EBOLA, creeping timebomb?

[Reckless]

It is extremelly worrying man, and is Going to KILL shit loads of people world wide before countries get there balls out and lock international travel. Fuk the money lost from tourists, that is better than massive loss of life that is coming for sure

They don't have to lock down international travel but certainly isolate those source countries??
FFS if a bunch of dumb KB cunts can see it and they can't. its certainly a big worry

[Maha]

EBOLA, creeping timebomb? ... so was Aids once upon a time and Swine flu was going to kill us all less than a decade ago.

[Shaun Harris]

They don't have to lock down international travel but certainly isolate those source countries??
FFS if a bunch of dumb KB cunts can see it and they can't. its certainly a big worry

That was what I meant by Int travel, but then some would travel by land to get out in another country, so it kinda is a case of full on Int Travel lock out

[Shaun Harris]

Its a catch 22 because if they close both international sea and air access people will still die anyway due to not being able to get medicines, machinery and oil for the country to still run.

Fine by me. It comes from there country, leave it there and fuk the PC world

[Shaun Harris]

EBOLA, creeping timebomb? ... so was Aids once upon a time and Swine flu was going to kill us all less than a decade ago.

But statistics of what Ebola is doing already is way more serious than those issues were Maha- No I cannot quote statistics, just the shocking fast death rate already leeds me believe this

[R650R]

Just like bird flu, swine flu, sars the death toll will be SFA in the end.
I'd like to bet money on a 'miracle' vaccine being developed which all the govts around the world will buy and force us to take.
This is spreading way too slow to be a real threat, all that's needed is to close borders for a couple of weeks, no one in any country will die because of that.

Anyway the real death from supply disruptions (IF it ever got that bad) would not be from closing airports. It would be from individual workers not wanting to leave the safety of home and go to work.
If there was a real outbreak do you think low paid truck drivers, forklift drivers, supermarket workers are going to come to work to possibly get infected??? Same would go for nurses, council sanitation etc...
It would take very little time, about a week of supply chain disruption before mass panic and looting would unleash the zombie apocalypse.
Just look at the panic buying of bottled water and other foodstuffs in recent powercuts and ahead of storms etc...

[Akzle]

Its a catch 22 because if they close both international sea and air access people will still die anyway due to not being able to get medicines, machinery and oil for the country to still run.

it was, the first time they tried to raise hysteria about it, so fatal that it couldn't spread. ie 95%< fatal, fast spreading and fast effecting.
ie, anyone who got it would die before they could spread it.

so thanks a lot to the wright brothers. man... i hope it catches all the jews.

[Akzle]

It would take very little time, about a week of supply chain disruption before mass panic and looting would unleash the zombie apocalypse.
Just look at the panic buying of bottled water and other foodstuffs in recent powercuts and ahead of storms etc...

3 days, actually. is what the shops (supermarkets etc) hold. i sure hope y'all like coca cola and maggi noodles.

[R650R]

I think your belief that the Ebola threat would go away if the border is closed for a couple of weeks is flawed unless they bring out a cure that works over a 2 week period. Many people will loose their houses if they don't come to work unless the govt brings in a benefit that enables people to afford to stay home. I think they brought in such a benefit for all those unable to return to work after the ChCh earthquake.

The two weeks is a random figure it could be more or less. Just whatever the time is needed for the crews with flamethrowers and proper testing regimes to setup in the affected hotzones.
You can add Process Servers (the people who serve debt notices) to the lost of people who will not turn up to work either if you like

[jonbuoy]

EBOLA, creeping timebomb? ... so was Aids once upon a time and Swine flu was going to kill us all less than a decade ago.

Neither of those two had such a high fatality rate or be so easily transmitted.

[jonbuoy]

Just like bird flu, swine flu, sars the death toll will be SFA in the end.
I'd like to bet money on a 'miracle' vaccine being developed which all the govts around the world will buy and force us to take.
This is spreading way too slow to be a real threat, all that's needed is to close borders for a couple of weeks, no one in any country will die because of that.

Anyway the real death from supply disruptions (IF it ever got that bad) would not be from closing airports. It would be from individual workers not wanting to leave the safety of home and go to work.
If there was a real outbreak do you think low paid truck drivers, forklift drivers, supermarket workers are going to come to work to possibly get infected??? Same would go for nurses, council sanitation etc...
It would take very little time, about a week of supply chain disruption before mass panic and looting would unleash the zombie apocalypse.
Just look at the panic buying of bottled water and other foodstuffs in recent powercuts and ahead of storms etc...

They should make any vaccine optional - that way we can flush the vaccine deniers from the gene pool.

[yokel]

They should make any vaccine optional - that way we can flush the vaccine deniers from the gene pool.

Who's "we"? Haha.
That's right you take that vaccine like a good little boy, "they" might even give you a free cookie

[jonbuoy]

Who's "we"? Haha.
That's right you take that vaccine like a good little boy, "they" might even give you a free cookie

Non vaccine deniers.

[Katman]

Don't worry people....cassina's onto it.

[jonbuoy]

Except he isn´t - the reason the CDC holds a patent is so that private drug companies can´t patent the Virus themselves - it keeps the "virus" in the public domain for the greater good. Just as the Dutch are happy to hand out samples of the MERS Virus to any research centre that can safely handle it. If you patent the virus itself and don´t allow others access to it only you can research it. The US haven´t stopped anyone with the right research facilities from research work on that strain of Ebola.

A patent on the Virus doesn´t cover a patent on a vaccine it just makes it very difficult to research it.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...l#.VDebqvmEzQc