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Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:20 pm
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:20 pm
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This post was edited on 10/30/14 at 11:55 am
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Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:21 pm to Asgard Device
Ok
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:22 pm to Asgard Device
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:22 pm to Asgard Device
So your saying when 2500 people die of ebola we should start worrying?
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:24 pm to Asgard Device
Elections coming look elsewhere talking points all is well Bush fault etc etc.
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:25 pm to Asgard Device
Which is more people than will be killed by handguns.
Guess which one the nominee for Surgeon General wants to ban?
Guess which one the nominee for Surgeon General wants to ban?
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:26 pm to Asgard Device
I didn't know car wrecks were an epidemic.
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:41 pm to Asgard Device
By the time there is proof of a real problem with an infectious agent, it is already too late to do much about it.
I think this episode proves we aren't remotely prepared for a highly infectious disease and nobody in the government (either party) will be willing to make the call at the right time to shut things down.
And I am not remotely worried about Ebola. Just worried about our poor response from top to bottom by both parties.
I think this episode proves we aren't remotely prepared for a highly infectious disease and nobody in the government (either party) will be willing to make the call at the right time to shut things down.
And I am not remotely worried about Ebola. Just worried about our poor response from top to bottom by both parties.
This post was edited on 10/16/14 at 8:45 pm
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:46 pm to Asgard Device
No one's ever been laid in the back of an Ebola.
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:47 pm to Asgard Device
While I agree the worry seems to be over the top, this OP is a bit ridiculous.
2 million people die from Tuberculosis each year and no one seems to give a shite about TB either.
However, the Ebola virus has a 50-70% mortality rate, so there are legitimate reasons to take it seriously.
Last I checked, that mortality rate doesn't hold true for most other viruses, much less driving a car. There is an appropriate level of worry that is somewhere between the OP and Fox News/CNN.
2 million people die from Tuberculosis each year and no one seems to give a shite about TB either.
However, the Ebola virus has a 50-70% mortality rate, so there are legitimate reasons to take it seriously.
Last I checked, that mortality rate doesn't hold true for most other viruses, much less driving a car. There is an appropriate level of worry that is somewhere between the OP and Fox News/CNN.
Posted on 10/16/14 at 8:59 pm to Asgard Device
Irrelevant comparison
Posted on 10/16/14 at 9:00 pm to Asgard Device
quote:Jon Stewart wanna be?
2500+ Americans will die in automobile accidents in November.
Yet, people are exponentially more outraged and worried about Ebola.
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Absolutely.
... as it would have been were it to ridicule DC area residents' concern during the Malvo-Muhammed DC Beltway Sniper Attacks
LINK
Posted on 10/16/14 at 9:02 pm to Asgard Device
I can stay out of cars if I want too.
Ebola is going to be left to the hand of fate.
Ebola is going to be left to the hand of fate.
Posted on 10/16/14 at 9:13 pm to Asgard Device
With this CDC in charge, your analogy would be equivalent to allowing driving 100 mph into on-coming traffic.
"Just AVOID direct contact and you'll be OK !"
"Just AVOID direct contact and you'll be OK !"
Posted on 10/16/14 at 9:22 pm to Asgard Device
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Yet, people are exponentially more outraged and worried about Guns.
FIFY
I find it amazing how many people have no problem handing over the keys to a car to a 16 year old yet balk when parents teach their kids how to shoot a gun.
Amazing.
Posted on 10/16/14 at 9:34 pm to Asgard Device
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Yet, people are exponentially more outraged and worried about Ebola.
Thats 2500 more (vehicle) deaths and 1 more (Ebola) death than have died from Global Warming in the US.
Yet, much outrage from a global 1* increase in F over 20 years. If that much.
This post was edited on 10/16/14 at 9:35 pm
Posted on 10/16/14 at 9:36 pm to Asgard Device
Guns
Posted on 10/16/14 at 10:28 pm to Asgard Device
People scared of what they are scared of. I'll probably never die from a great White shark, but I'm still scared every dang time I go to the ocean, and will probably die of heart disease, of which, I couldn't give a crap about...Its just human nature....
Posted on 10/16/14 at 11:15 pm to Asgard Device
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2500+ Americans will die in automobile accidents in November
That's a whole helluva lot more than will die in mass shootings in a decade. I reckon yall can shut your pie holes about that too.
Posted on 10/17/14 at 1:43 am to Asgard Device
LINK
Just for kicks this is some mortality data from the CDC for the year 2010
Flu and Pneumonia is pretty interesting at 53,826 deaths.
Number of deaths for leading causes of death:
•Heart disease: 596,577
•Cancer: 576,691
•Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 142,943
•Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128,932
•Accidents (unintentional injuries): 126,438
•Alzheimer's disease: 84,974
•Diabetes: 73,831
•Influenza and Pneumonia: 53,826
•Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 45,591
•Intentional self-harm (suicide): 39,518
Just for kicks this is some mortality data from the CDC for the year 2010
Flu and Pneumonia is pretty interesting at 53,826 deaths.
Number of deaths for leading causes of death:
•Heart disease: 596,577
•Cancer: 576,691
•Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 142,943
•Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128,932
•Accidents (unintentional injuries): 126,438
•Alzheimer's disease: 84,974
•Diabetes: 73,831
•Influenza and Pneumonia: 53,826
•Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 45,591
•Intentional self-harm (suicide): 39,518
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