It highlights that Canada took appropriate measures and Ebola stayed out of Canada.
Remember the U.S. Ebola crisis? The only epidemic was fear-mongering
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It highlights that Canada took appropriate measures and Ebola stayed out of Canada.
The same search with Locutus gets 185 threads for "global warming" and 483 for "Harper". How about Boomer, he's a prolific poster too; 67 for "global warming" and 216 for "Harper".
The three of them are responsible for a healthy majority of the content posted on this site. It seems really weird to me to be dissing anyone on a content forum for posting threads, of any subject.
Also, the numbers you get from the forum search is more of a function of the posters in the whole forum. That search will give you threads that aren't even on that topic. Example, this thread shows up in mentalfloss' list of threads with the keyword search for "global warming" and "global warming" doesn't show up until the second post, and was posted by Blackleaf.
I mean if the idea is to get a more homogeneous group of posters here...yeah by all means lets single out people.
If you knew how to use the search function it might help. :lol:
searching by 'posts' vs searching by 'threads' is very different.
threads started by "Locutus" with "Global Warming" in the title = 21 since October 2007.
threads started by "Locutus" with "Harper" in the title = 72 since October 2007.
but annnnnyway.
as you were.
of course, if we wanted to see "Locutus" mentioned by "waldo" in posts...
310 since November 1st 2014.
holy moly. :lol:
Oh for goodness sake. This thread, in a nutshell: Anything the OP deigns to be important there can no maximum as far as threads, posts, discussions, news articles irrespective of how sensational the headline may be, it's all valid. Anything the OP deigns not to be important is all 100% fear mongering and sensationalism with no justification whatsoever.
Which in and of itself would not necessarily be a problem, he's not the only one with laser focus on pet topics. But it does happen to encompass any topic that is not the big 3 around here (AGM, Harper, Islam). In other words, things perhaps the rest of us may want to spend a little time on. So just stick to the topics you're interested in and quit belly aching about the ones you don't.
Which in and of itself would not necessarily be a problem, he's not the only one with laser focus on pet topics. But it does happen to encompass any topic that is not the big 3 around here (AGM, Harper, Islam). In other words, things perhaps the rest of us may want to spend a little time on. So just stick to the topics you're interested in and quit belly aching about the ones you don't.
Could that be the cause of a "one track mind"
Weirdo could possibly have that in common Huh?
Canada was one of three countries who took that measure and Ebola was just as ineffective in the countries who didn't take that measure.
Can't believe I even have to point out such an obvious, banal point.
I think there's about 7,000 people who if they were still alive would beg to differ. Some idjets tend to under rate things that doesn't affect them.
How many people contracted ebola in Canada?
How many in the US?
Canada responded appropriately and the US did not.
OK fear mongering for making people aware, had government and media
said nothing they would be regarded as negligent so that would be the
preferred method of informing the public? Why is it that everything is
either fear mongering or some giant conspiracy? I was following the story
of course and I want to be informed that does not mean I am afraid though.
said nothing they would be regarded as negligent so that would be the
preferred method of informing the public? Why is it that everything is
either fear mongering or some giant conspiracy? I was following the story
of course and I want to be informed that does not mean I am afraid though.
How does Canada with this travel ban in place contracted ZERO and the US without the ban in place contracts 4?
Your point is is proven absolutely wrong.
"In the unlikely event that someone with Ebola does reach our shores, we’ve taken new measures so that we’re prepared here at home."~ President Obama September 14, 2014
Our measures failed. Our preparations were not good enough.
Canada did what is right and kept her people safe. The US choose the less offensive way and paid.
Cost to treat Ebola in the U.S.: $1.16 million for 2 patients - The Washington Post
Because 4 cases is not worth the negative effects of such a ban.
First, in denying visas, Canada stigmatizes Africans, provokes retaliatory responses, disempowers the humanitarian response, and makes the contact-tracing work of public health professionals far more difficult.
Second, we undermine the global legal framework that 196 countries agreed would govern their pandemic responses and that Canada helped rewrite after it reeled from the travel advisory slapped against Toronto for SARS. If this Ebola outbreak teaches us anything, it is that health is global and that Canadians’ health depends on the co-operation of countries around the world. If countries know their citizens may face illegal and scientifically illogical travel restrictions, they are less likely to report the presence of disease outbreaks in the future.
http://m.thestar.com/#/article/opin..._ban_puts_us_all_at_risk_in_the_long_run.html
First, in denying visas, Canada stigmatizes Africans, provokes retaliatory responses, disempowers the humanitarian response, and makes the contact-tracing work of public health professionals far more difficult.
Second, we undermine the global legal framework that 196 countries agreed would govern their pandemic responses and that Canada helped rewrite after it reeled from the travel advisory slapped against Toronto for SARS. If this Ebola outbreak teaches us anything, it is that health is global and that Canadians’ health depends on the co-operation of countries around the world. If countries know their citizens may face illegal and scientifically illogical travel restrictions, they are less likely to report the presence of disease outbreaks in the future.
http://m.thestar.com/#/article/opin..._ban_puts_us_all_at_risk_in_the_long_run.html