Drudge, Ebola, and the Tipping Point
Posted by Zenphamy 10 years, 6 months ago to Government
Should we fear Ebola arriving in the US. You damn right we should, simply because our government is telling us not to worry.
As the article says: "The government keeps issuing assurances: there is no threat. Its problem is obvious: people know that officials lie. The more likely that bad news will create panic, the more certain the public is that the officials are lying, spinning, or otherwise deceiving. “When the going gets tough, the flacks get spinning.”
We can be sure of two things. First, Ebola victims will fly into the USA. Second, this will be officially dismissed as no threat. Case by case, we will be assured: “No problem!”"
At the same time, news reports from a couple of weeks ago of a strange new respiratory illness spreading throughout the US and of a number of children that are being stricken with paralysis from an unknown cause have disappeared from the news. I sometimes wonder if they lie just hoping that it won't be too bad or it's just automatic for them to do so.
As the article says: "The government keeps issuing assurances: there is no threat. Its problem is obvious: people know that officials lie. The more likely that bad news will create panic, the more certain the public is that the officials are lying, spinning, or otherwise deceiving. “When the going gets tough, the flacks get spinning.”
We can be sure of two things. First, Ebola victims will fly into the USA. Second, this will be officially dismissed as no threat. Case by case, we will be assured: “No problem!”"
At the same time, news reports from a couple of weeks ago of a strange new respiratory illness spreading throughout the US and of a number of children that are being stricken with paralysis from an unknown cause have disappeared from the news. I sometimes wonder if they lie just hoping that it won't be too bad or it's just automatic for them to do so.
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That means dietary supplements.
Vitamin D (as D3)
Selenium
Nascent (free-radical) iodine
Liposomal vitamin C (phospholipid-emulsified)
Colloidal silver
For more information:
http://www.myhdiet.com/healthnews/are-yo...
By the way: I take no remuneration for sharing this information. I do so because this is what Rand would call an emergency.
Just be glad that so far it hasn't become airborne yet, but nothing prohibits it from doing so.
Epidemics in the past have wiped out significant portions of the human population.
Medical care now is much better than it has been in the past, but that is of limited comfort in this case. Medicine's track record on a virus based disease is piss poor to spotty at best.
They have an experimental vaccine that seems to help, but is not perfect. Other than that all treatment is purely supportive care, nothing that affects the course of the actual disease.
Hemorrhagic fevers are controllable with good science, reasonable care and limited quarantines. Most Hemorrhagic fevers are not aerosol and require the transfer of bodily fluids, blood, urine, sexual relationships & Etc.
The chances of a non-weaponized biologic creating a pandemic in the U.S. or a similar environment is not betting odds, so let us just pray for the sick people and the sick profiteers in the media.
I know that I have been making some preparations for if and when this spirals out of control. Hopefully it won't but it is too late to prepare at that point.
I would also imagine a lot of the members on this site are doing the same thing....making what preparations seem appropriate to them.
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/15...
"At some point, without warning, the public may decide to begin making personal preparations. [snip] There is no way to know when this will happen, but the government’s bureaucrats will not be able to reverse it if it does happen. Panic will spread."
People in a position of power often think that people having information and acting on it leads to panic. This is reverse from the truth. People not having information and not feeling like they take meaningful action leads to panic. People finding out about a threat and making personal preparations is actually a good thing.
Stop the flights and keep our soldiers out of harm’s way. Easy-peasy, really.