The current media covers one topic at every broadcasting: the pandemic of ebola ravaging Africa and suddenly popping up here in the states. The real fear of this disease is causing panic amongst many and outrage in many more, as borders are not being closed to west African travel, and adequate medical care for foreign patients is more readily available here.
This issue has raised the voices of conspiracy theorists as well, since the carelessness of the U.S.government and CDC to address these issues with proper intensity. Contradictions are causing many to suspect intentional lies about how the disesae is spread, as if they are trying to reduce population. Speculation surrounds all of this...however I found a post on my social media feed today, and I feel the need to share it.
Quoth Brian S.
I
will say this one more time , even a thousand times .. THE CDC IS LYING
ABOUT EBOLA !.....There is something very, very important that the
corporate media and public health officials are not telling you
regarding the Ebola outbreak in west Africa.
Right
now in West Africa the worst Ebola outbreak in history is in full swing
and is jumping borders at an alarming rate. Already it has spread to
four countries, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and now Nigeria. This
latest jump into Nigeria is particularly serious since the infected
individual carried the virus by plane to Lagos Nigeria, a city with a
population of over 21 million. Doctors without borders has referred to
the outbreak as "out of control".
To
make matters worse, there is something very, very important that the
corporate media and public health officials are not telling you
regarding this crisis.
You'll
notice if you read virtually any mainstream article on the topic that
they make a point of insisting that Ebola is only transferred by
physical contact with bodily fluids. This is not true, at all.
A
study conducted in 2012 showed that Ebola was able to travel between
pigs and monkeys that were in separate cages and were never placed in
direct contact.
Though
the method of transmission in the study was not officially determined,
one of the scientists involved, Dr. Gary Kobinger, from the National
Microbiology Laboratory at the Public Health Agency of Canada, told BBC
News that he believed that the infection was spread through large
droplets that were suspended in the air.
"What
we suspect is happening is large droplets; they can stay in the air,
but not long; they don't go far," he explained. "But they can be
absorbed in the airway, and this is how the infection starts, and this
is what we think, because we saw a lot of evidence in the lungs of the
non-human primates that the virus got in that way."
Translation:
Ebola IS an airborne virus. (as is annotated in the video and below, I
am using this term in the layman's sense as TRAVELS THROUGH AIR)
UPDATE:
Someone pointed out that in medical terms, if the virus is transferred
through tiny droplets in the air this would technically not be called an
"airborne virus". Airborne, in medical terms would mean that the virus
has the ability to stay alive without a liquid carrier. On one hand this
is a question of semantics, and the point is well taken, but keep in
mind that the study did not officially determine how the virus traveled
through the air, it merely established that it does travel through the
air. Doctor Kobinger's hypothesis regarding droplets of liquid is just
that, a hypothesis. For the average person however what needs to be
understood is very simple: if you are in a room with someone infected
with Ebola, you are not safe, even if you never touch them or their
bodily fluids, and this is not what you are being told by the mainstream
media. Essentially I am using the word "airborne" as a layman term.
Now
I'm not going to speculate as to whether these so called "journalist"
and public health agencies who keep repeating the official line
regarding the means of transmission are lying, or are just participating
in some massive display of synchronized incompetence, but what I will
say, is that this shoddy reporting is most likely getting people killed
right now, and may in fact put all of humanity in danger.
How so?
By
convincing people that the virus cannot travel through air, important
precautions that could reduce the spread of the virus are not being
taken. For example the other passengers on the plane that traveled to
Lagos, Nigeria were not quarantined.
[UPDATE
August 6th]: According to the AP and the BBC, Patrick Sawyer, the Ebola
infected man who traveled to Lagos Nigeria by plane, passed the disease
on to eight health workers before being properly isolated.
Nigerian
health authorities acknowledged Tuesday that they did not immediately
quarantine a sick airline passenger who later died of Ebola, announcing
that eight health workers who had direct contact with him were now in
isolation with symptoms of the disease.
In
spite of the seriousness of this disease, and in spite of the fact the
fact that the BBC itself covered a study in 2012 that demonstrated that
Ebola can spread through the air, no one in the corporate media has
budged from the official line regarding transmission.
The AP's spin on it:
Experts say people infected with Ebola can spread the disease only through their bodily fluids and after they show symptoms.
From CNN:
Ebola
spreads through contact with organs and bodily fluids such as blood,
saliva, urine and other secretions of infected people.
And from the BBC itself in their article describing the second confirmed case in Nigeria:
The
virus spreads by contact with infected blood and bodily fluids - and
touching the body of someone who has died of Ebola is particularly
dangerous.
To put this into context, Ebola kills between 50% and 90% of its victims, so the stakes are very, very high here.
NOTE:
We have reported on the fact that Ebola can spread through the air in
three separate articles since March of 2014, here, here and here,
however the corporate media has continued to misrepresent the vectors of
transmission.
IMPORTANT
UPDATE: August 13th: The CDC has admitted that the Ebola virus can
travel through air, but they made that admission in a very sneaky and
hard to find manner. The following statement is added as a footnote at
the very bottom of the page:
Casual
contact is defined as a) being within approximately 3 feet or within
the room or care area for a prolonged period of time while not wearing
recommended personal protective equipment or having direct brief contact
(e.g., shaking hands) with an EVD case while not wearing recommended
personal protective equipment.
The
implication of this statement is very, very clear: Ebola DOES in fact
travel through the air. This is critical information and it should be
highlighted in large letters on every page, but instead it is tucked
away in fine print where many won't look. Given the fact that the CDC
previously was running infographic campaigns claiming that Ebola does
not travel through the air."
Advice is free, and good advice is PRICELESS. The cost of being wrong in this case may be severe. Sounds like a great time to check out real estate in Canada.
