Guess Who's Back?

[Faustian Fantasies]

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.

Nina Pham received a significant deal of attention, and she wasn't white. Also, I'm not sure what you mean when you say that you're comparing Duncan to everybody else who caught ebola and "didn't die", considering that he did succumb to the virus.

[The Hobbesian Metaphysician]

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.

Unfortunately the trade in meat which has been contaminated tends to cause these outbreaks to happen again.

[Gauthier]

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.

Nina Pham received a significant deal of attention, and she wasn't white. Also, I'm not sure what you mean when you say that you're comparing Duncan to everybody else who caught ebola and "didn't die", considering that he did succumb to the virus.

Duncan was the only fatality in the West, exactly. As long as it's just Africans people generally won't give a fuck past "Am I at risk too?"

[Faustian Fantasies]

Nina Pham received a significant deal of attention, and she wasn't white. Also, I'm not sure what you mean when you say that you're comparing Duncan to everybody else who caught ebola and "didn't die", considering that he did succumb to the virus.

Duncan was the only fatality in the West, exactly. As long as it's just Africans people generally won't give a fuck past "Am I at risk too?"

Ok, I understand you now. You were saying that Duncan didn't receive as much attention from the media as the survivors. I agree with you on that point. But again, the people who received more coverage represented many races, so I'm uncertain as to how this datum fits with your interpretation. Possibly, the media provides more attention to survivors rather than victims because a person who gets ebola and survives can generate more potential stories than somebody who gets ebola and simply dies. This would explain the discrepancy without needing to invoke racial or national biases.

In regards to your second point, I can definitely see the perspective you're coming from. A lot of Westerns really do have that insulated, self-interested attitude. But perhaps this isn't a bias against Africa as much as it is a bias in favor of pragmatism. Many people, especially in America, tend to be incredibly pragmatic, and therefore have a general "How does this shit effect me?" attitude rather than a specific bias against African events.

[Renewed Dissonance]

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

Unfortunately.

It is a big deal to many, however. In fact, if anyone is interested, you can volunteer computing resources to help find a cure:

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/discover.action

And the specific Ebola project at Scripps Research:

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/resea ... verview.do

[Jochistan]

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...

Lol. it was a small breakout that effected like a third of a wing of Africa. Controlling it was a piece of piss.

[Imperium Sidhicum]

A few cases ain't an epidemic, meaning WHO isn't mistaken about the epidemic being over.

[Grande Republic of Arcadia]

I have only one word to say: FUUUUUUUCK!

[Liberty and Linguistics]

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

Oh, for fuck's sake, why does everything you post have to lack substance and be so unfunnily snarky. Like, the world erupted in a mix of fear and sympathy when Ebola swept through Liberia and Sierra Leone. It's not as if people don't care, quite the opposite, we care too much about this whole ebola thing. Let WHO deal with it.

[Uxupox]

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?

[The Serbian Empire]

Ebola's in town. No eating something it's dangerous!

[Saint Kitten]

Ebola's back, because the first media circus just wasn't good enough.

[The Republic of Lanos]

Guess Who's Back?
Back again.
Ebola's back.
Panic again.
Guess Who's Back? Guess Who's Back? Guess Who's Back? Guess Who's Back?
*nonsensical rambling then a match is lit*

God created a monster
They don't want me to work no more
They tried to cure me
I'm ebola so fuck you
Well if you want a cure this is what I'll give you
A little bit of my middle finger in your face
Some contamination will get me going faster than a sneeze these days
When trying to avoid the World Health Organization (hey!)
You waited this long to see if I died so I'm back on the mend and contaminating
I know you got a job Mr. Doctor but now you're infected and go fuck yourself
So the WHO won't let me be or let me be me so let me see
They tried to kill me off in Africa and it feels so empty without me
So come and get some of my dip
Fuck you, ebola in your blood and in your piss
Get ready cuz this shit about to get heavy
I just pissed the world off again FUCK YOU MEDICINE!

Now this looks like a job for me so everybody just follow me
'Cause we need a little controversy,
'Cause it feels so empty without me

Now this looks like a job for me so everybody just follow me
'Cause we need a little controversy,
'Cause it feels so empty without me

[Imperializt Russia]

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?

The sensible option. Which is the reason-based approach that was used previously, which resulted in no transmissions in the US, UK or other countries outside the infection zones.

[The Huskar Social Union]

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?

The sensible option. Which is the reason-based approach that was used previously, which resulted in no transmissions in the US, UK or other countries outside the infection zones.

Did you see any of the US media coverage when this outbreak first happened? The amount of fear mongering going on in some reports and news highlights was ridiculous, it was making it out like Ebola was literally in US cities killing people.

[The Great Devourer of All]

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...

Well, hospitals in the US are more abundant and have access to better methods of subduing the disease long enough for it to be treated. Also, as someone said upthread, you have to be exposed to an infected individual's bodily fluids to become infected yourself, and better infrastructure goes a long way towards preventing that.

[The Great Devourer of All]

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...

Lol. it was a small breakout that effected like a third of a wing of Africa. Controlling it was a piece of piss.

Explain how you get 'pieces' of piss.

I've never done that with a liquid before.

[Xanixi]

Guess Who's Back?
Back again.
Ebola's back.
Panic again.
Guess Who's Back? Guess Who's Back? Guess Who's Back? Guess Who's Back?
*nonsensical rambling then a match is lit*

God created a monster
They don't want me to work no more
They tried to cure me
I'm ebola so fuck you
Well if you want a cure this is what I'll give you
A little bit of my middle finger in your face
Some contamination will get me going faster than a sneeze these days
When trying to avoid the World Health Organization (hey!)
You waited this long to see if I died so I'm back on the mend and contaminating
I know you got a job Mr. Doctor but now you're infected and go fuck yourself
So the WHO won't let me be or let me be me so let me see
They tried to kill me off in Africa and it feels so empty without me
So come and get some of my dip
Fuck you, ebola in your blood and in your piss
Get ready cuz this shit about to get heavy
I just pissed the world off again FUCK YOU MEDICINE!

Now this looks like a job for me so everybody just follow me
'Cause we need a little controversy,
'Cause it feels so empty without me

Now this looks like a job for me so everybody just follow me
'Cause we need a little controversy,
'Cause it feels so empty without me

I swear to you I came into this thread expecting something along these lines in the first page.

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

Not Pandemic II again ='(

[Valystria]

What is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger.

[The Princes of the Universe]

What is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger.

Giggity.

[Second Blazing]

Ebolas back, back again, warn your friends.

There's your thread title right there.

[Mefpan]

Just avoid touching bodily fluids of infected people, wash your hands regularly and don't consume shady unidentified meat bought from shady unidentified sources and you're incredibly unlikely to catch it. Hygiene and some measure of common sense and common knowledge regarding disease transmission goes a long way.

As far as diseases go, ebola is ridiculously ineffective when it comes to spreading. Afflicted people are incredibly noticeable, its means of spreading are rather limited too. Like, for most people on here, the everyday flu is a more dangerous killer than ebola.

[Cetacea]

What is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger.

"That is not dead which can eternal lie..." is a much more poetic couplet

[Western Vale Confederacy]

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

Because everything has to be blamed on the ebul capitalist bourgeois!

[Zoo Trouble]

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

Because everything has to be blamed on the ebul capitalist bourgeois!

The capitalist media created ebola!!!