Padawanbater2
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You have a fundamental lack of understanding of anthropogenic climate change
Which is why you think the earth is going to be destroyed
Idiot
For all of you stooges terrified of ebola...
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Which is why you think the earth is going to be destroyed
Idiot
NLXSK1
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Being paranoid of anthropeogenic (anthropomorphic) climate change is better than being paranoid of Ebola or political policies that will directly affect people within the next few years??
Changes in the climate are projected for decades and centuries yet you fail to see the hypocrisy.
You are blind to most everything so this should not be surprising to me.
Padawanbater2
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Nobody is paranoid about ACC, the overwhelming majority of scientists are pragmatic
The overwhelming majority of medical professionals agree the risk of an ebola pandemic in a first world western country is not likely to happen, no matter how much the news tells you dopes it is. It's the news' job to sell you fear and you eat it up like it's Thanksgiving dinner. Good job sport!
Interesting, I'm starting to see a pattern..
Mr.Head
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You get they said the same thing about aids too right? before it started infecting straight people. Sars was supposed to be controlled. It wasn't Asians were allowed to hop on planes and spread it to every corner of the world. You put far to much faith in medical professionals.
Doctors are not infallible. I've had pieces chopped out of my neck that proves this, put there by a doctor handing out dangerous drug samples with undocumented side effects telling me they were safe. Trusting a doctor will do you great good until it kills you. I walked around for 1.5 years thinking I was fucking dieing, they couldn't tell me what was wrong but had no problem telling me all the super severe things it MIGHT be, like lymphoma, or several other types of cancer.
All it takes is one idiot doctor and Ebola spreads inside America. We've come close to it already.
I mean you can keep saying there is no risk, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with people being prepared, absolutely nothing wrong with people not trusting the CDC, or health care workers in Texas, the most backasswards place on the planet. I have more faith in Guinea health care workers then I do in Texan right now. They proved their incompetence again, their lackadaisical southern attitude has cost someone their life and no doubt when all is said and done tax payers of Texas will be paying for the lawsuit brought on by his family for hundreds of millions of dollars.
There's no reason to fear ebola until there is basically what you are saying, which has got us all in trouble over here several times in the past. Some recently. The second there is an epidemic steps need to be taken to quarantine that area of the world from travel, whether it's viewed as a serious threat or not.
People are by nature reactionary, we aren't proactive, that's why things like sars caused the issues it did. Even people without sars were suffering in hospitals due to the precautions they had to take since our hospitals weren't safe. I sat in the waiting rooms, shit was insane. Fixing this one after the fact isn't very smart considering folks are bleeding out their fuckin eyes. Climate change is another perfect example, we've known about this for 50+ years, yet we're acting now because now it's effecting our life, then it wasn't so who cares right?
Ebolas not wide spread, we don't have zombies wondering our streets puking up blood and bleeding from the eyes, so why care?
A properly handled Ebola outbreak is nothing to fear, this hasn't been properly handled from the start. It's been an "african problem" and now it's turning into the whole worlds problem and they are still being slow to act. This should have been shut down in weeks, but they were just black folks dying so NBD right? The CDC dude from the 70's was on CNN, talking about how they reused MASKS AND GLOVES AND GARB to fight the last outbreak, our doctors now can't even get undressed properly. Figure that the fuck out, he said it's as simple as spraying the objects with bleach, so why is it so hard now? incompetence at it's finest, we know how to deal with it and we're still fucking it up.
How on earth can you say there is nothing to fear? I don't get it, a few years ago was proof there is something to fear, SARS killed quite a few people here when it shouldn't have been able to get here in the first place.
Kanye needs to get back on TV and let the world know that Obama gives less fucks about black people then George W. Bush.
Doer
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You must know every possible retarded reply to seem this stupid.
Doer
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Mr.Head
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Still have a lump in my neck and no idea what the one they took out was until December. Then I lawyer up and go after the pharma company who didn't put the side effects on the label in Canada but did in the USA.+rep
hope you're okay now..
Damn dude, that was the best piece of writing you have done. poignant yet precise, with just the right amount of insult for the matter at hand.
Doer
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You have no idea what I am capable of.
overgrowem
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Several have died on Everest in the last few years.
Padawanbater2
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@Mr.Head
"We Americans have this really annoying trait of thinking and believing that the disease and pestilence that flare up “over there” could never happen here. And when a few cases of a very difficult disease to catch do happen here, we come up with unrealistic and counterproductive proposals to protect “us” from “it.” I’m not minimizing the threat we face from Ebola. I’m just trying to keep it in perspective.
The World Health Organization announced yesterday that the number of Ebola cases would surpass 9,000 this week and the death toll would top 4,500. So far, Thomas Eric Duncan is the only person to die of Ebola on U.S. soil. Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurses Nina Pham and Amber Vinson, who treated Duncan, are the only two other confirmed Ebola cases in the United States. And there is another person who was involved in Duncan’s care, but did not have direct contact with him, who is self-quarantining on a cruise ship in Belize. That’s it.
Yes, the news that Vinson and the ship-bound health-care worker took mass transportation after treating someone with a highly contagious disease has sparked understandable concern. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) appears to be on top of tracking all those who have come into contact with Vinson, Pham and others. Having a health-care infrastructure that can track and quickly deal with infectious diseases when they arise is the advantage the United States has over the West African nations grappling with Ebola.
Imposing a travel ban on those countries that are the epicenter of the disease — Guinea, Sierre Leone and Liberia — might satisfy our gated-community impulses, but it won’t make us any safer. This is especially so since, as Jeremy Peters of the New York Times pointed out on “Morning Joe” today, there are no direct flights to the United States from those countries. I have to agree with Tom Frieden, the head of the CDC, who told a congressional hearing yesterday that such a ban wouldn’t work. Folks would still make their way to the United States through other countries, which would make tracking and monitoring the disease more difficult.
That being said, the CDC must do a better job of maintaining the public’s confidence that it can contain the disease when it appears within our borders. I’ve known and covered Frieden since he was the New York City commissioner of health and mental hygiene under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. His great work there and his unparalleled reputation in the infectious-diseases sphere are what maintain my confidence that Ebola won’t explode here as it has in West Africa. President Obama’s appointment of Ron Klain as “Ebola czar” only bolsters that confidence. Would that Congress saw fit to confirm Vivek Murthy as surgeon general.
Remember this: Ebola is very difficult to get. It isn’t airbone like the flu. You can’t catch Ebola from a sneeze or a cough the way you can the flu, which kills thousands annually. According to the CDC, flu-related deaths “ranged from 3,349 in 1986-87 to 48,614 in 2003-04.” You can’t get Ebola from water or casual conduct. You can get it if you have cared for someone with Ebola or handled someone who has died of Ebola and came into direct contact with their bodily fluids, such as vomit, blood or diarrhea.
So let’s stop panicking. Yes, we should ask tough questions of public officials. Yes, we should be concerned over how the disease is spreading and how fast. But freaking out and declaring the sky is falling over every misstep or new case? No. That only makes the situation worse."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/10/17/stop-the-ebola-panic/
"We Americans have this really annoying trait of thinking and believing that the disease and pestilence that flare up “over there” could never happen here. And when a few cases of a very difficult disease to catch do happen here, we come up with unrealistic and counterproductive proposals to protect “us” from “it.” I’m not minimizing the threat we face from Ebola. I’m just trying to keep it in perspective.
The World Health Organization announced yesterday that the number of Ebola cases would surpass 9,000 this week and the death toll would top 4,500. So far, Thomas Eric Duncan is the only person to die of Ebola on U.S. soil. Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurses Nina Pham and Amber Vinson, who treated Duncan, are the only two other confirmed Ebola cases in the United States. And there is another person who was involved in Duncan’s care, but did not have direct contact with him, who is self-quarantining on a cruise ship in Belize. That’s it.
Yes, the news that Vinson and the ship-bound health-care worker took mass transportation after treating someone with a highly contagious disease has sparked understandable concern. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) appears to be on top of tracking all those who have come into contact with Vinson, Pham and others. Having a health-care infrastructure that can track and quickly deal with infectious diseases when they arise is the advantage the United States has over the West African nations grappling with Ebola.
Imposing a travel ban on those countries that are the epicenter of the disease — Guinea, Sierre Leone and Liberia — might satisfy our gated-community impulses, but it won’t make us any safer. This is especially so since, as Jeremy Peters of the New York Times pointed out on “Morning Joe” today, there are no direct flights to the United States from those countries. I have to agree with Tom Frieden, the head of the CDC, who told a congressional hearing yesterday that such a ban wouldn’t work. Folks would still make their way to the United States through other countries, which would make tracking and monitoring the disease more difficult.
That being said, the CDC must do a better job of maintaining the public’s confidence that it can contain the disease when it appears within our borders. I’ve known and covered Frieden since he was the New York City commissioner of health and mental hygiene under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. His great work there and his unparalleled reputation in the infectious-diseases sphere are what maintain my confidence that Ebola won’t explode here as it has in West Africa. President Obama’s appointment of Ron Klain as “Ebola czar” only bolsters that confidence. Would that Congress saw fit to confirm Vivek Murthy as surgeon general.
Remember this: Ebola is very difficult to get. It isn’t airbone like the flu. You can’t catch Ebola from a sneeze or a cough the way you can the flu, which kills thousands annually. According to the CDC, flu-related deaths “ranged from 3,349 in 1986-87 to 48,614 in 2003-04.” You can’t get Ebola from water or casual conduct. You can get it if you have cared for someone with Ebola or handled someone who has died of Ebola and came into direct contact with their bodily fluids, such as vomit, blood or diarrhea.
So let’s stop panicking. Yes, we should ask tough questions of public officials. Yes, we should be concerned over how the disease is spreading and how fast. But freaking out and declaring the sky is falling over every misstep or new case? No. That only makes the situation worse."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/10/17/stop-the-ebola-panic/
Doer
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This year wasn't there a late killer storm?
So much to fear. Is Everest falling over? Some could think so@!! News at 11!
overgrowem
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Hope I'm around to see it.
Doer
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If it is not going to destroy everything what is the fuss?
Padawanbater2
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Shorter growing seasons, stronger storm systems, damaged ecosystems, extinct animals, war, increasing temperatures, droughts, floods, and many more
Do you have any idea what the cost of doing nothing will be in monetary terms to try to fix the problems that arise?
Doer
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Sounds like stuff will be destroyed to me.
Padawanbater2
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"Stuff" will be destroyed, the earth will remain