Ebola in The USA

Think "Soylent Green", its good for you and tastes good too.

I could probably live on sea weed, FM...but I'd like to see the population at a point where the "Soylent Green" scenario is unrealistic. I honestly do not think that is where we are...and we are getting further away from that point each year.

Japan and Italy have had falling population for two decades.

Why is pessimism so much more popular than reality?

So you're optimistic about the pessimism/popularity thing?

PolitiFact: Ebola statements by George Will, Rand Paul et al. add up to ‘Lie of the Year’
Source: Washington Post

By Erik Wemple December 16 at 11:58 AM @ErikWemple

George Will, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) and various bloggers can now take their place alongside President Obama, Sarah Palin and other luminaries: Their work constitutes the “Lie of the Year,” the annual award given out by fact-checking outlet PolitiFact. “Exaggerations” about the risks of Ebola, says PolitiFact, distinguished themselves in terms of the 2014 field of untruths.

More Americans have died from the flu than from Ebola this fall, notes PolitiFact, “Yet fear of the disease stretched to every corner of America this fall, stoked by exaggerated claims from politicians and pundits. They said Ebola was easy to catch, that illegal immigrants may be carrying the virus across the southern border, that it was all part of a government or corporate conspiracy.” Together, PolitiFact and cousin PunditFact “rated 16 separate claims about Ebola as Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire” in 2014.

Example from George Will, who said on Fox News Sunday on Oct. 19: “There are doctors who are saying that in a sneeze or some cough, some of the airborne particles can be infectious.” False, said PunditFact. “Mostly false” were the statements by Paul that Ebola was “incredibly contagious,” “very transmissible” and “easy to catch.” And Gingrey earned a “Pants on Fire” for citing in a letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as . . . Ebola virus.”

Drop those statements in a blender with ’round-the-clock coverage on cable news networks, calls by Undisputed King of Cable News Bill O’Reilly for travel bans from West Africa and the public’s inclination to believe the worst, and you have a genuine American autumn health uproar.
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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/12/16/politifact-ebola-statements-by-george-will-rand-paul-et-al-add-up-to-lie-of-the-year/

Why don't you tell us, you're pessimistic about yes meaning yes, preferring paranoia to reality.

Are you hitting on me Izzy?

Why would anyone want to do that?

I was just pointing out that whilst you may be rational about ebola, on other subjects you're anything but.

Izzy, I think max was hitting on you!

Ebola in relation to deregulation:

TWO ******* YEARS TO ARREST THESE GHOULS!

Pharmacy Owners Arrested in '12 Meningitis Outbreak
Source: Associated Press

Two co-founders and 12 other former employees of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy blamed for a fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people were arrested early Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Boston said.

Gregory Conigliaro and Barry Cadden, co-founders of the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, were among 14 people arrested at their homes around the state, attorney's office spokeswoman Christina DiIorio-Sterling said.

One of those arrested was Glenn Adam Chin, a former supervisory pharmacist, who had been charged with mail fraud in September.

Tainted steroids manufactured by the pharmacy were blamed for a 2012 outbreak. About 750 people in 20 states developed meningitis or other infections after receiving the contaminated steroids. Michigan, Tennessee and Indiana were the hardest-hit states

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pharmacy-owners-arrested-12-meningitis-outbreak-27657190

Oh Bobsal, I have been saying "YES!" to Izzy ever since he started rolling around in the dirt with me.

We have a quite a thing going. We can't keep our hands off each other.

I think pretending to be gay is what counts as humour in Max's neck of the woods.

Factually, it was you who started flirting with me, and Bobsal who made the "gay" joke. I just went along with it (my post was in response to bobsal's joke).

... and it's not gay, it is pansexual.

I like you for your brain.

Good for you. Shame on Izzy!

Well that neck o' the woods has a shallow gene pool.

I made no gay joke. It is interesting that you'd read that into it, though.

No it ******* wasn't. I was pointing out your inconsistencies regarding reality.



How very PC of you.



As opposed to what? My Roger Mellie avatar? Or anything else you can only imagine?

Then again, my brain is pretty ******* awesome, so I'll have to give you that one.

Cartoon was well worth the shifting back and forth to read it.