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Hanes Middle School sits on top of a pool of toxic waste

TownieDeac said:
If pour had been right about Ebola we'd all be dead
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Fascinating. Well apparently you had some major reading comprehension problems with what I wrote. No need to spread a bunch of lies.
 
ThinkingWithMyDeac said:
YES now we are going to get pourdeac hot science takes, you guys are in for a treat now. Why am I going to listen and get information from CDC were they right about EBOLA and air quality reports from the EPA, big science and a main culprit of the global warming myth, nice try.
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LOL...you guys trip me out trying to discredit anyone that doesn't fit your stereotypes. I actually help my wife produce air quality reports for the EPA. I work closely with people who have done a lot inhalation tox and other tox work for the NTP (which you probably don't even know exists). I'm actually on that project.

Real science always wins.
 
pourdeac said:
LOL...you guys trip me out trying to discredit anyone that doesn't fit your stereotypes. I actually help my wife produce air quality reports for the EPA. I work closely with people who have done a lot inhalation tox and other tox work for the NTP (which you probably don't even know exists). I'm actually on that project.

Real science always wins.
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So you smell each other's farts. Sweet.
 
TownieDeac said:
Your alarmism was hilarious.
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pourdeac said:
Bonkers? We were told at the beginning that there would be at most 20k people infected and the routes of transmission were completely known and under control, not a US or European threat. I talked to a friend who works with Ebola therapeutics here in RTP a few weeks ago over beers. I said I was surprised people weren't doing more to contain it and expressed some concerns. He said there was no way it could get here and it was contained. I attended ICAAC at DC and got the same sort of take...don't worry, it won't be a problem and is contained.

Now it's 1.6m infected, 60%+ of whom will likely die, and climbing every day...and in the US and Spain. The top docs now say a larger outbreak in Europe is inevitable. Epidemiologists say the outbreak is not 'acting' like it did before, which suggests that something is significantly different. The US may be able to contain it, but I read today if it gets to Central America, which some some think is inevitable, the military fears a mass exodus to Mexico and then the US.

The problem is exploding right in front of us after we were told that could not happen. That's not bonkers.
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Deacon923 said:
A simple google search reveals that 1.4M is a worst case scenario estimate by the CDC - for January 2015. Currently it is estimated that 8,000 people are infected.

http://www.vox.com/cards/ebola-facts-you-need-to-know/its-the-worst-ebola-outbreak-on-record

For a little much-needed perspective:



http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs211/en/
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pourdeac said:
Sure...but when the experts predict one thing about a very deadly disease and then they're wrong repeatedly. When people are told protections are in place...and they aren't. When we're told there is no way it can enter the US and it does. When contact had to be human to human physical contact....and the Spanish nurse apparently touched a glove and got it. What happens to the credibility of the experts and leaders? It significantly erodes. People aren't going to believe them and will then become afraid....and then start to worry about worse scenarios.

All of that is on top of fears that have been ginned up for years by these same people about infectious diseases coming out of Africa and Asia, and about infectious diseases mutating rapidly. Ebola was said to act so quickly as to not be a threat...but could potentially mutate into one we were told, especially if it became less deadly and/or more transmissible. Now it's all over the place and ACTING differently than other outbreaks. Why?

I'm sure people who want to attack the US have thought about using every infectious disease they can....including Ebola. It was on the DOD list wasn't it? That leads to fears of its use now. But Ebola was never thought to be realistic..too rapid and not weaponizable. I believe Marburg was their biggest fear, at least it was a couple of years ago when I talked to DOD.
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Lol yep. #neverforget #1.6million #potentialmutation
 
"Real science" is likely the cause of the contamination in the first place.
 
Pourdeac the science misspeak

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TownieDeac said:
Your alarmism was hilarious.
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Stating the actual risks and asking for better surveillance to deal with problems if they arose..which they ended up doing...wasn't alarmism. You just didn't get the nuances of what I was saying, and those nuances are very meaningful. It's a shame it has to be that way.
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
Lol yep. #neverforget #1.6million #potentialmutation
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LOL....yeah the CDC worst case estimate you even link to. You never understood the point then...and you don't get it now. #scientificilliteracy
 
Liquid Karma said:
"Real science" is likely the cause of the contamination in the first place.
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Well since it's synthetic, that's no doubt true. But it's a great gig. We get paid to invent stuff like chlorinated ethyene solvents and then get paid to clean up the mess they make. And for the bonus round...get paid to consume all the waste during production as starting materials for something else useful.

Since people want to suddenly talk bugs..one of the coolest remediation methods for the stuff under the school is actually microbes. They discovered this kind of thing in Louisiana...with PCBs. A group from LSU (IIRC) was monitoring a waste dump and the PCBs suddenly vanished. Completely gone. It was crazy.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC91463/
 
I'm just taking what you said verbatim. That doesn't require any literacy in science as far as I know.
 
Liquid Karma said:
My son has gotten texts from kids who went saying about a third of kids aren't there. By tomorrow it will be double that.

They better not make the kids make this time up on weekends or over spring break.
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Sonny-boy reports his class was -11 A sixth-grader told him one of his classes only had five people in it. Apparently Dr. Emory said they could stay out of school without penalty until the test results are in #earlyspringbreak
 
Liquid Karma said:
This has class action suit written all over it.

There was one mother who got up last night and talked about how her son was diagnosed with Cancer this summer and no way of knowing if it was caused by his 3 years at Hanes. I'd be shocked if they don't sue.
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A parent at last night's meeting says he is planning a lawsuit and wants to go class action with it #didntdoanyworkgotsettlementcheckanyway
 
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