I think the tinfoil hat has been retired. Now people are wearing hazmat hoodies.

The hoodie is popular now.

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For example, sure, maybe it will help to spare lives. But, what if it allows for someone to not get the symptoms of the disease but still become a carrier? Will the disease spread more easily that way until we learn about it? By which time it will be too late!

The powers that be wouldn’t tell us a thing it that did turn out to be the case. Their excuse would be to “avoid panic” we don’t want the public to know.

(yea, I know, I’m wearing a tinfoil hat)

So they’re still checking, and Ebola transmission is still going on in New York City.

I hate this “Cone of Silence” BS we’re seeing the ruling class use more and more. As an Englishman said to me thirty years ago, “We’re mushrooms: kept in the dark and pissed on from a great height.”

The Obama administration was arguably late, or maybe just in time last September, when joining in the fight with a half billion dollar outlay to build temporary hospitals for triage sorting of possibly infected victims.

The only “treatment” for an untreatable disease is isolation.

What kept the almost two-year Ebola epidemic going and spreading were certain hands-on burial rites practiced in the region. Only nation-wide emergency shut downs with a few days of home isolation – controversial at the time –
http://reliefweb.int/report/sierra-leone/sierra-leone-readies-controversial-ebola-shutdown

achieved the behavior-change breakthrough.

This made turned the tide of epidemic death, then doubling in cases every three weeks.

It was epidemiologist Michale Osterholm – who in the early 1980s first identified “gay plague” as viral entity which was bloodborne because transmission pattern paralled Hepatitis B – and last October, at an ebola symposium hosted at Johns Hopkins University, suggested that a vaccine would likely bring the Ebola outbreak to an end.

Osterholm described an effective Ebola vaccine as the best hope for stopping an epidemic that has confounded all expectations and is likely to continue to do so.

He warned the audience to expect the unexpected as the epidemic continues: “Do not expect that anything carved in stone today won’t be blown up by some stick of dynamite.”

He also urged them to get comfortable with uncertainty and be honest with the public about it. “We’re making this up as we go. We have to be mindful that we’re making it up,” he said. “One of the worst enemies we can have today is dogma.”

As an example of current dogma, he cited the view that Ebola virus cannot spread through the air. Many virologists, he said, are concerned about the possibility of airborne transmission, and certain Ebola species have been known to go airborne in primates.

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/10/symposium-vaccine-seen-best-hope-arresting-ebola

In a paper published last winter, Osterholm, et al, showed that the Ebola virus became more lethal and more easily transmissible later in the course of the disease.

At any rate, the current good news on a workable virus – just as reports of fresh outbreaks in Liberia and Sierra-Leonne have occurred – appears to confirm Osterholm’s prognostication that an Ebola vaccine would be needed to end the still-lively West African disease outbreak