Ebola Crisis

[old.user4556]

Or it's coming to the UK to live in a seven bedroom house whilst taking your job AND benefits.

 

[BloodOmen]

On a plus side we've got a 10% chance to live it can't be as bad as the media is making out if the response teams are only working on a $100,000,000 budget, you'd think if it was as bad as the media is making out they'd be spending much more than that trying to contain it properly. Can't put a price on spreading such a virus.

 

[old.user4556]

I'm not worried about it in the slightest.

 

[Edmond]

Ebola - they should rename it "flying AIDS", that'll get the world's attention.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XO8x1jmmiJA

 

[Gwadien]

On a plus side we've got a 10% chance to live it can't be as bad as the media is making out if the response teams are only working on a $100,000,000 budget, you'd think if it was as bad as the media is making out they'd be spending much more than that trying to contain it properly. Can't put a price on spreading such a virus.

Look where it is though, think about Swine flu, that was dropping people all over the world, but when it came to more developed countries the death rates declined rapidly, then it almost disappeared, the same will happen to this once it starts touching developed countries.

 

[Talivar]

No it wont, if you catch it , then it doesn't matter what part of world your in because the fatality rate is still 90%.

 

[DaGaffer]

 

[Scouse]

it can't be as bad as the media is making out

Tell that to the 70 doctors who've died trying to treat victims...




Ow. My hangover makes typing farrrr to hard to do.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Ow. My hangover makes typing farrrr to hard to do.

Amateur

 

[Job]

Ahh..the 'it doesnt bother me because only black people from africa get it' brigade..Ebola is serious shit and though it doesnt spread easily unfortunately our modern world gives it a leg up.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Ahh..the 'it doesnt bother me because only black people from africa get it' brigade..Ebola is serious shit and though it doesnt spread easily unfortunately our modern world gives it a leg up.

I'm on a similar brigade, though i'm more inclusive as it's "doesn't bother me because it doesn't affect me directly or indirectly"(note tthe lack of racial tone). As it should be.

Anyone claiming otherwise is quite the hypocrite unless they spend every evening thinking about the around 100k OTHER things going to sh*t on this globe atm.

So called "news sympathisers".

 

[Embattle]

On a plus side we've got a 10% chance to live it can't be as bad as the media is making out if the response teams are only working on a $100,000,000 budget, you'd think if it was as bad as the media is making out they'd be spending much more than that trying to contain it properly. Can't put a price on spreading such a virus.

Up to, you know like broadband.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Can't put a price on spreading such a virus.

Around 50k from the "right people".

 

[Job]

On a side note the missus is climbing Kilimanjaro this week..which is so hipster..but I digress..I was checking flight times to Nairobi and came across the info that the big spenders on African flights top seats were charity workers..but they have had their budgets cut after investigation and its hit those routes hard.

 

[Raven]

According to the BBC we are all going to die. That's several times in the last few years I will die.

 

[caLLous]

And yet here you are.

 

[old.user4556]

According to the BBC we are all going to die. That's several times in the last few years I will die.

<toht> Ahh, but what if you actually did die, but now you're living in an alternate version of that reality where you survied with your memory erased - you can't actually prove me wrong, therefore technically I am right </toht>

 

[BloodOmen]

I'm not worried about it in the slightest.

I'll worry about it when the fatalities are up in the 5-6 digit category.

Tell that to the 70 doctors who've died trying to treat victims...




Ow. My hangover makes typing farrrr to hard to do.

Obviously! the leading doctor for Ebola died fighting it, still doesn't change the fact they're not exactly asking for a lot to contain it if its so serious. $100,000,000 won't go a long way (what their latest plan to contain it would have cost)

 

[Job]

Do you ever watch.real bad shit happening in the news and start to worry that reincarnation is true and you might end up as a one legged shit shoveller in Mumbai.

 

[old.Tohtori]

<toht> Ahh, but what if you actually did die, but now you're living in an alternate version of that reality where you survied with your memory erased - you can't actually prove me wrong, therefore technically I am right </toht>

Not where i would take it. I'd say "What if you DID die and are now living in afterlife, heaven or hell depending on your life situation."

And yeah, saying this is reality and saying this is a highly sophisticated virtual reality are both equally possible since neither way can be proven.

 

[Billargh]

I'm worried, but then I get worried if anyone near me gets a bad belly in case I catch some kind of norovirus from them.

 

[old.user4556]

Seriously, do not worry about it.

 

[ECA]

It isn't airborne and people die really fast from it - it's mainly a problem in poor countries where the infrastructure is bad and ill people don't do simple shit like stay away from other people, or stop eating the carriers ( dead fruit bats are a health risk - not a nutritious snack ).

 

[Gwadien]

Seriously, do not worry about it.

If it starts effecting us then, can we sacrifice you to the gods as a non-belieber?

 

[Ormorof]

Look where it is though, think about Swine flu, that was dropping people all over the world, but when it came to more developed countries the death rates declined rapidly, then it almost disappeared, the same will happen to this once it starts touching developed countries.

Cant really compare swine flu and ebola, swine flu killed only a few thousand (0.03% fatality rate according to wiki) ebola is what 90%?

As long as its not in europe im not worried but if it spreads it may be time to run for the hills

 

[Hawkwind]

On a side note the missus is climbing Kilimanjaro this week..which is so hipster..but I digress..I was checking flight times to Nairobi and came across the info that the big spenders on African flights top seats were charity workers..but they have had their budgets cut after investigation and its hit those routes hard.

No different from most business customers, a lot of companies have set rules like >8 hours is business. Nothing wrong with that. Try flying a lot in Y Class for business and you soon develop a deep hatred of it.

Airports are starting to scan African flights for people with elevated temperatures but that does not find people who have it in incubation time frame. Although as others have stated in area with better hygene it is more difficult to contract it.

Hope it does not get outside Africa, Hemorrhagic type viruses are scary as hell.

 

[Zarjazz]

It doesn't have a high enough rate of transmission and is too deadly to become a global epidemic. Basically before it can exponentially spread too many carriers are already dead.

 

[Ctuchik]

The virus is not spread via air but by fluids so you would have to cough or sneeze or be more intimate with someone to spread it...

Fluids you say? You do realize that public baths falls under that category right? You have any idea what would happen if an infected person went to one of London's public baths? How many do you reckon would be potentially infected the day after? Don't make this sound less dangerous than it is. There is no cure and it is very VERY lethal.

Does that mean we should panic? No obviously not.

 

[Raven]

Its nothing at all to worry about, stop being so wet.

 

[Hawkwind]

Fluids you say? You do realize that public baths falls under that category right? You have any idea what would happen if an infected person went to one of London's public baths?

Chlorine would likely kill it.