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CDC to announce diagnosis of first Ebola case in U.S. (pg. 5)
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| OrangestO |
Thanks to both of you for sharing those insightful posts.
How can someone not know overpopulation relates to what the environment can carry and not density?
How dense. |
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| enydo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Spacey Orange
Viruses mutate, and given time this one will as well. So the fact that it isn't spread through the air now, is hardly any comfort. |
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| Jon_Snow |
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| PaULiN0 |
| news rumor: nbc camera man who kissed the same texas man has ebola now too. I'm not to sure if it real or not but i heard it over on xbox live with my buddies playing destiny. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Interesting indeed, thanks. Although I should stress I don’t think viruses are some sort of natural mechanism of population control – I’m aware it’s generally lack of resources due to over-subscription that leads to starvation and so on. What the article mentions which I think is important is that humans have, to some extent, broken the normal mechanism of environmental equilibrium:
| quote: | | That being said, limiting factors such intraspecific competition no longer apply to humans. We redistribute resources and share amongst our population regardless of the fitness level of the individual. Human advancement in social infrastructure, for example in such areas as our medical system and urban sanitation, makes the concept of limiting factors non-applicable to our population size |
As the article states, we’ve been steadily overloading the planet for around 35 years now, and the inequality of development, wealth and resource distribution has meant a large percentage of the human population are living in abject poverty while a smaller percentage hoard most of the resources. This unsustainable population hasn’t starved to death (yet) but it has been left extremely vulnerable. There’s nothing particularly “natural” about this situation, but the result is still countless millions of people living in conditions rife for a lethal virus outbreak. I mean, think of what could happen if this does spread to India. And people are worried about America?
Anyway, I know it’s far from an original idea and I’ve no intention of writing some hackneyed Chrichton-esque “viral thriller”. It just sent a jolt of horror through me to read what I’d mused as a diegetic sci-fi plot device being described as a potential imminent reality by someone who has dealt with the virus in question first hand. |
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| Lagrangian |
I think the CDC is completely useless. How many billions have been poured on this agency to support plain ing stupid causes like 'how strained relationships affect your health' etc? Americans were told there was very little likelihood that Ebola would spread violently in the country, why were they told this, When they themselves don't know for a fact how the virus spreads?
Perhaps the government should ban all flights to and from Liberia. No, the disconnect between this president and his populace widens by the day. Seriously, what planet is he on? Going to a Hispanic Caucus to talk about letting in more people from central America and Mexico when we have a full-on health crisis in this country. It's lack of tact and plain old washington politics.
http://www.drudgereport.com |
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| Lagrangian |
[FYI: No I haven't forgot about Reagan's Disregard for The HIV virus which lead to an AIDS epidemic amongst predominantly homosexuals and intravenous drug users in the late seventies and eighties. Measures to curve and treat this disease would have increments life expectancy.
Too much religion and all these people with their Mickey mouse degrees. ] |
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| Silky Johnson |
| This is all playing out just like my last game of Plague Inc. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Hahah, exactly. |
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