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Officials investigate possible Ebola cases in Hawaii, Utah
Thursday, October 2, 2014 11:56 PM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Friday, October 3, 2014 1:54 PM
JONGSSTRAW
Friday, October 3, 2014 3:20 PM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Friday, October 3, 2014 4:51 PM
STORYMARK
Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: Ah, the illegal Africa-born President's chickens come home to roost.
Friday, October 3, 2014 5:26 PM
JEWELSTAITEFAN
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: The answer would be to stop all flights from the affected nations. But. of course, that would affect the business class, so that will never happen.
Friday, October 3, 2014 9:02 PM
Friday, October 3, 2014 10:18 PM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Friday, October 3, 2014 10:43 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: I see this thread is toast.
Friday, October 3, 2014 10:58 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: Ah, the illegal Africa-born President's chickens come home to roost. You forgot COMMIE MUSLIM. Illegal Africa-born COMMIE MUSLIM President's chickens come home to roost. Get it right, or don't even try.
Friday, October 3, 2014 10:59 PM
Friday, October 3, 2014 11:08 PM
Friday, October 3, 2014 11:20 PM
Saturday, October 4, 2014 3:14 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: I see this thread is toast. Yeah, just ignore all those reports of Ebola cropping up , because some folks in a thread didn't reply in a manner to your liking. Makes PERFECT sense to me !
Saturday, October 4, 2014 5:39 PM
Saturday, October 4, 2014 6:09 PM
Sunday, October 5, 2014 12:49 AM
ELVISCHRIST
Sunday, October 5, 2014 2:30 AM
Sunday, October 5, 2014 2:32 AM
Sunday, October 5, 2014 8:55 AM
Sunday, October 5, 2014 11:27 AM
Quote: rapSF: You're blaming BUSINESS class? Really? You must have misspelled President Bobo's Political Correctness Quotient. That is all that would be affected by banning or quarantining incoming African origin passengers.
Sunday, October 5, 2014 12:27 PM
Sunday, October 5, 2014 12:32 PM
Sunday, October 5, 2014 1:58 PM
Quote:Originally posted by ElvisChrist: Oh, and since you idiots are determined to prove me right about this being the United States of Pants Shitters, here's some more panic fodder for you: http://www.celebtricity.com/ebola-victim-rises-from-the-dead-in-africa-fear-of-zombie-apocalypse/ It's not true, of course, but you right-wing fucktards have never been known to let facts or truth stand in the way of a good freakout and shit-fit. Part of me hopes this really is a pandemic in the U.S., because it will wipe out at least half of the morons in this miserable fucking shithole of a country.
Sunday, October 5, 2014 5:56 PM
Sunday, October 5, 2014 6:45 PM
Sunday, October 5, 2014 11:25 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by ElvisChrist: Oh, and since you idiots are determined to prove me right about this being the United States of Pants Shitters, here's some more panic fodder for you: http://www.celebtricity.com/ebola-victim-rises-from-the-dead-in-africa-fear-of-zombie-apocalypse/ It's not true, of course, but you right-wing fucktards have never been known to let facts or truth stand in the way of a good freakout and shit-fit. Part of me hopes this really is a pandemic in the U.S., because it will wipe out at least half of the morons in this miserable fucking shithole of a country. Wait! Dead ebola patients CAN'T come back from... the dead ? You serious, Clark ? Because that's what I was told by FOX NEWS...oh, wait. No, I wasn't. Nor did I hear that from any legit news source. Only place I see that being reported is from YOUR ridiculously linked 'celebricity ' site YOU posted. Which also boasts of the first 'Humanzee' hybrid born in Guyana. I take it this site is a kin to The Onion or Pirate News, huh ? Frelling moron.
Sunday, October 5, 2014 11:29 PM
Monday, October 6, 2014 11:17 AM
Monday, October 6, 2014 11:31 AM
Monday, October 6, 2014 3:33 PM
Quote:Originally posted by ElvisChrist: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by ElvisChrist: Oh, and since you idiots are determined to prove me right about this being the United States of Pants Shitters, here's some more panic fodder for you: http://www.celebtricity.com/ebola-victim-rises-from-the-dead-in-africa-fear-of-zombie-apocalypse/ It's not true, of course, but you right-wing fucktards have never been known to let facts or truth stand in the way of a good freakout and shit-fit. Part of me hopes this really is a pandemic in the U.S., because it will wipe out at least half of the morons in this miserable fucking shithole of a country. Wait! Dead ebola patients CAN'T come back from... the dead ? You serious, Clark ? Because that's what I was told by FOX NEWS...oh, wait. No, I wasn't. Nor did I hear that from any legit news source. Only place I see that being reported is from YOUR ridiculously linked 'celebricity ' site YOU posted. Which also boasts of the first 'Humanzee' hybrid born in Guyana. I take it this site is a kin to The Onion or Pirate News, huh ? Frelling moron. Says the dipshit who still believes there are dozens of missing airliners poised to strike the world from Libya... If this were posted on freebeacon you'd buy it 100%, and if anyone tried to explain to you how wrong you were, you'd simply shrug off the proof of said wrongness by saying "Sorry, not buying it." Because you are just that stupid.
Monday, October 6, 2014 4:49 PM
Quote: WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans lack confidence in the government's ability to protect their personal safety and economic security, a sign that their widespread unease about the state of the nation extends far beyond politics, according to the latest Associated Press-GfK poll. With Election Day about a month away, more than half those in the survey said Washington can do little to effectively lessen threats such as climate change, mass shootings, racial tensions, economic uncertainty and an unstable job market. "I think what we've got going on here in America is the perfect storm of not good things," said Joe Teasdale, 59, who lives in southwest Wisconsin and works as an assistant engineer at a casino. For many of those questioned in the poll, conducted before doctors in Texas diagnosed a Liberian man with the Ebola virus, the concern starts with the economy. The poll found that 9 in 10 of those most likely to vote in the Nov. 4 election call the economy an extremely or very important issue. Teasdale is among those who say the slow recovery from the recession is a top concern. http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/2014/10/06/poll-on-americans-trust-in-government-security-safety/16795219/
Monday, October 6, 2014 10:48 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: zombies, which aren't real vs an actual airport which was over run by Islamic militants.
Quote: The childish partisans never do cease to amaze. Wailed like banshees when ever the Bush admin even HINTED of raising a threat level. But now that Obama is in office, there's not 1 damn thing in world to concern ourselves over.
Quote: Not the JV team which is slaughtering innocents across the middle east ( another Brit was beheaded today, FYI ) or Ebola , which almost certainly can't ever come to the USA. Until it does. And it has. But all is well. Remain calm.
Monday, October 6, 2014 11:36 PM
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 11:39 PM
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 4:06 AM
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 3:01 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: zombies, which aren't real vs an actual airport which was over run by Islamic militants. The childish partisans never do cease to amaze. Wailed like banshees when ever the Bush admin even HINTED of raising a threat level. But now that Obama is in office, there's not 1 damn thing in world to concern ourselves over.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 4:33 PM
MAGONSDAUGHTER
Quote:Dallas: The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, Thomas Eric Duncan, has died at a Dallas hospital, as federal officials said they would begin temperature screenings of passengers arriving from West Africa at five US airports. "It is with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment that we must inform you of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan this morning at 7.51 am," hospital spokesman Wendell Watson said. Mr Duncan became ill after arriving in the Texas city from the West African country of Liberia on September 20 to visit family, heightening concerns the world's worst Ebola outbreak on record could spread in the United States. Hen told his fiancee the day he was diagnosed last week that he regretted exposing her to the deadly virus and had he known he was carrying Ebola, he would have "preferred to stay in Liberia and died than bring this to you," a family friend said. "He apologised to Louise the day they told him what he had," said Saymendy Lloyd, a close friend of Louise Troh. "He told her, 'I'm so sorry all of this is happening ... I would not put the love of my life in danger'." Mr Duncan had spent nearly two decades separated from the woman he had travelled to Dallas to be with, Ms Troh, 54, with whom he had a son. The couple were apparently rekindling their relationship. Nowai Korkoyah, the mother of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient diagnosed with Ebola on US soil, holds hands with Reverend Jesse Jackson in Dallas, Texas. Nowai Korkoyah, the mother of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient diagnosed with Ebola on US soil, holds hands with Reverend Jesse Jackson in Dallas, Texas. Photo: Reuters Mr Duncan had been a driver at a cargo company in Monrovia, the Liberian capital, living alone in a small room he rented from the parents of Marthalene Williams, 19. A simple act of kindness probably exposed him to the virus. In Monrovia, neighbours and Ms Williams' parents said Mr Duncan helped the family take Ms Williams to and from a hospital, shortly before she died of Ebola. Some of the men and women who had direct contact with Ms Williams, and who were also in contact with Mr Duncan, have also died, including Ms Williams' brother, Sonny Boy Williams, 21. Mr Duncan helped carry her while she was sick with the virus and convulsing. The disease is contagious only if the infected person is experiencing active symptoms. Reverend Jesse Jackson with Nowai Korkoyah, centre, the mother of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images "He was holding her by the legs, the pa was holding her arms and Sonny Boy was holding her back," said Arren Seyou, 31, who witnessed the scene. Family members gathered in Dallas and were able to see Mr Duncan on Monday at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital via a laptop camera in his hospital room. "He is not responsive at all. They said he was drugged and they put him in deep sleep," said Ms Lloyd, who was with the family. She said the family members were saddened by the sight of Mr Duncan on Monday. A hazardous material crew works at the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan stayed in Dallas. A hazardous material crew works at the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan stayed in Dallas. Photo: AP Ms Lloyd said this was the first time Duncan's mother, who lives in North Carolina, saw her son since he came to the United States. "She has not seen him for 12 years, and the first time she saw him was through a monitor," said Ms Lloyd. "She was very, very emotional. She told him to be strong, that she is praying for him, that she loves him and God is able to do all things." Ms Troh, who is in mandated isolation in Dallas with her 13-year-old son and two other people, spoke by phone to Ms Lloyd. Mr Duncan and Ms Troh's 19-year-old son, Eric Karsiah Duncan, tried to visit his father at the hospital on Tuesday evening. Texas health officials are bracing for a critical week in Dallas, where they are watching for any signs that as many as 48 people who had contact with Mr Duncan may develop symptoms of Ebola. Health officials say the incubation period for the disease is 21 days, but it could appear eight to 10 days after exposure. Mr Duncan began showing symptoms on September 24, when he first sought medical treatment at Texas Presbyterian, three blocks from the home of Ms Troh. Duncan was sent home but was taken back to the hospital by ambulance on September 28. Two days later a blood test confirmed that he had Ebola. Health officials say the "10-day threshold" for the disease will fall within the next few days. "This is a critical week. We need to be prepared in Dallas for what could happen if family members become ill," said David Lakey, commissioner of the Texas Department of Health Services. Dr Gil Mobley, a Missouri doctor, boarded a plane dressed in full protection gear at Atlanta International Airport to protest against the handling of the Ebola crisis by the federal Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr Gil Mobley, a Missouri doctor, boarded a plane dressed in full protection gear at Atlanta International Airport to protest against the handling of the Ebola crisis by the federal Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Photo: AP None of the 10 "high risk" people — including four people who lived in the apartment where Duncan stayed and six health-care workers — have developed symptoms, health officials said. Ms Troh, who was moved to an undisclosed location with the three people who were in the apartment with Duncan, is still well, family members say. Meanwhile, federal officials announced that travellers at five US airports - Kennedy International, Washington Dulles International, O'Hare International, Hartsfield-Jackson International and Newark Liberty International - will be subject to screenings, which will include taking the passengers' temperatures with a non-contact thermometer and requiring them to fill out a questionnaire. The screenings will be for people arriving from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the three countries hardest hit by the epidemic. The worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed 3879 people out of 8033 cases by the end of October 5, with no evidence that the epidemic was being brought under control in West Africa, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday. About 90 per cent of the people arriving from the three countries come through the five airports, officials said.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 5:11 PM
Quote:Originally posted by ElvisChrist: A more "successful" virus would be AIDS - long incubation period, very long period where you can have it, not even know it, and continue to spread it.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 5:19 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote: rapSF: You're blaming BUSINESS class? Really? You must have misspelled President Bobo's Political Correctness Quotient. That is all that would be affected by banning or quarantining incoming African origin passengers. you seem as confused as to whom you're addressing as does Frem.
Quote: And sorry if comments about Obama were over your head.
Quote: Such sarcasm and mocking can be readily seen on your hero John Stewart's show, but may not come off as easy to read in message board form.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 5:22 PM
Quote:Originally posted by ElvisChrist: Oh, and since you idiots are determined to prove me right about this being the United States of Pants Shitters, here's some more panic fodder for you: http://www.celebtricity.com/ebola-victim-rises-from-the-dead-in-africa-fear-of-zombie-apocalypse/ Part of me hopes this really is a pandemic in the U.S., because it will wipe out at least half of the morons in this miserable fucking shithole of a country.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 5:26 PM
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 5:32 PM
Quote:Originally posted by ElvisChrist: Hypocrisy, the only thing the U.S. still manufactures. Meanwhile, 30,000 people on average die from gunshots every year, but those are isolated incidents, and we shouldn't even try to collect data on them because that would imply an anti-gun bias.
Quote: America is a nation of stupid people getting more stupid all the time.
Quote: Jongsstraw: "Fuck you and the gangbanged skank that didn't abort you." "If you don't know that, you're just a huge fucking idiot." "Prove you're not an asshole."
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 5:34 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: So, all you panic-stricken right-whingers SO desperate for this to be a problem you can't wait till there is one before you declare Ebola-gate - can we put this particular stupid thread to rest? Or are you going to continue to be chicken-littles over this particular non-event?
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 5:36 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: So anyway, the 'low risk' homeless man in Dallas has been found and is being monitored. But if he HADN'T been found, and if he DID have Ebola, he (or someone like him) would represent the highest risk for spread that I can think of. An anonymous person out of touch of the medical system, moving among a like population - of which the US has plenty.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 5:39 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2781703/Americans-set-face-increased-screening-airports-amid-Ebola-crisis-CDC-FINALLY-considers-giving-passenger-arriving-Liberia-medical-check-arrival.html CDC is FINALLY considering screening travelers for Ebola before they're allowed into the US... but would anything have stopped Thomas Eric Duncan? -Officials said checks could be brought in, including temperature taking -Would impact those travelling from disease-ravaged West African countries -Move would be difficult as most routes from region are connecting flights -CDC is monitoring 48 people in Dallas in case they start showing symptoms -They are people who may have come into contact with Thomas Eric Duncan -First patient diagnosed on U.S. soil is said to be struggling to survive
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 5:47 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Magonsdaughter: First Ebola death in USA
Quote: Quote:Dallas: The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, Thomas Eric Duncan, has died at a Dallas hospital, as federal officials said they would begin temperature screenings of passengers arriving from West Africa at five US airports. "It is with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment that we must inform you of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan this morning at 7.51 am," hospital spokesman Wendell Watson said. Mr Duncan became ill after arriving in the Texas city from the West African country of Liberia on September 20 to visit family, heightening concerns the world's worst Ebola outbreak on record could spread in the United States. Hen told his fiancee the day he was diagnosed last week that he regretted exposing her to the deadly virus and had he known he was carrying Ebola, he would have "preferred to stay in Liberia and died than bring this to you," a family friend said. "He apologised to Louise the day they told him what he had," said Saymendy Lloyd, a close friend of Louise Troh. "He told her, 'I'm so sorry all of this is happening ... I would not put the love of my life in danger'." Mr Duncan had spent nearly two decades separated from the woman he had travelled to Dallas to be with, Ms Troh, 54, with whom he had a son. The couple were apparently rekindling their relationship. Nowai Korkoyah, the mother of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient diagnosed with Ebola on US soil, holds hands with Reverend Jesse Jackson in Dallas, Texas. Nowai Korkoyah, the mother of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient diagnosed with Ebola on US soil, holds hands with Reverend Jesse Jackson in Dallas, Texas. Photo: Reuters Mr Duncan had been a driver at a cargo company in Monrovia, the Liberian capital, living alone in a small room he rented from the parents of Marthalene Williams, 19. A simple act of kindness probably exposed him to the virus. In Monrovia, neighbours and Ms Williams' parents said Mr Duncan helped the family take Ms Williams to and from a hospital, shortly before she died of Ebola. Some of the men and women who had direct contact with Ms Williams, and who were also in contact with Mr Duncan, have also died, including Ms Williams' brother, Sonny Boy Williams, 21. Mr Duncan helped carry her while she was sick with the virus and convulsing. The disease is contagious only if the infected person is experiencing active symptoms. Reverend Jesse Jackson with Nowai Korkoyah, centre, the mother of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images "He was holding her by the legs, the pa was holding her arms and Sonny Boy was holding her back," said Arren Seyou, 31, who witnessed the scene. Family members gathered in Dallas and were able to see Mr Duncan on Monday at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital via a laptop camera in his hospital room. "He is not responsive at all. They said he was drugged and they put him in deep sleep," said Ms Lloyd, who was with the family. She said the family members were saddened by the sight of Mr Duncan on Monday. A hazardous material crew works at the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan stayed in Dallas. A hazardous material crew works at the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan stayed in Dallas. Photo: AP Ms Lloyd said this was the first time Duncan's mother, who lives in North Carolina, saw her son since he came to the United States. "She has not seen him for 12 years, and the first time she saw him was through a monitor," said Ms Lloyd. "She was very, very emotional. She told him to be strong, that she is praying for him, that she loves him and God is able to do all things." Ms Troh, who is in mandated isolation in Dallas with her 13-year-old son and two other people, spoke by phone to Ms Lloyd. Mr Duncan and Ms Troh's 19-year-old son, Eric Karsiah Duncan, tried to visit his father at the hospital on Tuesday evening. Texas health officials are bracing for a critical week in Dallas, where they are watching for any signs that as many as 48 people who had contact with Mr Duncan may develop symptoms of Ebola. Health officials say the incubation period for the disease is 21 days, but it could appear eight to 10 days after exposure. Mr Duncan began showing symptoms on September 24, when he first sought medical treatment at Texas Presbyterian, three blocks from the home of Ms Troh. Duncan was sent home but was taken back to the hospital by ambulance on September 28. Two days later a blood test confirmed that he had Ebola. Health officials say the "10-day threshold" for the disease will fall within the next few days. "This is a critical week. We need to be prepared in Dallas for what could happen if family members become ill," said David Lakey, commissioner of the Texas Department of Health Services. Dr Gil Mobley, a Missouri doctor, boarded a plane dressed in full protection gear at Atlanta International Airport to protest against the handling of the Ebola crisis by the federal Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr Gil Mobley, a Missouri doctor, boarded a plane dressed in full protection gear at Atlanta International Airport to protest against the handling of the Ebola crisis by the federal Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Photo: AP None of the 10 "high risk" people — including four people who lived in the apartment where Duncan stayed and six health-care workers — have developed symptoms, health officials said. Ms Troh, who was moved to an undisclosed location with the three people who were in the apartment with Duncan, is still well, family members say. Meanwhile, federal officials announced that travellers at five US airports - Kennedy International, Washington Dulles International, O'Hare International, Hartsfield-Jackson International and Newark Liberty International - will be subject to screenings, which will include taking the passengers' temperatures with a non-contact thermometer and requiring them to fill out a questionnaire. The screenings will be for people arriving from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the three countries hardest hit by the epidemic. The worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed 3879 people out of 8033 cases by the end of October 5, with no evidence that the epidemic was being brought under control in West Africa, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday. About 90 per cent of the people arriving from the three countries come through the five airports, officials said. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/ebola-patient-thomas-duncan-dies-in-dallas-hospital-20141009-113dez.html#ixzz3FaUCkW5I Is that the bloody saddest story...
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