Opposing The Insanity

A screed by ChiefIO on Ebola:

F*#king Hubris of Ebola Doctors and Loony Left.

So we’ve already dodged the bullet once (maybe – we still have about 3 weeks to know) in Dallas. So what happens? ANOTHER brilliantly clueless idiot who is enamored of his own specialness and noble cause manages to put all of NYC (and through it all of the globe) at risk of a disease that has a 70% mortality and no proven treatment.

Yes, there are a few speculative treatments. I hardly find it comforting to think of a few speculative treatments as how to ‘bet the future of humanity’ in a prudent way.

and:

Given enough trials, one of these times the ‘bug’ will escape to the general public. Some returning guy will spend the night with a hooker who has a dozen clients in the next dozen days (who did not give their names) and it’s “off to the races”. During flu season, those dozen will not be diagnosed as Ebola until AFTER they have infected another 2 or 3 each. At that point, in a dense urban place like NYC, this ends when 100% are dead, recovered, or naturally immune. The present mortality rate has at least 1/2 and up to 70% of NYC dead. Maybe not this time, but soon enough….

And in another bit of world class stupidity:

Ebola travel bans are ‘irrational,’ says head of Red Cross.

Well no. They are entirely rational.

Update: 25 October 2014 0341z

Rationality is starting to prevail.

New Yorkers and New Jersey not dumb…

NEW YORK (AP) — Alarmed by the case of an Ebola-infected New York doctor, the governors of New Jersey and New York on Friday ordered a mandatory, 21-day quarantine for all medical workers and other arriving travelers who have had contact with victims of the deadly disease in West Africa.


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6 responses to “Opposing The Insanity”

  1. MJH Avatar
    MJH

    My prescription: shoot horse.

  2. captain arizona Avatar
    captain arizona

    Travel ban and quarantine will discourage medical personal from going to west africa to help. Also it will harm the fragile economies of those countries and people will still try to sneak in for medical treatment president Obama. And he won the election so why should he listen to people who didn’t vote for him.

  3. Simon Avatar

    Travel bans do one thing. They slow or prevent the spread of disease. Quarantine was used to slow/prevent the spread of the Black Death. It was regularly used for small pox.

    As for medical helpers: military flights followed by a one month quarantine would do nicely.

    Lets see what no travel ban does to the spread of Ebola.

    At a doubling every 21 days in two years you get 4 billion dead. You must be one of those lefty humanitarians. Murderously stupid.

  4. […] us say that by transmission methods encouraged by the left Ebola doubles every 21 days. In 31 doublings there will be 4 billion dead. Lets do the math 31 *21 […]

  5. Mark Morrissey Avatar
    Mark Morrissey

    Isn’t there something in game theory about plotting probability versus consequences. Some things come up as high probability, but low consequences (getting rained on). Ebola transmission strikes me as low probability, but high consequences. Why would any reasonable person want to take any risk that they would pass this on to someone rather than stay home for three weeks?

  6. Simon Avatar

    Mark,

    It does make you wonder. And it seems there are a LOT of unreasonable people out there. Or there is some other purpose than what is officially stated.

    But that takes us into a very black hole.