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Widespread concern over a level-4 biohazard outbreak in Texas has now given way to mass polarization as those on the political left have gravitated toward the irrational position that a BSL-4 hot virus in the continental United States is no big deal.

"Don't worry about Ebola. Get your flu shot instead!" has become one of the many bizarre mantras...to downplay the severity of the risk of Ebola in America. The risk of Ebola is so inconsequential, we're told, that there's really no reason to ban international flights from Ebola-infected nations, nor to consider any restrictions on the foot traffic illegally crossing the southern U.S. border. In fact, as I've pointed out in an article, the mainstream media is now showcasing its mental illness on this issue by attempting to equate air traffic restrictions with racism.

http://www.naturalnews.com/047316_ebola_outbreak_politics_mid-term_elections.html

There are two possible future chapters to this story that should keep us up at night.

The first possibility is that the Ebola virus spreads from West Africa to megacities in other regions of the developing world. This outbreak is very different from the 19 that have occurred in Africa over the past 40 years. It is much easier to control Ebola infections in isolated villages. But there has been a 300 percent increase in Africa’s population over the last four decades, much of it in large city slums. What happens when an infected person yet to become ill travels by plane to Lagos, Nairobi, Kinshasa or Mogadishu — or even Karachi, Jakarta, Mexico City or Dhaka?

The second possibility is one that virologists are loath to discuss openly but are definitely considering in private: that an Ebola virus could mutate to become transmissible through the air. You can now get Ebola only through direct contact with bodily fluids. But viruses like Ebola are notoriously sloppy in replicating, meaning the virus entering one person may be genetically different from the virus entering the next. The current Ebola virus’s hyper-evolution is unprecedented; there has been more human-to-human transmission in the past four months than most likely occurred in the last 500 to 1,000 years. Each new infection represents trillions of throws of the genetic dice.

If certain mutations occurred, it would mean that just breathing would put one at risk of contracting Ebola. Infections could spread quickly to every part of the globe, as the H1N1 influenza virus did in 2009, after its birth in Mexico.

Why are public officials afraid to discuss this? They don’t want to be accused of screaming “Fire!” in a crowded theater — as I’m sure some will accuse me of doing. But the risk is real, and until we consider it, the world will not be prepared to do what is necessary to end the epidemic.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/opinion/what-were-afraid-to-say-about-ebola.html?_r=0

My real concern is not just the situation in the three countries and the very real humanitarian crisis there, but the fact that there are very well recognized migration patterns of workers in Africa. In the months of July, August, September, and into October, young men and boys come home to those three countries to help with the harvest. And then in October, they take off and head east and north. They go back to the gold mines. They go to the cocoa plantations. They work in the illegal charcoal operations. They even do fishing. This migration is happening right now, and I don’t know how [Ebola] will not spread to the rest of central Africa. Think about that potential. Think of the slums of Lagos [in Nigeria] or Kinshasa [in the Democratic Republic of the Congo]. The slums of either of those cities have more people in them than in the three countries combined that are currently impacted by the epidemic.

Basically, we’ve had a match thrown into a can of gas in West Africa. If this spreads to the rest of equatorial Africa, it will be like throwing a match into an open tanker truck of gas.

http://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2014/10/u-ms-osterholm-what-we-should-and-shouldnt-be-worried-about-regarding-ebola

Change in gold standard. According to Dr. Oz, the World Health Organization issued a statement saying that massive efforts can contain the Ebola virus in 60 days. However, Dr. van Tulleken doesn’t think that concerned countries are not doing nearly enough as the world hasn’t seen anything this bad to allow seriously manage the virus. This comes with news that the Ebola’s average incubation period now takes 12 days instead of what was known as 6 days from literature dating back from the 70s. This means that the quarantine period should be extended to 31 days and not the current standard of 21 days.

Argument for well-preparedness. In the US alone, there are only 4 hospitals that are readily-equipped for Ebola patients (see photo in this recap): St. Patrick Hospital, University of Nebraska Medical Center, the NIH and Emory University Hospital. Sadly, only 11 beds are dedicated to Ebola patients. Dr. Oz mentioned that the Ebola virus now is practically a massive live experiment and Americans need to be proactive. Dr. van Tulleken adheres to the suggestion of creating regional centers to optimize the use of resources. The American public should also know that medical professionals are now shifting to a new mindset where their safety is a concern, including the imposition of protocols on how they can avoid transferring the virus (from the body fluids excreted by a patient) to the public. Bear in mind that the virus becomes deadly and spreads via a patient’s excretion of body fluids.

Resources to West Africa. Dr. van Tulleken stressed out that while it is important for America to be well-prepared, the solution to the Ebola outbreak lies in West Africa.

http://www.nerdles.com/2014/10/20/the-dr-oz-show-recap-expert-says-focus-should-be-in-west-africa-not-in-closing-american-borders-to-contain-ebola-102014/
You Are Not Nearly Scared Enough About Ebola
Experimental drugs and airport screenings will do nothing to stop this plague. If Ebola hits Lagos, we're in real trouble.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/08/14/you_are_not_nearly_scared_enough_ebola_vaccine_west_africa_outbreak
Political Appointment: "Ebola czar" -- Ron Klain -- whose job is to "oversee the administration's Ebola response," according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Only, Klain has no medical experience or expertise whatsoever. His "claim to fame" is that he is a former chief of staff to vice presidents Joe Biden and Al Gore. So, he's a political hack, in other words.

Ron Klain signs off Solyndra loan guarantee:

...Solyndra the very first recipient of a public loan guarantee when the Energy Act program was beefed up with “stimulus” spending. The loans and credits eventually amounted to a staggering $535 million.

At the time, Ron Klain was chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden. Hot to become the face of Obama-administration green initiatives, Biden planned to announce the Solyndra loan during a much-publicized September 2009 energy speech. Officials at DOE and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) had major qualms: They realized that the company was hemorrhaging money; even with the loan, Solyndra would lack the necessary working capital to turn that equation around. Yet the loan was approved in time for Biden’s speech. A rueful OMB official lamented in an e-mail that the timing of the loan approval was driven by the politics of the announcement “rather than the other way around.”

Although Solyndra was a private company, it was using its government loans as a springboard to go public. That triggered the obligation to comply with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules. For an initial public offering of stock, SEC rules require the disclosure of a company’s financial condition.

In Solyndra’s case, outside auditors from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) found that condition to be dire. “The company has suffered recurring losses from operations, negative cash flows since inception, and has a net stockholders’ deficit,” the PWC accountants concluded. Even with the gigantic loan, Solyndra was such a basket case that PWC found “substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.” I italicize “going concern” because it is a term of art. Auditors invoke it when there is an extraordinary need to protect themselves and the company from legal liability because that company is likely to fail.

With no alternative if they wanted to make a play for market financing, Solyndra’s backers disclosed the auditors’ bleak diagnosis in March 2010. The administration had thus been aware that the company was a basket case for two months when Obama came to Solyndra on May 26. The company was to be the backdrop to a big presidential speech on administration energy initiatives.

The administration was not only aware; it was worried. As ABC reports, just two days before Obama’s speech, his eminence grise, Valerie Jarrett, was warned by California businessman Steve Westly that visiting the company might “haunt [the president] in the next 18 months if Solyndra hits the wall and files for bankruptcy, etc.” Alarmed, Ms. Jarrett reached out to Mr. Klain, admonishing that “we clearly need to make sure that they are stable and solid.”

Klain, in turn, consulted with DOE before downplaying Solyndra’s problems in reporting back to Jarrett:

Sounds like there are some risk factors here — but that’s true of any innovative company that POTUS would visit. It looks OK to me, but if you feel otherwise, let me know.

Jarrett said she would rely on Klain’s assessment, notwithstanding that it conceded the very real possibility, if not likelihood, of catastrophe. As Klain elaborated in a follow-up e-mail to Jarrett:

The reality is that if POTUS visited 10 such places over the next 10 months, probably a few would be belly-up by election day 2012 — but that to me is the reality of saying that we want to help promote cutting edge, new economy industries.

I can hear him now: Ebola? There may be some risk factors, but hey, we’ll be promoting cutting-edge treatments . . .

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/390677/ron-klain-and-solyndra-andrew-c-mccarthy
CDC's Frieden said they know how to stop Ebola and Ron? He knows how to throw money at companies, likely Big Pharma.