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What, in your opinion, would be an acceptable level?Culling the herd. It is all about reducing the 7.5 billion to an acceptable level. Too many people. True? Not true?
You say that with real conviction. Unfortunately even the White House could not deny those numbers:I have no idea what you're talking about.neither is that republican plagiarizing of THE SNL TAG LINE.If Obumble has truly participated in less than 50% of the daily briefings, and if that is a radical departure from the track records of previous Presidents (and I'm guessing that it is), then, it looks like the Rookie Senator from Illinois and former Community Organizer, was even less ready for Prime Time than most folks figured, at the time. This is not good, if true.What are the odds that the president claims he only learned about this when he saw the news today.
You see where president has only participated in less than 50% of the daily briefings?
Holy shit. What have the liberals unleashed on us with their stupidity?
I was focusing upon whether or not the POTUS has missed more than 50% of his daily briefings.
He didn't miss any of his daily briefings. You drank the rightwing piss, sucker.
I would think you do.Who knows?What, in your opinion, would be an acceptable level?Culling the herd. It is all about reducing the 7.5 billion to an acceptable level. Too many people. True? Not true?
The unidentified patient, who is critically ill, has been cared for in a special isolation ward at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas since Sunday, said Dr. Edward Goodman, the hospital's epidemiologist. The patient initially sought treatment in the hospital's emergency department Friday but was sent home with antibiotics, Goodman said.
Officials begin tracing contacts of Texas patient diagnosed with Ebola - LA Times
lol bookmarkedThe plan to force us on his disaster healthcare.
Are we one year away from martial law?
It has nothing to do with partisanship (I"m still baffled at how this Ebola thing was so easily twisted into political fingerpointing in the first place) it is about common sense. If experts from CDC believe an Ebola outbreak like in Africa isn't going to happen then you don't need a travel ban.In fact, I am having a hard time understanding WHY there are even a couple partisans here defending the POTUS on his stupidity for NOT imposing a travel BAN.
Everything on this forum is twisted into a partisan battle. But the point of fact is, the CDC is being arrogant.It has nothing to do with partisanship (I"m still baffled at how this Ebola thing was so easily twisted into political fingerpointing in the first place) it is about common sense. If experts from CDC believe an Ebola outbreak like in Africa isn't going to happen then you don't need a travel ban.In fact, I am having a hard time understanding WHY there are even a couple partisans here defending the POTUS on his stupidity for NOT imposing a travel BAN.
Or, what you call a "gamble" is something people with far more education and personal experience in the CDC call extremely unlikely thus not worth travel bans.Sure, everything we think we know about Ebola points to the fact that with the US's advanced medical system and reasonably clean environment, no one else should be infected. But I trust the government and the establishment about as far as I can throw them. If every other nation on the planet is taking extra precautions, it is reasonable to ask why this one isn't. Nature isn't political and isn't predictable. There are too many unknowns to gamble with millions of lives.
No idea, I don't work with viruses enough to know exactly what risks they are taking precautions against or whether it is standard protocol regardless of the nature of the pathogen. Have you worked with viruses enough to know why?Every time you see researchers studying a virus that supposedly can only be acquired through PHYSICAL contact, they are outfitted as if they think it can be acquired through airborne contact. With out exception. They KNOW how it is transmitted, but THEY take extra precautions. So why doesn't the government take extra precautions? Politics? Maybe?
Nigeria, a 3rd world country with relatively primitive healthcare system, contained the virus after someone arrived in their capital city of 20 million and infected several healthcare workers who treated him. What does that tell you?Even with extra precautions, some of the researchers sequencing the genome still died. What does that tell you?
Or, what you call a "gamble" is something people with far more education and personal experience in the CDC call extremely unlikely thus not worth travel bans.Sure, everything we think we know about Ebola points to the fact that with the US's advanced medical system and reasonably clean environment, no one else should be infected. But I trust the government and the establishment about as far as I can throw them. If every other nation on the planet is taking extra precautions, it is reasonable to ask why this one isn't. Nature isn't political and isn't predictable. There are too many unknowns to gamble with millions of lives.
Have any other developed countries issued travel bans for people coming from Liberia or Seirra Leone? Germany, Japan, Australia, Canada, Korea, Switzerland, etc. any of them banned travelers from these countries? Maybe they have I don't know but if not you've extended your presumption of superior virus risk assessment to include disease experts in all these other countries too.
No idea, I don't work with viruses enough to know exactly what risks they are taking precautions against or whether it is standard protocol regardless of the nature of the pathogen. Have you worked with viruses enough to know why?Every time you see researchers studying a virus that supposedly can only be acquired through PHYSICAL contact, they are outfitted as if they think it can be acquired through airborne contact. With out exception. They KNOW how it is transmitted, but THEY take extra precautions. So why doesn't the government take extra precautions? Politics? Maybe?
Nigeria, a 3rd world country with relatively primitive healthcare system, contained the virus after someone arrived in their capital city of 20 million and infected several healthcare workers who treated him. What does that tell you?Even with extra precautions, some of the researchers sequencing the genome still died. What does that tell you?
Woah there I think you've responded to something close to my post, but not my post. British Airways isn't a country and they certainly don't have a lot of infectious disease scientists and researchers working for them. Germany issuing a travel warning is no different than the one the US has issued. Countries like Ghana aren't developed countries with modern medical care, they would have a much harder time handling the Ebola.British Airways has banned flights there. Germany has told all it's people to get out. Kenya, Ghana and other African Nations have banned travel to these places........
Yep you're smarter than all those other people. Joe Message Board should make the call, I'm surprised Italy hasn't contacted you to decided whether their decision not to ban travel from Liberia.But it is obvious we don't have common sense anymore.
Woah there I think you've responded to something close to my post, but not my post. British Airways isn't a country and they certainly don't have a lot of infectious disease scientists and researchers working for them. Germany issuing a travel warning is no different than the one the US has issued. Countries like Ghana aren't developed countries with modern medical care, they would have a much harder time handling the Ebola.British Airways has banned flights there. Germany has told all it's people to get out. Kenya, Ghana and other African Nations have banned travel to these places........
Again... people are questioning the CDCs wisdom on not banning travelers from infected countries, are any other developed countries banning travel from Liberia or Sierra Leone? If not, aren't you basically saying all the experts in these other advanced countries are wrong too? It becomes the poster with no real world experience in managing risk of pandemic saying the health ministries of Germany, France, Japan, Korea, Canada, Australia, France, Switzerland, etc. etc. are ALL wrong and they are right.
I find that hard to believe, don't you?
Yep you're smarter than all those other people. Joe Message Board should make the call, I'm surprised Italy hasn't contacted you to decided whether their decision not to ban travel from Liberia.But it is obvious we don't have common sense anymore.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: John, the kind of control you're attempting simply is... it's not possible. If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh... well, there it is.