 yeah that's a shocker its getting treated as a BSL 3

Posted by anon1 2014-10-29 23:22|| 2014-10-29 23:22|| Front Page Top

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