Ebola Has Made It To the United States

An anonymous reader sends news that the CDC has confirmed the first case of Ebola diagnosed on U.S. soil. An unnamed patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas was placed in isolation while awaiting test results for the dreaded virus. Apparently, the patient had traveled recently to a West African country, where the disease is spreading, and later developed symptoms that suggested Ebola. A blood specimen from the patient was sent to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, a testing process that can take 24 to 48 hours to confirm an Ebola infection — or not. The results came back about 3:32 p.m. In other Ebola news, outbreaks in Nigeria and Senegal appear to be completely contained.

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Re:Completely Contained?

[sycodon]

It flew in on coach.

Somehow it got through the quarantine and flight restrictions the Obama Administration wisely set up to catch these kinds of things.

oh, wait...

Re:They need to lock this down now!

[Anonymous Coward]

You'll wish they had when you're bleeding from your eyes. Keep handwaving the situation off. Best cure ever.

Re:Fristy Pawst!

[Karmashock]

I've lived in many places including major cities and you'll find ignorant people in the heart of major cities as well.

Again, the majority of the US's negative education stats are concentrated in our urban ghettos... not our rural communities. You have people in the urban ghettos that cannot read. Some don't even speak english. And if you want to go through their knowledge of history, science, etc you'll find they know next to nothing.

Exclude this population from US education stats and we are comparable to any other first world country and quite a bit better then most.

The rural communities in the US perform quite well on SATs and ACT exams. They also have a relatively high probability of attending college. They are not stupid or ignorant.

It is the ignorance of people unfamilar with US demographics to assume our often poor eductation stats are the result of our tiny rural population and not the growing urban ghettos. However, the stats are there for anyone to see. It isn't politically correct to point this out. We are taught to ignore all imperfections from that portion of our society. They can murder themselves by the thousands and we barely notice.

In my city we have about 400 murders per year. Of those, about 380 of them occur within or by someone in the urban ghetto. My city has millions of people living in it and practically all the violence comes from a very small portion of it. A part of my city that is almost literally a war zone. But no one notices or says anything about it. It is business as usual. Our city policy have paramilitary forces that deal with problems on occasion. Though more commonly they just let the thugs kill each other. It is more efficient.

That is what my country is or has become. I am not proud of it and really would like to change this but as I said... it isn't politically correct. The word of the day is to ignore it all and hope it goes away. It gets worse every year.

So I am leaving my city. Leaving all cities in my country because they're all suffering from the same problem. I'm going to a small town. It has internet, big backyards, and friendly people... Many people are leaving the cities as well. It is for the best. Why do we need the cities at this point anyway? Between the internet and air travel why have ultra concentrations of people.