My concern about viral infections like Ebola is that they can enter the country and fly under the radar. The initial symptoms could be written off as a cold or case of the flu. Who hasn’t had a headache, or a sore throat or body aches? This particular outbreak will soon have the dubious distinction of infecting more people than every single previous Ebola outbreak.. combined. It’s not “hysteria” to question why.

FYI – http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/spiegel-interview-with-african-economics-expert-for-god-s-sake-please-stop-the-aid-a-363663.html

Smallpox is an airborne virus. Ebola is blood-borne. It spreads like AIDS, not like flu.

Of course, it is stupidity like this which feeds hysteria.

The abortion and Ebola comparison is absurd. One has nothing in common with the other. I share your disgust and hatred of abortion, but the comparison is silly.

ANOTHER set of lies.

Constancy, as I’ve pointed out to you many times, is not a virtue when you are constantly lying.

AND I’ve schooled you repeatedly on the meaning of the term “hypocrisy”. But you really are too stupid/demented to learn.

Let us not forget that the dinosaurs went extinct through natural causes.

Um, Clownselor, you quoted a bit stating that the party-of-values voters are willing to overlook the “values” they supposedly keep, because they approve of an unrelated political stance the party-of-values Congressman took.

So the answer is (and we all this to be the case) ….

Because you’re hypocrites.

Most of the western world has never experienced a true epidemic, thanks to modern vaccines. If the population in general has forgotten the terror of epidemics and may be complacent, I suspect the scientific community has a somewhat different reaction. In some ways any of them would like to get their hands on one, just to see what it is really like.

this is a war game script of a smallpox epidemic
get a taste of what an ebola outbreak would cause except enola would be 100 fimes worse.
no vaccine for ebola and a 200-300 per cent greater death rate . Ther is an effective vaccine for smallpox but none for ebols. an outbreak would end this society as we know it

this is a war game script of a smallpox epidemic
get a taste of what an ebola outbreak would cause except enola would be 100 fimes worse.
no vaccine for ebola and a 200-300 per cent greater death rate . Ther is an effective vaccine for smallpox but none for ebols. an outbreak would end this society as we know it

No one trusts the government to honestly report whats going on, except tools like Gus upthread.

I think part of the secrecy is due to fears the public will panic if they are told that, while it doesn’t meet the medical defintion of “airborne” vectoring, it can still be spread at short range through the air (as in the Canadian study on ebola). People will just hear “airborne” and muppet flail.

Concern over the serial incompetence or outright perverse malice of Federal agencies is not panic or hysteria, either.

Ditto for annoyance with fools who try to justify stupid decisions with tripe like “not only is it the right thing to do …”

Two years ago, in a story that made headlines, it was revealed that as a private physician DesJarlais had prescribed drugs to a patient with whom he was having an affair and that he pressured his former wife and a former mistress to have abortions. DesJarlais, who campaigned as a strong pro-lifer, won but by a much smaller margin than in 2010.

“Tracy should beat DesJarlais but a lot of primary voters are willing to forgive his serious scandals because he voted against lifting the debt ceiling,” said Saltsman, “You should never underestimate the potency of that issue in a primary.”
http://www.newsmax.com/politics/lamar-alexander-tennessee-tea-party-desjarlais/2014/08/06/id/587349/

I always enjoy making you my punk, Guz.

That’s at least two lies I’ve caught in…this morning.

Thanks for your demonstration of hate-twisted, moronic lies told by a bung-sucking Collectivist moron.

Now go away. Prof. Jacobson is not as tolerant of your poo as is Dan Riehl. Far warning.

Abortion kills thousands every day in the US, hundreds of thousands globally.

They seem to care more about illegals children than taxpaying citizens children.

Leftists strain at gnats and swallow camels.

Hypocrisy, projection, cognitive dissonance abounds.

Their brain neurons must be twisted into knots by their illogic and contradictions.