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Originally posted by billrquimby:
I didn't mean to launch a hailstorm.

I was just wondering out loud how all the media coverage will affect attendance at the shows. My best guess -- after realizing that I personally would need to give some thought about going -- is that attendance will be down significantly.

Guess we'll have to see what happens. For the sake of all involved, I hope I'm wrong.

Bill Quimby

Planes into and out of Alaska remain completely full of people. I doubt Ebola hysteria, which I would group your original post with, is far less in reality than you are presuming.

BTW, I mentioned on Joyce's Pronghorn hunt report, that she sat next to a gentleman when flying back from Colorado who was a returning oil field worker coming home from GUINEA. I didn't panic. Yesterday was day 21 and I let her back into our house from the camper.

I'll see the rest of you sane folks in Vegas come SCI time.

Cheers
Jim

http://www.news24.com/Africa/N...eone-report-20141103


Ebola rapidly advancing in rural Sierra Leone - report

London - Ebola is spreading up to nine times faster in parts of Sierra Leone than two months ago, a report by the Africa Governance Initiative (AGI) said on Sunday.

"Whilst new cases appear to have slowed in Liberia, Ebola is continuing to spread frighteningly quickly in parts of Sierra Leone," said the AGI report.

On average, 12 new cases a day were seen in the rural areas surrounding Freetown in late October, compared with 1.3 cases in early September, the report said, a nine fold increase.

Transmission was also increasing rapidly in the capital Freetown, with the average number of daily cases six times higher than two months ago.

The analysis was based on three-day averages of new cases recorded by Sierra Leone's health ministry.

"A full-blown crisis"

It emerged after the United States envoy to the United Nations welcomed slowing infection rates in some areas, and improved burial practices.

AGI, a support initiative set up by former British prime minister Tony Blair, said that while the picture was changing, the situation was still "a full-blown crisis".

"The Government of Sierra Leone is making real strides in tackling transmission by speeding up access to treatment and safe and dignified burial," AGI chief executive Nick Thompson said.

"But we can't rest until Ebola has nowhere to hide. And we can see from growth in new cases in some rural parts of Sierra Leone that we still have no time to lose if we're going to get on top of this."

Almost 5 000 people have been killed by the virus, according to data from the World Health Organisation, which has recorded more than 13 000 cases but admits the real number of infections and deaths could be much higher.

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Please excuse me if this has been discussed already. I haven't read all the posts in this thread, but what I have read makes me wonder what all the media coverage on ebola will do to attendance at the SCI and DSC hunting shows.I no longer attend them, but the ebola scare would make me think twice before booking flights and a room.

Not sure at this point that I will be able to make DSC this year, but ebola has nothing to do with my decision.

Originally posted by bwana cecil:

"Not sure at this point that I will be able to make DSC this year, but ebola has nothing to do with my decision."

What??? We're counting on you being here Cecil, those stores can run themselves for 3 or 4 days, right?

Karl

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...frica-without-ebola/

Looks like there are idiots all over the place.

http://insiderlouisville.com/m...-louisville-teacher/

I guess I am Ebola free as it has been over 21 days since I returned from Zim.

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Originally posted by Caracal:


http://www.washingtonpost.com/...frica-without-ebola/

This might help give a perspective on the size of the African CONTINENT.

It is funny how you don't hear much of anything about Ebola in RSA or Namibia on the news. Joburg doesn't do much more than thermal cameras at customs and Namibia adds a slip of paper asking if you have been to the countries in question. One would think that if everyone was so hyper about Ebola spreading, that RSA, Namibia, and Botswana would be ground zero. Guess the folks here aren't so easily excited over vacuous headlines.

Did you hear about the teacher in the USA who was basically forced to quit her job because she went to Kenya and the uninformed parents were concerned about Ebola?

Democrats! Isn't this a great country? How do we rid ourselves of them?

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Originally posted by lavaca:
Did you hear about the teacher in the USA who was basically forced to quit her job because she went to Kenya and the uninformed parents were concerned about Ebola?

Democrats! Isn't this a great country? How do we rid ourselves of them?

Article

I would have happily taken their 21 days paid leave and said thank you.


"The school, on Shelbyville Road, had asked Sherman to take a paid "precautionary leave" of absence of 21 days upon her return from her trip after "strong parent concerns" about Ebola."

I never had a job that I would have turned down 21 days off with pay from.
If she isn't any smarter than that, I wouldn't want her reaching my boys.

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Democrats! Isn't this a great country? How do we rid ourselves of them?

You've just started !!

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Originally posted by Neil-PH:

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Democrats! Isn't this a great country? How do we rid ourselves of them?

You've just started !!

Yea, and a pretty damned good start too!

Even my home state, The Peoples Leftists Socialist Republic of Maryland managed to elect a Republican Governor. Daaummnn!

This histeria must have happened on a slow news day. Let's think about it. Lower death toll than the flu. Decreased death rates from prior Ebola epidemics. Confined to a small region half way across the world. A few cases of western health care volunteers who knew what they were getting into and one case in the US. OMG -- major panic -- major story.

I've got a bigger major panic disaster story -- Democrats. Or the flu.

And as to ridding ourselves of Democrats, it was a good start. They are like cockroaches, however, and it has to be complete. Democrats, like cockroaches, breed.

nothing a can of Raid or Doom won't take care of( roaches, not Democrats). i wonder if the "sky is falling" chicken littles will now decide to show up in Dallas