Board index › General Discussion › News and Current Events

Ebola

Page 7 of 15 [ 235 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1 ... 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ... 15  Next

Previous topic | Next topic

eric76
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 31 Aug 2012
Gender: Male
Posts: 10,660
Location: In the heart of the dust bowl

20 Aug 2014, 12:16 pm

Dantac wrote:
What capitalism does is raise only a small segment from the lower to middle class, a VERY small amount from the middle to upper class. The lower class exists in a tug of war between staying in lower and falling into poverty while poverty is the bottom of the hole and they have the weight over everything on top of them. The system is rigged so that there always is a vast low and poverty class otherwise the entire structure collapses. Its the basics of capitalist economic theory: There must always be growth via cheap labor.


The reality is that Capitalism has elevated every class immensely. The lower middle class of today lives pretty much as well as the very wealthy before Capitlism. The greatest increase in standards of living is among the lowest classes of Capitalistic countries.

I have absolutely no comprehension why anyone would wish us to return to the widespread poverty that we had before the development of Capitalism.



Prof_Pretorius
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Age: 68
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,520
Location: Hiding in the attic of the Arkham Library

20 Aug 2014, 1:49 pm

Enough with imitating Karl Marx already ! !!

Ebola is spreading ! !! Liberia is doomed.

http://news.yahoo.com/clashes-erupt-sea ... 47266.html

I'm stocking up on canned goods.


_________________
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. ~Theodore Roethke


Humanaut
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 17 Jul 2014
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,390
Location: Norway

20 Aug 2014, 1:53 pm

The locals seem to think it is malaria.



Prof_Pretorius
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Age: 68
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,520
Location: Hiding in the attic of the Arkham Library

20 Aug 2014, 6:50 pm

Humanaut wrote:
The locals seem to think it is malaria.


It would seem that they don't understand germ theory.


_________________
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. ~Theodore Roethke


Misslizard
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 18 Jun 2012
Age: 61
Gender: Female
Posts: 20,550
Location: Aux Arcs

20 Aug 2014, 10:19 pm

^Get lots of toilet paper before there's a run on it.You can make do with lots of things but you don't want to run out of this in an emergency. :D
More scary Ebola news.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2 ... -285206837


_________________
I am the dust that dances in the light. - Rumi


Toy_Soldier
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 17 Jul 2012
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,370

21 Aug 2014, 12:36 pm

Image
A boy tries to prepare his father in their one-room home before they are taken to an Ebola isolation ward in Monrovia. (Photograph by John Moore, Getty)

This picture makes me so sad. The boy is caring for the father and is likely to get Ebola himself. Look also at the one room house they lived in, and their possessions. They are in the West Point neighborhood that was just quarantined in its entirety. Something like 50,000 people trapped in a densely packed small area of wall to wall shacks, poor sanitation, food shortages, no protective clothing, etc... with Ebola .

I couldn't make up a worse scenario in one of my fiction stories.



YippySkippy
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 26 Feb 2011
Age: 45
Gender: Female
Posts: 3,986

24 Aug 2014, 9:52 am

The U.K. is flying an infected citizen home for treatment.
So, we'll see how well the NHS handles Ebola.



YippySkippy
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 26 Feb 2011
Age: 45
Gender: Female
Posts: 3,986

24 Aug 2014, 8:41 pm

The sickness in the Congo, which the WHO previously denied was Ebola, actually IS Ebola. Eight people were tested, and two of them tested positive. One of those two had a strain of Ebola that's a mix of the Sudanese and Zaire varieties. 80 other people are under observation.

Edited to add source - Newsweek



AntDog
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 22 Aug 2010
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,967
Location: Riding on a Dragon

30 Sep 2014, 4:57 pm

It's hit the states.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-case ... d=25873850



eric76
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 31 Aug 2012
Gender: Male
Posts: 10,660
Location: In the heart of the dust bowl

30 Sep 2014, 5:03 pm

AntDog wrote:
It's hit the states.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-case ... d=25873850


I wouldn't panic about someone, possibly an aid worker or a missionar, who had recently returned from West Africa and was then found to have symptoms of ebola. There is, as yet, no sign that anyone else was infected. I am sure that they are checking everyone he came into contact with since his return. Also, don't forget that ebola is not thought to be contagious until symptoms are about to show or are already showing.



Dantac
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 21 Jan 2008
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,672
Location: Florida

30 Sep 2014, 5:43 pm

eric76 wrote:
AntDog wrote:
It's hit the states.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-case ... d=25873850


I wouldn't panic about someone, possibly an aid worker or a missionar, who had recently returned from West Africa and was then found to have symptoms of ebola. There is, as yet, no sign that anyone else was infected. I am sure that they are checking everyone he came into contact with since his return. Also, don't forget that ebola is not thought to be contagious until symptoms are about to show or are already showing.


uh.. its MOST contagious when symptoms are showing not that people are 'not' contagious until then.

The problem with tracking down people that this guy has been in contact with is that those would only be the ones the man remembers. Its hilarious the media portrays ebola like some sort of nasty AIDS that you only can catch if someone squirts blood, exchanges sexual fluids or you get injected with an infected needle with... ebola is literally no different than the flu virus except it is not airborne (yet) and it does not seem to survive long time outside the body like the flu does.

Studies of this virus show that even though it is not airborne it can be transmitted via water particle spray...aka an ebola person sneezes in an aircraft (or an elevator or an enclosed space) and the people immediately around him inhale some of those particles.. and have a high chance of getting infected.

Those situations are the kind of people that cannot be traced...and those people go on their own way and can be a week or two before their symptoms show ..time in which they have a chance to similarly spread the disease.



eric76
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 31 Aug 2012
Gender: Male
Posts: 10,660
Location: In the heart of the dust bowl

30 Sep 2014, 7:25 pm

Dantac wrote:
eric76 wrote:
AntDog wrote:
It's hit the states.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-case ... d=25873850


I wouldn't panic about someone, possibly an aid worker or a missionar, who had recently returned from West Africa and was then found to have symptoms of ebola. There is, as yet, no sign that anyone else was infected. I am sure that they are checking everyone he came into contact with since his return. Also, don't forget that ebola is not thought to be contagious until symptoms are about to show or are already showing.


uh.. its MOST contagious when symptoms are showing not that people are 'not' contagious until then.


According to the World Health Organization (WHO):
Quote:
The incubation period, or the time interval from infection to onset of symptoms, is from 2 to 21 days. The patients become contagious once they begin to show symptoms. They are not contagious during the incubation period.



mr_bigmouth_502
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 12 Dec 2013
Age: 32
Gender: Non-binary
Posts: 7,028
Location: Alberta, Canada

30 Sep 2014, 8:33 pm

AntDog wrote:
It's hit the states.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-case ... d=25873850


I knew this was going to happen. We're f****d.



eric76
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 31 Aug 2012
Gender: Male
Posts: 10,660
Location: In the heart of the dust bowl

30 Sep 2014, 8:50 pm

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:
AntDog wrote:
It's hit the states.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-case ... d=25873850


I knew this was going to happen. We're f****d.


Considering the odds of contracting ebola, you are far more likely to die from the flu or measles or rabies than from ebola.



btbnnyr
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 18 May 2011
Gender: Female
Posts: 7,359
Location: Lost Angleles Carmen Santiago

30 Sep 2014, 8:56 pm

I thought I got ebola this weekend, but it was only the flu.


_________________
Drain and plane and grain and blain your brain, and then again,
Propane and butane out of the gas main, your blain shall sustain!


mr_bigmouth_502
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 12 Dec 2013
Age: 32
Gender: Non-binary
Posts: 7,028
Location: Alberta, Canada

01 Oct 2014, 12:03 am

eric76 wrote:
mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:
AntDog wrote:
It's hit the states.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-case ... d=25873850


I knew this was going to happen. We're f****d.


Considering the odds of contracting ebola, you are far more likely to die from the flu or measles or rabies than from ebola.


In order to contract ebola, you have to be in contact with an infected person's bodily fluids. Considering how far a sneeze can travel, along with the dormancy period of the symptoms, I wouldn't be surprised if more cases start popping up.