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You got to know, postman, that I've publicly and privately chided you time and again on answering your own posts as you beg for responses. Topic closed. Please refrain from answering your own posts. I don't care ... whole topics will be closed and will disappear. pubby

We'll know if the CDC and health authorities (WHO) are lying about how contagious, and therefore how dangerous, ebola is by my birthday, October 23rd. We know that this guy in Texas was discovered and was contagious in t he community on Oct. 1st and 2nd. We know that there have been some 900 people who had some 'possible' contact with him, including his family that stayed in their apartment where he had become ill, sweated on the sheets and presumably even puked a time or two. We know there was the doctor and nurse that attended to him the first time he presented to ER. We also know

I can see you are 'panicked' NewsJunky because you favor an act that is at this stage of the game not rational given the risk. That is what panic does ... and the plain thing is that panic causes all sorts of irrational behaviors - hoarding, shooting, looting, etc. etc. people get very strange when they panic. Calling for quarantining an entire nations encompassing tens of millions of people because of the infection of a few thousand is an over-reaction that would instill panic not just here but in other countries. Here is a thought that should calm you. The guy obviously was 'toxic

11 Alive news reports that the 'ebola test' came back negative. No EBOLA IN COBB COUNTY JAIL ... just an alleged DUI with some chills and a slight fever who happened to have been in Africa recently. pubby

No he didn't know. He may have suspected but if he knew it, then he was EXCEEDINGLY STUPID because anyone familiar knows that the earlier the palliative treatment begins, the higher likelihood the outcome is positive - you live. At worst, he was probably in denial that he had it and was more than happy to take the Texas doctor's reading that he had something that could be treated with an antibiotic. pubby

A couple of things: First, the nature of ebola is that when you get sick, you get really sick really fast. A couple of ibuprofen may get you on the plane but given its anticoagulant status, it would probably kill you to boot as it would spur and exaggerate the hemorrhagic issues of ebola. I wouldn't recommend it or aspirin... maybe some tylenol. Second, the fever is not the issue (except it marks your probably becoming contagious but there are degrees of how contagious you are. So when you are throwing up blood and oozing it out of your eyes, that stuff is toxic. But when they sa

Actually, it is. Think about it. Without airlines, you wouldn't be able to leave there and get here and pretty much be 'gone' - free - into the environment. If you traveled in a ship, you'd know, because of the number of days on the high seas, whether anyone on board was ill because it would be obvious... some would show 'symptoms' ... but with the rapidity of air travel, they can be on the ground and traveling for days before symptoms arise. For instance, to travel via freighter by sea from Sierra Leone to the Savannah Terminal is 12 days. It is highly likely if someone was infecte

The thing LPPT, is that a person sick enough to be throwing off the ebola virus in their sweat - the really toxic/contagious bodily fluid is the blood and the vomit when the person is really sick - would be so sick that they couldn't stand, much less stand in line. The virus may survive an hour or two on a door knob left by a sweaty hand of a person barely able to stand and walk but the transmissions come from touching the pools of vomit and blood. Also it doesn't enter the body through the skin (unless there is a cut) and comes from the human habit of touching their noses, mouths and

I see. The guy appears to be the choice of the students. He is not my choice but then anything Kardashian is not my choice either. If the tradition is the graduating students make the choice and that is their choice, that would be their right. You either believe in free speech or you don't. I happen to be unwavering in my support of the first amendment ... as unwavering as you are in support of the second. And to suggest that I agree with that speech is the same as suggesting you agree with the guy who killed the kids at Sandyhook with a gun because it is his right to have a gun

You know, you sometimes wonder if the police are no more effective at keeping the bullies off the force as priests are keeping pedophiles out of that profession. Even if that is so, I think the real problem in both cases is that once they get in, it is hard to get them out. pubby

Mayor Doris Devey gave the Chamber an update on the state of the city at today's Chamber of Commerce meeting. Here her remarks regarding the progress the city has made and what progress she sees in the future. She was followed by Mayor Boyd Austin who also talked of the progress the city has made over the past year and what progress is expected in the future. Mayor Austin did touch on the level of civil discourse in the community in his remarks as well as criticizing both state and federal government for their regulation and mandates. Click for RECENT TOPICS click for RECENT TOPICS cli

I know but the implication is ... ugh ... this is a full scale epidemic that may claim 5 percent or 150,000,000 people or so in this outbreak. The ongoing conflicts around the civil war in Liberia will take more lives. This is true and I wouldn't recommend following around a person with ebola and lick the door knobs they used. That said, you will decrease your possibility of infection by not picking your nose, not rubbing your eyes, refraining from sticking your finger in your bottom or the bottoms of others ... at least with out washing your hands. Basically ebola gains entry

I don't think they have to be from Africa to be sick if they turn that down. The Spanish flu was a lot more contagious largely because it is spread by aerosol droplets that linger in the air. While ebola is a contagious disease it is has not developed the ability to spread as rapidly as you fear. It is frankly, a lot like the typhoid outbreaks that were occurring at the turn of the century only a little more lethal. Those folks are selling dietary supplements and figure the more scared people are, the more they'll sell. Ignorance, foolishness and a basic lack of facili

Paranoia runs deep ... and into your life it will creep ... it starts when you're always afraid ... step out of line and the man comes and takes you away ... Yep, they're coming for some folks 'round here I like the Widespread Panic version of that classic Buffalo Springfield song TP. pubby

CNN is confused a lot. pubby

Only a clown seeking attention would pull that stunt and you know it. pubby

I think part of the concern is misunderstanding of how the disease is transmitted. It actually does require touch of some sort and those treating patients (doctors/nurses) and burying those who die are at greatest risk. The virus is not aerosol-ized ... i.e. it doesn't linger in the air from a cough - but is contained in the droplets as well as other bodily fluids that may end up in your mouth or eyes. The reason it is transmitted by touch is because people pick their noses, rub their eyes and lick their fingers. It would be in the bedsheets and you'd want to sterilize them before you

Behold the pot-smoking doc who likes to stand up against guns too boot. Frankly, I was curious about the fellow and he's pro pot - recommends using a vaporizer - and anti-gun - so he sounds like a liberal who has made the leap and grasps that there are probably more sceeerd Republicans than not and they may be afraid to the go to the polls 'cause the sky is falling. pubby PS: There are some people who are publicity types. He probably had the suit in his luggage, saw that criticizing the CDC is playing in Peoria, noted that his anti-gun and pro-pot stance has hurt his business in M

I suspect that is occurring but is not being publicized. As for the guy in Texas, it was also reported that when he went to the hospital, he told them he had been in Liberia but I suspect the nurse, whose basic geography course was probably taken in a Texas high school, didn't know where Liberia was and may have assumed he really meant Iberia ... as in Iberia Louisiana. As an aside, the city of Hiram was given a device that allows officers to point it at an enclosed car and determine the temperature inside the car through its closed windows. Similar screening devices exist that are ab

The last time I remember democrats criticizing the government for its policy in regard a public health measure was when Reagan turned a deaf ear and didn't want to do anything about HIV/AIDS because the preachers on the far right were making so much money fundraising by condemning the gays and calling it God's revenge. The criticism was that the government was doing anything and when they finally did start, they pursued maximum delay because ... well I guess they get off on maximizing misery. But as far as remember there was little criticism and basically some good planning that went

Mojo: When you're used to incoming, you duck and return fire. Becomes kind of a habit. It is one the reasons the right is so tolerant of cops with notches. pubby

Why did she have to say that? It is election season silly and the GOP is playing their best card - FEAR ... the sky is falling, the sky is falling. pubby

The vast majority of people who check the site are too afraid of being ridiculed by folks like you ABR or cmorg ... with the reputation going back some time ... I copied the audience online moments ago: It said: 22 members, 104 visitors and 7 anonymous users When you consider the tone - I believe you've been less than kind to me and I've returned the favor over the years. Many people are averse to that kind of confrontation. Hey, check out quantcast.com ... If I was so slick as to get them to lie about pcom, I figure it would be a cakewalk for me to convince everyone

I think Markdavd might have plenty. pubby

I got a ticket in New Mexico back in 1986. I was on my way to a trade show in Vegas and another one in LA. Regardless, the cop wrote me a ticket, told me he could take my DL ask for bond or both, but opted not to do so. He suggested I not speed again. I took it as a warning. I lost the ticket in the confusion of getting the material setup for the trade shows and now avoid the place. They never sent me a letter pubby