It occurs to me that we haven't seen a good old-fashioned Ebola post in a very long time. Did it turn out that actual vaccine was effective enough to mitigate the spread, or have things on the home front just been more pressing/ bleak?
1) The vaccine is evidently only good against one of four Ebola virus variants, the Zaire strain(s). Even then, it's only recommended for those at greatest risk during an actual outbreak. If it ever gets loose in the First World, it will spread like wildfire before vaccine will have any significant effect, and even then only if it's a Zaire strain variant. 2) There hasn't been a notably large outbreak in several years. The last outbreak at all was in January of this year, the Sudan strain, in Uganda, with 12 confirmed cases, and it ended in April of this year. The CFR was 1 in 3 to 4, and is reported as 29%. IOW, about 15 times more lethal than COVID was in the first wave. And when last I looked, there are still only 11 beds at 4 hospitals in all of North America who can treat cases safely. Once any place hits 12 cases, we are West Africa in 2014. (Bonus: Survivors can look forward to Ebola Virus Syndrome, which includes eventual organ failure and blindness due to compromised circulatory problems as a result of the virus. See if you can guess why you've heard Jack and Sh*t about the two ICU nurses who contracted it from working at Texas Health Presbyterian and following CDC PPE guidelines instead of using those developed in the field by Doctors Without Borders in Africa. Hint: they are disabled for life, and in all likelihood can never work again.)
Be glad most of the people who'd bring it here can't afford air fare, but that makes the most likely transmission source do-gooder doctors and nurses working in Greater Sh*tholia, and bringing it back here. Pleasant dreams.
Was in Arlington when that Ebola incident transpired. The squids tasked with 'clean up' were just washing down the scene into the sewer drains. I was expecting protocols of sterner stuff. Might as well have been washing cars.
Same thing happened in Dallas. HAZMAT crews that went to the Ebola victim's residence just pressure-washed the vomit into the gutters.
Proof, if you needed it, that in a disaster, you're always at the mercy of the biggest Gilligans in the chain of survival. IOW, if you're depending on others to be smart, you're f**ked.
Apparently an actress I never heard of just died at 33 from glioma of the central nervous system. Found growth on spine last Thanksgiving, gone 9 months later. I’m sure there’s no connection to the Covid vaccine she was forced to take in order to continue working.
Not counting the news outlets or websites along the full range of accuracy and veracity, I follow multiple actual individuals' handwritten blogs. (Bot news aggregators don't thrill me.) Looking them over, many are current serving or former military and a couple are some variation of high-speed low-drag elite forces ninjas. Or just funny as all. Because life without humor is just despair. So in other words, the same folks I trusted in the military not to wet the bed, sh*t themselves, or otherwise run around like headless Nancys, are the same folks I trust on the interwebz, for demonstrating pretty much the same trustworthiness and circumspectly responsible behavior. Color me shocked.
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The spread finally stopped.
It occurs to me that we haven't seen a good old-fashioned Ebola post in a very long time. Did it turn out that actual vaccine was effective enough to mitigate the spread, or have things on the home front just been more pressing/ bleak?
1) The vaccine is evidently only good against one of four Ebola virus variants, the Zaire strain(s). Even then, it's only recommended for those at greatest risk during an actual outbreak. If it ever gets loose in the First World, it will spread like wildfire before vaccine will have any significant effect, and even then only if it's a Zaire strain variant.
2) There hasn't been a notably large outbreak in several years. The last outbreak at all was in January of this year, the Sudan strain, in Uganda, with 12 confirmed cases, and it ended in April of this year. The CFR was 1 in 3 to 4, and is reported as 29%. IOW, about 15 times more lethal than COVID was in the first wave. And when last I looked, there are still only 11 beds at 4 hospitals in all of North America who can treat cases safely. Once any place hits 12 cases, we are West Africa in 2014. (Bonus: Survivors can look forward to Ebola Virus Syndrome, which includes eventual organ failure and blindness due to compromised circulatory problems as a result of the virus. See if you can guess why you've heard Jack and Sh*t about the two ICU nurses who contracted it from working at Texas Health Presbyterian and following CDC PPE guidelines instead of using those developed in the field by Doctors Without Borders in Africa. Hint: they are disabled for life, and in all likelihood can never work again.)
Be glad most of the people who'd bring it here can't afford air fare, but that makes the most likely transmission source do-gooder doctors and nurses working in Greater Sh*tholia, and bringing it back here.
Pleasant dreams.
Was in Arlington when that Ebola incident transpired. The squids tasked with 'clean up' were just washing down the scene into the sewer drains. I was expecting protocols of sterner stuff. Might as well have been washing cars.
Same thing happened in Dallas. HAZMAT crews that went to the Ebola victim's residence just pressure-washed the vomit into the gutters.
Proof, if you needed it, that in a disaster, you're always at the mercy of the biggest Gilligans in the chain of survival.
IOW, if you're depending on others to be smart, you're f**ked.
Apparently an actress I never heard of just died at 33 from glioma of the central nervous system. Found growth on spine last Thanksgiving, gone 9 months later.
I’m sure there’s no connection to the Covid vaccine she was forced to take in order to continue working.
The number of recent deaths of people far too young to expire is appalling.
I'm sure it's all wild coincidence.
Aesop, any observations on RFK jr cratering the mRNA industry?
You mean besides unrestrained ecstasy?
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