The mortality rate of a given organism is not the same as it's rate of transmission. If the conditions in the US were so awful the flu would have spread to a greater extent. It did not. We did take actions which reduced the effects of the pandemic and it worked. My point is that linking transmission to agenda is crappy science and here we have a concrete example of the sky not falling.
That is correct, the mortality rate of a given organism is not the same thing as it's rate of transmission.
I wasn't aware that the rate of transmission of the flu was different in the US than in Europe or other parts of the world, interesting if it is true.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "linking transmission to agenda".
Ebola doesn't have an agenda. Who has an agenda?
The media does seem to have an agenda with the great efforts being made in virtually every story to obscure the fact that Ebola can be spread through the air even though it is not an airborne virus.
Assuming the media is not just ignorant, there seems to be some misdirection going in stories that focus on the need for the virus to mutate in order to become airborne. This story topic "mutation to go airborne" is a lot like waving something shiny in one hand to keep people from looking at what's in the other hand. In this case what's in the other hand is the fact that Ebola can and already does travel "through the air" albeit in tiny droplets of saliva that are produced when an ebola person with ebola-containing saliva coughs or sneezes. The misdirection is effort to get people to focus on mutation and then dispelling the likelihood of mutation producing an airborne virus. This leads people to the false sense of security that Ebola cannot move through the air from one person's mouth (via a cough) to the mouth of other people in the vicinity of the cough. You don't need a degree in virology or molecular biology or immunology to understand this because all that is at play here is physics.
The only question is how much virus is in the saliva and how much virus needs to be passed on in order to establish an infection. My guess is that this is not well understood with Ebola but if anyone knows of this data I'd be interested to read on it.
Yes there does seem to be an agenda based around obsessively focusing on keeping people calm. There's been lots of goal post shifting in the media and official comments from govt. agencies.
From "this will never get out of Africa" to "Europe may have some cases but not in the US" to "it may come to the US" to "it's in the US but everything is under control".
Well whomever is in charge down in Texas certainly doesn't know what they are doing. The pressure washing of ebola vomit from the sidewalk was outrageously and unforgivably a stupid move ordered by someone who clearly doesn't understand what they are doing. Pressure washers produce tremendous forces, water and target matter splash all over the place and nobody who had things "under control" would ever order such an asinine activity with standard biohazard material much less Ebola-laced-vomit. Complete retards to be honest. Not "under control" by a long shot.
Actually that pressure washing fiasco was so stupid it's borderline hilarious.
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