We are told it won’t be, and yet:
Pauline Cafferkey, 39, was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow last Tuesday after feeling unwell.
She was flown by military aircraft to the Royal Free Hospital in London on Friday where she is currently being treated in a specialist isolation unit for “late complications” of the Ebola infection.
Ms Cafferkey, of South Lanarkshire in Scotland, was diagnosed with a life-threatening strain of Ebola in December after returning to Glasgow from Sierra Leone where she was working for Save the Children, via London…
Today NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde confirmed all close contacts of the nurse since she became symptomatic again have now been identified and 40 of the 58 people offered vaccinations as a precaution.
K-strategists see the worst possibilities, and act as if they are most likely. When dealing with any outbreak, this is the only strategy you should follow, because the experts will always lie. Here we were first told that the relapse will not be contagious, and yet they are offering to vaccinate first degree contacts. We have also been told vaccination is effective, but I could see that not being entirely correct.
Other things they will deny – her relapse may have an adaptation allowing it to simulate a lysogenic phase, and lay dormant in the host before re-emerging periodically. If so, there is no guarantee she will be cured this time, and there is no guarantee there will not be others like her walking around right now in Africa.
If there are latent infections walking around Africa, they would be periodically shedding the virus in their semen based on the studies. Gay sex would expose that RNA-virus infected semen to the lumen of a new host’s large intestine, and we know similar RNA viruses like PMMoV can replicate in the large intestine, presumably using bacterial genetic machinery there.
This makes me wonder if a vaccinated individual so exposed might have a similar level of immunity to Cafferkey, and a constant influx of viral particles assaulting them from their large intestine. If so, then vaccination might simply induce a Cafferkey situation, where you walk around until the virus emerges again, you become infective, and you have to be hospitalized to suppress it. That means the guys in Africa walking around like this could basically be the same situation we had with AIDS in 1950.
Let Ebola get into one gay flight attendant, and it could be like a hemorrhagic version of AIDS, just waiting to go global through the gay community. There it will get suppressed initially, only to periodically reemerge in random outbreaks that would eventually infect all gays, and a few straights here and there (through normal acquisition of infected fecal bacteria which might carry the virus like a phage). Obviously letting that happen makes more sense than quarantine, because to permanently quarantine the infected gays early on would be uncivilized.
If it hits that point, there is no doubt it would adapt further as it cooked throughout the population, and anything becomes possible.
That will not make everyone happy to welcome that new gay employee into their office.
This is amygdala atrophy.
Apocalypse cometh™
Well homos force everyone to pay their antiviral drugs through tax money. They will do the same with ebola.