I see your anecdote and raise you uh, I guess if I want USB3 functionality, I'll check out Biostar boards first.

Colonizing Mars was really just a pipe dream anyway. The core of Mars is dead (no longer liquid and spinning), so the planet is dead. It makes sense. Trying to terraform is it like trying to bring the dead back to life. In the best case, you'll get Frankenstein's monster. In the worst, nothing will come of it.

Actually, we went to war to keep Saddam from selling oil in Euros, so it was in fact Misson Accomplished. The whole WMD thing was just to satisfy Joe Q. Public.

Did you forget that Iraq was a U.S. ally at one point? That they used chemical weapons during their war with Iran? Oh, and that those two just so happened to occur during the same time periods?

India, Egypt, China? Might as well include Russia in your list too if you're just going to start listing out countries. And by the way, Egypt was a very close U.S. ally up until Spring fever got to them.

In this case, the idiot up and went to Ohio to plan a wedding knowing full well there's still a chance of having contracted the disease. If more cases stem from this, I think you very wll can find someone to blame.

And I'm pretty sure she won't be the only one. The people on the plane with her are going to continue with their daily lives as if nothing's happened. They should be strictly quarrantined for three weeks, but instead, they're going to to back to Ohio or go onto wherever they're supposed to go (and back maybe), and in three weeks, we'll be real lucky if there are no more cases.

This is getting more and more serious, but the government's attitude continues to be lackadasical. At this point, at-risk people shouldn't even be allowed to go outdoors. Keep them quarrantined: give them food and water, and compensate for whatever loss they might incur once this all blows over, assuming that it will.

A disproportionate response is the only thing that will stop an outbreak here. A reasonable, measured, adequate response will ultimately result in a much higher body count.

No, the reason it's so scary is the #3 is clearly untrue at this point. The protocols are either not being followed, not being enforced, or simply insufficient. Looking at the CDC response and the hospital's response, it's almost like the protocols are being developed as they go along. Select hospitals have training and protocol established. Knowing the insides of a hospital a bit too well, I know most are winging it.

You might expect that for 3rd world countries, but for 1st world countries like the U.S. with a world-class health care system, this is a shock to a lot of people (especially the people who think the U.S. is the best at everything). That's why there's so much noise about ebola. In fact, most people already know (because most people have been to hospitals enough times they know what goes on there) that our medical facilities would be completely inadequate to handle even one case, forget a full-blown outbreak. Couple this with the incredible amount of mobility of a 1st world country, and it's almost a given that there'll eventually be cases everywhere so long as the outbreak in West Africa remains uncontained. And most people know that with enough cases of ebola, the system will simply collapse. That's the scary part.

I believe that's the airborne strain that doesn't affect humans.

You can't quarrantine international flights. But you can quarrantine Dallas. Or the hospital. Or the hospital workers who've provided care to Duncan specifically. Or hell, just ground all flights, which they're going to have to do if this gets any more out of control.

This person should not have been allowed to fly. We already have a no-fly list. It's not managed well because of its secrecy and difficulty of getting off, but if there ever was a time it was appropriate to use a list to prohibit people from traveling, that would be now.

No, she had a low grade fever the day of the flight, which indicates a very high probability she was infectious not just on the flight, but before she left.

It's not just the other people on the plane who're at risk. If she spoke to someone at the baggage counter, that person's at risk too. If she used the bathroom, the next person to use the stall would be at risk. Not as high a risk as if she had been vomiting or even speaking, but it's still at risk.

They took the picture 16km out, which conveniently converts nicely to an even 10 miles. It's like they wanted Americans to convert.

No, just poor education.

- George Santanyana

We don't live in an ideal. But it's important we set it up as our goal and try to get as close to it as possible. And when we collectively take a step back, which is inevitable, it's important to note this and do what we can to reverse it. Apathy and scaremongering are both unproductive.

But if they did that, they wouldn't have been able to fit everyone on the wings.

What about the nurse in Spain, who got it from accidentally brushing a contaminated glove against her face? This is a first world medical facilities with all modern supplies. And if you've been to some of the hospitals I've been to in the U.S., it's surprising that people actually come out of them. They're nowhere near as bad as the ones in West Africa, but I guarantee that the bad hospitals here will face similar issues.

And that's not reassuring at all.

It gets easier to do if you've got them all in line waiting for medical clearance. It's pretty easy to track passengers down nowadays. If anything, it's probably the best case that the person is sick on the plane. Sucks to be the other passengers, but Typhoid Mary isn't going to start an epidemic so easily.

The screenings are largely useless though. Incubation is up to 21 days. Which means you could come back infected from West Africa and not show symptoms for up to three whole weeks.

People traveling from West Africa need to be informed. They need to self-monitor for three weeks, and if they start feeling sick, they need to call 911 immediately and convey the right information to the dispatcher. That is only way to stop the spread of ebola once it arrives. Having sick people take public transportation to their nearest hospital rather than call an ambulance would be the worst possible scenario.

We've finally located the asshole of the U.S.