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[scotttie]

On 10/3/2014 deepwaterdotter said:

On 10/3/2014 scotttie said:

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dir of Nat. Inst. Of Allergy and INfectious diseases was the very best speaker and most reassuring.

Yes he was. He gave the most useful information.

He spoke very well and yes, he gave the most useful and believable information.

[Lucibee]

He spoke very well. I'll watch Brett at 6:00. Thanks.

[scotttie]

On 10/3/2014 Lucibee said: He spoke very well. I'll watch Brett at 6:00. Thanks.

You are welcome. I am looking forward to it as well.

The thing about Dr. Fauci that also impressed me was the fact that under the rigorous questioning he never looked confused or uninformed.

[tansy]

So no more Ebola threads since now everyone is reasonably satisfied? Good deal.

[GrettaGarbled]

On 10/3/2014 tansy said: So no more Ebola threads since now everyone is reasonably satisfied? Good deal.

[pitdakota]

I just got home so I missed it. However, I do think it is very sad that someone like Dr. Fauci has to take the time out from an extremely busy schedule at this time to address this from a public platform. Goodness only knows this man is busy with his normal schedule and responsibilities, let alone now dealing with ebola and entervirus 68. So now he has to take the time to "reassure" the pubic. Geez.

I would wager that what he said is no different than what has been posted on the credible professional websites for days now. And no different than what other public health officials have said as well.

And a major part of this is that people don't know what they don't know but all of the sudden they become experts on something to point the finger and claim all kinds of things. It is sad really.

Even posts here illustrate that. People don't understand the difference between isolation and quarantine. Some posters here are outraged or questioning why the high probability contacts aren't in isolation? Well, if you understood the difference one would know why. It is no big secret and it is the same for all infectious diseases, including ebola.

Then we have a post about speaking with a "friend" that is a md specializing in infectious disease and he said......viruses mutate rapidly and a vaccine won't work. Well, either there was quite a bit lost in translation of that conversation or the doc is questionable himself. News break....there are different types of viruses. There are RNA, DNA, single-strand, double-strand, viruses. The list goes on and on. Some viruses mutate quickly, others not so much. Another news flash....influenza viruses mutate very quickly. Long story, short.....they know that, they adjust the vaccine. I am by far not an expert in virology, but that is even basic public health information.

The amount of misinformation on these types of threads is hard to even quantify. In my opinion, this far exceeds what we saw when HIV/AIDS came on the scene. Maybe because of the internet and social media? I don't know.

[scotttie]

Oh come on Pitdakota. He took the time to reassure the people of this country. I am disappointed in your post.

[pitdakota]

Sorry Scottie, just how I feel. This information has been out there. People are just choosing not to evaluate it, but rather discount it, argue with it...everything but listen to it and try to learn from it.

[scotttie]

On 10/3/2014 pitdakota said:

Sorry Scottie, just how I feel. This information has been out there. People are just choosing not to evaluate it, but rather discount it, argue with it...everything but listen to it and try to learn from it.

Surely you don't think the entire country is boiled down to what goes on here and on other social media?

These people took to the stage to try to reassure the millions of people in this country who are confused by the conflicting information everywhere.

Personally I think that is time well spent.

[sidsmom]

On 10/3/2014 tansy said: So no more Ebola threads since now everyone is reasonably satisfied? Good deal.

Unfortunately, nope. We have the "Infostructure for Sustained Outrage" (Gordon Keith) so this will live on the inter-web forever....on & on & on & on & on. And will resurface when elections come about. People loooooove to "B", so....