Close the Border you traitors - before you get us killed

Discussion in 'Politics' started by jem, Sep 25, 2014.

  1. So... the ones exposed 1 to 6 days ago just go waltzing through airport screening?

    Makes about as much sense as poking holes in your rubber.
     
    #251     Oct 13, 2014
  2. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    ;)
     
    #252     Oct 13, 2014
  3. jem

    jem

    and from that charts they are not just exposed... they have ebola during day 1-6.

    To make your observation and implicit statement... explicit
    your comment illustrates how stupid it is to act like airport screening is a sufficient measure.

    There must be total closure from ebola areas or a mandatory quarantine.



     
    #253     Oct 13, 2014
  4. jem

    jem

    how much money does your household get from the govt per year?
    do they know you have a side job moonlighting as a leftist troll on et?

     
    #254     Oct 13, 2014
  5. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    Probably not. He's on record as blaming the government for people who lie on their welfare forms.
     
    #255     Oct 13, 2014
  6. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    Which doesn't answer the question.

    Ebola has been discussed on this forum for years. Why are you all agitated about it now? Is it because until now the problem was "there"?

    I realize you're not one for self-examination, and you have a lot of company, but it's something you may want to think about.
     
    #256     Oct 14, 2014
  7. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    This Illustration Of Ebola Coverage Shows How Problematic Media Reports Can Be
    Posted: 10/08/2014 7:52 pm EDT

    Emily Thomas


    The first Ebola patient to be diagnosed in the U.S. died Wednesday. Three days earlier, government health officials in Sierra Leone reported 121 Ebola deaths in a single day. But Western media made little mention of the latter.

    A new illustration from frequent Vanity Fair contributor André Carrilho puts that into perspective.

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    Until American doctors treating patients with Ebola in West Africa were diagnosed with the disease, the current Ebola outbreak has been largely faceless, mainly about statistics and if and when the virus would spread to American soil.

    Carrilho told The Huffington Post he created the illustration to show how the media "seems to treat epidemics differently, depending on where they occur, and to whom."

    "I think unfortunately, in the Western media, there are first-world diseases and third-world diseases, and the attention devoted to the latter depends on the threat they pose to us, not on a universal measure of human suffering," he said. "A death in Africa, or Asia for that matter, should be as tragic as a death in Europe or the USA, and it doesn’t seem to be."

    Since the first cases of the current Ebola outbreak were reported in March, 3,865 people have died of the disease in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The mortality rate for the disease averages around 50 percent, the World Health Organization notes, and there are currently no licensed Ebola vaccines.

    Two American aid workers who survived the disease were given the experimental drug ZMapp for treatment. It is unknown if the drug helped in their recovery process, but the decision to administer the drug to the two victims was seen as controversial because African victims of the disease were not given the same opportunity for treatment.

    Carrilho says this difference in treatment and media coverage shifts the paradigm.

    "If an epidemic breaks out in the USA or Europe, suddenly the reporting is more engaged. This gives rise to a few side effects," he said. "The 'us versus them' relationship shifts from detachment to fear of incoming immigrants from affected countries, and in both race and nationalism have an active part."

    If Carrilho could see one change in the way the outbreak and public health are discussed, he says, it would be to tack on more global perspective.

    "I would like to hear from the people who are affected everywhere," he told HuffPost. "I would like to feel that everyone’s voices are more equally heard, even if they speak a language that is not mine."
     
    #257     Oct 14, 2014
  8. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Yeah, sure. It's rayciss.

    Or it could be that a threat close to home is more important for those living close to the threat. I wonder which is more likely. Hmmm.....

    One thing is certain, though. You are still a fucking moron.
     
    #258     Oct 14, 2014
  9. I dunno. Seems the politicos are as blindered and dumb as their constituents.
     
    #259     Oct 14, 2014
  10. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    Except the patient that died was black. Unlike your cartoon.
     
    #260     Oct 14, 2014