Science magazine is making its collection of articles on Ebola available free of charge and up dated daily.
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Note from Darleen: “After arguing in another venue with anti-vaxxers who are convinced by some whacko dentist that Ebola, as well as HIV and H1N1 are intentionally created by some conspiracy of the Illuminati, Rothschilds, Rockefellers and Bill Gates to kill off 80% of the world’s population, actual articles on the science of the disease is most welcome.
Thanks, geoffb!”
Everybody knows Booooosh cooked up ebola with help from Dick Cheney and
Tina FeySarah Palin. It was supposed to only kill polar bears, but something went wrong.One of the pieces details how there has been very little research into the transmission of the disease and just how infective people are at various stages of the disease because the outbreaks happen in places where such studies are difficult and the focus is on containing the spread.
It seems to me that we missed a perfect opportunity to do such research in the Dallas case. The family who had been in contact with the infected person should have been transferred to isolation and monitored not just for their temperature but had samples taken of bodily fluids to be tested daily to see if the virus was present and if it was in what quantity.
Likewise their apartment should have had samples taken of everything that had bodily fluids and all surfaces swabbed and tested to get more data on how long the virus can remain infective on them. A treasure trove of information that was first ignored and then flushed away by the “The Cleaning Guys.”
But, geoffb, we had to DO SOMETHING!!! It’s Ebola, a.k.a. the Magic Death Cooties!! It’s gonna mutate and go airborne any second!! (Never mind that HIV has been around for decades in millions of people going through trillions of replications daily and hasn’t gone airborne, but oh well.) It’s part of the Accepted Cant of Ivory Tower Elite Rulership that every inept, ill-advised underreaction must be balanced by an equally inept, equally ill-advised overreaction.
Silly, silly, McGehee[hee, hee]: The Raygun cooked-up Ebola as a back-up in case OPERATION: CRACK IN THE GHETTO didn’t work out.
Everybody knows Magic Death Cooties are what you get if you see The Ten Commandments displayed on public property.
Everybody knows the world-ending plague Reagan invented was AIDS. That’s why he refused to mention it for several minutes, because opsec.
These Cleaning Guys do what they do, and whatever it is they do, it isn’t science — though their doing may make use of a few procedures derived from the practice of a branch of science or two. In this instance in Dallas however, they were used by others in a roundabout way to “do” politics, whether the Cleaning Guys understood this or not. In this respect the Cleaning Guys begin to resemble the movie “Cleaner” type, i.e., The Wolf, who makes the agonist’s troubles disappear.
With they way this has played out it reminds me less of Mr. Wolf and more of “Victor, nettoyeur.”
Yep, I thought of him too, and he’s a good one. There are many such.
Considering it’s Dallas, I’m genuinely surprised the Left hasn’t called for a Directive 712 by now.
But Dallas is blue now, like Austin.
If the goal is to kill off a large part of the population, why do they keep restricting our freedom? We should all be allowed to do all that dangerous stuff like driving without seatbelts and smoking.
A whole generation could be wiped out by not requiring child safety seats and letting kids bring guns to school.
Who’s in charge? Whoa!
Wife says George W. Bush just teed off at Pebble Beach. How could he with so much going on?
Why is he so teed off at Pebble Beach?
Obama is tea’d off .
Well, let’s be honest…a pandemic that concentrated on the young, the old and the undeveloped world would solve a lot of the world’s problems. Compare the standard of living of most people in Europe before the Black Death, and after it.
Yeah I know …pretty fucking cold, but that doesn’t make it untrue.
Ebola ear worm.
Admit it: you needed one.
And I thought you and I were friends, Di?
Everybody knows ear worms aren’t true worms, and don’t have ears.
>a pandemic that concentrated on the young, the old and the undeveloped world would solve a lot of the world’s problems.<
free markets and rule of law would solve them too.
But what would professional malcontents and busy-bodies do then?
>But what would professional malcontents and busy-bodies do then?<
stop funding this scam. they'll find another in nigeria.
proggtardia news
There Is Method to the Democrats’ Madness Over “Voting Rights”
Re: Spanish Nurse who has now tested twice as positive.
>The high rate has been attributed largely to the lack of personal protective gear, disinfectants and running water in many hospitals and clinics. <
no idea of the infection route
Unless Otherwise Directed