The Ebola Thread

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Everything is going to be okay, dude. This isn't going to be like Contagion.

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"There are a great many things that western medical institutions and personnel do extraordinarily well. We have sophisticated surgical technology and an advanced pharmacopeia of medicines to treat hundreds of diseases. But the bulk of our medical resources go towards curing rather than prevention. What we do dedicate to prevention tends to be limited to proximate factors such as germs and personal behaviors such as smoking that make individuals sick. We also divert resources into campaigns for procedures such as mammograms which detect but do not prevent disease. We pay less attention to poverty, inequality, environmental degradation and, yes, globalization, as root causes of sickness."

The author of this does not see that organized healthcare is a big business that makes money off the treatment of diseases not their prevention. This is why the war on cancer is such a hoax: you have the cancer industry and their pawns, the cancer charities, keep blaming the individual for the disease yet they ignore and hide the real causes of the disease, and use known deceptive cancer statistics to fool the public about their alleged beneficial interventions such as mammography, and allocate almost all the research money into more orthodox treatments (read the epilogue of this article: google/bing "A Mammogram Letter The British Medical Journal Censored"). The same way are economic-sociological factors, such as poverty, income inequality, dismissed and disregarded... to hide the real truth from the public, which is that the biggest profiteers (the power elite) bear the vast majority of the blame for most of these diseases.

Wow. This is troubling. Thank you for bravely telling the truth. You mention the real causes of cancer are hidden and ignored. What are these real causes?

[Panda Express]

Beet, quick question.  Do you have a wall (or two) of your home covered in news clippings, maps, photos, etc?  Perhaps with red string pinned all over to connect them together?

The same logic and instincts that led me to think that there would be a populist backlash against Obama in November 2008, or that the Euro crisis was more serious than was being credence for in April 2010 (or that it had reached its peak by October 2012),

Did those same insticts also tell you Christine O'Donnel was going to win her senate race?

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Beet, quick question.  Do you have a wall (or two) of your home covered in news clippings, maps, photos, etc?  Perhaps with red string pinned all over to connect them together?

The same logic and instincts that led me to think that there would be a populist backlash against Obama in November 2008, or that the Euro crisis was more serious than was being credence for in April 2010 (or that it had reached its peak by October 2012),

Did those same insticts also tell you Christine O'Donnel was going to win her senate race?

I think they're the same instincts that told him that it was a waste of time to post news stories about other GOP candidates for the 2012 presidential nomination, when Palin would obviously be the nominee.

Got me there, Mr. Morden, but why does Panda Express know about this? He/she has only been a member since July.

I'm a quick learner.

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But getting back on track regarding ebola, Mr. Moderate summed it up quite well

Africa has a major problem with distrust of medical workers, disobedience of quarantine, and a failure to understand the mechanism by which disease spreads. We're separated by the disease by a huge ocean (both literally and culturally).

Let's be realistic about the numbers. Since the outbreak began, there have been 932 deaths due to Ebola. In the same time frame, 300,000 Africans were lost to Malaria and 600,000 were lost to Tuberculosis. And, of course, we'll likely see another 1,000,000+ Africans die to HIV this year.

It's a scary-sounding disease, but it's not a real threat. If there's any contagious disease to be concerned with in the U.S., it's the flu. It'll kill thousands of Americans this year.