Beware Hemorrhagic Fever

Since 2014 there have been 11 cases of the hemorrhagic fever Ebola reported in the United States.  Nine of those were contracted outside the US and traveled into the country.  Two were contracetd by nurses treating a patient who had flown into the USA from Liberia and brought the virus to the USA. 

In August 2018 an outbreak of the Ebola virus was declared in the northern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).  In September a resident of Butembo, a city of about 1-million residents, died.

. . . in June 2019 cases were reported in neighboring Uganda.

. . . in July 2019 cases were reported in the DRC city of Goma, population estimated to be 2-million.

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a global health emergency, citing the virus's recent spread into Goma, one of the country's most densely-populated cities.

Ref: NBC News

DonDiego says: "Be careful out there !"

After the giant clusterfuck of the 2014 outbreak and the incompetant Obama Administration's handling of it...I'm sure the current administration is handling it much differently.

lets see....wait.....Great Scott !

No forced quarantines?  No stopped flights?  No executive order to ban travel to and from?   No warnings of Ebola becoming airborne?    No nightly panic attack on FOX news about an apacolyptic plague about to beset the United States?

At least the people at Glenn Beck's compound are safe.

PJ apparantly doesn't believe in insurance.  How about vacines?

And neither do you....at least in 2019.

I definitely believe in hypocrisy.    And alarmist rhetoric too !

DonDiego asks for pardon.  Allow poor old DonDiego to alter his recommendation:

DonDiego says: " Everyone except PJ Stroh, . . . be careful out there !"

Please explain.

True that !  Life is more fun on the edge, DonDiego !

I run with scissors, ride my bike with no hands, and go on airplanes despite the global pandemic of Ebola.

Its a real adrenaline rush 

See my first post on this thread.   And then reflect on your alarmist rhetoric then....and the absence of it from you now.   I know - it needs alot of explaining, right?

I read your enire post earlier, and my position has not changed since 2014.

I choose to have insurance on my house, although I never seem to use it.  PJ's argument is apparantly that at the end of the year, those who bought home insurance yet didn't use it were stupid.  I believe that home insurance is prudent, just as a careful consideration on quarantining anyone traveling from outbreak areas to America.  Will it save thousands of American from dieing, probably not, but's cheap insurance.

My argument?   Thats the US government's argument...then and now.    

 I believe you had a vast array of insults, condemnations, and calls of incompetance regarding the US administrations handling of the previous outbreak.   ANd even a misquoted aricle from a scientist you falsely claimed said the virus may become airbourne.

But today - you just respectfully have a different opinion.

 Is the Trump administration run by a bunch  of incompetant know-nothings who are sitting back watching the US fall vicitm to a zombie apocolpse?  Did you email president Trump your interview from the Purdue Scientist warning how you can get Ebola the same way as the flu?   

No?  Oh.