Ebola

If you think the gov is on your side... You need to wake up. Lol

I also believe all this crap is made in some lab by some evil a$$ minds. Maybe it isn't true.. But I'm entitled to believe what I want to believe.

There's no conspiracy talk in here, not sure where you're getting that. Unless you're referring to my true claim, that the CDC and Texas government officials are legitimately downplaying (or rather, they were last week, today's CDC interview guy this afternoon was much more honest) just how contagious this virus is. The local government officials are/were because they don't want it to affect people's spending habits. They want people to go to the state fair, go to sport games, etc. because if people don't do these things the economy will suffer.

There is no "you have a healthy immune system, you'll be ok" bs when it comes to Ebola, that's a misconceived notion that a friend of mine (a teacher... of all people...) said last week. Ebola isn't the flu. Left alone without hospitalization, the death rate is about 90%; with hospitalization, if caught early, 50 to 60%.

If you come into contact with infected material (an infected person's bodily fluids or anything they've touched with their bodily fluids on them), you get the disease, that's pretty much how Ebola works. It transfers through sweat, saliva, urine, blood, semen, and probably feces. The kidneys eventually stop working, you have a fever so you're sweating, and you bleed from the inside out until you go into shock from blood loss (blood vessels leaking internally usually, but sometimes externally out your eyes, ears, nose, mouth, etc) and die. Most people die before blood starts leaking from their eyes, ears, etc.

The biggest problem, in my opinion, in the US is that people will try to live their lives normally and try to treat themselves. This is bad concerning this disease, because then you infect your entire home, car, everything else you come in contact with, and everybody you meet, just like patient zero (named Duncan) did. In an environment where you're taken care of by people who constantly keep your sterilized and quarantined, you are not as much of a threat. Living in your own filth at home makes you a major problem. Going to work makes you a major problem. Just imagine if your mailman had Ebola, how many people would he infect with his sweat on the mail or a little vomit on his hand from having to pull over and throw up? The virus can survive for days without a host because it isn't bacteria, so not touching your mail for days at a time would not help.

Those of you who live in the US or Spain should educate yourselves on Ebola. Timone lives close enough to Texas that he's pretty well informed I think.

Give this a read so you'll be educated and not ignorant like so many people are. m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5639456

Oh, ok, sorry I thought you were referring to what I said and some of the earlier posts, which were mostly realistic.

Go to Louisville. Does anyone even realize they have one of the largest, if not largest underground man made limestone caves? Where do you think Wal-Mart stores all that food before it goes to stores? Plenty to eat there.
Or just go there for the zip lines.

I didn't read anything in this thread but the title. The only care I have for the Ebola virus is pity for those affected.

Anything wal-mart related is probably contaminated too lol All filled with preservatives and artificial colors. They have very little product that's all natural or organic.

As for Ebola, well, lets just hope that guy in Dallas didn't pass it on to anyone before he died. Unfortunately these diseases exist, but we need to do what we need to do to keep it out of our country, period. No more bringing those infected into our borders for treatment.

Some people seem immune entirely.

The US patient who just died (He's originally from Liberia) obviously didn't have a good go with it, but everyone that he had contact with have had no symptoms of the disease at all.
Al Sharpton is flaming the "race issue" fire again with this situation, but he's not accounting for the fact that the guy lied about where he was going when he left and where he'd been when he re-entered the country.

To be entirely honest, the reason why there was a massive outbreak in West Africa is because they're a largely third world area. Personal hygiene there is virtually non-existent, and people defecate in the streets and not many people bathe.

It's basically what happened with the Black Plague in Europe during the 1400s. If people had known that bathing and hygiene could keep them from getting ill, a lot less people would've died.
Even though the Black Plague gets all the credit, the worst epidemic in history was the Spanish Flu. More people died of the Spanish Flu than any other disease in history, but the Black Plague is considered worse because such a high percentage of the European population died.