Ebola Virus...

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Or we just shut off your power for a few days and after everybody on the eastern seaboard and northern States shoots each other we just ride in on our moose(s?) and mop up the survivors with hockey sticks and snowballs!

And you'd be courteous about it.

[gramicci101]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

You tell em Junior!

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Oh, stuff it, you old fart.

Wow, you two are getting crotchety. Do you need anything? Your shawl and slippers perhaps? Some hot tea with honey?

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by gramicci101

Wow, you two are getting crotchety. Do you need anything? Your shawl and slippers perhaps? Some hot tea with honey?

Maple syrup please!
Actually I can't stand the stuff, nor hockey, never seen a moose or a Mountie in my life, don't say eh or aboot and am VERY glad or main exports have been Celine Dion and Justin Bieber!


Oh and Ultra is just a jerk! Ask him he will tell you!

[gramicci101]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Maple syrup please!
Actually I can't stand the stuff.

... You're fired. Turn in your Canadian citizenship and move to France or China or some other communist country.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by gramicci101

... You're fired. Turn in your Canadian citizenship and move to France or China or some other communist country.

Just go join Ultra in the retirement home!

[HunterGreene]

A couple facts about ebola:

1) It is not now, nor will it become airborne in the foreseeable future. This would require a random mutation the equivalent of me growing feathery wings and being able to fly. The possibility of this is incredibly small, bordering on impossible. You *can* pick it up by being in contact/inhaling the mucus of an infected individual, but again, that is not "airborne" by definition. Science will back me up on this.

2) Ebola is much harder to get than the flu, namely because the flu is airborne. Just being around someone with ebola does not mean you will contract it, although your risk is obviously increased. So, unless you plan on rolling around in other peoples bodily fluids and waste, you will be fine. Take proper precautions in your daily interactions, wash your hands, and use common sense.

All this reminds me of is the AIDS scare back in the 80s and the discovery of "cooties" when I was in kindergarten. All the fear, none of the understanding.

[gramicci101]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Just go join Ultra in the retirement home!

Shouldn't he at least buy me dinner first or something?

Originally Posted by HunterGreene

A couple facts about ebola:

You hush. We're busy preparing for the undead horde.

[tahdizzle]

I need to make a visit to see CJ's mom before she is ravaged by Ebola.

[gramicci101]

Originally Posted by tahdizzle

I need to make a visit to see CJ's mom before she is ravaged by Ebola.

She's already been ravaged by everyone else, so you may be too late.

[53Driver]

Okay, who's CJ???

[stugray]

Originally Posted by HunterGreene

A couple facts about ebola:

1) It is not now, nor will it become airborne in the foreseeable future. This would require a random mutation the equivalent of me growing feathery wings and being able to fly. The possibility of this is incredibly small, bordering on impossible. You *can* pick it up by being in contact/inhaling the mucus of an infected individual, but again, that is not "airborne" by definition. Science will back me up on this.
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Ummm. The entire human population of the Earth is ~3 billion.
The chance of any one Human mutating and growing wings is pretty low.

One human can carry more than 3 TRILLION of the Ebola virus.
Multiply that by all of the Humans infected, and I think math is on my side when I say that the chance of Ebola mutating to become airbone is about a million times more likely that you growing wings.

Originally Posted by HunterGreene

2) Ebola is much harder to get than the flu, namely because the flu is airborne. Just being around someone with ebola does not mean you will contract it, although your risk is obviously increased. So, unless you plan on rolling around in other peoples bodily fluids and waste, you will be fine. Take proper precautions in your daily interactions, wash your hands, and use common sense.
.

So you are saying that the nurses who BOTH caught Ebola from the patient in Texas were kissing him?
They both caught it THROUGH THE SKIN likely from AIRBORNE particles.

The CDC is now stating that you can catch Ebola by being within 3 feet of someone that is contagious.
If that is not "Airborne" I dont know what is.

[MokSpeed]

Originally Posted by 53Driver

Okay, who's CJ???

Somebody who has already been immortalized in the FT86Club Hall of Fame.

[86SPEED]

Originally Posted by stugray

Ummm. The entire human population of the Earth is ~3 billion.
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little over 7 billion last time i checked

-Thomas

[gramicci101]

Originally Posted by stugray

The CDC is now stating that you can catch Ebola by being within 3 feet of someone that is contagious.

That's because if someone sneezes, there's a reasonable chance that people within three feet of them will be contacted by their bodily fluids. That technically is airborne transmission, but I think the CDC is using "airborne" similar to fungus spores that can hang in the air or pollen during allergy season.