New Ebola Cases May Soon Reach 10,000 a Week, Officials Predict

[Grapesoda]

thoughts on this ???

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/wo...rica.html?_r=0

heard on the radio that hospitals are saying it would bankrupt a hospital to comply with Ebola safety protocols... takes 20 people to treat one patient in ICU...whoa!

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...-qa.html#model

[Harmon]

What in Jesus fuck is that graphic supposed to explain?

[AdultKing]

Ebola scares the fuck out of me, I hope it never comes to Australia.

[Grapesoda]

What in Jesus fuck is that graphic supposed to explain?

it explains why Africans like orange dots...WTF? you stupid or what?

[Harmon]

it explains why Africans like orange dots...WTF? you stupid or what?

Unless you click the link it's hard to understand what it means. You fuckin inbred or what?

[Grapesoda]

Unless you click the link it's hard to understand what it means. You fuckin inbred or what?

DAD!!!!! is that you!!!!!!!

[seeandsee]

If that is true, week after that number will be much bigger

[Grapesoda]

If that is true, week after that number will be much bigger

they don't seem to be able to get a handle on this for sure... not going to be a good thing I'm thinking.... time for laying in some supplies I guess, figure 60 days... fortunately I live in the country, with a long ass drive way up a hill and around a corner

[C4W]

All have talked it Down for the beginning not thinking about how crasy it Can get. Its out if hand now and how Will it be with 100.000 infected. WHO Said the other Day it only gotten 1/4 of they money they need.

[Grapesoda]

All have talked it Down for the beginning not thinking about how crasy it Can get. Its out if hand now and how Will it be with 100.000 infected. WHO Said the other Day it only gotten 1/4 of they money they need.

the healthcare system here couldn't handle more than 25 patients across the country

[SuckOnThis]

You guys are victims of a bored media...........

[Due]

thoughts on this ???

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/wo...rica.html?_r=0

heard on the radio that hospitals are saying it would bankrupt a hospital to comply with Ebola safety protocols... takes 20 people to treat one patient in ICU...whoa!

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...-qa.html#model

It might be required with 20 people to treat one patient but I'm sure those 20 people would be able to treat more than 1 patient. The more people that is infected the cheaper it will be to treat them

[DWB]

You guys are victims of a bored media...........

That graphic stops at 800. There are over 4000 dead now from this current outbreak, pushing 10,000 infected and rapidly spreading. If it does get to 10,000 per week, that is beyond containment, treatment, or hope. Most people die from Ebola, and they can not manufacturer these experimental drugs fast enough to help that many people, not to mention the cost.

While it can be argued that half a million people died last year from malaria on a global scale, or mass deaths from any other illness such as cancer or heart related issues, none of them are spread from person to person via a sneeze, or cause you to bleed out of every orifice in your body until you die. Ebola is probably one of the worst ways to die, thus the fear.

[L-Pink]

Borders should have been closed weeks ago. This needed to be contained at the fucking source.

[dyna mo]

and just when I was about to launch a chain of soup restaurants named "a bowl of soup!"

[L-Pink]

Now a second nurse who treated the dead Libyan who never should have been allowed to board a plane has been diagnosed positive. This is after she traveled by air from Texas to Cleveland and back.

Anyone in charge of this shit in our country?

[beerptrol]

Good! Time to thin the herd!

[Rochard]

Not sure about anyone else... But I'm prepared. I am not all about "the world is about to end" but I am all about being prepared for "anything". Don't think it will happen to you? Sure sure, you keep believing that.

The earthquake in 1989, no power for three days.... Sounds easy until you figure out what do you eat when you can't cook for three days - and most of your food just went bad in the first eight hours. Since then I've always stocked lots of canned goods and water.

A few years ago we had that propane train fire here in town - and they evacuated 3/4 of the town. Think about it for a moment - what do you do when they knock on your door and tell you that you have only fifteen minutes to leave your house for the next week.

The past week I've invested some time into stocking up more canned goods and water than normal. If shit goes downhill and they tell us not to leave our house for two weeks I am prepared.

And well armed too.

[dyna mo]

Not sure about anyone else... But I'm prepared. I am not all about "the world is about to end" but I am all about being prepared for "anything". Don't think it will happen to you? Sure sure, you keep believing that.

The earthquake in 1989, no power for three days.... Sounds easy until you figure out what do you eat when you can't cook for three days - and most of your food just went bad in the first eight hours. Since then I've always stocked lots of canned goods and water.

A few years ago we had that propane train fire here in town - and they evacuated 3/4 of the town. Think about it for a moment - what do you do when they knock on your door and tell you that you have only fifteen minutes to leave your house for the next week.

The past week I've invested some time into stocking up more canned goods and water than normal. If shit goes downhill and they tell us not to leave our house for two weeks I am prepared.

And well armed too.

you're prepared for ebola? How did you go about that?

[Vendzilla]

Anyone in charge of this shit in our country?

Not really, but that could change in 2016

[SuckOnThis]

While it can be argued that half a million people died last year from malaria on a global scale, or mass deaths from any other illness such as cancer or heart related issues, none of them are spread from person to person via a sneeze, or cause you to bleed out of every orifice in your body until you die. Ebola is probably one of the worst ways to die, thus the fear.

I would much rather die from ebola than cancer. With ebola you suffer for a week or two and thats it, cancer you suffer for months and months and die. I've watched people die from cancer and it aint pretty.