OTOH, there are people who would be reacting the same way to politicize it even if they had taken a precision scalpel to cut waste without breaking up entire organizations. Cuz everyone has to be in their stupid tribes.

#1 | Posted by sentinel

That depends entirely on if that "precision" cut could be directly tied to worsening disease surveillance and outbreak potential, wouldn't it?

Trump and his Entire Movement are Stupid.

Total Failures in Imagination or planning.

#6 | Posted by Effeteposer

They know they're shielded from their own incompetence.

If Ebola did manage to get here and a sizeable outbreak occur, they wouldn't care. They'd be safe behind their security manned gates and in their luxury penthouses in high rise buildings locked to the general public or at the large, multi acre estates in isolated places like Hawaii or Montana or Colorado.

Hell, they'd probably cheer it as it culled people they view as little more than insects and drains on resources they think should be theirs.

Of course, we have.

You're not exactly ahead of the curve on that one.

You shouldn't spread misinformation while trying to correct what you're not correctly calling out as misinformation.

Ebola is extremely contagious with an infections dose of 1-10 virions and can be stable in bodily fluids on environmental surfaces for days.

It also doesn't have an "extremely" high mortality rate as mortality rate is highly dependent on strain and quality of palliative care and can range from as low as 25% to 90%. The deadliest virus known is rabies, which has a 99% mortality rate if not treated.

The primary driver of the difference in response would be people believing it's a "real" problem because they know what it is from pop culture and they think the definition of a pandemic is based on fatality rates. Even then, I'm not sure will matter until it because widespread enough for people to have it hit close to home. The current outbreak in Africa is still confined to Africa and there's already social media channels posting s*&^ like "RESIST" or "Don't take their NWO vaccine!" type nonsense.

Sorry, that post was to Sentinel.

You're more likely to catch HIV at a truck stop.

Complete and utter nonsense.

Do you have any idea what the containment and disinfection procedures are for dealing with Ebola? Why? Because like I said, the infectious dose is very low and it's stable in the environment for days. You could touch a contaminated door knob and then rub your eye and not even know you've infected yourself until symptoms start. You can be infected by droplet transmission if an infected individual is coughing in your near vicinity (no it's not airborne in the true definition).

There's a reason people dealing with patients or decontaminating spaces where a patient was held are dressed head to toe in disposable, water proof clothing like Tyvek suits/booties/hoods, heavy duty rubber work boots and gloves (probably latex/nitrile gloves underneath that that are taped/sealed to the wrists of the Tyvek), with sealed goggles to protect the eyes, face shields and respirators. When they step out of the space they're cleaning top to bottom with bleach and other disinfectants, they themselves are sprayed down with bleach and other disinfectants while the stand in a bath of disinfectant to fully sanitize the bottoms and sides of the boots.

Ebola is difficult and expensive to deal with, which is why the standard practice before pedo Musk and the Orange Chomo gutted USAID was to catch it as quickly as possible by constant monitoring and dealing with outbreaks before they spread to additional locations.

It could become a problem not because of ease of spread but because the ability to overwhelm official's abilities and resources to deal with it.