{"id":102,"date":"2014-11-07T16:13:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T23:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/?p=102"},"modified":"2014-11-19T13:11:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T20:11:51","slug":"banjo-the-miracle-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/banjo-the-miracle-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"Banjo, the miracle cure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true that music cures a lot of what ails you, but doesn&#8217;t this guy realize that now he will have to burn his banjo?<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/news\/2014\/11\/06\/nyc-doctor-with-ebola-playing-banjo-hospital\/8DkIPlqRSEpCOLkN9uIZFK\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">NYC doctor with Ebola playing banjo in hospital<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>I made the above half tongue-in-cheek comment to a friend, about needing to burn the guy&#8217;s banjo now, and he responded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><small>No need to nuke with flames!\u00a0 Thoroughly sterilize said BANJO,\u00a0 like they&#8217;ve done to the homes &amp; apartments where the victims lived.\u00a0\u00a0 The virus dies out anyway, doesn&#8217;t it? It doesn&#8217;t hug surfaces forever. If you had a banjo played by someone that had a viral illness 10 years ago &#8212; any risk it would\u00a0 transmit that virus now? Anyone else notice that since the election there have been NO front-page ebola scares?\u00a0 The media suddenly stopped pushing the shrill panic-button meant to alert and alarm the public.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8212;&#8212;-Ed<\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-115\" src=\"http:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/NYPD-on-Ebola-Cleanup-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"NYPD-on-Ebola-Cleanup\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/NYPD-on-Ebola-Cleanup-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/NYPD-on-Ebola-Cleanup-400x226.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/NYPD-on-Ebola-Cleanup.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Herein lies the crux of everything. \u00a0 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?\u00a0 All these dog and pony shows, sending in NY&#8217;s finest with dust masks, rubber gloves, and baby wipes, to &#8220;decontaminate&#8221; Dr. Spencer&#8217;s home, after he&#8217;d been all over NY City.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Were they going to baby wipe the whole subway?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all politics and the manipulation of public perceptions.\u00a0 And worse, the CDC can&#8217;t even decide what it wants the public to perceive, as it changes its story from day to day!<\/p>\n<p><strong>CDC:<\/strong> &#8220;Ebola is not airborne and can only be caught from body fluids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Public:<\/strong> &#8220;How the hell did the nurses in full body armor, who had no contact with body fluids, catch it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CDC:<\/strong> &#8220;The nurses&#8217; faults.\u00a0 They did it wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nurses&#8217; Union:<\/strong> &#8220;You take that the hell back!\u00a0 They followed CDC instructions to the letter!\u00a0 It&#8217;s your fault if the instructions were vague.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nurse with Ebola:<\/strong> &#8220;I even called the CDC to ask if I was safe to fly, and they told me yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CDC<\/strong> contacts hundreds of people who&#8217;d been on the flights with Ebola-stricken nurse to begin monitoring them, but &#8220;quarantine&#8221; becomes a dirty word.\u00a0 No one knows why.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Several Governors:<\/strong> &#8220;CDC can&#8217;t get their story right.\u00a0 We&#8217;re going to quarantine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CDC to Governors:<\/strong> &#8220;We have White House lawyers and we&#8217;ll sue your asses if you try to contain Ebola without our approval.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Public:<\/strong> &#8220;What about airborne body fluids, like explosive diarrhea, projectile vomiting, oh, yeah, and coughing and sneezing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CDC:<\/strong> &#8220;Oh, yeah, that too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Public:<\/strong> &#8220;What about door handles and other surfaces people have coughed and sneezed and pooped and vomited on?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CDC:<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8220;Oh yeah, that too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Public:<\/strong> &#8220;How long can Ebola survive on those surfaces?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CDC:<\/strong> &#8220;50 Hours or more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CDC:<\/strong> &#8220;Oh, wait, no.\u00a0 No more than 15 minutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And on it goes!\u00a0 So do we burn the banjo or don&#8217;t we?\u00a0 What if he coughs while playing it?<\/p>\n<p>But my friend Ed is right.\u00a0\u00a0 Ebola has suddenly dropped off the main stream media radar screen, except for the occasional random <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v36\/n20\/paul-farmer\/diary\" target=\"_blank\">snooty &#8220;scholarly&#8221; article<\/a> in small print nobody can stand reading, about how the west is ignoring Ebola stricken countries, and let&#8217;s all hold hands and share Ebola and feel better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bow-right-50.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-116\" src=\"http:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bow-right-50-283x300.png\" alt=\"bow-right-50\" width=\"156\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bow-right-50-283x300.png 283w, https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bow-right-50-231x245.png 231w, https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bow-right-50.png 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\" \/><\/a>The truth is, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2014\/11\/breaking-obama-administration-pushes-news-outlets-to-not-report-suspected-ebola-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\">press has been asked by the Administration<\/a> (so hooked as it is on social engineering) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2014\/11\/breaking-obama-administration-pushes-news-outlets-to-not-report-suspected-ebola-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\">to stop reporting on Ebola<\/a>, lest intentional importation of illegal immigrants carrying Ebola and Enterovirus D-68 (which has already killed more Americans than Ebola has) effect election results.\u00a0 <em>And bow they all did.<\/em>\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>Or if the used musical instrument you just bought came from the estate sale of a now deceased Ebola patient.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-117\" src=\"http:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/banjo-300x236.png\" alt=\"banjo\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/banjo-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/banjo-620x490.png 620w, https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/banjo-310x245.png 310w, https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/banjo.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true that music cures a lot of what ails you, but doesn&#8217;t this guy realize that now he will\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/banjo-the-miracle-cure\/\"><span>&#8230;read more&#8230;<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madscientists.exposed\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}