The other day a television anchor (sorry, I don’t remember which one) asked a “suit” from the Centers for Disease Control about the Ebola virus. “Was there a vaccine?” And how much did we have?
The suit said, “There is a vaccine, and no we don’t have any left — it takes a long time to make”
Well choke me on a double-espresso cafe macchiato — it takes too long to make.
The disease was discovered by researcher Peter Piot in Antwerp in 1976. He was recently interviewed by the Guardian and said, “Around June it became clear to me there was something different about this outbreak. I began to get really worried.”
Really only since this past June? Huh? What about 1976?
And no more vaccine — Mon dieu il est incroyable!
In the last 20 years, pharmaceutical companies have obliterated erectile dysfunction, created a gazillion drugs to treat anxiety, combat depression, de-season seasonal-affected disorder, cut out baldness, and prevent flatulence, but they couldn’t come up with enough of a stockpile of vaccine to combat a deadly disease discovered 38 years ago?
And the same suits who couldn’t stockpile enough serum also told the American public not to worry.
According to a report in International Business Times, scientists predicted that there is a 75-percent chance that the virus will reach France by late October and the UK as well.
Well hello, it’s here already!
The Daily Mail reported that U.S. Ebola patient zero Thomas Eric Duncan carried his landlord’s sick daughter to a Liberian hospital, then Mr. Duncan flew to the U.S., landed at an international airport in Texas, and proceeded to go to a hospital where he was given an antibiotic and sent home.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2775872/Man-Ebola-Dallas-hospital-SENT-HOME-antibiotics-deadly-virus-discovered.html#ixzz3FNrB6roD”>“It was not until two days later that the man was admitted to the Dallas hospital and put in isolation.”
The question is how many people were exposed on the plane and in the airport, and then how many of those people went out and exposed other people, and then after he was sent home with an antibiotic and out in the general public were further exposed? The pyramid of possibilities is astronomical.
The International Business Times further stated, “the Ebola virus has so far affected 7,492 people in West Africa and has killed 3,439 people in the latest outbreak.” No vaccine.
Don’t worry be happy.
What has the CDC, the Federal Drug Administration, and the drug companies done? Not much. However they have vigorously churned out buckets of Viagra, Cialis, Levitra, Vardenafil, and Edex, to name a few. But a vaccine for Ebola? Nah, takes too long to make.
Not for Nuthin,™ I don’t know about you, but I feel ever so much safer knowing that if I ever contract the deadly erectile dysfunction virus the medicine is ready, and available.
