CDC: You Can Give—But Can’t Get—Ebola on a Bus

Posted by $ Your_Name_Goes_Here 9 years, 7 months ago to Government
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"Dr. Tom Frieden, director for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said during a telephone press briefing Wednesday that you cannot get Ebola by sitting next to someone on a bus, but that infected or exposed persons should not ride public transportation because they could transmit the disease to someone else."

This guy has a career ahead in politics! "I voted for Ebola before I voted against it" could be his mantra.


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  • Posted by plusaf 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sorry... still "no sale." I even watched the "perplexed viewers" video with the voiceover by the guy who was convinced there was no way in hell anyone would, could or should be that close to an Ebola carrier without wearing a full bunny suit.

    Unfortunately, that commentary was riddled with "anyone can see's" and "I can't believes" and the like, making assumptions that 'obviously' lead to all of the conclusions he was trying to lead us to in the first place. He must be LOTS of fun at a WTC roundtable 'discussion' of 9-11... While he sounds quite plausible and utterly believable and convincing, he offered NO tangible data, knowledge or information that could or would PROVE the points he was making.

    He was, in essence, 'condemning without offering investigative information' himself! And you were/are defending him for doing such a 'service' for us all.

    If you can't recognize the contradictions in all that, well... we really can't carry on a conversation or 'discussion' on this topic. But it was fun digging deeper into the alleged 'facts' he offered.
    Cheerio!

    Oh, and ps... I have not voted your comments Up OR Down. Someone else did. Really. You've impressed some others here, too, apparently.
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  • Posted by WaltMaken 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Years ago I ran across a bit of wisdom that I have found helpful to keep in mind when evaluating matters with which we might be unfamiliar with. It goes like this: "Never utter these words 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know, know to understand, understand to judge." A pdf copy of that bit of wisdom and two other related ones can be downloaded at https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0... . Being able to read & study the entirety of what is posted at the link in my original question would be the minimum required in order to be in the position to know. Also, your being unable to "force" yourself to read the whole thing, reminds me of a quotation by Herbert Spencer in which he says: ""There is a principle which is a bar against all information,
    which is "proof" against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That principle is condemnation without investigation."

    So like you, I'm looking forward to what other folks' responses to my post might be, particularly those who have taken the time to "study to know, know to understand, understand to judge", and who have thus not condemned the information at that original link without investigation or even reading it all, as well as who have not been put off by the words "Spirit Science and Metaphysics"..
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  • Posted by plusaf 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You didn't use any emoticons or <serious font> clarification... I could not tell from the tone of voice of your typing if any irony might have been intended... especially after I clicked the link and read the article.

    "Spirit Science and Metaphysics," and you're looking for scientific corroboration of information appearing on that site?

    Sorry, my science-and-engineering gland kicked in when I started reading there and I couldn't force myself to read the whole thing.

    But I'm looking forward to what other folks' responses to your post might be...
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  • Posted by sfdi1947 9 years, 7 months ago
    Didn't you see Executive Order 10-2014; All officials will use 'Doublespeak' [Orwell] when saying anything consequential.
    Regardless of that, any skin contact with the bodily fluids, including semen and all of more noxious stuff will get you a wonderful reward that you really do not want!
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 7 months ago
    Did you see Megan Kelly's interview with Frieden? His responses to her questions made absolutely no sense at all, logically, or grammatically. It was as if he was a dyslexic moron. (Apologies to all dyslexic morons). I don't see how anyone can believe anything coming out of Washington. Rely on yourself and your own ability to research and learn as well as act.
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  • Posted by XenokRoy 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think" - Albert Einstein

    Modern day education believes that to be just the opposite. They are well educated in the learning of facts, however they have failed to learn to think. That is the modern smart person and that is also the most useless encyclopedia ever created. At least a person who has learned to think can look something up from the book version, or internet version. The modern government brain is like an encyclopedia no one can open or access.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 7 months ago
    Remember, comrade citizen, that there is no government like good government. That is because no government like good government is always looking out for you.
    Repeat that 101 times.
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  • Posted by $ 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Emphasis should be on HINDRANCE. In my opinion, our government has shifted from benevolence to malevolence in not too many years...
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  • Posted by wmiranda 9 years, 7 months ago
    This sounds like "We should not restrict flights from West Africa because it will make Ebola spread". Yet, health care workers in Dallas involved in the treated of Ebola are now restricted from using any kind of public transportation. From the highest office in the country on down, for being real smart people, they sure sound stupid to me, duh!
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 9 years, 7 months ago
    OK, let me make something clear. You cannot trust the CDC to be competent or to do the right thing. Do not trust the CDC.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 9 years, 7 months ago
    No concept of cause and effect. Another true believer in A≠A...

    They can't understand *this* C&E statement... You tell the people something... it's either latent or blatant lies, falsehoods, and misdirection... and people stop believing you... and that leads to people not believing anything emanating from the DC cesspit.

    This guy is apparently a graduate of O'Brien University, the Winston Smith / Joseph Stalin School of Journalistic Doublespeak.
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  • Posted by Esceptico 9 years, 7 months ago
    Ron Paul's article yesterday on this subject was excellent. Private company in fact controlled Ebola in Africa for its employees. No government help. Or hindrance.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I was talking about Dr. Frieden. He's far more to blame than Bill Clinton. Frieden has been lying to us. And still is.
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  • Posted by richrobinson 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I actually thought it was a contrived crisis to trample more liberties and create more government jobs. Now I think these incompetent fools will lose completely control.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 9 years, 7 months ago
    He's been caught with his pants down.

    When he gave his interview to Megyn Kelly, my internal lie detector sounded its alarm about a minute into his interview, and then with every word he spoke other than calling Megyn Kelly by name.
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  • Posted by $ 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Same here... I'd like to think EVEN this administration would not put its population in harm's way, but in retrospect I'm beginning to think that is a naïve position to take...
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