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PhotoDave219

PhotoDave219

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Nubs70 said:
A point of perspective, while the number of Ebola cases is minute compared to H1N1, the mortality rate of H1N1 was .02% whereas Ebola is upwards of 70%.

Or to add a little sensation to the difference, Ebola is 3500% more lethal than H1N1.
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ford91exploder said:
What's interesting is that this strain of Ebola instead of having the usual 90+% lethality and swift onset (2-3 days) which is why prior outbreaks died out, has instead a 50-60% lethality and slow onset up to 21 days, If one breaks out the tinfoil hats it almost seems someone was playing with a bio-weapon which got out of control.
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The fear alone is the problem. All you need is a few people in a few cities and it could greatly duck up the travel and tourism industries.

Which runs the risk of screwing up everything thats going on right now expansion wise at WDW.
 
ParentsOf4

ParentsOf4

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PhotoDave219 said:
The fear alone is the problem. All you need is a few people in a few cities and it could greatly duck up the travel and tourism industries.

Which runs the risk of screwing up everything thats going on right now expansion wise at WDW.
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Disney's domestic Parks & Resorts (P&R) capital expenditure was cut in half after 9/11, going from $1.278B in FY2001 to $636M in FY2002. :jawdrop:

A major travel scare could be an excuse to delay investing in WDW. :(

Strong corporate leadership doesn't plan for today's crisis; they plan for tomorrow's opportunity. That leadership believes its own ability to execute. It believes in its ideas and people.

The bad news is that Disney's current corporate leadership cut domestic P&R capex by 3% in 2008 as a result of the 'Great Recession'.

The good news is that they increased domestic P&R capex by 31% in 2009 and another 25% in 2010, even though P&R revenue did not rebound until 2011. Cars Land and the New Fantasyland still got built.

Hopefully, today's Disney leadership recognizes that there's untapped potential at WDW. Hopefully, they continue to plan for tomorrow's opportunity. :)
 
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wdisney9000

wdisney9000

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RivieraJenn said:
As a side note, many of the anti-vaxxers are, in fact, on the Ebola conspiracy theory bandwagon.
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Are you aware that The Center for Disease Control appoints a 15-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This committee is responsible for deciding who should be vaccinated each year. Almost all the ACIP have a financial interest in immunizations. It’s all about the money and may have very little to do with your health and well being. The very people pushing these vaccines stand to make billions of dollars. This itself creates a doubt on how effective these flu vaccines really are?

Also, Im sure none of the Ebola scare has anything to do with the massive oil reserves in Liberia and its also right next to Sierra Leone where the diamond mine workers are on strike. They just want to get troops in there like they did in Nigeria with the whole "Boka Haram" BS to secure their oil too. Funny how all the coverage of #bringbackourgirls disappeared so quickly. Ebola is very real, but no more of threat than it ever has been.
 
ford91exploder

ford91exploder

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wdisney9000 said:
Are you aware that The Center for Disease Control appoints a 15-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This committee is responsible for deciding who should be vaccinated each year. Almost all the ACIP have a financial interest in immunizations. It’s all about the money and may have very little to do with your health and well being. The very people pushing these vaccines stand to make billions of dollars. This itself creates a doubt on how effective these flu vaccines really are?

Also, Im sure none of the Ebola scare has anything to do with the massive oil reserves in Liberia and its also right next to Sierra Leone where the diamond mine workers are on strike. They just want to get troops in there like they did in Nigeria with the whole "Boka Haram" BS to secure their oil too. Funny how all the coverage of #bringbackourgirls disappeared so quickly. Ebola is very real, but no more of threat than it ever has been.
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As to making vaccines you mention billions of dollars. Well 99 out of 100 drugs including vaccines don't work yet you still need to develop all 100 to get the one which does work and that costs lots of money billions in fact

The question as always in Liberia is follow the money. China is heavily invested in Africa and in Asia life is cheap I leave you to draw your own conclusions based on the intersection of money, worldview and need for resources not subject to US influence.
 
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mgf

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wdisney9000 said:
Ebola is very real, but no more of threat than it ever has been.
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Except (in regards to West Africa) nearly every public health official disagrees with this statement. The strain of Ebola is not what makes this outbreak more serious. It is the change in social patterns and move toward urbanization/interconnectedness coupled with the lack of adequate health infrastructure in West Africa.

Take the conspiracy-trolling somewhere else.
 
PirateFrank

PirateFrank

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TeriofTerror said:
Oh, for Pete's sake; are we now debating the effectiveness of vaccines? Talk about a tangent. Do any of you suffer from polio? Jonas Salk says, "you're welcome".
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Here's a novel idea.

Why don't we all stop talking about this crap??! There's a political undertone behind the vaccination argument *and* the competency of the government's response to Ebola that is really just carefully veiled conservative vs liberal saber rattling....and truth be told, I don't want to read any of it here. Not the republican side. Not the democrat side. Anyone who blindly follows one of these political ideologies is just a useful idiot (to these parties) anyways...but to try to wrap it up in a health argument and claim it has nothing to do with politics is folly. It was political the very microsecond BHO claimed 3000 armed infantry were going to stop Ebola, a month ago.

Truth be told - *any* health epidemic where people are susceptible to contracting a severe illness while trapped in a plane for 2-5 hours is going to affect Disney Parks business. Can we all just concede this point and move on? please?

Because the veiled politi-talk is nauseating.
 
Stevek

Stevek

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phillip sugarman said:
For anyone that is interested concept art has been leaked for Star Wars Episode VII.
https://imageshack.com/user/themillenniumfalcon
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Tommy Boy's Disney site decided to post these as well, including putting one directly into a post on their FB page for all to see even though they called them spoilers. Idiots should have kept the picture hidden and if they wanted to post a link, fine, just not a picture.

And yes, someone will likely lose their job over this if they can figure out who leaked.
 
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