Not to be crude but you can't get HIV in a bathroom stall unless you are sharing it with a "buddy". Or so they tell us. Not so Ebola.

 

I bet HIV has been passed in a lot of bathroom stalls.

 

I agree but not from the toilet seat or the door handle. Not so Ebola.

 

Health care professionals, even those with masters degrees in public health or PhDs from Yale in virology, wear hazmat suits when treating ebola patients or cleaning up the mess. I've never seen anyone wear a hazmat suit when treating an AIDS patient. Still no difference?

 

Have you ever seen anyone treat an AIDS patient? I haven't. Your point is valid and speaks to contagionous from what I understand, though I've never been in a BSL-4. There are obviously differences and there are striking similarities too. Could a condom be considered a version of hazmat suit? I'm no microbiologist, my main point is IMHO containment is only half the battle and the only part we are talking about right now.

 

Don't waste any time trying to convince this individual. Obviously multiple creditable news sources have reported that out of the nearly 9,000 ebola cases reported in Africa over 90% are fatal are clearly not as trustworthy as his in-law with a Master's from Columbia University. Who oddly enough is MY primary source of information on this matter.

 

Convince me of what? That its a 90% killer? 50-90% is more accurate, but if you want to use the more scary number feel free. It is October. If you or a family member gets it, assume it's 100%.

I will assume you will want to be treated with something that's effective. You won't be and given the disease itself has been around for nearly 30 years it would be reasonable to ask why not. IMHO it has never been profitable to pursue (unlike HIV meds) and the it only affects those people over there mentality. Well it could be here now.

Let's run with containment only though. I'm positive we can contain a highly infectious, easily transmitable and extremely contagious disease, with no vaccine, to one small corner of the globe.

 

If ebola proves not to be the "Andromeda Strain" some fear, still we ought to consider what we have learned already:
This government ("our" government, not some foreign government) seems perfectly willing to bow continually to political convenience and worship at the altar of political correctness, with the protection of the homeland and American citizens from this 'foreign invader' being obviously not their top priority.
Say this is not 'the Big One"; what if it was? What if the next one, or the one after that, is?
Even if the technically correct action is to "not worry", it seems that real leaders who are intent on protecting the US would nevertheless take action to assure the American people that their government has their best interests at the top of the priority list. It would be simple to stop entry to the US of people holding passports from the affected African countries, and require controlled travel via military or charter flights until things quiet down.

 

The reference is to a poem that has long been thought to reference plague. The sneeze = Transmission, falling down = dying, posies = cover up the stench of death, then ashes ashes = cremation of the bodies.

 

Such restrictions have nothing to do with political correctness. When someone says "PC", it usually means that they're having an emotional or knee-jerk reaction and not willing to look into the issue. It's a symptom of talk radio warriors and Faux News, CNN, etc..(not necessarily implying that you're doing this)

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