By Eric Worrall – Re-Blogged From WUWT
The description of the latest Ebola epidemic sounds like the script of a dark Hollywood outbreak movie – a rising outbreak in a conflict zone, medical staff hampered by threats to physical safety, frightening indications this outbreak may become worse than previous outbreaks.
By Associated Press – Re-Blogged From Newsmax Health
Congo’s Ebola outbreak has spread to a crossroads city of more than 1 million people in a troubling turn that marks the first time the vast, impoverished country has encountered the lethal virus in an urban area.
“This is a major, major game-changer in the outbreak,” Dr. Peter Salama, the World Health Organization’s deputy director-general of emergency preparedness and response, warned on Thursday.
By John Stossel – Re-Blogged From http://www.Reason.com
This Halloween, what do you fear?
I fear fear itself because when we are afraid, we willingly give away our freedoms.
Global warning? More power to the EPA!
9/11? Vote 100 to 0 to create a TSA!
Kids don’t learn? Common Core!
Crime up? Spend on police! (Or for leftists: increase welfare!)
Ebola? More money and power for public health programs!
Government thrives on our fears. When we’re scared, politicians are always there, promising to protect us if we just give them more money and power. We usually do.
By Bob Shapiro
The previous Re-Post on Ebola has prompted me to give some advice on what you can do to control this disease.
To help protect against an Ebola outbreak spreading, businesses, schools, clubs, and any other place where people gather, should require that, “If you have flu symptoms like Fever, Headache, Vomiting, Diarrhea, or skin eruptions – STAY HOME!”
While not our usual fare, I provide this guest essay for discussion without comment, as it is concerned with an issue of great interest and impact to millions of people – Anthony
Guest essay by Alec Rawls
Negative atmospheric pressure sounds climate related, but it is just an analogy to the inward draw of air that contagious disease laboratories and isolation rooms use to keep pathogens from escaping. The only way to make it safer for Ebola hot-zone residents to stay put and keep the current epidemic from spreading is to use immune survivors to separate and treat the sick, a strategy developed by the Greeks 2400 years ago, but our national policies are working ever more powerfully in the opposite direction, creating strong incentives for infected and possibly infected people to flee to the United States from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. Given this rapidly changing climate of contagion…
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