Guess Who's Back?

[The Princes of the Universe]

Sierra Leone confirmed a death from Ebola virus disease mere hours after the World Health Organisation declared the epidemic in West Africa officially over.

My thoughts on this can be summed up as such: Can't these poor fuckers catch a break just once?

[Staythefout]

only a matter of time before it reaches our borders. why did we not shit down travel between us and countries hit by ebola last time? Can't believe it didn't turn into a small pandemic, we dodged a HUGE bullet last time...next time we may not be so lucky...

[Vassenor]

only a matter of time before it reaches our borders. why did we not shit down travel between us and countries hit by ebola last time? Can't believe it didn't turn into a small pandemic, we dodged a HUGE bullet last time...next time we may not be so lucky...

Because ebola is only transmittable when the patient is symptomatic or otherwise leaking bodily fluids.

[Jersey Republic]

Doctors tell us not to panic about Ebola, we panic about Ebola

[Ghuraba Al-Khorusani]

I swear to God yesterday when I was driving I was like "What ever happend to ebola?"

[Wallenburg]

only a matter of time before it reaches our borders. why did we not shit down travel between us and countries hit by ebola last time? Can't believe it didn't turn into a small pandemic, we dodged a HUGE bullet last time...next time we may not be so lucky...

If you can't believe that, you clearly don't understand what Ebola is.

[BPSR]

Ebola has been around for a long time, the capitalist media just never reported on the older epidemics.

[Staythefout]

only a matter of time before it reaches our borders. why did we not shit down travel between us and countries hit by ebola last time? Can't believe it didn't turn into a small pandemic, we dodged a HUGE bullet last time...next time we may not be so lucky...

If you can't believe that, you clearly don't understand what Ebola is.

If you believe it then you don't understand what DISEASE is...hint hint, it can change. We may not even know everything about it now let alone if it were to undergo a mutation.

only a matter of time before it reaches our borders. why did we not shit down travel between us and countries hit by ebola last time? Can't believe it didn't turn into a small pandemic, we dodged a HUGE bullet last time...next time we may not be so lucky...

Because ebola is only transmittable when the patient is symptomatic or otherwise leaking bodily fluids.

Yeah sure, that may be the case now but a new strain could appear or it could change. That still means that people could transmit it to anyone they fuck. By the way, ever been to san francisco? It is practically an ocean of urine, no shit there was a man who was almost crushed by a streetlight that had been corroded by piss over years.

[Vassenor]

If you can't believe that, you clearly don't understand what Ebola is.

If you believe it then you don't understand what DISEASE is...hint hint, it can change. We may not even know everything about it now let alone if it were to undergo a mutation.

Because ebola is only transmittable when the patient is symptomatic or otherwise leaking bodily fluids.

Yeah sure, that may be the case now but a new strain could appear or it could change. That still means that people could transmit it to anyone they fuck. By the way, ever been to san francisco? It is practically an ocean of urine, no shit there was a man who was almost crushed by a streetlight that had been corroded by piss over years.

And that's what quarantine is for.

[Geilinor]

Ebola has been around for a long time, the capitalist media just never reported on the older epidemics.

The older epidemics never killed 13,000 people and didn't last this long.

[Wallenburg]

If you can't believe that, you clearly don't understand what Ebola is.

If you believe it then you don't understand what DISEASE is...hint hint, it can change. We may not even know everything about it now let alone if it were to undergo a mutation.

Yes, get back to me when any current pathogen shows a groundshaking mutation. You seem to misunderstand the process and likelihood of mutation.

[Wallenburg]

Yeah sure, that may be the case now but a new strain could appear or it could change. That still means that people could transmit it to anyone they fuck. By the way, ever been to san francisco? It is practically an ocean of urine, no shit there was a man who was almost crushed by a streetlight that had been corroded by piss over years.

Welcome to the urban United States. [/San Francisco threadjack]

[Staythefout]

If you believe it then you don't understand what DISEASE is...hint hint, it can change. We may not even know everything about it now let alone if it were to undergo a mutation.

Yes, get back to me when any current pathogen shows a groundshaking mutation. You seem to misunderstand the process and likelihood of mutation.

Hey, I admit it I'm no doctor. But let's put it this way, if the choice is between making sure no one from the affected area can expose himself to the us population and making sure people from the affected area can expose himself to the us population, which would you rather have?

[Vassenor]

Yes, get back to me when any current pathogen shows a groundshaking mutation. You seem to misunderstand the process and likelihood of mutation.

Hey, I admit it I'm no doctor. But let's put it this way, if the choice is between making sure no one from the affected area can expose himself to the us population and making sure people from the affected area can expose himself to the us population, which would you rather have?

Quarantine.

[Renewed Dissonance]

only a matter of time before it reaches our borders.

If you're in the United States, it already has. If memory serves, during the most recent epidemic, smething like 5-7 American aid workers were evacuated States-side, and all recovered save one (who was already in the advanced stages when evacuated). Frankly, an approx. 80% survival rate for a disease as deadly serious as Ebola is pretty damned good.

This is not an excuse to let the public health guard slack off, mind, but it does suggest that the primary cause of death in an Ebola outbreak is not really Ebola but rather the chronic lack of medical, social, and governmental infrastructure that's also continuing to plague the African continent.

[Gauthier]

Naturally it'll only be a big deal when white people catch it.

[Faustian Fantasies]

Naturally it'll only be a big deal when white people catch it.

"George Bush doesn't care about black people."

[Gauthier]

Naturally it'll only be a big deal when white people catch it.

"George Bush doesn't care about black people."

So what does he have.to do with ebola, Kanye?

[Cetacea]

its adapted to hot temperatures, so as long as Iceland holds out humanity has a chance of finding a cure before we all get wiped out.

I say we start by eliminating the pigeons

[Gauthier]

its adapted to hot temperatures, so as long as Iceland holds out humanity has a chance of finding a cure before we all get wiped out.

I say we start by eliminating the pigeons

It's saved up DNA from the last spree. Few more and it'll invest in cold resistance.

[Faustian Fantasies]

"George Bush doesn't care about black people."

So what does he have.to do with ebola, Kanye?

You're the one pulling a Kanye here. I'm only observing that, like him, you're needlessly injecting a racial dynamic into a serious crisis.

[Gauthier]

So what does he have.to do with ebola, Kanye?

You're the one pulling a Kanye here. I'm only observing that, like him, you're needlessly injecting a racial dynamic into a serious crisis.

I'm basing it on how little coverage was given on Thomas Eric Duncan compared to everyone else who caught ebola and didn't die. Duncan wasn't even offered the experimental anti-ebola drugs that everyone else who caught were far as I remember.

[The Hobbesian Metaphysician]

Okay someone get Ebola on here to explain their actions.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Fuck sake i just read about Sierra Leone declaring it free the other day, then this happens. Thought it was dealt with, sucks for the people over there that it might break out again, hopefully it is handled better this time around so it cant spread as much.

[United States of Conner]

only a matter of time before it reaches our borders. why did we not shit down travel between us and countries hit by ebola last time? Can't believe it didn't turn into a small pandemic, we dodged a HUGE bullet last time...next time we may not be so lucky...

As with many things, I feel like you don't know what Ebola actually is.