The left continues mocking anyone who questions government assurances that the Ebola virus cannot be spread through the air. Tweets like this gem are sooooo helpful.
I wonder if all the conservatives yelling that Ebola might become airborne realize it means they now believe in evolution?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2014
Meanwhile:
My hospital is going to use airborne precautions for Ebola patients. Likely overkill. Preferable to underkill, if those are the options.
— ICU night nurse (@eyeseeyouarein) October 13, 2014
@eyeseeyouarein the cdc recommendations sent to us from the state of SC call for N95 respirators.
— Nurse Jenny (@jennife47354346) October 13, 2014
Clearly they don’t understand science as well as left wing bloggers.
https://twitter.com/eyeseeyouarein/status/521494774982123520
@eyeseeyouarein precautions only work when everybody follows them, and I’ve never seen everybody follow them.
— Socially Isolated Peon (@RotatingBacon) October 13, 2014
https://twitter.com/eyeseeyouarein/status/521499690534440960
If you’re wondering why there are so many mixed signals about airborne transmission of Ebola, this might be enlightening.
https://twitter.com/SalenaZitoTrib/status/521507229502300160
This TribLive article says that scientists have performed studies showing that the Ebola virus does mutate.
“It’s an extremely difficult thing to speculate about,” said Charles Bailey, executive director of the National Center of Biodefense and Infectious Diseases at George Mason University, who was not involved in the study. “Is a mutation capable of making it airborne transmissible? Nobody knows.”
Bailey said that while he was at the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, a weaker strain of Ebola infected a small colony of research monkeys. Concentrated aerosols of Ebola have shown the ability to infect, he said, but it’s not known whether a sneeze or a cough can do the same.
“That experiment hasn’t been done yet,” said Bailey. “If there was no concern about aerosol transmission, then why are people wearing masks? There’s no absolutes.”
“That experiment hasn’t been done yet.” It hasn’t? Then where’d they get this?
#Ebola is not spread through casual contact or through the air. pic.twitter.com/Ayq3gs9NVf
— CDC (@CDCgov) October 12, 2014
@SalenaZitoTrib More than stunning since we have been assured that Ebola was not transmitted by air.
— Teresa Wendt (@projectmat) October 13, 2014
@SalenaZitoTrib Comforting, as well…
— TFC3Tweets (@TFC3Tweets) October 13, 2014
https://twitter.com/pinecohen/status/521509324083179520
https://twitter.com/SalenaZitoTrib/status/521507446955991040
Nobody knows.
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