• Rand Paul accuses government of downplaying the risk of Ebola
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[quote]Concord, New Hampshire (CNN) -- Sen. Rand Paul said Ebola is "not like AIDS," offering what he says is a stark contrast from the White House's message on the disease. "[The Obama administration] has downplayed how transmissible it is," Paul said in an interview with CNN on Thursday morning. "They say it's the exchange of bodily of fluids. Which makes people think, 'Oh, it's like AIDS. It's very difficult to catch.'" "If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they're contagious and you can catch it from them," Paul continued. "[The administration] should be honest about that." Running for office? Ask spouse first Sen. Paul visits Ferguson community leaders The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Thomas Frieden said last week at a World Bank meeting in Washington that "we have to work now so that this is not the world's next AIDS." Paul said he doesn't fault administration officials from learning more information about the disease as time goes on. But he argued that downplaying Ebola's health risks is the wrong course of action. "They say all it takes is direct contact to get this," he said. "If you listen carefully, they say being three feet from someone is direct contact. That's not what most Americans think is direct contact.[/quote] [url]http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/16/politics/rand-paul-ebola-aids/index.html?hpt=hp_t2[/url]
They're downplaying it because it really is not such a big deal
Well [I]someone [/I]has to. The media certainly isn't. Not to mention that the USA is not Africa. Ebola does not pose as much of a threat here. And he's basically lying lmao. The whole party example: ebola isn't airborne. You can't catch it that way.
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[QUOTE=EliteGuy;46257624][video=youtube;Z2KBfynW09I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2KBfynW09I[/video][/QUOTE] They think she did have symptoms before she got on the flight now. So what he says at 1:30 is wrong and there is good enough reason to be fearful of that. [url]http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/16/health/us-ebola/index.html?hpt=hp_t1[/url]
It seems we have one of these illness scares every few years. I remember it was swine flu, and before that it was bird flu.
Some fuckhead watched too many movies. Not every disease outbreak will lead to the destruction of humanity. Ebola can't really affect a nation as well-off as the US; It only flourishes in shitty conditions. And this is coming from someone with a history of being deathly paranoid about a bunch of past doomsday predictions and diseases.
[QUOTE=thrawn2787;46257199]Well [I]someone [/I]has to. The media certainly isn't. Not to mention that the USA is not Africa. Ebola does not pose as much of a threat here. And he's basically lying lmao. The whole party example: ebola isn't airborne. You can't catch it that way.[/QUOTE] Ebola is a very serious issue but at the same time... not [I]really[/I] if you get ebola you're pretty damn unlucky and that is [U]HORRIBLE[/U] but the chance of spreading in the US and become as big an issue as lets say, an African or Chinese city outbreak, is MASSIVELY less likely. The media admires shooters and underplays the quality and effectiveness that quarantines give. they like to pretend that virus's will become massive. Remember how HIV was going to become airborne according to the media? they just want to scare the shit out of people for views.
[QUOTE=ilikecorn;46257927]Because how else would the media get huge ratings from their "specials" such as: EBOLA: THE CRISIS GROWS CLOSER TO HOME. [editline]16th October 2014[/editline] If it makes it to an actual metropolitan chinese city, they're legitimately fucked. We'll never hear about it; but they'll certainly suffer.[/QUOTE] there is virtually no health care or anything in some areas, and so many people, I really doubt we won't hear about it so many people will be infected that SURELY there will be someone covering it, right?
Like everything else, public policy should be decided upon based on the free market. So if soccer moms with lots of buying power are freaking out about ebola then it should be priority #1. What do a bunch of crusty old scientists know anyway?
to counter that, i accuse rand paul of being an idiot. that is all [editline]17th October 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Charades;46257690]They think she did have symptoms before she got on the flight now. So what he says at 1:30 is wrong and there is good enough reason to be fearful of that. [url]http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/16/health/us-ebola/index.html?hpt=hp_t1[/url][/QUOTE] she recorded her feaver at the time she boarded the plane was 99.5, well below the point where the virus is even detectable, let alone transmisable, and she confirmed she did not participate in the mile high club while a mile high
[QUOTE=thrawn2787;46257199]Well [I]someone [/I]has to. The media certainly isn't. Not to mention that the USA is not Africa. Ebola does not pose as much of a threat here. And he's basically lying lmao. The whole party example: ebola isn't airborne. You can't catch it that way.[/QUOTE] technically, ebola IS airborne via water droplets expelled during normal respiration, but you kinda need to get REALLY close to someone face or something to get it in this way.
[QUOTE=Sableye;46257994]to counter that, i accuse rand paul of being an idiot. that is all [editline]17th October 2014[/editline] she recorded her feaver at the time she boarded the plane was 99.5, well below the point where the virus is even detectable, let alone transmisable, and she confirmed she did not participate in the mile high club while a mile high[/QUOTE] Did you stop reading after the third paragraph of that article?
[QUOTE=Charades;46258071]Did you stop reading after the third paragraph of that article?[/QUOTE] its rand paul.... [quote]Paul said he doesn't fault administration officials from learning more information about the disease as time goes on. But he argued that downplaying Ebola's health risks is the wrong course of action.[/quote] i think the CDC the ones who developed the quarantine procedures that are being used to combat ebola in the first place are probably well aware ebola's risks, without the procedures they have in place in africa, instead of ten thousand dead by the end of the year it would be millions
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