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2014-12-25 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

The great Ebola lie — Outbreak hyped for funding & media attention

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-12-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 The author of this piece is dumber than a box of rocks. This epidemic is still out of control. All it would take is one case poorly recognized in Bombay, Johannesburg, or Rio for it to blow up into a modern plague.

Posted by rammer 2014-12-25 01:10|| 2014-12-25 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 I think it is youwho are dumber than a rock.

First of all Becausethe mpoint of the article is the figureshave been grossly exagerated. Is that right? Yes. It was also the case with AIDS (they wereextrapolating hubdreds of millions deaths), aavian flu (in Frnace they wee expcting cngestions at the morgues) and so on.

Second: The Sanish nurse you pobably have heard about had at a stage where she wassupposed to be contagious going in the streets, went at the beauty parlor to have her legs shaved and also to a public doctor where she dutifully waited in the waiting romm and the doctor (she didn't warn he) checked her. None fell ill. Agreed the nurse was still not at the "spitting blood stage but she was contagious.

Posted by JFM 2014-12-25 02:37|| 2014-12-25 02:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Reminds me of the old story The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2014-12-25 05:52|| 2014-12-25 05:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Jeebus, d00d now you need to be finding your grip.

Posted by Shipman 2014-12-25 08:10|| 2014-12-25 08:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Fat Bob, you are proving deserving of the permanent ban-hammer.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-12-25 09:45|| 2014-12-25 09:45|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm surprised it hasn't happened already. Off with this head!

Posted by Raj 2014-12-25 10:30|| 2014-12-25 10:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Honestly, I think both sides are right: this outbreak is out of control AND its been hyped for funds. Part of the hype is the "we can control it, given the resources". They can't, because the infected population have no interest in controlling it.

And we HAVE been extremely lucky not to see another outbreak.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-12-25 12:45|| 2014-12-25 12:45|| Front Page Top

#8 The reported cases in Sierra Leone were on an exponential ramp until the first week in December. Since then, reported numbers have dropped off dramatically, indicating a peak. Question is, do the numbers indicate that the situation is coming under control, or has the reporting system broken down due to the epidemic? Time will tell.

Posted by KBK 2014-12-25 12:46|| 2014-12-25 12:46|| Front Page Top

#9 "the infected population have no interest in controlling it."

From what I hear that is not the case in Liberia, which seems to be having some success in controlling the problem. Once the people realized that the government wasn't lying to them this time, they worked out home-brew quarantine systems that seem to work pretty well.

Posted by James 2014-12-25 13:24|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2014-12-25 13:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Once the people realized that the government wasn't lying to them this time, they worked out home-brew quarantine systems that seem to work pretty well.

Good to know, James. Thanks.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-12-25 14:28|| 2014-12-25 14:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Experience is a hard teacher, but she doesn't kill all her pupils.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-12-25 19:49|| 2014-12-25 19:49|| Front Page Top

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