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    Feb 14th 2017, 2:55 PM

    And a superspreader is???

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    Mute Jimmy Ireland
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    Feb 14th 2017, 3:27 PM

    @The Thinker: Someone who is sick, fails to seek medical attention and highlight their sickness to authorities but yet continues to integrate in the community until they are too ill to do so.

    Basically that ‘hero’ at work who doesn’t take sick days but probably should as they keep infecting the whole office.

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    Feb 14th 2017, 4:50 PM

    Part of this was accelerated by witch doctors saying the experimental and supportive treatments , the WHO teams etc were a conspiracy by western govts to give them Ebola that made many afraid to ask for help

    Idiot keyboard warriors from the west helped spread this too, saying things like the CDC held the patent on Ebola so must have created it in the lab. Others spewed uninformed nonsense like “it’s highly contagious ” and “what if a refugee from Africa sneezes on me in the A&E” Those who actually knew what we were talking about were ignored at first but thankfully once people had the facts laid out it turned around

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    Feb 14th 2017, 5:14 PM

    @The Thinker: Someone with oversized testicles.

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    Feb 14th 2017, 2:47 PM

    Remember, stay at home with the flu and don’t be opening the door to any super-spreaders.

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    Mute Ryan Carroll
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    Feb 14th 2017, 4:54 PM

    A flu mutation and pandemic would kill way more than Ebola (and we’re overdue for one) and unlike a dozen Ebola cases which we could easily have handled with the usually empty isolation ward in the Mater our health service would totally collapse in its present form during a flu pandemic

    We don’t have enough bed capacity for normal operations (we’re at least 5-6000 short minimum some would argue double that) let alone something where anything up to a third of the population could either be infected or convince themselves their cold is the mutated flu strain. We’re oddly better equipped to deal with the far less likely smallpox or Ebola or bubonic plague than the near certain flu mutation

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    Feb 14th 2017, 2:36 PM

    Great piece of machinery on the farm, the old superspreader.

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    Feb 14th 2017, 2:51 PM

    Just make sure it’s shots are up to date.

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    Feb 14th 2017, 3:11 PM

    Also works in the pub.

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    Feb 14th 2017, 3:00 PM

    Journal, thank you for my 2017 GF pet name on Valentines day! “Ebola Superspreader”

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    Mute Steven Hillert
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    Feb 14th 2017, 3:36 PM

    I was talking to my mother on the bus a few months ago and this yoke on the back seats was saying he got Ebola from his bird. I told him it wasn’t likely. He said he got a Ebola soup off his bird. I didn’t find it funny but he taught it was hilarious until he was getting off the bus and fell down the stairs. I had a good giggle.

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    Feb 14th 2017, 6:28 PM

    Super spreader? Like the country girl at the disco……

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    Feb 15th 2017, 1:10 AM

    @Shane Russell: Is that drink or bladder?

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    Feb 15th 2017, 1:09 AM

    With global warming there will be more spread of diseases and a few new ones.
    My aunt in the U.K. has a friend who has a viral disease as I found out a few days ago, the doctors do not know what the disease is as they never saw it before.
    Is there a chance that the doctors are not trained well enought as that is possible but it is a thought, could we be living in a time where the advent of new diseases from global travel and global warming will spread and create diseases? Can you imagine super spreaders spreading superbugs, and the only defense we have might be in old herbal books on age old remedies?
    WE WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT TOMORROW WILL BRING?

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    Feb 15th 2017, 1:02 AM

    Like dung or lime spreaders?

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