The first symptom is developing a fever and it's apparent when you first start developing the fever you're still not contagious to any significant degree. How do you think the people that Thomas Eric Duncan was living with in Dallas avoided getting Ebola even though he was sent home from the ER after his first visit? If it was all that contagious some of them would have been infected too.
She's a fucking medical professional who's worked first hand with people who had and have died from Ebola. She knows exactly what Ebola can do to a person. Do you really think she cares so little for her own life that she would avoid reporting symptoms if they developed and possibly die from Ebola?
So far the mortality rate for people in the United States who were detected with Ebola early in the disease and got immediate high quality care is zero. Thomas Eric Duncan was already very sick by the time he got admitted. Maybe the mortality rate in Africa has more do do with the lack of resources to provide the kind of care available in the US than it does with some absolute number.
She has no symptoms which means she is not contagious. If some of the people Thomas Eric Duncan lived with in Dallas had come down with Ebola I'd be more willing to consider a quarantine but it's obvious that Ebola is not as easily contagious as you seem to think.
The nurse has tested negative for the Ebola virus. She has no symptoms. She is under no legally obligated quarantine. Why shouldn't she live her life as she pleases rather than a bunch of panicked out of their minds people think she should.
Sheesh! You would think that after the people that Thomas Eric Duncan lived with in Dallas before he was admitted to the hospital didn't contract Ebola people would realize just how hard it is to transmit and calm down. So far the only people to contract Ebola in this country were two nurses who cared for Duncan when he was at his sickest and they both survived with the excellent care available in this country.
Don't make it harder for health care professionals to go to western Africa to help contain the disease. As long as it's rampant there the threat elsewhere doesn't go away.
Mann's original hockey stick graph doesn't matter any more. Since it was published in 1998 there have been more than a dozen similar studies using different sets of proxies and different analysis methods that all show substantially the same thing. So I guess Mann et. al. got lucky in that their answer is correct (within the margin of uncertainty) even though they did it "wrong". Your guys need to get busy showing why all of those other studies are wrong too.
Because of their respiration systems giant insects were only possible when the level of oxygen in the atmosphere was considerably higher than it is now. During the Carboniferous period when there were giant insects oxygen levels were as high as 35% (compared to 21% now).
It has nothing to do with the IPCC. Absolute zero is the only temperature that you can base percentage changes in temperature on. Everything else is relative.
Actually the majority of energy from that Sun that heats the Earth is in the visible light range. Since the albedo is not 1 some part of the visible light energy gets absorbed by the surface and is later reradiated as infrared.
Sorry to say but "eventually" is never going to happen, at least in the lifetime of anyone alive today. The simple physics of global warming means it will continue to get worse for the foreseeable future.
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
Has anyone who flew on an airliner with someone who subsequently came down with Ebola gotten sick from it yet? Not that I've heard of but it's possible I suppose. The two people who got sick from Thomas Eric Duncan were directly involved with caring for him at the hospital and obviously didn't follow the procedures well enough to keep from getting infected. But now that the 21 day period has passed none of the people he was living with in Dallas got infected. That has to say something about how hard it is to get infected. It looks to me like Obama is following sound scientific advise and it's working so far. It's possible there may be some others who get it but we know how to control it and with our medical system I just don't see Ebola as a significant threat to the US.
Medical Screener: So I see you've been treating people infected with the Ebola virus Dr. Ebola; Yup Medical Screener: Are you infected? Dr. Ebola: Nope Medical Screener: Ok, ok enjoy your subway ride back to Manhattan.
If this is how we're going to manage this outbreak, we are completely screwed. And it's likely already too late. That Dr took a few subway rides and likely infected at least a couple dozen people in the process. Thats more than enough to start a substantial outbreak of panic around the US and likely the entire planet.
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It sounds to me like you've come down with a case of Obama Derangement Syndrome. Unfortunately there is no cure available until 2016.
The first symptom is developing a fever and it's apparent when you first start developing the fever you're still not contagious to any significant degree. How do you think the people that Thomas Eric Duncan was living with in Dallas avoided getting Ebola even though he was sent home from the ER after his first visit? If it was all that contagious some of them would have been infected too.
She's a fucking medical professional who's worked first hand with people who had and have died from Ebola. She knows exactly what Ebola can do to a person. Do you really think she cares so little for her own life that she would avoid reporting symptoms if they developed and possibly die from Ebola?
Now show that was actually used in any published peer reviewed science rather than simply for testing the software.
One of the nurse's is supposed to be quaratined and instead is out for a bike ride http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli...
So what? She has no symptoms so she can't be contagious right now.
The mortality rate with Ebola is sky high ...
So far the mortality rate for people in the United States who were detected with Ebola early in the disease and got immediate high quality care is zero. Thomas Eric Duncan was already very sick by the time he got admitted. Maybe the mortality rate in Africa has more do do with the lack of resources to provide the kind of care available in the US than it does with some absolute number.
She has no symptoms which means she is not contagious. If some of the people Thomas Eric Duncan lived with in Dallas had come down with Ebola I'd be more willing to consider a quarantine but it's obvious that Ebola is not as easily contagious as you seem to think.
The nurse has tested negative for the Ebola virus. She has no symptoms. She is under no legally obligated quarantine. Why shouldn't she live her life as she pleases rather than a bunch of panicked out of their minds people think she should.
Sheesh! You would think that after the people that Thomas Eric Duncan lived with in Dallas before he was admitted to the hospital didn't contract Ebola people would realize just how hard it is to transmit and calm down. So far the only people to contract Ebola in this country were two nurses who cared for Duncan when he was at his sickest and they both survived with the excellent care available in this country.
Don't make it harder for health care professionals to go to western Africa to help contain the disease. As long as it's rampant there the threat elsewhere doesn't go away.
Mann's formulation of the hockey stick analysis was worthless, ...
So what about the more than 1 dozen studies since then that show substantially the same thing as Mann's original study?
Mann's original hockey stick graph doesn't matter any more. Since it was published in 1998 there have been more than a dozen similar studies using different sets of proxies and different analysis methods that all show substantially the same thing. So I guess Mann et. al. got lucky in that their answer is correct (within the margin of uncertainty) even though they did it "wrong". Your guys need to get busy showing why all of those other studies are wrong too.
But there are 100 year climate predictions (based on projections of CO2 emissions that may or may not be accurate).
Because of their respiration systems giant insects were only possible when the level of oxygen in the atmosphere was considerably higher than it is now. During the Carboniferous period when there were giant insects oxygen levels were as high as 35% (compared to 21% now).
It has nothing to do with the IPCC. Absolute zero is the only temperature that you can base percentage changes in temperature on. Everything else is relative.
The effects of thinking you have more ability than you have are usually considerably more spectacular underestimating your ability.
Exactly, when I was 18-20 I thought I knew everything. Then I started learning how much I didn't know.
It seems like creationism versus evolution is always relevant on /.
Actually the majority of energy from that Sun that heats the Earth is in the visible light range. Since the albedo is not 1 some part of the visible light energy gets absorbed by the surface and is later reradiated as infrared.
A 1% change in Earth's surface temperature is nearly 3 degrees C because you have to measure it on the absolute Kelvin scale.
Sorry to say but "eventually" is never going to happen, at least in the lifetime of anyone alive today. The simple physics of global warming means it will continue to get worse for the foreseeable future.
By preventing people from voting with their voter ID laws.
How does the flu virus help the Ebola virus survive any longer than it otherwise would outside of the body?
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
Frank Hebert - Dune
Guinea, not Ghana.
Oops, right. Thanks for the correction. I get those little African countries mixed up sometimes.
Has anyone who flew on an airliner with someone who subsequently came down with Ebola gotten sick from it yet? Not that I've heard of but it's possible I suppose. The two people who got sick from Thomas Eric Duncan were directly involved with caring for him at the hospital and obviously didn't follow the procedures well enough to keep from getting infected. But now that the 21 day period has passed none of the people he was living with in Dallas got infected. That has to say something about how hard it is to get infected. It looks to me like Obama is following sound scientific advise and it's working so far. It's possible there may be some others who get it but we know how to control it and with our medical system I just don't see Ebola as a significant threat to the US.
Medical Screener: So I see you've been treating people infected with the Ebola virus
Dr. Ebola; Yup
Medical Screener: Are you infected?
Dr. Ebola: Nope
Medical Screener: Ok, ok enjoy your subway ride back to Manhattan.
If this is how we're going to manage this outbreak, we are completely screwed.
And it's likely already too late. That Dr took a few subway rides and likely infected at least a couple dozen people in the process.
Thats more than enough to start a substantial outbreak of panic around the US and likely the entire planet.
FTFY