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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #700 on: April 29, 2021, 09:33:02 PM »
This thread was very interesting to go back through in light of the COVID...thank God we didn’t have an Ebola outbreak can you imagine the insanity???

Very interesting thread to bring back from the dead. I had certainly forgotten about it. Bedlamite was a bit prescient on page one already.

I'm waiting for something like this to pop up in India or China.
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #701 on: April 29, 2021, 10:04:47 PM »
Covid has been a quite useful tool to gauge who can be on your pandemic team and who just needs to get shot as soon as they are in range like a zulu.
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #702 on: April 29, 2021, 10:26:01 PM »
Can you imagine the insanity if that outbreak would have happened during the Trump admin?
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #703 on: April 29, 2021, 10:43:22 PM »
IIRC, Marburg was actually airborne... Most of the "local" bugs required spray for contamination. I suspect that if we had had an actual pandemic, we would have seen actual quarantines, instead of the play-acting that we got.
 
During the first part of the "two weeks to flatten," I actually saw mass transit buses dropping off workers at local healthcare places. WIth long-term care patients. And then driving on to their next stop on their normal route.
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #704 on: April 30, 2021, 08:07:28 AM »
I see I've been spreading my special type of sunshine for longer than I thought.

The Bush/Obama years broke me  :laugh:

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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #705 on: April 30, 2021, 08:12:17 AM »
I don't think that Marburg is an airborne virus -- it's spread by direct contact with infected body fluids
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #706 on: April 30, 2021, 08:21:34 AM »
Can you imagine the insanity if that outbreak would have happened during the Trump admin?
I imagine the media would have had actual heart attacks on the air. 

However, I doubt Trump would have transported ebola patients back to the US and put them in a hospital in the middle of a major city that wasn't really set up to handle it.  I think Obama was trying to start a crisis.   If it was a distraction, I don't remember what else was happening at that time. 

Which was the Chinese virus that got into the US during the Obama years?  (Swine flu?)  It didn't spread like COVID, but it was a serious outbreak and the media never really got the vapors over it like COVID. 
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #707 on: April 30, 2021, 07:58:13 PM »
I imagine the media would have had actual heart attacks on the air. 

However, I doubt Trump would have transported ebola patients back to the US and put them in a hospital in the middle of a major city that wasn't really set up to handle it.  I think Obama was trying to start a crisis.   If it was a distraction, I don't remember what else was happening at that time. 

Which was the Chinese virus that got into the US during the Obama years?  (Swine flu?)  It didn't spread like COVID, but it was a serious outbreak and the media never really got the vapors over it like COVID.

Yeah, manbirdpig flu about ten years ago.

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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #708 on: May 01, 2021, 11:05:26 AM »
IIRC, Marburg was actually airborne... Most of the "local" bugs required spray for contamination. I suspect that if we had had an actual pandemic, we would have seen actual quarantines, instead of the play-acting that we got.
 
During the first part of the "two weeks to flatten," I actually saw mass transit buses dropping off workers at local healthcare places. WIth long-term care patients. And then driving on to their next stop on their normal route.

   Mass transit is probably the real super spreader, "they're" not going to tell us tho.
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #709 on: May 01, 2021, 04:19:35 PM »
   Mass transit is probably the real super spreader, "they're" not going to tell us tho.

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