#4
Mass cremation graves are in the latter stages of the zombie Apocalypse.
Perhaps if we start with individual cremation along with the dangerous medical waste produced by that body while it was dying -- significantly reducing the number of contacts that body has with the outside world -- we won't get to the zombie apocalypse.
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with the dangerous medical waste The gubmint & it's self-contradictory regulations has made it illegal to moved that stuff, I guess it will have to be burned at the spot it's created. So that graphic in a previous comment may come true after all.
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Our "Top Men" have decided: The U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an emergency special permit to a Lake Forest, Ill.-based company to transport large quantities of Ebola-contaminated waste for disposal.
The permit issued Friday allows Stericycle Inc. to remove waste material taken not only from the hospital where Thomas Eric Duncan is receiving treatment, but also from the apartment from which he was taken ill.
#9
Experiments suggest as few as 10 virions (little individual virus guys).
As I understand, and correct if wrong, because the info I'm receiving is from people who if they told me my black shoes were black, I'd look down to double-check.
Can't get through skin, but through cuts, mukus membranes, eyes (?), mouth.
#12
I've read that 1 to 5 virus particles is all it takes. Also that it likes to enter through eyes, and can also enter through lungs (as evidenced by lung damage observed in necropsied monkeys).
If I had to be in contact with patients or corpses, I'd operate on the assumption that it enters through skin, since microscopic cuts or breaks we're not aware of may well be present.
#14
The 1-5 figure is actually from interviews with USAMRIID scientists who worked with ebola in level 4 labs. They observed it in vitro and in vivo, and had accidents.
Richard Preston, The Hot Zone. I don't know how much artistic license he took, but the interviews sounded authentic to me.
#15
Random: don't assume it enters through the lungs just because the monkeys developed lung damage. Overwhelming infection and multi-organ system failure leads to adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and diffuse alveolar damage (DAD), which will whack the lungs without any 'direct' damage. I'd need to know the histologic pattern of the damage in the monkey lungs.
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I understand symptoms begin around day 20, apparently flu-like at first?
Do we know at what point a person is contagious, or is it that a person just becomes more and more contagious after the virus sets?
I understand all bodily fluids - including tears, saliva, urine, feces, pus - will contain the virus?
I had heard a mortality rate of 50% in Africa - and I don't believe a damn thing coming out of there - so other than feeding and hydrating the patient as best as possible, just have to let the virus run its course?
#17
If you are ever in a situation where ebola (or any virus) is a risk, wear a mask AND protective eyewear. This prevents you touching your mucous membranes, which people do unconciously 100s of times a day.
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Steve White: I'm not assuming anything. Again, from The Hot Zone, it's what CDC and USAMRIID docs concluded after they necropsied a bunch of monkeys and examined the histology.
The monkeys had been in cages in the same room with another group of monkeys which had been deliberately injected with Ebola. But the cages were on opposite sides of the room and too far apart for any physical contact. The only route of infection they could come up with was that cleaning the cages with a hose generated aerosols that drifted across to the healthy ones.
These aren't my ideas - I'm just repeating what's in the book.
#3
Airborne? Thats a massive change if they are using the medical term. It means it can be aerosolized, meaning the structure has changed. Very doubtful this is the case.
[WASHINGTON.CBSLOCAL] A hospital in D.C. says a person with possible Ebola symptoms has been admitted out of “an abundance of caution,” but the city’s health department says it has “no confirmed cases” at this time.
Just a few hours later, officials from Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Maryland released a statement about a patient “presented with flu-like symptoms and a travel history that matches criteria for possible Ebola.”
“Our care team immediately implemented guidelines established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to ensure the appropriate tests and care for the patient as well as the safety of everyone within our facility,” the statement reads. “We have procedures and equipment in our facility to safely handle patients with infectious conditions.”
Officials say the patient is currently in isolation and showing signs of improvement.
“At this time, lab results indicate that this patient has another illness and we do not have a confirmed diagnosis of Ebola,” officials said.
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didn't that boy in TX with Ebola have a plane change at Dulles?
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See also RUSSIA TODAY > ONE MONTH [30 days] TO STOP EBOLA BEFORE ITS TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL - GLOBAL AID NGO.
International Rescue Cmte., as speaking on behalf for approxi 34 international aid groups.
* Lest we fergit, FREEREPUBLIC + DRUDGEREPORT Artics = unless stopped, Ebola may potens infect the entire world by circa EOY = December 2015, wid
DEATH RATE possib reaching as high as 50-75% of those infected.
PERSONALLY I BLAME APE LEADER "CAESAR" FROM "DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES" SUMMER 2014 FLICK. Caesar's "great escape" of simians en masse from human-led/controlled laboratory bondage, experimentation, + ultimately annihilation led to the outbreak of the "Monkey Virus" derivative which infected = killed off nearly all of humanity.
The cupboard is bare this week owing to Ebola. Sorry.
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#6
Yeah, they did. Some bowl of diced water like, "The NRA lobby obtrusted the Congress so, nobody could get their real job done - pertectn' 'Mericans. And who better to do that job? A proper Sturgean Generrr-al. Perhaps two, Harold and Kumar." or some such jelly taco. It is that host for the four letter news show --bc host Krystol Nacht and some shameless wannabe hack.
(H/T weaselzipper who cites newsbusters)
Keep in mind that the prime candidate attempts to link the medical field into gun confiscation via your health and how you answer your practicioners' questions, eventually down to the doorman if you don't tip properly.
Gun grabbing seems to be among the first priorities of authorities responding to declared emergencies.
And of course, the potential for mass panic from a zomeboli outbreak.
-Also-
Jihadis call open season of families, and I'd go ahead and throw in friends, of service members. I think the next few steps are to send a copy of the crayon to targeted city mayors and leave about odd warnings to police and fire. I think it is more throwing rocks at a bull than anything, but the current crops are like that, and that system worked in Mosul where they had databases and license plate numbers. Can't happen here? Is happening, like the gay slayer and the Moore beheader who may not have planned on when to do what he did, but had his plan for when that time came. Reports say other employees were attempting to interfere with the beheading of employee 1 and employee 2 when a-hole was shot in middle of it all.
Other than 1/3 of the attendents of the police report were people chanting crayon phrases and wanna-bes stating their alligience and threatening beheading of co-workers, all I can add is the local range duudes were out the Sunday afternoon after the beheading - sounded like a crew of carpenters framing a barn.
A Department of Energy manager used government employees as his personal accountants, improperly accessed their private communications, and retaliated against subordinates who spoke out against the conduct, according to department watchdogs.
The manager’s conduct amounted to routine violations of federal guidelines regarding the ethical conduct of government employees, according to a DOE inspector general report released on Friday.
The report is light on details, citing the Privacy Act of 1974 in withholding specifics about the identities of the individuals involved and the office in which the conduct took place.
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Wait, I specifically hired 'Flunkys'. The job description said 'Flunky'.
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Change in employment status? I take that to mean a promotion and fairly large bonus.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Angry parents have complained after a primary school introduced unisex toilets in a bid to 'prevent transphobia'. ...which is another of those things you have whether you know what it is or not...
Pupils were shocked to discover they had to share the 'gender neutral' toilets at the start of the school year, sparking concerns from parents. Many say their children do not want to use facilities split with the opposite sex and it makes them feel 'uncomfortable'. Tut tut! A mere fear, not nearly as serious as transphobia, whatever that is. I think it's because we're cis-philics...
Harbour Primary School in Newhaven, East Sussex, has defended the move, which it says is about 'preventing transphobia'. Throw off your outmoded standards of behavior. Your betters know what's best for you and it's not what your parents thought was right.
There are around 500 pupils at the school for three to 11-year-olds. When I was a three-year-old my phobias included the boogey man, who used to hide in my closet. I think I was seven or eight when my Dad explained that the boogey man hid in the closet because he was afraid us kids would get him if he came out.
One concerned mother said her seven-year-old does not feel 'comfortable' using the toilets. Do tell? I knew there was a difference between boys and girls when I was seven, too.
She said: "I know of several parents who have raised complaints and they have now invited us to a meeting about transgender equality. How many three-year-olds in the entire world are transgender? Perhaps the number of transgender ten year-olds is greater, but I'm guessing it's not by much.
"This was just introduced from the start of term and no one told us before. There are seven-year-old girls using the same toilets as 11-year-old boys. Not to worry. It's not like sexual abuse ever happens in schools.
"My daughter has said she doesn't feel comfortable about it. Although we are all up for equality we feel this is not allowing our children to choose. I don't think I was comfortable with the idea of girls looking at my pee-pee when I was seven. I wasn't real hot on the idea of boys looking, either.
"A lot of our children don't want to use toilets of the opposite sex." Tut tut. How olde fashioned of them!
Headteacher Christine Terrey said the decision to include single sex toilets in their new building had been taken by East Sussex County Council. The "wudn't me" defense...
She has invited parents to a meeting on 'transphobia', which will include a discussion about the toilets. Mrs Terrey said: "The toilets are all in cubicles and they all lock. We just want all our children to be able to use the toilets. Actually, back when I was young, in the Upper Paleolithic, there was less privacy in public accommodations. When I went into the army there were showers that served the entire barracks and row upon row of crappoirs. One sat and grunted and read the paper whilst his peers ambled by ignoring him. Society became more, not less, concerned about privacy to the point where children are expected to have their own rooms and often a private bathroom. Now, in the interest of rooting out heterodox thought, all that privacy we evolved into will be tossed by the wayside.
"We no longer have urinals because they were quite unpopular with the boys." That's one of the more stoopid statements I've seen in my life. Who the hell told her that?
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Sometimes I feel that teachers' colleges is bigger danger than Jihadi training camps.
#2
Take away the urinals and by the time those boys are 14 they'll either have learned they're just like girls or they'll pee on the floor. A urinal is just a device invented to improve cleanliness.
#5
You tellin' me a 7 year old boy would rather sit on a crapper to pee, and I'm so sure it would hit the bullseye and not horizontal into their clothes, than stand and paint?
So. Full. Of. Shit.
And going about telling toddlers to tuck their penises into their butts. That isn't bizarre, that is psychotic and/or malicious.
#8
Well, Glenmore you have to teach her the difference between Pravda and truth and the necessary public hypocrisy---that's what I'm doing with my son (who gets lessons on gender equality = being a good girl & global warming). Of course, I grew up in Soviet Union and spent most of my adult life in Academia---so that comes natural.
#11
No doubt the EPA will soon ban urnals in port-a-potties. To save the red spotted portapotty flea or some such excuse and expect everyone to sit. After they think they can regulate the amount of watered flush.
[Pak Daily Times] Britannia will quit the European Court of Human Rights unless it agrees that the Westminster parliament has the final say over its rulings, Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... ’s Conservatives said on Friday.
Cameron has said rulings by the European rights court had prevented Britannia deporting suspected krazed killers, insisted on human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. on the battlefields of Afghanistan and upheld the rights of prisoners to vote.
“We do not require instruction on this from judges in Strasbourg,” Cameron told Conservative activists this week in the English city of Birmingham on Oct 1.
Under the proposal, if the Conservatives are re-elected in May 2015, Britannia will pass a Bill of Rights that would set out the application of human rights law in Britannia.
The proposed changes would mean the European court’s rulings would no longer be binding over the Supreme Court and the Westminster parliament would have the right to veto the European court’s judgments.
The Human Rights Act, domestic legislation which enshrines the international principles of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into British law, will be scrapped.
“We can’t go on with the situation where changes to our laws are made in an international court with no democratic override in the UK,” Justice Secretary Chris Grayling told the Times.
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[ARABNEWS] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , known for his suspicion of new technology, declared he was “increasingly against the Internet every day” as he defended curbs on online freedoms, a journalists’ rights group who met him said Friday.
However the presidency denied Erdogan was “anti-Internet,” saying that he just wanted to raise the alarm over the use of the Internet by Lion of Islams.
Erdogan made the comments in a meeting with activists from rights groups The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and International Press Institute (IPI) in Ankara on Thursday, the CPJ said.
The meeting came after Turkey’s constitutional court on Thursday overturned new amendments to a controversial law that granted the country’s telecoms authority more powers to monitor online users and block websites.
Erdogan justified stepping up controls on online speech by saying that Lion of Islam organizations, including the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) snuffies who have seized swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq, were using the Internet to recruit followers.
“I am increasingly against the Internet every day,” Erdogan said, according to a statement released by the US-based CPJ on Friday.
His government temporarily blocked Twitter and YouTube in March after they were used to spread audio recordings implicating Erdogan and his inner circle in a corruption scandal.
Turkey has been declared the world’s number one jailer of journalists for two years in a row by the CPJ, ahead of Iran and China, and in May the watchdog Freedom House said its press can no longer be considered free.
However Erdogan’s press adviser Lutfullah Goktas denied the president had said he was against the Internet.
“He just sought to draw attention to the fact that social media could be used as a propaganda tool by IS and similar organizations,” Goktas was quoted as saying by state-run Anatolia news agency.
“Then he emphasized that this was a worrying trend and he was increasingly concerned about it. So it has nothing to do with being ‘anti-Internet’.” The CPJ voiced concern at the meeting over the increasingly repressive atmosphere for journalists in the country.
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[DAWN] Senator Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. says he has asked for a Parliamentary committee to investigate allegations that he politically influenced the job termination of a man who filmed his offloading from a PIA flight.
The video clip, filmed by former Gerry's Group General Manager Arjumand Azhar Hussain and showing irate passengers expelling Malik for a delay of a PIA flight, had gone viral on the internet and social media.
Hussain was fired from his job at the Gerry's Group earlier this week, with rumours circulating that the termination was the result of political pressure exerted by Senator Malik, who was the Federal Interior Minister from 2008 to 2013 during the Pakistain People's Party (PPP) led government.
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[Pak Daily Times] At least 32 people were killed in a stampede during a Hindu festival in the eastern Indian state of Bihar on Friday, most of them women and a few children, the state police chief said.
A huge crowd had gathered at an outdoor venue in the state capital, Patna, for the burning of effigies at dusk, part of the Dusshera festival.
Officials said the stampede happened as people were leaving at the end of the event. Television channels quoted a witness as saying there were not enough lights when the ceremony ended.
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Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Angry parents have complained after a primary school introduced unisex toilets in a bid to 'prevent transphobia'.
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