Ebola in the USA: Are You Concerned?

[Gil Dobie]

What is this "Golden Corral" you speak of..?

It's the theme park of restaurants. Complete with the average American theme park guest types.

The Costco of Buffets

[dbackjon]

Also known as Golden Trough

[travelinman67]

Local news report tonight that two locals were under quarantine monitoring after returning from West Africa to visit relatives.

Really.

I'm not sure how to discuss this.

5,000 people dead, 10,000 infected over the past year.

50% +/- fatality rate.

And some people feel the need to travel to the heart of the infectious region to visit relatives...

...then fly around the world.

Really?

Wasn't this once a script for a Bruce Willis terrorist-mad scientist-apocalypse horror thriller movie?

And somehow...

...in some political strategy meeting...

...some shitheads thought it was a good idea...

...to make this PANDEMIC a political litmus issue.

Really!

[CID1990]

More political theater:

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts ... _klain_cdc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The government will take care of all of us, of course.

[travelinman67]

More political theater:

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts ... _klain_cdc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The government will take care of all of us, of course.

Interesting comments.

[BDKJMU]

Confirmed: 4th Ebola case in US. Now NYC. And the doctor who has it rode the subway hours before being diagnosed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/nyreg ... -city.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[travelinman67]

Confirmed: 4th Ebola case in US. Now NYC. And the doctor who has it rode the subway hours before being diagnosed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/nyreg ... -city.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Started a new thread for the NYC case...this one was getting a little cluttered...

http://www.championshipsubdivision.com/ ... 10&t=41554

[CAA Flagship]

Nurse Nina Pham declared Ebola-free.

93, you are cleared for takeoff.

[Grizalltheway]

Nurse Nina Pham declared Ebola-free.

93, you are cleared for takeoff.

Herpes is for life. Just sayin'.

[CAA Flagship]

Herpes is for life. Just sayin'.

WTF? Why didn't you warn me? Bastard.

[BlueHen86]

Confirmed: 4th Ebola case in US. Now NYC. And the doctor who has it rode the subway hours before being diagnosed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/nyreg ... -city.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Started a new thread for the NYC case...this one was getting a little cluttered...

http://www.championshipsubdivision.com/ ... 10&t=41554

Good. We don't want to panic over ebola, but we can't our ebola threads getting cluttered up either.

[BDKJMU]

So Cuomo and Christie had some bi partisan agreement, and then cave to pressure from the WH..
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/nyreg ... ntine.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"Home" quarantine ain't gonna work when people who have been exposed decide to go to a restaurant, go bowling, ride the subway...

[Skjellyfetti]

Study: Fear of Ebola Highest Among People Who Did Not Pay Attention During Math and Science Classes

A new study, by the University of Minnesota, indicates that fear of contracting the Ebola virus is highest among Americans who did not pay attention during math and science classes.

According to the study, those whose minds were elsewhere while being taught certain concepts, like what a virus is and numbers, are at a significantly greater risk of being afraid of catching Ebola than people who were paying even scant attention.


Interviews conducted with people who spent math and science classes focussing on what they would be having for dinner or what the student in front of them was wearing revealed the difficulty they are currently having grasping basic facts about Ebola.

For example, when a participant of the study was told that he had a one-in-thirteen-million chance of contracting the virus, his response was, “Whoa. Thirteen million is a really big number. That is totally scary.”

Davis Logsdon, who conducted the study for the University of Minnesota, puts the number of Americans who did not pay attention during math and science classes at seventy-two per cent, but adds, “I seriously doubt most people will know what that means.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz ... ODY1MjE5S0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[CAA Flagship]

Study: Fear of Ebola Highest Among People Who Did Not Pay Attention During Math and Science Classes

A new study, by the University of Minnesota, indicates that fear of contracting the Ebola virus is highest among Americans who did not pay attention during math and science classes.

According to the study, those whose minds were elsewhere while being taught certain concepts, like what a virus is and numbers, are at a significantly greater risk of being afraid of catching Ebola than people who were paying even scant attention.


Interviews conducted with people who spent math and science classes focussing on what they would be having for dinner or what the student in front of them was wearing revealed the difficulty they are currently having grasping basic facts about Ebola.

For example, when a participant of the study was told that he had a one-in-thirteen-million chance of contracting the virus, his response was, “Whoa. Thirteen million is a really big number. That is totally scary.”

Davis Logsdon, who conducted the study for the University of Minnesota, puts the number of Americans who did not pay attention during math and science classes at seventy-two per cent, but adds, “I seriously doubt most people will know what that means.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz ... ODY1MjE5S0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

You could substitute "ebola" with a lot of things and get the same result.

[travelinman67]

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz ... ODY1MjE5S0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

You could substitute "ebola" with a lot of things and get the same result.

Was thinking the same. Effects focus/constancy. Readily apparent on this site by those who studied recreational management, creative writing, social services.

[YoUDeeMan]

Study: Fear of Ebola Highest Among People Who Did Not Pay Attention During Math and Science Classes

A new study, by the University of Minnesota, indicates that fear of contracting the Ebola virus is highest among Americans who did not pay attention during math and science classes.

According to the study, those whose minds were elsewhere while being taught certain concepts, like what a virus is and numbers, are at a significantly greater risk of being afraid of catching Ebola than people who were paying even scant attention.


Interviews conducted with people who spent math and science classes focussing on what they would be having for dinner or what the student in front of them was wearing revealed the difficulty they are currently having grasping basic facts about Ebola.

For example, when a participant of the study was told that he had a one-in-thirteen-million chance of contracting the virus, his response was, “Whoa. Thirteen million is a really big number. That is totally scary.”

Davis Logsdon, who conducted the study for the University of Minnesota, puts the number of Americans who did not pay attention during math and science classes at seventy-two per cent, but adds, “I seriously doubt most people will know what that means.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz ... ODY1MjE5S0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Apparently, the people in first world countries who getting the virus are the people who didn't pay attention during their health and medical classes.

[Skjellyfetti]

Apparently, the people in first world countries who getting the virus are the people who didn't pay attention during their health and medical classes.

Was about 'Muricans.

Obviously you didn't pay attention in reading classes.

[93henfan]

Nurse Nina Pham declared Ebola-free.

93, you are cleared for takeoff.

Dammit! Did she leave town yet?

[YoUDeeMan]

Apparently, the people in first world countries who getting the virus are the people who didn't pay attention during their health and medical classes.

Was about 'Muricans.

Obviously you didn't pay attention in reading classes.

So was my statement...but you don't try to understand what you read, do you?

[CID1990]

Apparently, the people in first world countries who getting the virus are the people who didn't pay attention during their health and medical classes.

Was about 'Muricans.

Obviously you didn't pay attention in reading classes.

you completely missed what was a pretty funny point

[JohnStOnge]

You could substitute "ebola" with a lot of things and get the same result.

Would you still say that if you knew that I did pay attention during math and science classes?

Well, except for Comparative Anatomy. But that guy was boring.

Regardless, it's true that I"m not concerned about Ebola and think the hysteria going on over it is ridiculous. Influenza is much more of a threat to us; especially if a nasty variant comes on the scene. I can pretty much guarantee you that the number of people who die of influenza in the United States every year dwarfs the number of people that die worldwide from Ebola. And if you were to compare worldwide mortality it'd REALLy dwarf Ebola in terms of mortality.

That's because, even though the probability of death is not nearly as great once you get it, the probability of getting it is much, much, MUCH higher because it is FAR more contagious and prevalent.

[Grizalltheway]

You could substitute "ebola" with a lot of things and get the same result.

But that guy was boring.

Apparently you weren't paying attention when your English teachers were talking about irony.

[YoUDeeMan]

Was about 'Muricans.

Obviously you didn't pay attention in reading classes.

you completely missed what was a pretty funny point

The guy writes satire...and not very well. So, no, I didn't miss the point.

However, you did miss my point...the only cases of people in the US of A who have contracted the disease in Murica are health care workers. And the only people who've brought the disease over here are people who were over there and caring for others' heath. Now THAT is funny.

[travelinman67]

SNAP!!!

U.K. study reveals Ebola virus survives on surfaces much longer than believed.

Up to 50 days on glass surface at 39°.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... tures.html

"How DARE the governors quarantine
the virus carriers, errr, I mean healthcare workers!"

[Skjellyfetti]

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