NZ Herald: spin, bordering on outright lies.

Posted on October 16, 2014 by KG

‘Ebola: What’s the risk to air travellers?
….Even if a traveler is already feeling sick, Ebola germs don’t spread through the air the way flu does.’

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30 Responses to NZ Herald: spin, bordering on outright lies.

  1. Ronbo says:
    October 16, 2014 at 09:10

    I don’t care what these government stooges say, we may have already reached the tipping point for Ebola – It is clear the CDC screwed the pooch with the Ebola infected patient in Texas.

    Instead of coming into Dallas like gang busters and getting the patient to one of only four Ebola treatment centers in the USA, they allowed him to be treated at a hospital without the proper equipment.

    http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/10/are-we-approaching-the-tipping-point-for-ebola/

    As a result we have at least two people infected with Ebola and with hundreds, if not thousands exposed to the dread disease. Thus many more outbreaks of Ebola will occur on a national and global basis.

  2. Ronbo says:
    October 16, 2014 at 09:16

    Another scary thought: Ebola could be the same virus as the Black Death.

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/10/is_ebola_the_same_virus_as_the_black_death.html

    • GW says:
      October 16, 2014 at 17:01

      We should be so lucky – relatively speaking. The plague’s mortality rate was between 30% and 50% during the Black Death. Ebola’s mortality rate appears to be nearer 70%.

  3. mawm says:
    October 16, 2014 at 10:58

    WRT my comment under “open house”, this virus is spread in droplets – droplets coughed and sneezed into the atmosphere where they can and will spread some distance. The viruses in these droplets can be inhaled and the virus will be able to enter the body through the linings of the nose, throat and lungs.

    Screening needs to be done before getting on a plane – and taking a temperature is useless. Whether this means a thorough questioning of each and every passenger or just a blanket ban on anyone from an infected area we’ll have to wait and see. I fear that it is too late when in a developed country such as the USA a trained nurse with a fever, who knew that she had been in contact with an Ebola patient, still gets onto public transport.

    • mawm says:
      October 16, 2014 at 11:35

      Update: It now appears that the nurse informed the CDC about her temp but was still okayed to fly because it was not high enough! http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_wacko.gif

  4. the conservative says:
    October 16, 2014 at 13:36

    John Key:

    “For the most part I don’t think they should be overly worried but they should be cautious about travelling to countries that have got Ebola.

    “If they do travel to countries that have got Ebola, or for whatever reason they seriously believe they have been in contact with someone that has got that disease, then they should report to authorities straight away.”

    Oh, I feel safe now; I’ll be cautious when I go to West Africa.

    • KG says:
      October 16, 2014 at 14:10

      Key, like the rest of governments almost everywhere is so used to spinning and lying, he really thinks that spin and lies are the way to deal with a lethal virus.
      And you know what? Not one of these bastards will be held to account if this thing reaches critical mass. Assholes. :evil:

      • Flashman says:
        October 16, 2014 at 16:10

        Agreed KG, it’s not like these fktards have stinted themselves on practice swings.

      • The Gantt Guy says:
        October 16, 2014 at 17:06

        hmmm. I’m not so sure. I think if TS really HTF, and I mean we really, really have brown stuff flying everywhere, there will be enough people sufficiently pissed off that our political overlords have allowed such evil into our midst that it will be Open Season.

    • mawm says:
      October 16, 2014 at 15:56

      Forget the travelling to, what about sitting next to a west African, or someone who is returning from there, who coughs all over you? Or even vomits/bleeds all over you? If the spineless leaders refuse to act shouldn’t the airlines? I can see lots of legal action against them if they don’t. :roll:

      • KG says:
        October 16, 2014 at 16:30

        They airlines may have to act, Mawm, given the horrendous cost involved in making an airliner sterile afterwards.

  6. Flashman says:
    October 16, 2014 at 16:09

    Reminds me of a certain NZ public health officer’s airily waving away the risk posed by a “foreign student” whose lungs were rotten with TB.

    Operation code-name: Don’t Panic The Sheeple, Mister Mainwaring!

  7. lolitas brother says:
    October 16, 2014 at 16:26

    New Zealand is equipped to deal with Foot and Mouth agriculture virus, various other diseases. Watch now for total down closure of airports. Love me a long time West Africa good bye.

  8. Brown says:
    October 17, 2014 at 05:33

    If it gets bad its going to make the travel business go quiet for a while.

  9. mistress mara says:
    October 17, 2014 at 12:18

    I wonder why Obola will not implement an immediate ban on travel from West Africa. Oh, and there is the small matter of the totally insecure southern border. This is going to be BAD.

  10. KG says:
    October 17, 2014 at 16:02

    “Obola”. http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_yahoo.gif Nice one, Mara!

  11. The Gantt Guy says:
    October 17, 2014 at 18:30

    Wasn’t one of the reasons the CDC won’t recommend banning flights from West Africa, that there in essense is no southern border? I’m sure I saw somewhere he said it’s pointless to cancel flights when they can just go to South America and walk across from there?

    And also, remember America’s Patient Zero didn’t actually fly in from West Africa; he flew from there to Europe, and from Belgium to America.

  13. mawm says:
    October 18, 2014 at 06:57

    From Mark Steyn –
    http://www.steynonline.com/6604/protocol-theatre

    The Centers for Disease Control is one of those elite federal agencies that people hitherto assumed was, so to speak, immune to the pathologies of less glamorous government bureaucracies. It turns out it’s the DMV with test tubes – just the usual “Sorry? Did we say you need two copies of the green form? We meant you need three copies of the pink form” routine with extra lethality. The Protocols of the Elders of Druid Hills have proved to be boundlessly mutable and mostly honored in the breach:

    ~Don’t worry, the Protocols are in place – except that Thomas Duncan, the original Ebola patient, was left in an open area of the Dallas emergency room for hours and the medical staff treating him did not have protective clothing for the first two days.

    ~Don’t worry, they did eventually get fully sealed, protective clothing – well, except for their necks, which remained exposed.

    ~Don’t worry, exposed medical staff aren’t supposed to fly – except that Nurse Amber Vinson got on a flight to Cleveland with a fever.

    ~Well, okay, but that was totally in breach of the Protocols – except that Nurse Vinson called the CDC to check and they said, “Sure, get on the plane. What’s the worst that can happen? And make sure you share the bag of mini-pretzels…”

    ~Well, okay, but the next time Nurse Vinson got a flight, everyone followed the Protocols and wore hazmat suits – except for the guy with the clipboard, who works for the CDC and so can’t be expected to know all this Protocol stuff…

    As I said yesterday, the mortality rate for Ebola is 70 per cent – if you go nowhere near a hospital and just stay in your primitive disease-ridden village. If you go to a Liberian hospital, the mortality rate goes down a whopping three per cent to 67 per cent. One had assumed that western hospitals would be able to lower that significantly, but Hazmat Bob’s Ministry of Propaganda is not terribly reassuring on that front.

    Watch the video in the link below of Hazmat Bob running shotgun for Obola (thanks Mara).
    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/10/ebola-panic-and-the-limits-of-political-sanity.php