+50% probability the Texas Ebola victim got his infection from someone on the plane.

[boomer55]

My mom sent me the video below.... its only 3 minutes and uses only CDC info.

keep those fingers crossed the Dallas victim is the real patient zero.

and please feel free to completely shoot this idea full of holes!!!!

#t=125

[MohRokTah]

1. Problem with his theory.

Passengers are being checked for fevers before being allowed to board an aircraft in Liberia. There is no way he could have contracted the virus on the plane.

[Control-Z]

2. But, but, but...

How are people going to work themselves into a fear frenzy without this important fabrication information?

[MohRokTah]

7. the worst case scenario is he contracted it in the airport.

More likely, he was exposed a couple of days before he left, and maybe decided it would be best to come home to the US, just in case.

[leftynyc]

19. Is he a US citizen?

I haven't seen that confirmed anywhere.

[MohRokTah]

20. Reports say he has family in Dallas.

I assume he is at least a resident.

[leftynyc]

21. I wouldn't make that assumption

I have family in France, Venezuela and Israel. I'm not a citizen (or resident) in any of those countries.

[leftynyc]

22. Nope - not a citizen

His sister has confirmed he was visiting from Liberia:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/992702-thomas-eric-duncan-identified-as-first-us-ebola-patient-breaking-news/

[MohRokTah]

26. So his sister would be the resident.

Good to know.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

24. Honest question -- can someone be a carrier without presenting symptoms? nt

[DisgustipatedinCA]

27. I don't have a link handy, but I read that

...a person has to be exhibiting the disease before they can pass it along.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

29. Fair 'nuff. TY for the reply. nt

[Atman]

3. Nonsense.

It's a blood-born disease. Unless the passenger next to him bled on him, there is virtually no way he could have contracted Ebola on the plane.

[font size="+3"]BOO![/font]

[magical thyme]

4. it's a fluid-borne disease

The person next to him could have vomited on him, peed on him, pooped on him, sweated on him, cried on him, coughed on him, sneezed on him, or dripped boogers on him. Or someone could have left large droplets on the armrest, toilet seat, or doorknob for him to pick up.

If any of those droplets found their way to a cut, abrasion, or mucus membrane, he would have been exposed.

But on landing the obviously sick person would have been isolated and whisked away, and all people traveling on that plane quarantined.

So yes, nonsense.

[FSogol]

6. Don't have unprotected sex on airplanes until this whole ebola thing blows over...

[magical thyme]

11. oh no...

[Kelvin Mace]

32. And don't roll around on hypodermic needles

at the plant where all the zombies work.

[ZombieHorde]

33. No reason to jump to anything that extreme.

No reason to abandon our whole way of life just because of a little plague. You gotta die of something, right?

[FSogol]

35. That's the spirit!

[Atman]

14. Yes, that's what I meant.

And yes, that's the point. I've had some bad flights, but can't recall exchanging bodily fluids on even the longest flights. Okay, there was that one time in the restroom, but it was totally consensual. Point being, he did NOT contract Ebola just by sitting on the plane, or else everyone else would have, too.

PANIC! On my mark...GO...! PANIC!

[arcane1]

25. I'm starting to re-think air travel after all that!

[boomer55]

8. sneezing video in slow motion....

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/slow-motion-sneezes.htm

[ProdigalJunkMail]

15. they look really impressive when you have a mouth full of liquid

but yes, they have quite a reach...

sP

[ProdigalJunkMail]

5. worst case scenario is if someone else from the flight

begins exhibiting symptoms... until then, we're cool.

sP

[boomer55]

12. thats the part that is worrisome we wont really know for sure for until the incubation period

for the undisclosed plane travelers is over.

Trust the CDC and wait to see if their assessment was accurate.

[magical thyme]

9. abuses CDC info would be more accurate. nt

[boomer55]

13. cool.. how so? can you explain I'm a math dummy.

[magical thyme]

17. the non-math answer is that the CDC info does not take into account that temperatures were checked

prior to boarding the flight out of Nigeria. It also does not take into account that no passengers were reported to have become symptomatic during the flight.

He apparently came to Dallas by way of Belgium. There have not been any reported cases in Belgium at all, let alone any cases of somebody disembarking with symptoms causing the entire planeload of people to be quarantined (such as happened with American Patrick Sawyer).

The math answer is that statistics show the results for a large number of data points. Any individual data point, however, ends up wherever it ends up, with an equal likelihood of ending up in any given spot.

[boomer55]

10. Thanks for the hole poking!

keep it coming.

[on point]

16. Nonsense. Incubation period is 21 days. Had to be exposed about 10 days before

[magical thyme]

18. the incubation phase ranges from 2-21 days. So in reality there is a

good chance he was exposed in the US and there is another Ebola patient running around loose in Dallas!!!1!1!

[Orrex]

23. Oh shit

What about all of those people on the ground when the plane flew over? They're probably infected too!

[FSogol]

36. Chemtrails of Ebola!

[WinkyDink]

28. He got it....wait for it....in Liberia. So your "mom" can stop e-mailing nonsense.

[snooper2]

30. look, some idiot started a youtube channel LOL, 4 videos all on ebola conspiracies

but, but, it is based on CDC INFO!

what a joke-

like this video

&list=UUQ7a7Q4EN-OY1mdyanRs-3w

[zappaman]

37. If it's on the internet, it must be true!

[Marrah_G]

31. Sorry- that is nonsense

[LannyDeVaney]

34. OK, I give...

all you fear-mongers are obviously correct. Only containment will be for the US to nuke itself. There is no hope and we are all going to die.

[VanillaRhapsody]

38. is that you Lindsay Graham?

[obnoxiousdrunk]

39. Looks like a

government ploy to keep Benghazi off the news.