Preparedness for when

RAS

Hi

The bottles are not that cheap but the clip top jars are a good price, particularly if you want smaller ones that are very pricey elsewhere. They do packs of replacement rubbers as well.

VJsmum

my favourite statistic from yesterday was

"more Americans have been married to Kim Kardashian than have died from Ebola" :rotfl:

RAS

There was a cracking article yesterday on the madness of Ebola Fear in the US.

A school has put a teacher on leave because she visited Dallas? No contact with anyone who was under observation or quarantine, just visited the same city.

One other fact from today - 40% of Americans asked are worried that someone in their family or friendship group will get Ebola in the next year?

Frugalsod

RAS wrote: »

There was a cracking article yesterday on the madness of Ebola Fear in the US.

A school has put a teacher on leave because she visited Dallas? No contact with anyone who was under observation or quarantine, just visited the same city.

One other fact from today - 40% of Americans asked are worried that someone in their family or friendship group will get Ebola in the next year?

It is complete panic there but completely unrealistic. Though when the population are trained to be fearful then you have to expect the consequences. Though for those that are asset stripping the economy it keeps the eyes of the media elsewhere, not that they were any good in the first place.

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I wonder how many brits would answer 'I'm not the least bit worried?' I think you'd find that quite a high proportion of folks in any country in the world would be concerned at the prospect of Ebola getting out of Africa and out of control, it is a scary prospect and anyone who isn't just that little bit concerned probably lives as a recluse or doesn't fully understand the implications!

the_cake

http://eveningharold.com/2014/10/21/badgers-demand-human-cull-to-prevent-spread-of-ebola/

'Badgers demand human cull to prevent spread of ebola ...'
LOL!

Frugalsod

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I wonder how many brits would answer 'I'm not the least bit worried?' I think you'd find that quite a high proportion of folks in any country in the world would be concerned at the prospect of Ebola getting out of Africa and out of control, it is a scary prospect and anyone who isn't just that little bit concerned probably lives as a recluse or doesn't fully understand the implications!

While it has massive implications that does assume that the disease spreads out of control. It also assumes that TPTB really do not care about us, which is true but if enough of us die then they will not be able to maintain public order and will not get re-elected, it will also bring the disease a lot closer to TPTB. For this government it will mean than their policy of privatising the NHS will fail completely and destroy their credibility. If millions of us end up in the NHS for simple tests and it goes badly will people re-elect a government that screwed it up.

RAS

If I was Obama or Cameron I would be crapping myself right now; allow this disease to kill many/any in the country and I can say bye bye to the next election altogether.

On a different note of real-life SHTF; just read some of the tweets coming out of Ottawa.

There may be people with guns in close proximity so what do you do? Post up info about where your group has taken refuge in which building and its location relative to earlier reported gun fire????????????

Frugalsod

I saw the headlines about the shooting in Ottawa and it might be a lone gunman. You can never account for why people do this.

moneyistooshorttomention

Let's face it Frugalsod that if most people even started acting rationally and compassionately etc etc, then I for one would wake up tomorrow and think I must have emigrated from Hell Planet Earth overnight and gone into some parallel universe where everything was "normal"/rational/etc/etc.

Yeh right...and meanwhile back on Planet Earth...and various stuff seems to indicate Ebola has been around for 20 years or so, and I'm wondering which particular conspiracy theory to subscribe to on that. Should I subscribe to the one that says "Its been genetically modified and that happened over in Africa, courtesy of USA government wanting to do it offshore - and then it escaped" or the one that says it surfaced first (in a milder version) back 20 odd years ago when the Earth's population was way over limit, but much less than now, as Earth (ie in shape of Gaia's) way to deal with carrying too many people and has got a whole lot worse because there is a whole lot more people and Gaia is getting more desperate to shed the excess load?

Hmm...:think: - well my own personal viewpoint fwiw boils down to a bit of "mix and match" between the two, ie gm-modified and darn thing escaped and Gaia protecting itself.