The Official Ebola Virus Thread

[haunted]

FeS(-) -> FeS(2) -> FeS(2) + 2 h2o + 7 O(2) --> sulfuric acid + positively charged H ions + aqueous Fe, aka "Orange sludge", if I had to guess QwazyWabbit. Not bothering to balance it, I was just guessing with the numbers in front of the reactants above.

Also we we're more so addressing the pH than whether there's naturally occurring rusty water. Its why I mentioned the smell of sulfur in my first post concerning it.

[|iR|Focalor]

I have ebola and it's contagious through the internet. You're all gonna die. My bad.

[2d]

New Case!!!!!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/23/craig-spencer-ebola_n_6038916.html

A doctor who treated patients in west africa returned home, was intimate with family, was out bowling and possibly entered the subway system, has just tested positive for ebola......

New york city is densely populated, and this maggot no brained jackass may possibly have fucked us all 

[Sgt. Dick]

Can Ebola be transmitted by anal penetration 

[|iR|Focalor]

I doubt it. It's a bloodborne virus, not a shitborne virus like AIDS, which you can get from buttsex and towels... learned that from Pat Robertson. Damn, he's so smart.

[Sgt. Dick]

So why is 2dum so worried.  If you can't get it by sticking fingers up your ass, he should not be worried.

[2d]

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mandatory-21-day-quarantine-travelers-risk-ebola-n-y-n-article-1.1986460

• Gov Cuomo joined with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie late Friday afternoon to declare that the two states needed to go beyond the guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  
  Those guidelines require travelers to provide health authorities phone and email contact information, monitor their temperatures for 21 days and report the onset of a fever or any other symptoms.
  
  Cuomo said the case of Dr. Craig Spencer — who rode the subway, went bowling, took a cab and ate in restaurants a day before he falling ill Thursday — showed those guidelines were not enough.
  
  
  “Voluntary quarantining? It’s almost an oxymoron. We’ve seen what happens,” Cuomo said, a nod to Spencer’s movements.
  
  “In a region like this, you go out three times, you ride the subway, you ride the bus, you could affect hundreds of people.”
  
  While he lauded Spencer’s “great work” in treating Ebola patients, Cuomo was critical of the doctor’s actions since coming home. “He’s a doctor and even he didn’t follow the voluntary quarantine. Let’s be honest,” Cuomo said.

So here we have two governors of two states in the United States of America admitting that an infected person with ebola can spread the virus just by riding a bus or the subway...

Dont tell me this virus is not contagious!!

[|iR|Focalor]

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“In a region like this, you go out three times, you ride the subway, you ride the bus, you could affect hundreds of people.”

...

So here we have two governors of two states in the United States of America admitting that an infected person with ebola can spread the virus just by riding a bus or the subway...

Dont tell me this virus is not contagious!!

These two governors are fucking idiots. Don't believe me? Ask anyone who lives in their states. Furthermore, neither Andrew Cuomo nor Chris Christie have any kind of medical degrees or medical experience with infectious disease, so their own mere uniformed opinions count for fuck-all.

And further-furthermore, I think it's pretty comical that this piss-poor excuse for journalism improperly uses the word "affect" (instead of effect) in his quote. Affect denotes a "feeling". These other people on the bus or subway don't "feel" safe,... nevermind the fact that they haven't bothered to find out the facts about ebola before "feeling" scared shitless of it just like everyone was when HIV became the latest trendiest biblical epidemic of certain death.

Want some facts? Here, maybe, just maybe, these people know what the fuck they're talking about.
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/ebola-factsheet.pdf

[yahoo]

Dont tell me this virus is not contagious!!

Did anyone said it was not?

[QwazyWabbit]

Regarding "affect" vs. "effect"...

Affect was the proper word to use in that context. Affect is used when we're talking about how many people would be affected by a change, as in "Millions of people were affected by the affordable health care act." Affect should not be confused or conflated with "affectation" which is a state of emotion or a display of some personal trait.

Effect is used when we're talking about what was changed. As in "Millions of people have suffered from the effect of changes in the health care laws."

Here's a case where both are used correctly: "Many were affected by the changes but the effects of the changes were varied and small."

Affect is a verb.
Effect is a noun.

[|iR|Focalor]

It also occurred to me that he could have meant "infect" instead of "affect". My point being that you used to hardly ever see newspaper journalists misspelling anything or using atrocious grammar. These days, they post an awful lot of shit in online articles before proofreading it thoroughly.

[2d]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/27/joint-chiefs-call-for-quarantine-troops-returning-from-ebola-zone/


The Joint Chiefs of Staff have recommended that all U.S. troops returning from West Africa undergo a mandatory 21-day quarantine, senior Defense officials told Fox News -- even as the White House fights those very policies in New York and New Jersey.

[Whirlingdervish]

Getting your news from "fox news".

    

[Barton]

It makes no sense how the nurses who are dealing with patients in these quarantines in NJ and NY are allowed to go home, but patients who do not exhibit the symptoms of Ebola are forced to stay at the quarantine sites. What these stateside nurses are doing in theory shouldn't be any different from what exactly the nurses who went aboard did, so then by the governor's logic, shouldn't these stateside nurses also stay in the quarantines as well?? This fact just shows you how arbitrary these quarantines are, and how stupid our politicians are. I just love it when they continue to ignore recommended policies from our scientists that are logical and based on science.

[Whirlingdervish]

This is what comes of it when we let politicians think that their opinions and knee jerk reactions have the same value as scientific facts and ideas determined by professional doctors and scientists.