Six Ebola Threads

[Anonymous]

There is one thing I feel very confidant saying: not one person reading DCUM will contract Ebola.

Why don't you worry about cancer or crossing the street or something more realistic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is one thing I feel very confidant saying: not one person reading DCUM will contract Ebola.

Why don't you worry about cancer or crossing the street or something more realistic?

Ok, omniscient one. I'm not confident of that, and I doubt you are more qualified than I to make that prediction. Who are you to say people don't worry about those things? They're just not relatively new phenomenon a in our world, so they've been discussed.

[Anonymous]

Are you including your thread, or is this 7?

[Anonymous]

And now we have 7. Congratulations.

BTW, where is your confidence coming from?

[Anonymous]

You forgot the 4 in the Political forum.

[Anonymous]

Never say never. Its a bad omen!

[Anonymous]

I'm seeing Ebola in all threads now.

Over 40- what moisturizer do you use for Ebola?
Live mouse in the closet- does it have Ebola?
Did your partner come with you to all your doctor visits for Ebola or just one?
Saoirse, Naimh or Ebola?
Survey- did you wear a skirt or dress to work today, and if so did you catch Ebola?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm seeing Ebola in all threads now.

Over 40- what moisturizer do you use for Ebola?
Live mouse in the closet- does it have Ebola?
Did your partner come with you to all your doctor visits for Ebola or just one?
Saoirse, Naimh or Ebola?
Survey- did you wear a skirt or dress to work today, and if so did you catch Ebola?

Hilarious.

This is why I feel confident saying you will not get Ebola:

1. It is not easily spread. Body fluids, which in this country we mess with a lot less than in Africa, where families members are caring for their very sick relatives. For all the speculation about how it could become airborne -- head for the hills! -- it hasn't. If anything they believe this strain is not as virulent as others.

2. People are only contagious when they are symptomatic. This is huge. It means that unlike HIV, which people spread for years before they got sick, there are clear outward signs that someone is contagious.

3. We can very easily contain the spread in this country. Yes, there may be more cases with people exposed to this one man, but it won't go beyond that level because they've identified those people BEFORE they showed symptoms and therefore became contagious.

4. We have better health care in this country. The person who has Ebola is being treated in the hospital and not at home by family members. Yes, he was out in the community while sick but I don't think that will happen again.

Seriously, this is a great example of how people get worked up over the most remote possibilities and not at all at more likely threats. A lot of people die from the flu every year, a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm seeing Ebola in all threads now.

Over 40- what moisturizer do you use for Ebola?
Live mouse in the closet- does it have Ebola?
Did your partner come with you to all your doctor visits for Ebola or just one?
Saoirse, Naimh or Ebola?
Survey- did you wear a skirt or dress to work today, and if so did you catch Ebola?

Hilarious.

This is why I feel confident saying you will not get Ebola:

1. It is not easily spread. Body fluids, which in this country we mess with a lot less than in Africa, where families members are caring for their very sick relatives. For all the speculation about how it could become airborne -- head for the hills! -- it hasn't. If anything they believe this strain is not as virulent as others.

2. People are only contagious when they are symptomatic. This is huge. It means that unlike HIV, which people spread for years before they got sick, there are clear outward signs that someone is contagious.

3. We can very easily contain the spread in this country. Yes, there may be more cases with people exposed to this one man, but it won't go beyond that level because they've identified those people BEFORE they showed symptoms and therefore became contagious.

4. We have better health care in this country. The person who has Ebola is being treated in the hospital and not at home by family members. Yes, he was out in the community while sick but I don't think that will happen again.

Seriously, this is a great example of how people get worked up over the most remote possibilities and not at all at more likely threats. A lot of people die from the flu every year, a lot.

I think you are being extremely arrogant and short sighted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm seeing Ebola in all threads now.

Over 40- what moisturizer do you use for Ebola?
Live mouse in the closet- does it have Ebola?
Did your partner come with you to all your doctor visits for Ebola or just one?
Saoirse, Naimh or Ebola?
Survey- did you wear a skirt or dress to work today, and if so did you catch Ebola?

Hilarious.

This is why I feel confident saying you will not get Ebola:

1. It is not easily spread. Body fluids, which in this country we mess with a lot less than in Africa, where families members are caring for their very sick relatives. For all the speculation about how it could become airborne -- head for the hills! -- it hasn't. If anything they believe this strain is not as virulent as others.

2. People are only contagious when they are symptomatic. This is huge. It means that unlike HIV, which people spread for years before they got sick, there are clear outward signs that someone is contagious.

3. We can very easily contain the spread in this country. Yes, there may be more cases with people exposed to this one man, but it won't go beyond that level because they've identified those people BEFORE they showed symptoms and therefore became contagious.

4. We have better health care in this country. The person who has Ebola is being treated in the hospital and not at home by family members. Yes, he was out in the community while sick but I don't think that will happen again.

Seriously, this is a great example of how people get worked up over the most remote possibilities and not at all at more likely threats. A lot of people die from the flu every year, a lot.

I think you are being extremely arrogant and short sighted.

Not pp, but how so?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is one thing I feel very confidant saying: not one person reading DCUM will contract Ebola.

Why don't you worry about cancer or crossing the street or something more realistic?

Texas Ebola patient was in the DC area:
"A Liberian official said the man traveled through Brussels to the United States. United Airlines said in a statement that the man took one of its flights from Brussels to Washington Dulles Airport, where he changed planes to travel to Dallas-Fort Worth."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is one thing I feel very confidant saying: not one person reading DCUM will contract Ebola.

Why don't you worry about cancer or crossing the street or something more realistic?

Texas Ebola patient was in the DC area:
"A Liberian official said the man traveled through Brussels to the United States. United Airlines said in a statement that the man took one of its flights from Brussels to Washington Dulles Airport, where he changed planes to travel to Dallas-Fort Worth."

That's on another thread, bro.

[Anonymous]

It just shows that Ebola is virulently contagious even on-line.

Just watch. Tomorrow it will be 14 threads. You have been warned.

[Anonymous]

People need something to flip out about. They feel a hole in their soul without a panic to occupy them. In a weird way, having an irrational fear gives them a feeling of being complete.

Swine flu, bird flu, West Nile, SARS, Mad Cow, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It just shows that Ebola is virulently contagious even on-line.

Just watch. Tomorrow it will be 14 threads. You have been warned.

LOL!