[Aurini]

The social/cultural decline of our nations is what enables the plague.

Look at us; HIV has been a known threat for 30 years, its transmission is crude and easy to block, and yet it's still running rampant in our countries. *This* is what degeneracy looks like - a culture that's unable to curtail itself, or the individuals who are engaged in an uncommon behaviour which is a major vector of transmission.

This is why Ebola is a threat: because we lack the moral fortitude to acknowledge existential threats, let alone deal with them. If it's not Ebola, it's going to be something else.

It's 1340 all over again.

[Spectrumwalker]

Ebola death toll hit 2,000 and still climbing. Let's hope this gets under control somehow.

http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-death-toll-s...45495.html

[BIGINJAPAN]

(08-05-2014 06:08 PM)Aurini Wrote:  

The social/cultural decline of our nations is what enables the plague.

Look at us; HIV has been a known threat for 30 years, its transmission is crude and easy to block, and yet it's still running rampant in our countries. *This* is what degeneracy looks like - a culture that's unable to curtail itself, or the individuals who are engaged in an uncommon behaviour which is a major vector of transmission.

This is why Ebola is a threat: because we lack the moral fortitude to acknowledge existential threats, let alone deal with them. If it's not Ebola, it's going to be something else.

It's 1340 all over again.

http://www.avert.org/canada-hiv-aids-statistics.htm

" At least 13,864 people with AIDS have died since the epidemic began. "

If you read the website they are talking about 1985 until 2011. ALso the majority of contractions and deaths are from gay sex. That is just Canada, where you and I live. But we both know that the statistics will be the same for the rest of the western world.

I am all for conspiracies and dire warnings. But HIV/AIDS and the ebola(at this point anyways) are a FAR FAR cry from destroying humanity.

If anything these diseases are doing mother natures work and quickly removing the defective individuals and their DNA from our genetic make up. Especially in the case of HIV/AIDS which is mainly within the homo and drug using community

[Spectrumwalker]

So instead of bringing back infected US aid workers to American soil, the Obama administration has had the better idea of sending 3,000 perfectly healthy US servicemen to contain Ebola. 3,000 men is no small contingent, that is a lot troops. So now the US military is being used to fight ISIS and Ebola. What a great way to put American citizens at risk. First bomb and antagonize disenchanted Muslims to create blowback and then send our men to Africa to fight an infectious enemy they literally can't see. This is a very risky move that surpasses stupidity. Besides building hospitals and acting as African police officers to quarantine people, what are our boys going to do? Shoot the virus?

http://time.com/3380545/u-s-to-commit-50...ola-fight/

[spokepoker]

Well, at least the tobacco industry might get a kick start from all this wreckless spending.

[GringoSolo]

(09-16-2014 01:49 PM)Spectrumwalker Wrote:  

So instead of bringing back infected US aid workers to American soil, the Obama administration has had the better idea of sending 3,000 perfectly healthy US servicemen to contain Ebola. 3,000 men is no small contingent, that is a lot troops. So now the US military is being used to fight ISIS and Ebola. What a great way to put American citizens at risk. First bomb and antagonize disenchanted Muslims to create blowback and then send our men to Africa to fight an infectious enemy they literally can't see. This is a very risky move that surpasses stupidity. Besides building hospitals and acting as African police officers to quarantine people, what are our boys going to do? Shoot the virus?

http://time.com/3380545/u-s-to-commit-50...ola-fight/

The soldiers are probably going to be stationed on the borders of the affected countries and told to shoot anyone who tries to leave. Its already started happening in Liberia in the quarantined zones

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola-cris...-1.2741407

[MrXY]

Quote:

At least eight Ebola aid workers and journalists were reportedly murdered and dumped in a latrine in a remote village in Guinea in a frightening example of the growing distrust locals have of foreigners coming to help stem the mushrooming health crisis.

These deaths are believed to be the first resulting from resistance to international efforts to curb the Ebola outbreak in the region, Reuters reported. Other aid teams have been forced to turn back by crowds in several locations, and a treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia was attacked and looted.

Villagers in an area near the city of Nzerekore used machetes and clubs to attack eight members of a team trying to raise awareness about the disease, officials told the BBC.

"The eight bodies were found in the village latrine," Albert Damantang Camara, a spokesman for Guinea's government, told Reuters on Thursday, adding that they had been "killed in cold blood by the villagers."

Prime Minister Fofana reported that the aid mission included "local administrators, two medical officers, a preacher and three accompanying journalists." They were reportedly attacked by a large crowd, throwing stones, from the village of Wome.

The delegation had arrived on Tuesday to do disinfection work and educate people about preventing Ebola, but residents pelted them with rocks and beat them, according to the Los Angeles Times, citing Guinean radio reports. The group fled into the bush. One journalist who escaped said she heard people looking for her while she hid, according to the BBC.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/09/19/...lagers-in/

[bacon]

Quote:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that gave worst- and best-case estimates for Liberia and Sierra Leone based on computer modeling.

In the worst-case scenario, the two countries could have a total of 21,000 cases of Ebola by Sept. 30 and 1.4 million cases by Jan. 20 if the disease keeps spreading without effective methods to contain it.

source

Its easy for the public to get scared when these figures get released hopefully this video helps put into perspective some of the propaganda.

[MrLemon]

(09-19-2014 08:07 PM)GringoSolo Wrote:  

(09-16-2014 01:49 PM)Spectrumwalker Wrote:  

So instead of bringing back infected US aid workers to American soil, the Obama administration has had the better idea of sending 3,000 perfectly healthy US servicemen to contain Ebola. 3,000 men is no small contingent, that is a lot troops. So now the US military is being used to fight ISIS and Ebola. What a great way to put American citizens at risk. First bomb and antagonize disenchanted Muslims to create blowback and then send our men to Africa to fight an infectious enemy they literally can't see. This is a very risky move that surpasses stupidity. Besides building hospitals and acting as African police officers to quarantine people, what are our boys going to do? Shoot the virus?

http://time.com/3380545/u-s-to-commit-50...ola-fight/

The soldiers are probably going to be stationed on the borders of the affected countries and told to shoot anyone who tries to leave. Its already started happening in Liberia in the quarantined zones

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola-cris...-1.2741407

Yep, but nobody will ever admit it and even eyewitness accounts will just be buried by web spam. Standard operating procedure.

Just stay far away from this.

[sixsix]

It's starting!

First Ebola case diagnosed on US soil (BBC).

Quote:

The first case of the deadly Ebola virus diagnosed on US soil has been confirmed by medical officials in Dallas, Texas.

Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have confirmed the case.

The patient is said to be a man believed to have been infected in Liberia prior to displaying symptoms of the illness in Texas.

So he was walking around freely before going to the hospital with symptoms. Unrestricted travel from those affected countries sure sounds like a good idea.

[Stun]

^This is in TEXAS - has anyone asked the Dallas Cowboys receivers to help? They'll be safe. They can't catch anything.

[berserk]

(07-03-2014 07:26 AM)pitt Wrote:  

(07-03-2014 03:32 AM)berserk Wrote:  

I just hope no one from that area gets on a plane to the west.

yeah I doubt that the people affected by this disease can afford to travel. This is probably affecting africans who live in remote or poorer areas, I don't think africans with money are getting this disease and if they do, they will likely die before they board on the plane.

You want to retract that now Pitt?

This is why we can't have nice things in the west. I see that Polio is spreading in Europe again now. Also due to immigration. Multi-resistant stomach bugs. Also due to immigration.

[Feisbook Control]

If you want your mind blown, do a Google Images search for "Ebola Chan" or look up articles on the topic. This is the latest 4chan troll job. Basically, they are trolling the shit out of everyone that there is a white cult worshiping a new goddess called Ebola Chan who wants to eradicate Africans. They make fan art and take photos of supposed shrines to her, etc. It went viral (no pun intended) when a Nigerian forum picked up on the conspiracy theory that Western doctors in Africa are actually trying to infect people, rather than help them. This is some next level trolling, at once both horrifying and hilarious.

[Tex Pro]

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

(09-30-2014 09:14 PM)Feisbook Control Wrote:  

If you want your mind blown, do a Google Images search for "Ebola Chan" or look up articles on the topic. This is the latest 4chan troll job. Basically, they are trolling the shit out of everyone that there is a white cult worshiping a new goddess called Ebola Chan who wants to eradicate Africans. They make fan art and take photos of supposed shrines to her, etc. It went viral (no pun intended) when a Nigerian forum picked up on the conspiracy theory that Western doctors in Africa are actually trying to infect people, rather than help them. This is some next level trolling, at once both horrifying and hilarious.

Goodness, that's really irresponsible. Trolling overeducated feminists who are supposed to know better to expose their hypocrisy is one thing, but trolling actual people who are affected by this crap and already prone to misinformation is just crazy. These 4chan people are overstepping themselves.

[presidentcarter]

(10-01-2014 05:12 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

(09-30-2014 09:14 PM)Feisbook Control Wrote:  

If you want your mind blown, do a Google Images search for "Ebola Chan" or look up articles on the topic. This is the latest 4chan troll job. Basically, they are trolling the shit out of everyone that there is a white cult worshiping a new goddess called Ebola Chan who wants to eradicate Africans. They make fan art and take photos of supposed shrines to her, etc. It went viral (no pun intended) when a Nigerian forum picked up on the conspiracy theory that Western doctors in Africa are actually trying to infect people, rather than help them. This is some next level trolling, at once both horrifying and hilarious.

Goodness, that's really irresponsible. Trolling overeducated feminists who are supposed to know better to expose their hypocrisy is one thing, but trolling actual people who are affected by this crap and already prone to misinformation is just crazy. These 4chan people are overstepping themselves.

It's definitely a bit irresponsible. I haven't read this whole thread... but I saw a Vice documentary where it showed that many Africans don't even believe that Ebola is real and they joyfully continue eating their bush meat. Although, it was made before this recent outbreak.

[TheWastelander]

No one returning from the region of Africa where the pandemic's occurring should've been permitted to board the planes without being screened first.

At the very least they shouldn't have been allowed to leave the airport here in the US before being screened.

I suppose we can't do that though because it's discrrrrimminnnnnatory and someone might get their feelings hurt or feel like they were profiled.

Well, they'll feel really bad when their bodies are on fire, they're aching all over, vomiting, and blood's leaking from random places.

[HungWeiLo]

The problem is there's no reliable method to screen passengers before they board; and only if they're sick and presenting with signs of that sickness do people even know what to look for. From the beginning, once officials the world over realized this wasn't an outbreak or hot spot like past Ebola episodes the world community should have quarantined the region, i.e. no flights in or out except aid and the African Union should have patrolled the boarders as a continent wide containment mechanism. The US should have quarantined as a matter of course and preventative policy, any passengers who had West African stamps visas and had been in the region with 21 days of their departure. I'm no health expert, but using just information from the news about the virus, we should have done the rationally logical, hard, thing and cut of the region until the infection burnt itself out. Instead, we exacerbated it by playing it down and saying it was going to be alright whereas they could've nipped it in the bud from the start.

[The Beast1]

(10-01-2014 09:42 AM)TheWastelander Wrote:  

No one returning from the region of Africa where the pandemic's occurring should've been permitted to board the planes without being screened first.

At the very least they shouldn't have been allowed to leave the airport here in the US before being screened.

I suppose we can't do that though because it's discrrrrimminnnnnatory and someone might get their feelings hurt or feel like they were profiled.

Well, they'll feel really bad when their bodies are on fire, they're aching all over, vomiting, and blood's leaking from random places.

Agreed, the idiots that want to help are totally within their right to go and help. However just like the people who refuse to leave a forced evacuation zone, they should be on their own.

Seriously I am starting to look at the egg heads at the CDC as a bunch of knowledge heavy wisdom poor idiots. It's like they WANT to have an ebola outbreak to justify a funding increase.

[Ocelot]

(10-01-2014 05:12 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

(09-30-2014 09:14 PM)Feisbook Control Wrote:  

If you want your mind blown, do a Google Images search for "Ebola Chan" or look up articles on the topic. This is the latest 4chan troll job. Basically, they are trolling the shit out of everyone that there is a white cult worshiping a new goddess called Ebola Chan who wants to eradicate Africans. They make fan art and take photos of supposed shrines to her, etc. It went viral (no pun intended) when a Nigerian forum picked up on the conspiracy theory that Western doctors in Africa are actually trying to infect people, rather than help them. This is some next level trolling, at once both horrifying and hilarious.

Goodness, that's really irresponsible. Trolling overeducated feminists who are supposed to know better to expose their hypocrisy is one thing, but trolling actual people who are affected by this crap and already prone to misinformation is just crazy. These 4chan people are overstepping themselves.

There is no one "4chan people" though. 4chan is a collection of anonymous imageboards. Most boards hate every other board on the site, and /pol/, where most of these stories have been coming from recently, is made up of at least five vague factions who spend as much time trolling eachother as they do everyone else. Hell, this "ebola-chan" thing seems to be as much about trolling /x/ (the paranormal board) as it is being edgy. A post from /x/:



Whilst it's nice to able to pin an identity to behaviours you do and don't like, the bottom line is that 4chan receives over 20,000,000 unique visitors per month, and this "ebola-chan" fad is the work of a few hundred, maybe a few thousand people. I guess my point is, it will be very difficult for anyone unfamiliar with imageboard culture to accurately interpret the information they're getting, especially when their primary source is the mainstream media.

Incidentally (slightly off-topic) if anyone was in any doubt as to where moot's allegiance lies, note how he has done nothing about the hundred ebola-chan threads per day, nor did he do anything when /pol/ were circulating horrendously racist comics with the signature of Ben Garrison (a supposed "libertarian" comic artist who called for laws against hate speech) added into them. Yet threads on gamer-gate were banned for "encouraging harassment".

[WesternCancer]

This is like HIV or swine flu all over again


WE ALL GON DIE!!!

[TheWastelander]

(10-01-2014 11:01 AM)Ocelot Wrote:  

Incidentally (slightly off-topic) if anyone was in any doubt as to where moot's allegiance lies, note how he has done nothing about the hundred ebola-chan threads per day, nor did he do anything when /pol/ were circulating horrendously racist comics with the signature of Ben Garrison (a supposed "libertarian" comic artist who called for laws against hate speech) added into them. Yet threads on gamer-gate were banned for "encouraging harassment".

Follow the money.

[The Beast1]

Guys, it goes without saying if ebola begins to become an issue here state side remember:

Baking Soda helps your body fight infection by lowering your PH and making your blood more base. I have a container of baking soda tabs I swallow whole that I've used when I've gotten sick. Definitely has helped me fight off infection.

here are baking soda tabs which are incredibly easy to swallow. Just make sure you drink lots and lots of water!
http://www.247wereport.com/health-news/i...ebola.html

Sodium bicarbonate, a forum favorite.

[Tex Pro]

Texas Governor Rick Perry To Explain How (Despite 2nd Case) Ebola Is "Contained" - Live Feed:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-01...-live-feed

How Bad Could It Get? US Government Order Of 160,000 HazMat Suits Gives A Clue:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-01...gives-clue

[Cattle Rustler]

5 Kids in dallas schools in possible contact with Ebola. Those kids are real "do or die" niggas.