Ebola and other Epidemics, Inadequate Healthcare Threatens Millions

[Maximus]

Too bad you weren't on it.

[CountDeMoney]

I work just a few hundred feet from labs with every strain of Ebola, all four flavors of dengue, every known variant of H and N that has walked this earth plus some we've invented, and every other known pathogen and select agent in the book, and nobody's panicking over an Ebola case in Texas.   Why?  Because this is the United Motherfucking States, not Voodoostanistan.

You want to worry about something, worry about hurricanes.

[grumbler]

I work just a few hundred feet from labs with every strain of Ebola, all four flavors of dengue, every known variant of H and N that has walked this earth plus some we've invented, and every other known pathogen and select agent in the book, and nobody's panicking over an Ebola case in Texas.   Why?  Because this is the United Motherfucking States, not Voodoostanistan.

You want to worry about something, worry about hurricanes.

First, Sharknado.  Now, Ebolacane! 

[Eddie Teach]

The problem(for us) is that if we let the disease ravage Voodoostanistan long enough, it'll result in massive movements of people in numbers even our health care system can't handle.

Agreed that this Texas outbreak will be contained.

[grumbler]

Oh, and you guys saw the new SLJ movie announcement, right?

Ebola on a Plane!

"Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking germs on this motherfucking plane!"

[CountDeMoney]

And yet you gave me shit about renaming the thread "Ebolapalooza".

[grumbler]

And yet you gave me shit about renaming the thread "Ebolapalooza".

Yeah.  And....?

[CountDeMoney]

Then I suppose we can count you out for "Starvationpalooza '15".   

[Martinus]

Works for me.  Texan Liberians, Texo-Liberians, Liberian Texans, or Libero-Texans would seem too goofy.

Quarantine Texan Librarians. Given that noone reads books there, they seem fishy.

[derspiess]

So apparently the preppers are in full hoarding mode, thanks to this Texas case. 

Ed: how many months' food do you have stockpiled??

[Admiral Yi]

So apparently the preppers are in full hoarding mode, thanks to this Texas case. 

Ed: how many months' food do you have stockpiled??

No wifi in the bunker.

[Fate]

The hysteria is pretty retarded. Unless you're in a third world country a virus like Ebola isn't much of a concern. The reason it's so bad in Africa is that they don't have the capacity to isolate those with the virus so the sick end up being cared for at home. Those caretakers then get infected and the chain of death continues. Not a single physician with Doctor's Without Borders has gotten Ebola because isolation and contact/droplet precautions works. Most hospitals in America are capable of treating Ebola patients.

[mongers]

So apparently the preppers are in full hoarding mode, thanks to this Texas case. 

Ed: how many months' food do you have stockpiled??

Yeah, they're an odd bunch, that's a group of them on a forum I sometimes frequent. They always act like the latest concern is the big one, the calamity that'll prove them right, in a way it's like wish fulfilment. 

[derspiess]

Yeah, they're an odd bunch, that's a group of them on a forum I sometimes frequent. They always act like the latest concern is the big one, the calamity that'll prove them right, in a way it's like wish fulfilment. 

It's fun to witness sometimes.  I have a Facebook friend I went to high school with and she is a big time prepper.  Anytime the electricity goes out she's all like "GET USED TO IT PEOPLE".

[CountDeMoney]

Anytime the electricity goes out she's all like "GET USED TO IT PEOPLE".