GOVERNMENT VOWS: “WE WILL STOP IT”
By FITSNEWS || Ebola is no longer half a world away …
The “tragic, painful, dreadful, merciless virus” that has claimed more than 3,100 lives in Africa has now been officially diagnosed as having spread to America – specifically, the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
“The patient is a man who became infected in Liberia and traveled to Texas, where he was hospitalized with symptoms that were confirmed to be caused by Ebola,” an official with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) acknowledged.
CDC officials vowed the disease would not spread.
“There is no doubt in my mind … we will stop it here,” CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden told reporters.
Frieden is banking on the fact that doctors caught the disease early enough in the process – before the patient began exhibiting symptoms.
“We are stopping it in its tracks in this country,” he reiterated.
After an incubation period ranging from two days to three weeks, Ebola victims begin experiencing nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Eventually their kidneys and livers begin to shut down, a process accompanied by mass internal hemorrhaging.
There is no treatment and no cure for the virus.
According to the CDC, the patient who brought the disease to America left Liberia on September 10 and arrived in America on September 20. He sought medical help on September 27 and was put in an isolation ward the following day.
“He was visiting family members and staying with family members who live in this country,” Frieden said.
U.S. President Barack Obama has warned that the Ebola virus could kill “hundreds of thousands” of people around the globe and that its containment was a “priority” of his administration. Of course government bureaucrats have been blocking the development and testing of ZMapp, a potential treatment for the virus that uses human antibodies to create an immunity.
Wonder what’s up with that? Oh wait … never mind.
Meanwhile back in West Africa the Ebola outbreak is expanding “exponentially” according to CDC officials on the ground in Sierra Leone. As many as 1.4 million people could contract the disease over the next four months, they say.
Scary, scary stuff …
South Carolinians are already expressing concern over the potential for the virus to spread.
“Air flights run daily from Dallas and Houston to and from both Columbia and Charleston airports,” one of our sources noted, adding that “many Hispanics (also) travel by auto from Texas to South Carolina and North Carolina.”
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I’m calling in an airstrike on my position… Delta Alpha Lima Lima Alpha Sierra… do you copy! I say again.. on my position!
Settle down, Euwe!
Meet TBG at Hap’s Texaco for a beer.
They just gotta say screw this inflation shit. Screw this national debt shit. We got the presses and we got the paper… run off fifty million thousand-dollar bills and hump them right the Christ into circulation.
I thought RonPaul tolld us to IGNORE the rest of the rest of the world, they can’t hurt us…
How’s that workin’ out for ya’?
“I thought RonPaul tolld us to IGNORE the rest of the rest of the world”
No, that’s the best you can do with a philosophy that’s slightly more complex than your ability to understand it. It’s sad, but it is what it is.
Well DR. Paul is about the only GOPer serious about a strong border and immigration control…
“There is no treatment and no cure for the virus.”
That is not true!!!
Obamacare will cure everything.
Obamacare only cures wealth…
Even a blind squirrel….good one.
+2 for you good sir … ;)
Obama wanted Ebola here. Just another lesson he wants to teach America.
Well, I doubt that. But any crisis is good for hiding scandals.
If They don’t get this one right, for once, then Abolishing the IRS will be a whole lot easier.
“Obola”
I’m now going to refer to him as “Barack Obola” from here on out. It’s all your fault.
What about the other 200 people on that plane?
Good point!
Most plane passengers don’t share their bodily fluids with all 200 passengers dumbo. This isn’t spread thorough the air.
Oh, no one sneezes or gets exposed to sneezing, sweat, or other fluids, either in the passenger compartment or the bathroom. That’s good to know.
This is not good in the least. It now puts all Americans in the USA at risk. People who are flying from that country into the USA, why is blood work not done at an onsite portable lab to clear them first? This is just totally crazy. Nobody is really doing anything to stop the USA from infection! Its not an air born virus, but when someone has fever and sweating, vomiting from ebola, and they put their dirty sweaty hands on other surfaces?? The airports and planes will have to be totally sanitized after each international flight.
Airports Have No Way to Screen For Virus.
Idiots, all of them. They called those who proclaimed that travelers from west africa would bring it here, crazies….no need to shut down flights. Same thing with H1N1, could have stopped it at the border with either a complete isolation or thorough screening. Now we’re going to find out which group was right about whether or not it being dangerous in the west, jerks.
Screwing on my tinfoil hat for a moment, there’s some Alex Jones type shit out there saying the US had a bioweapons lab(in a hospital in Sierra Leone) in the area of origination and that this is all a little experiment gone out of control.
The timing of it is interesting, when a statistically significant % of the population is starting to say, “Hmmm, maybe we’ve too much government.” or “Let’s secede and do our own thing”.
Like a good war, a good round of disease generally stifles dissent, especially when the CDC is painted as the hero to the rescue. Our benevolent and competent masters have it all under control….
Of course, when you track down the funding of the vaccine…you see the Army was a major sponsor….
That’s called quarantine.
And you are correct. The WHouse will take every advantage of this crisis too.
Ebola has been around for decades in Western Africa
A 2-year-old boy is believed to have been the first, or index, case of the current Ebola virus disease epidemic. He died on Dec. 28, 2013
Not in context with what I said. Obviously this ebola situation is different, but its variants have been in villages in West Africa for quite some time. Difference now is that Africa is becoming more urban/suburban.
Like a good war, a good round of disease generally stifles dissent,
especially when the CDC is painted as the hero to the rescue.
As you said, Alex Jones type shit. CDC doing its job doesn’t suddenly make people’s view of government as a whole change. Besides, the possibility of a “staged outbreak” doing more damage than originally intended would fuck over not just the CDC, but the rest of government.
Having “a good round of disease” take a few steps too far could embolden an enemy to wipe us off the map, anyways, or at least go to town on expanding their borders. If the Army had a supposed vaccine, they better hope it is effective at fighting the virus and that the virus doesn’t have various strains that may or may not be stopped.
Even orchestrating 9/11 would be easier.
“Even orchestrating 9/11 would be easier.”
Yea….it’s not like a planned infection for dubious reasons has never been carried out before:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiment
“CDC doing its job doesn’t suddenly make people’s view of government as a whole change.”
I disagree. If government creates the problem(unknowingly to the average Joe), then solves it….it’s mighty “expedient”.
“the possibility of a “staged outbreak” doing more damage than originally intended would fuck over not just the CDC, but the rest of government.”
Not if they have access to the vaccine.
“If the Army had a supposed vaccine”
Oh, they do. Don’t you remember the reports of the mission doctor infected, given the experiment treatment(vaccine) and then sent back here? He’s all fine now btw…..
If you google the vaccine, you’ll see the Army is one of the funders.
Because Texas is phenomenal at infectious control (re: 700 infants exposed to TB at a hospital in TX last month)
That’s from those illegals flooding in.
10s of thousands of them. Then there were spread out across the country by the feds. Some are in South Carolina. I hear more have arrived since the first group.
Lots of “firsts” during this administration.
We should be so proud…
If this doesn’t scare the ever loving shit out of you, you’re not paying attention.
My kids gave me stomach bugs the last 2 years and I took every precaution to avoid it. This virus spreads the same way norovirus does, which is the number 1 cause of gastroenteritis in the us. I’m so mad that the government would even risk letting fights in from Liberia. If I catch Ebola, I’m going to the Capitol and going to die there.
When you get there, jump the fence and run to the front door, you can share it with whoever’s occupying the White House.
Right. This is a DC problem and our politically “correct” g’ment should be taking all the hits for this.
We are now in a two front war … Against the bugs and the desert rats.
“… To protect the borders and provide for the common defense…” From the oath of office of the president of the United States.
Might want to check your source on the oath of office for the President there Skippy, from the Constitution, “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Art 2, Sect 1, Clause 8
Might want to check your source on the oath of office for the President there Skippy…
“Forget it. He’s rolling.”
My bad … Protecting the Constitution is more important than protecting our borders, obviously.
It is impossible to quarantine western Africa unless all other nations participate or we isolate ourselves and make all persons coming to this country go through a two week isolation.
Put a nickel in my cup and I’ll make the bad disease go away.
No lie! The U.S. has only four isolation units across the country equipped to handle infected persons. However, government claims most any hospital can treat and contain potential for spreading. But that does not stop the potential spread among the public by those who are infected, who are experiencing the early stages of symptoms, and who do not seek out medical attention after the fact.
We can’t afford anymore. Our taxes would have to go up.
“If this doesn’t scare the ever loving shit out of you, you’re not paying attention”
I’m paying attention yet it does not scare the ever loving shit out of me.
And here’s why – I believe in science and I believe in medicine and I understand that the virus will never, ever spread in the United States as it has in many of these African countries. It will never, ever happen.
What SHOULD scare the ever loving shit out of you is that there are so many folks who do not understand that and those folks are running around squealing “The sky is falling, the sky is falling” .
And of course here on this thread we’ve got folks trying to connect and/or blame the Ebola Virus to President Obama and The Affordable Care Act – clear proof that Obama Derangement Syndrome is still alive and well.
It appears that the Bozo Virus is more of a threat to the US than the Ebola Virus will ever be.
“OBOLA”
[Smiles]
I agree there is a “Bozo Virus” but it has a couple of different strains…”If you like your plan you can keep your plan” and “It’s workplace violence”.
i believe in “Science” and “Medicine” too as well as the negligence/incompetence/wrong headedness of this administration. The damaged leg of this 3 legged stool has brought chaos to everything Obama/Biden and their administration has touched: healthcare, economy, foreign relations, race relations,… No other sitting President in my time has been given a pass on one disaster after another. A Republican and even another Democrat would have been excoriated long ago – as well they should. These two? …not so much….
“…And here’s why – I believe in science and I believe in medicine and I understand that the virus will never, ever spread in the United States…
I have tremendous faith in our scientific capabilities and yet every time we think we understand something we learn that there’s something else we don’t know. From the Director of CDCP:
The head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Tom Frieden, said that despite tremendous efforts from the US government, and affected West African nations, the number of Ebola infections was continuing to grow.
The Ebola outbreak has killed 1,552 people and infected 3,062, according to the latest figures released by the World Health Organization.
“I’m afraid that over the next few weeks, those numbers are likely to increase further and significantly,” Frieden said.
“We need action now to scale up the response. We know how to stop Ebola. The challenge is to scale it up to the massive levels needed to stop this outbreak. This is really the first epidemic of Ebola the world has ever known.”
And finally there’s this gem from The New England Journal of Medicine: “…First, in today’s world, it’s important to recognize that if certain conditions are met — biologic shifts in a pathogen, changes in the interactions between humans and our environment, dysfunctional and under resourced health systems, national and international indifference, lack of effective timely response, high population mobility, local customs that can exacerbate morbidity and mortality, spread in densely populated urban centers, and a lack of trust in authorities — what might once have been a limited outbreak can become a massive, nearly uncontrollable epidemic. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1411471
“and a lack of trust in authorities”…and why would there be a lack of trust.
Oh yeah, and then there’s this one: Rare respiratory virus, paralysis spreads among US kids http://news.yahoo.com/rare-respiratory-virus-paralysis-spreads-among-us-kids-224617119.html
HIV AIDS transmission is clearly understood and requires more than casual contact yet as many as 36,000,000 have died of the disease since its classification in the early 1980s. Rather than slipping to infinitesimally small numbers of deaths as our treatment technology has improved, AIDS was responsible for 1,700,000 deaths world wide last year.
You “believe” in science all you want SCBlues.
At one point in time, science said the Earth was the center of the universe, which resulted in great suffering for Copernicus:
“People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon … This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy;”- Martin Luther(how ironic)
That was the church that said the earth was the center of the universe, not scientist. If Copernicus had suffered, it would have been at the hands of the church not scientist. But actually you may want to check your history. Copernicus did not suffer at anyone’s hands, he lived into his 70s and died peacefully at home. I think you are thinking of Galileo
99% of the scientists were church related at the time….the church patronaged quite a bit that kings weren’t interested in at the time.
Copernicus did suffer btw, he was branded a heretic and ostracized by the most powerful organization in the world at the time.
The bigger point you are missing in all of this though, is that science is always “sure” of something, until they aren’t. Kind of like a 14 year old know it all.
At one point in time, science said the Earth was the center of the universe, which resulted in great suffering for Copernicus:
“People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon … This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy;”- Martin Luther(how ironic)
If we go we go………..
Maybe its time for a “joint” vacation to Colorado or Washington state.
It’s past due for Mother Earth to thin out homo sapiens anyway and leave the world to Polar Bears,Hawks,Eagles,Aardvarks,Orangatines(sp), and the other critters mentioned in Monty Python’s “Holy Grail” flick!!!!!
Humans are SOOOOO over rated and not near as noble!!!!!
If Ebola don’t get us, just remember: Tuesday is Soylent Green day!!!!!!!
I’ll buy Colorado – everybody out there is stoned and we can steal their survival supplies, but why Washington, tsunami city man!
There is more to Washing state than Seattle or the Washington coast (as beautiful as it is).
I spent a little time at Fairchild AFB which is in Spokane proper. Spokane is not far from the idaho line and pretty much tsunami “proof” (if one makes it that far, it’s all over anyway)
Spokane is a nice area or as Sylvester the Cat would say: “ThssspoCan”
I brought my wife back a t-shirt with Sylvester saying that. She loved that shirt and wore it till it was full of holes
Yeah, Fairchild might be “tsunami proof” but do you remember that oddly shaped mountain in the western sky? That is a long “dormant” volcano called Mount Ranier. There’s one a few miles west of there called Mount St Helens – went boom in 1980 (and again in 2008).
Stay home, find a spot to hunker down somewhere north west of the Cherokee Highway and “everting gwanna be aright” http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=don%27t+worry+about+a+thing&FORM=HDRSC3#view=detail&mid=0B8080DE4A8C02E941910B8080DE4A8C02E94191
i was also refering to the legalization of “reefer’ in Washington state as well as Colorado.
Hopefully Colorado and Washington state will offer “shrooms” as well if the Ebola balloon goes up!!!!!
I bet napalm and fire bombs will fix this.
Het–we’ve bombed more for less.
Napalm might be a bit extreme…
One thing that we should unequivocally do is shut down travel into and out of the affected areas.
Well said.It’s scary that FITS can post a,The War Of The Worlds BS piece,and otherwise intelligent people,believe it.There’s no lack of information refuting everything he claims.
Well, diarrhea is one of the symptoms of ebola.
See, you’re paying attention.
Weren’t we told by the government that the chance of Ebola coming to the US was 18%? I think they should fire that CDC bureaucrat and hire Jimmy the Greek.
In the meantime, there are Community Emergency Response Teams in the Northeast (and elsewhere) training for a pandemic. Better safe than sorry.
There are all those FEMA camps to fill, too.
Why were we letting flights into the U.S. From these locations? If a U.S. citizen dies as a result of this, it is on the federal governments head. I really feel bad for the doctor that treated this guy. They’re more than likely infected already.
Ooooo … They could always blame Bush.
That seems to fix everything in this administration. +10.
Oh yeah, the “disease-carrying Hispanics” racist Tea-tale again. What credulous loons.
How about “them crazed clap-carrying cowboys coming east for our blond pale wimmins and vaccinated (safe sex) pets and livestock.”
Give it a little variety.
You need to realize the difference between Africa and the US.Ebola is not a serious threat in this country,There’s no need for paranoid fear mongering.
‘CDC officials have said that most standard hospital infection control measures should be adequate to prevent the spread of the virus. Ebola is deadly but it’s not necessarily easy to catch. It doesn’t travel by air but is transmitted by direct contact with the bodily fluids of someone who has symptoms, such as vomit, diarrhea or blood.’
I don’t care. Some think this has gone somewhat airborne. BTW, this is the year of the sabbath. First was in 2001 with 9/11. The second was 2008. 2015 is the next one. You tell me if God is telling us something.
Actually it’s the year of “shmita” (sabbatical), shabbat is Jewish for sabbath. The difference – and yes, God is trying to tell us something every day of every year.
No one has a special allegiance w/God.No one.
God is ‘telling you’,exists only in your head.::::https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk41Gbjljfo
Well 9, you have it partially right, “…No one has a special allegiance w/God…”. Because anyone can have an allegiance to God, I’d offer this musical rebuttal:
I listened to an old interview with Jeff Dahmer a few days ago. He also believed that he had an allegiance to God. He said he had found God as his savior, and felt sure he was going to heaven because he had apologized for all his sins. He didn;t go into any detail of which sins he was talking about, but I guess those would include drugging, killing, eating and having dead sex with dudes he met in bath houses.
Since noone has returned to tell us if he was correct, I guess we’ll never know. But if my dog can’t get into heaven (as I was once told by a Southern Baptist) and Dahmer can, I’m not so sure I want to go there.
TBG will play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUyxiI-TY3c
Dude, wassup? You dissing gay dead sex?
What kind of a god would God be if he was as simple as you want him to be? Will your dog get to go to Heaven? I don’t know, I’m fairly sure it’s not addressed anywhere in the Bible. I’ve known a few dogs that would be fun to have around but I don’t think our understanding of Heaven even begins to approach what it will be like.
I like both songs,but I am not ‘partially right’,or wrong,nor do I have to ‘pay the piper’…
Dylan dropped his Christian beliefs(‘I don’t know what I was thinking’).
I believe in God,but not religion.
People can believe what they want to believe.That doesn’t mean anything in a reality-based world.Self-righteous condescension(you’ll still have to pay the piper),is usually unavoidable with religious types…,but still,I have the utmost respect for you(most of my friends are Christians;)
No condescension intended from a knowingly unrighteous person.
Dylan, born
The simple truth is Bob Dylan sucks. His singing is horrible and his tunes are boring. And in the interviews I’ve seem with him, his an egotistical, arrogant jerk. Some fans believe his lyrics to be prophetic; I never got past “how does it feel” when I sure can’t stand “how it sounds”.
Were Bob Dylan starting out in any other time than when most of supporters must have been stoned on LSD, he couldn’t sell out a Barnes and Noble on a rainy Sunday.
I’m no huge fan of Dylan’s, I think he’s a bit full of himself as well. I do however think some of his music is prescient, Serve Somebody, being extremely on point.
I’m no huge fan of Dylan’s, I think he’s a bit full of himself as well. I do however think some of his music is prescient, Serve Somebody, being extremely on point.
You need to realize that this disease spreads the same way norovirus does, and that’s the number 1 cause of gastroenteritis in the US. But yeah, washing your hands will save you.
The Ebola outbreak has already infected thousands of people in West Africa — including several Americans who were diagnosed there and then brought back to the United States for treatment. But this is the first person to be diagnosed with the disease inside US borders rather than abroad.
According to the CDC, the patient had recently been in Liberia and flew to the US before he was symptomatic or contagious. He later fell ill and was admitted to a hospital in Texas, where he was placed in isolation.
It’s not surprising that an Ebola case has finally popped up in the United States — especially with air travel as common as it is. But it’s also not a disaster. Experts say that public-health officials would likely be able to contain any Ebola outbreak in the United States pretty quickly.
Why is that? One big reason is that Ebola is not especially contagious, as diseases go. You can only get Ebola by coming in direct contact with the bodily fluids of someone who is already showing symptoms. That makes it relatively slow to spread, unlike, say, the measles.
What’s more, the United States has ample health resources and infection control measures to contain outbreaks. This is in stark contrast to West Africa, where poverty and weak health care systems have allowed Ebola to spread and claim the lives of more than 3,000 people.
“Ebola can be scary. But there’s all the difference in the world between the U.S. and parts of Africa where Ebola is spreading,” CDC director Tom Frieden said in a press release on Tuesday. “The United States has a strong health care system and public health professionals who will make sure this case does not threaten our communities.”
VOX
“The United States has a strong health care system and public health professionals who will make sure this case does not threaten our communities.”
Whew!!! (Wipes sweat off brow and onto several surfaces.)
TBG is relieved.
Gotst to go google some Kardashian butt images.
Later, suckuhs!
Hope you gots one of dose widescreen monitors.
TBG does! And has it set to “Stretch” mode. Sir Mix-A-Lot was a piker compared to TBG.
Wash your hands — and eat your peas!
” Ebola is not especially contagious, as diseases go.”
Explain why Patrick Sawyer managed to expose 72 people to Ebola in a matter of hours in Nigeria, eventually killing 8 when he died in a Nigerian airport as he was transferring flights. And that was literally in a matter of hours.
He frenched kissed them all?
That smells like g’ment propaganda.
What was the treatment given to the survivors who were brought here? Just symptomatic?
They “treated” them to a private room.
Government will say anything to look good. Remember all the diseases and viruses being brought across the border? Obama told the Border Patrol to stfu or be fired and maybe even thrown in jail.
G’ment vows: “we will stop it.”
Maybe. Just like They stopped the AIDS epidemic, by opening up the quarantines to maintain political “correctness”.
Those 3000 troops we just sent over there were specifically meant to secure those quarantined areas and transit hubs … too little, too late. Oh Bummer.
Funny that our answer to every crisis ever involves sending in some troops rather than just ending some flights.
This is going to get worse time is now to stop it.
There is no vaccine for the Ebola virus as of this time.
Hazmat/isolation suits are extremely effective against this type of disease.
Other means of prevention are similar to those you would practice to prevent the common cold or the flu, and it starts at your bathroom sink. Thoroughly washing your hands, and practicing good hygiene with soap and water, is a good first step to preventing infection.
An alcohol-based hand rub containing at least 60 percent alcohol is an alternative when soap and water isn’t available.
EBOLA HITS DALLAS…
First diagnosis in USA…
‘Possible’ others exposed…
Feds may be unprepared for pandemic, internal govt reports show…
Airports Have No Way to Screen For Virus…
CDC ISSUES GUIDELINES FOR FUNERAL HOMES…
Feds to Enact Emergency Measures?
Survivor: Outbreak is ‘Fire Straight From Pit of Hell’…
People in contact must be isolated, monitored for 21 days…
Symptoms and Prevention Tips…
Chris Matthews: ‘Obama Said It Was Unlikely. It Has Happened. It’s Here’…
“M-O-O-N” spells Tonto.
The infrastructure in this country is far more capable of handling an Ebola outbreak than in Africa. Ebola is harder to contract than the SARS virus which is airborne and we handled SARS fine. Stop the fear mongering.
By the way, the only reason we don’t have an Ebola vaccine right now is because Ebola originated in Africa 20 plus years ago and neither the World Health Organization nor the developed countries thought it important enough to dedicate the dollars necessary to come up with effective treatments. Now that the threat is global, the governments of developed countries are suddenly behind the eight ball and pharmaceutical companies, i.e. the marketplace, are stepping up to the plate to come up with an effective treatment.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a total of 8,098 people worldwide became sick with SARS during the 2003 outbreak. Of these, 774 died. In the United States, only eight people had laboratory evidence of SARS-CoV infection. All of these people had traveled to other parts of the world with SARS. SARS did not spread more widely in the community in the United States.
The main way that SARS seems to spread is by close person-to-person contact. The virus that causes SARS is thought to be transmitted most readily by respiratory droplets (droplet spread) produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Droplet spread can happen when droplets from the cough or sneeze of an infected person are propelled a short distance (generally up to 3 feet) through the air and deposited on the mucous membranes of the mouth, nose, or eyes of persons who are nearby. The virus also can spread when a person touches a surface or object contaminated with infectious droplets and then touches his or her mouth, nose, or eye(s). In addition, it is possible that the SARS virus might spread more broadly through the air (airborne spread) or by other ways that are not now known.
So far, Ebola is believed to have sickened more than 6,500 people in West Africa, and more than 3,000 deaths have been linked to the disease, according to the World Health Organization. But even those tolls are probably underestimates, partially because there are not enough labs to test people for Ebola.
International travelers are more common today that they were during the SARS outbreak. Ebola is just as deadly, if not more, than SARS. There is no vaccine to prevent infection from Ebola.
A 2-year-old boy is believed to have been the first, or index, case of the current Ebola virus disease epidemic. He died on Dec. 28, 2013
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TBG is willing to make a trade for latex gloves, clorox wipes and .270 ammo with all the plywood, bottled water and duct tape he had hoarded for the 2014 Extreme Global Warming Fueled Hurricane Season….
.270? What’s the logic there, all these idiots hoarding .223 will provide us endless caches to plunder.
It’s a Saiga 12 for me, so shells should be easy to score.
I never felt good about the idea of reaching out and “touching” people, when I don’t know if they intend on harming me if the SHTF. I’d rather have overwhelming force at talking distance.
:)
’03A6 and a Mossberg 500 pump, single shot over under 20/.223 game getter. None ever registered (obtained long before there was such a thing)
You know California is trying to pass a Law that would make such banter as evidence that you should lose your right to own/possess firearms.
Probably isn’t real smart of me to joke like that – or am I…
I’ve got 20 air conditioned storage containers just crammed full of pallets of 9mm and .280 ammunition and dried beans I’ve been trying to get rid of since the Y2K crisis…
I could have *sworn* those municipal sewer pumps were going to be forced into reverse, power plants were going to erupt in a conflagration of high voltage arcs equal to the power of 100 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs, fleets of agricultural combines running on remote using GPS were going to rip through the corn and wheat like crazed locusts on crack and wipe out civilization as we know it!
+10 You outdid yourself on that one, Chief.
It’ll be just like Richmond in the last two years of the States War. In those days, when you wanted a piece of gingerbread, you gave the baker a Confederate dollar, he’d put it on the gingerbread, and cut out a piece just that size. Only after Ebola, it’ll be party poppers and crack.
I had a neighbor years ago that said when the economy fails, cocaine and toilet paper would be the new currency.
He might be right.
Incidentally, he’s already rich.
I’m betting on Elvis commemorative plates and tampons.
I’d hate to see your den…
I’ve got a collection of pubic hairs from all of the girls I’ve known in clear resin that go back to my early school days. Each one, nature’s masterpiece!
I give it a 10+++++++++++!!!
I’ve thought it but never wrote it as good a you
I just hope all those damn ammo horders who caused the obscene rise in ammo prices have to eat that shit
Not securing our borders and allowing Ebola and the Virus that’s infecting our children… yet another Crime against America, Mr. Obama.
Excellent pay, excellent benefits, excellent annual leave and sick leave, retirement, excellent health coverage. And they just keep intentionally screwing us. They simply just don’t really care. Its all a put on act, like Lindsey Graham’s.
Ha, ha, ha. The third world sickness hits the third world state. Even better – I bet everyone first thought it was some illegal alien who brought it here crossing the Rio Grande – when in fact it was some dude on a plane. Great!!! This will probably curb illegal immigration through Texas. Then again, probably kill off people flying United and American Airlines to CA so they can avoid Houston and Dallas airports.
How dare you call an undocumented worker an illegal alien. And to date the undocumented have brought in some very documented diseases, just not Ebola yet. With a porous border and the threat of flights from Africa or elsewhere being cancelled, the world is more than aware that they have other options for entry. IF we become a 3rd world state, it will be because our nation of laws has eroded at the hands of men with chips on their shoulders.
South Carolina is already a third-world state, run by a third-world queen.
“Frieden is banking on the fact that doctors caught the disease early enough in the process – before the patient began exhibiting symptoms.”
Really, did FITS not listen to or read about Frieden’s press conference at all?
If the guy was not having symptoms, how do you think he knew to go to the doctor the first time when he was sent back home or the second time when he was hospitalized?Way beyond Duuuuh.
I wish I had a dollar for every time I wore one of those yellow suits (“KleenGuard A70) not to mention going to level “B” in one a number of times and I am certified up to level “A” but have only worn the level “A” “moonsuit” during HAZMAT training
I can testify to this: Those suits are hot as hell especially if you are working in a humid place such as Africa.
You can go into heat stress in one at 70 degrees if you are exerting yourself
I got pneumonia years ago because i was doing heavy labor in one in December. I was sweating like hell in that suit and immediately chilled as soon as I got out of the damn thing. There is absolutely no ventilation because they are sealed to prevent liquids or other stuff from getting into the coveralls and you can’t ventilate.
It wasn’t the heavy labor or the suit that gave you pneumonia. Isn’t that basterial or viral?
Why don’t we spread it to isis? Seems like a cheap way to fight terrorism
I’d be willing to bet that a good many peopled panicked by this are ones who refuse or forego influenza shots each year. How many Americans did the 1918 flu kills, including droves at Ft. Jackson.