News Hospital released Ebola patient by mistake

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  1. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    I've always wondered how people like Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton actually make money. They are bot reverends but I don't think their churches pay them the kind of salary they obviously make. When they are on TV they are always dressed in expensive suits. I saw Sharpton on Bill O'Reilly one time and he was wearing an expensive watch that O'Reilly complimented and then jokingly offer to buy. I don't know how they could make all that much on donations because most of the people who they appeal to are poor.
     
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    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Many are middle class and they donate. The Rev's solicit funding for their Foundations who do some charitable work, but also pay very big salaries and expense accounts to their principal staff. I know that Jackson came to Jena a few years ago when the troubles were happening. A big crowd showed up to hear him speak and left disappointed or pissed off. Apparently he spent most of his time asking for donations to carry on his good work before he had done a damn thing there and then left pretty quickly afterwards. The blue collar black folks in Jena mostly work hard in the timber industry and were not much impressed by the Rev with his hand out.
     
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    mancha Alabama morghulis

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    The deputy's results came back ebola negative. He just had a wittle upset tummy.
     
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  4. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    How many millions of people are going to panic when they catch a cold or flu like virus?
     
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    mancha Alabama morghulis

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    I think when the at risk people are cleared the tension will die down. If one or more of the at risk people do have the ebola virus then we will have to wait to the next group of exposed people to clear and so on and so on. Until then, heed this public service announcement:

     
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  6. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    I wish I hadn't watched that. I don't have a link but I saw in the paper a couple of days ago that Obama refused to ban traffic from countries most effected by ebola "because it would hinder the humanitarian effort to help those people." WHAT ABOUT OUR PEOPLE??? DON'T WE COME FIRST?
     
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  7. tigerchick46

    tigerchick46 Quick Learner

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    Funny thing, this morning my company cancels meetings in Dallas next week because so many people were flying in through DFW......a bit of an overreaction I think.
     
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  8. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    If I had any reason to go to Dallas now I think I'd bite the bullet and make that boring drive. I wouldn't go anywhere near the airport. People who leave the airport in rented cars often stop and nearby convenience stores for cigarettes and other refreshments so I'd avoid those too. I wouldn't want to stay in a hotel anywhere near the airport. No telling who has been sleeping in those beds in those rooms that are cleaned by underpaid Mexican maids.

    Lets just go ahead and nuke Dallas. I don't like the Cowboys anyway. DFW is a major international airport. No telling how many ebola infected people have gotten into this country
     
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  9. mancha

    mancha Alabama morghulis

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    Whoa there. A few of us live in the DFW. I live 9 miles away from that CareNow that was almost infected. o_O Shit. I'm coming to Louisiana with my exposure. ;)
     
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  10. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    I'll start taking donations to pay you to stay home.
     
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