Not only the ebola problem, but what about this mysterious virus affecting kids all over the country? I have heard very little about its origin, but have heard some suspicions that it may have been brought here by illegal immigrants this summer. I think that's a very good possibility, and ebola is a scary thought too. They can contain it, and once iddentified, at least in this country a person infected with ebola can be brought out of it.
The problem with this one that got in was inadequate screening before leaving foreign soil. Some of the people being interviewed have suggested banning flights from problem areas in Africa altogether, which might not be a bad idea. With the length of inciubation being 8 days, a person can be exposed to it, show no signs whatsoever, hop on a plane and be here still before showing any signs of infection. That's what happened in this case. If it gets out "into the wild" it can and will be a huge problem, I'm not sure we're capable of handling a major epidemic.
In the countries already seeing epidemics, a couple of problems help spread it. Inadequate hygiene is the number one problem, and their burial customs are helping spread it too. Those countries also have primitive medical facilities if any at all, and the populations are unaware of how to prevent further infections.
If..and it's a big if...we can educate the people here, it's possible an epidemic can be prevented, and hopefully panic can be avoided too. Currently the only means of infection is direct contact with bodily fluids. Sweat, urine, vomit, etc. If it mutates then it's a whole new ball of wax. If this mutates into an airborne variety, then there's no way to avoid a major epidemic once it's already been brought here, and it's only a matter of time until more make their way here.
I'm worried, I'm only about 4 hours from Dallas, it can spread that far in a couple of days. Or less.
Then there's this virus affecting children. One death already if I remember correctly, and a number now experiencing paralysis. It was present in 46 states a couple of days ago, including Texas, affecting children, and the mean age is 10. I can't remember for sure, but I think they said ages 4-14. I may be wrong. Guess I need to do some looking, I heard a suspicion not long ago that it may have come from south of the border but that was not confirmed. It does make sense though. Over 50,000 minors from several countries pour over our border, some strange disease they are immune to comes along with them. We don't have their natural immunity and now it's a big problem.
The same thing has happened before, more than once. When Europeans first came to this country the natives were almost wiped out by diseases Europeans didn't worry much about. Even though they would have problems, their immune systems were prepared for them and the affects were not usually deadly. Not so when Native Americans were exposed. Same thing happened when Pizzaro and Cortez landed in South America. The Europeans had some problems, from diseases they had never been exposed to, but the natives of South America were in real trouble. So this is not a new thing, with Ebola or the virus affecting kids here. And I think there's a good chance government stupidity has a lot to do with both being here.
Here's a news release concerning the Ebola patient, explaining how it happened, and was missed by the hospital on his first visit. That's why this is scary, how many medical staffs across the country are not looking close enough at their patients?
http://www.westernjournalism.com/breaki ... eassuring/Took some looking but I finally found the other article I was looking for, the only other time I've seen it suggested this was brought here by illegal minors was one comment on the news a few days ago. Nobody is talking about it yet.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama- ... -children/I predicted this in the thread about illegal immigrants in July, and I'm not the only one, I had already seen it predicted in news interviews. We already have TB, H1N1, smallpox, and other problems in the holding centers, and the government is sending them all over the country without telling anybody where they will be sent. This is the result...
I'm really getting sick of this government...
Other things that are not looking good...beheading in Oklahoma, ISIS a mile from Baghdad, nobody in Obama's so called "coalition" doing much more than technical and material support, (they don't trust him, and for good reason), now it's up to 3000+ deaths in Africa from Ebola, China erupting to chaos, economics experts predicting a major crash, nobody knows how many Islamic radicals are here in the US, Obama's air raids are not doing much more than pissing ISIS off...just how much damage does he expect to do bombing empty buildings? Soon as he broadcast his intent to bomb Iraq, they melted into the civilian population same as Hamas in Palestine. Stupid...
It's coming here...correction it's already here. The beheading in Oklahoma is just the first of it.
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 6:17 pm
