It’s true that music cures a lot of what ails you, but doesn’t this guy realize that now he will have to burn his banjo?
NYC doctor with Ebola playing banjo in hospital
I made the above half tongue-in-cheek comment to a friend, about needing to burn the guy’s banjo now, and he responded:
No need to nuke with flames! Thoroughly sterilize said BANJO, like they’ve done to the homes & apartments where the victims lived. The virus dies out anyway, doesn’t it? It doesn’t hug surfaces forever. If you had a banjo played by someone that had a viral illness 10 years ago — any risk it would transmit that virus now? Anyone else notice that since the election there have been NO front-page ebola scares? The media suddenly stopped pushing the shrill panic-button meant to alert and alarm the public. ——-Ed
Herein lies the crux of everything. Just how do you sterilize a banjo without admitting to the world that you actually already know how to kill the Ebola virus without harming its host? All these dog and pony shows, sending in NY’s finest with dust masks, rubber gloves, and baby wipes, to “decontaminate” Dr. Spencer’s home, after he’d been all over NY City. Were they going to baby wipe the whole subway?
It’s all politics and the manipulation of public perceptions. And worse, the CDC can’t even decide what it wants the public to perceive, as it changes its story from day to day!
CDC: “Ebola is not airborne and can only be caught from body fluids.”
Public: “How the hell did the nurses in full body armor, who had no contact with body fluids, catch it?”
CDC: “The nurses’ faults. They did it wrong.”
Nurses’ Union: “You take that the hell back! They followed CDC instructions to the letter! It’s your fault if the instructions were vague.”
Nurse with Ebola: “I even called the CDC to ask if I was safe to fly, and they told me yes.”
CDC contacts hundreds of people who’d been on the flights with Ebola-stricken nurse to begin monitoring them, but “quarantine” becomes a dirty word. No one knows why.
Several Governors: “CDC can’t get their story right. We’re going to quarantine.”
CDC to Governors: “We have White House lawyers and we’ll sue your asses if you try to contain Ebola without our approval.”
Public: “What about airborne body fluids, like explosive diarrhea, projectile vomiting, oh, yeah, and coughing and sneezing?”
CDC: “Oh, yeah, that too.”
Public: “What about door handles and other surfaces people have coughed and sneezed and pooped and vomited on?”
CDC: “Oh yeah, that too.”
Public: “How long can Ebola survive on those surfaces?”
CDC: “50 Hours or more.”
CDC: “Oh, wait, no. No more than 15 minutes.”
And on it goes! So do we burn the banjo or don’t we? What if he coughs while playing it?
But my friend Ed is right. Ebola has suddenly dropped off the main stream media radar screen, except for the occasional random snooty “scholarly” article in small print nobody can stand reading, about how the west is ignoring Ebola stricken countries, and let’s all hold hands and share Ebola and feel better.
The truth is, the press has been asked by the Administration (so hooked as it is on social engineering) to stop reporting on Ebola, lest intentional importation of illegal immigrants carrying Ebola and Enterovirus D-68 (which has already killed more Americans than Ebola has) effect election results. And bow they all did. From now on, you are not to know if that flushed passenger who visited the airplane restroom just before you was depositing Ebola infected body fluids or not.
Or if the used musical instrument you just bought came from the estate sale of a now deceased Ebola patient.
