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Emirates and Pan Africa airlines have suspended flights into those areas as well. All other airlines are continuing normal service to those areas at this time.
Nigeria's ARIK and ASKY airlines suspended flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The exact sort of paranoia and panic that is utterly and absolutely counter-productive.
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I am no scientist and I am no virologist, but I feel that the virus has either become airborne or has become MUCH easier to transmit. I am also horribly angry that the risk, no matter how small, has been taken to bring these people back into our country for treatment. I’m literally petrified to touch anything outside my home. I am going to go tomorrow and buy masks and gloves and hand sanitizer and bleach. My home is now a ‘no one in’ zone. All foods will be thoroughly cooked until nothing could have survived and water will be boiled and all items coming into my house will be cleaned with a bleach solution. Call me crazy, I don’t give a damned, but I am protecting myself and everyone else should be too.
If this woman reacts like this to a virus she'll most likely never encounter in her whole life, what would she do during an actual outbreak, such as a strain of flu similar to the 1918 variant? A FAR more realistic and viable threat to people in this country.
Keep in mind that the 1918 flu, unlike the typical flu which targets the very young, weak and infirm, tore through and devastated young and healthy populations, leading to tens of millions of deaths. You want to know what disease if any should keep you up at night? That's the one.
IMHO most viruses and other nasties do their stuff to people who are mostly sick and run down like many people in Africa. Ebola; I don't know enough about that 1 to say it's like most other bugs.
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Can you give me next weeks' winning lotto numbers while you're at it as well Nostradamus?
me logic thinking cap doesn't work with lottery numbers.. but it does tell me the a virus like Ebola that's in 3 African countries and within big cities with millions of sheep will spread like wild fire once tens of thousands start fleeing those big populous areas.. I heard that lots of Ebola patients are hiding cause they are afraid of being exterminated by big brother, that in itself if true will aid in its spread across Africa and then in to Europe and beyond..
store lots of can food just in case!!!! a zombie apocalypse might just be around the corner..
The exact sort of paranoia and panic that is utterly and absolutely counter-productive.
If this woman reacts like this to a virus she'll most likely never encounter in her whole life, what would she do during an actual outbreak, such as a strain of flu similar to the 1918 variant? A FAR more realistic and viable threat to people in this country.
Keep in mind that the 1918 flu, unlike the typical flu which targets the very young, weak and infirm, tore through and devastated young and healthy populations, leading to tens of millions of deaths. You want to know what disease if any should keep you up at night? That's the one.
That is correct. The H1N1 hit our young and healthy population especially hard, with most of the deaths.
me logic thinking cap doesn't work with lottery numbers.. but it does tell me the a virus like Ebola that's in 3 African countries and within big cities with millions of sheep will spread like wild fire once tens of thousands start fleeing those big populous areas.. I heard that lots of Ebola patients are hiding cause they are afraid of being exterminated by big brother, that in itself if true will aid in its spread across Africa and then in to Europe and beyond..
store lots of can food just in case!!!! a zombie apocalypse might just be around the corner..
Logic? It sounds more like rubbish derived from watching too many movies and playing too many video games.
Here's the deal, real life doesn't play out the same way as in all those scary outbreak movies.
The exact sort of paranoia and panic that is utterly and absolutely counter-productive.
If this woman reacts like this to a virus she'll most likely never encounter in her whole life, what would she do during an actual outbreak, such as a strain of flu similar to the 1918 variant? A FAR more realistic and viable threat to people in this country.
Keep in mind that the 1918 flu, unlike the typical flu which targets the very young, weak and infirm, tore through and devastated young and healthy populations, leading to tens of millions of deaths. You want to know what disease if any should keep you up at night? That's the one.
Just to clarify, I'm not freaking out about Ebola. I'd say the chances of any sort of "outbreak" in the US or the western world are slim. But as I've stated before, I'm a skeptic, and I'm also interested in outbreaks of anything in western Africa, because not only did my husband work over there for years, he has friends working over there now - so it's sort of a personal connection.
Plus - the concept of a deadly virus sweeping through the world via air travel always intrigues me since my husband and I fly so often.
Interesting to ponder, and to watch develop - or go away.
So far in my life, I haven't met the disease that would keep me up at night worrying. However, I was pretty irate when my husband was on his way back home from Nigeria after being quarantined on a rig that was infested with bedbugs and scabies. I itched for weeks after that (thanks to some heavy duty prescription soap and some other unpleasant remedies, we dodged the bullet on that one, thank goodness).
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