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Death - 19 Nov 2006 03:54 GMT Carnival Cruise Ship Hit By Virus - 700 Taken Ill
From The Chicago Tribune 11-17-6
More than 700 people aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise have fallen ill with flu-like symptoms, cruise line officials said. The outbreak, thought to be [caused by] a norovirus, struck people aboard the Carnival Cruise Lines' Liberty, according to a statement issued by the Miami company. The ship left Rome on Fri 3 Nov 2006 with about 2800 paying passengers and more than 1150 crew members. The boat is due in Ft. Lauderdale on Sun 19 Nov 2006.
"Within 24 hours of sailing, they had a lot of people sick. It has tapered off considerably over the past couple days," said David Forney of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The U.S. agency flew 2 medical epidemiologists and an environmental health officer to the Caribbean island of St. Maarten, where the ship was in port on Thu 16 Nov 2006.
Noroviruses affect 23 million Americans annually, according to the CDC. A dozen incidents of the illness have been reported on cruise ships so far in 2006. Spokeswoman Jennifer de la Cruz said Carnival hasn't nailed down the outbreak's origin, though she noted 2 passengers acknowledged getting sick in Rome prior to boarding. "We really ratcheted up cleaning and sanitation to prevent the spread by common surfaces," de la Cruz said. Still, the closed environment of a cruise ship is ripe for the spread of such infections.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi -0611170213nov17,1,7622835.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
Noroviruses are enteric viruses present in the stool or vomit of infected people, and cause severe diarrhea, nausea and vomiting (sometimes called "winter-vomiting disease"). These viruses take their name from the town of Norwalk where a notable outbreak occurred. The virus can be spread through the air. Most people recover with no lasting side effects. Severe dehydration can be a problem, especially for the very young, the very old and people with weakened immune systems. Prevention of transmission is best achieved by thorough hand-washing, and rubbing hands for at least 24 seconds with soap and warm water, is the best way to prevent the spread, especially after using the bathroom or [before] preparing food.
Epidemics occur frequently during winter months in situations where people from diverse backgrounds congregate in close proximity such as on board cruise ships. This particular outbreak is significant on account of its extent and duration.- Mod.CP
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Life - 19 Nov 2006 20:54 GMT > Noroviruses affect 23 million Americans annually, according to the CDC. A > dozen incidents of [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Still, the closed > environment of a cruise ship is ripe for the spread of such infections. I had this little f.cking bug last year - it is the worst - at the same time your diarrhea is blowing out while (hopefully) sitting on the toilet, you will get violent projectile vomiting. This goes on for 3-4 days and you think (or hope) you're gonna die!
This is also called the Cruise Ship Virus - the cruise ship industry REFUSES to take responsibility (in the article excerpt above, they blame "2 passengers ... from Rome"). NONSENSE! This virus isn't being harbored in Rome - it IS harbored by the filthy hygeine and condition of the cruise ships and a number of their chronically infected workers (usually mud people from shitty countries like India and don't know how to use toilet paper, much less wash their scat-covered hands).
Death - 19 Nov 2006 21:43 GMT "Life" <Life@life.com> wrote in message
> " Death" <Death@yourdoor.net> wrote in message > > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > passengers > > acknowledged getting sick in Rome prior to boarding.
> NONSENSE! This virus isn't being harbored in Rome - it IS harbored by the > filthy [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > use toilet > paper, much less wash their scat-covered hands). That crossed my mind when I read the story, so I searched and found this. Oh, I have not heard mud-people in a coons,,,,,,,age.
The Carnival Cruise Lines ship Holiday, which has a capacity of 1,800 passengers, was home to just 956 this week, according to the company. (Carnival Cruise Lines via Reuters file)
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. -- A FEMA contract to house Katrina evacuees on cruise ships, roundly blasted as exorbitant government spending, is currently costing U.S. taxpayers substantially more per person than some of its harshest critics estimated -- nearly $250 per person per night, according to figures obtained by MSNBC.com.
At that rate, the Federal Emergency Management Agency would spend more than $175,000 for each family of four that lives for six months aboard one of the three ships provided under the $236 million contract with Carnival Cruise Lines. Room service also is included in that price tag -- three meals a day and snacks.
FEMA says it cannot calculate the precise costs per person for the floating hotels because it does not track occupancy of the ships in that fashion. The agency says it knows only how many cabins are occupied on the Ecstasy and Sensation, docked in New Orleans, and the Holiday, docked in Pascagoula, Miss., not how many people are living in each cabin.
"To be honest with you, I really don't know," FEMA spokeswoman Nicol Andrews said in response to repeated requests for a head count. Nor does anyone else in the federal government, said the Washington, D.C.-based Andrews, who said she could not get the figures "unless I went on board and knocked on doors."
Life - 20 Nov 2006 03:50 GMT > The Carnival Cruise Lines ship Holiday, which has a capacity of 1,800 > passengers, was home to [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > in that price tag -- > three meals a day and snacks. One can only imagine how much taxpayer money was blown on fried chicken, chitlins and watermelon... but my sources do tell me that the niggers on these cruise ships were going nuts when their crack supply dried up for a while (even Mayor Nigger Nagin publicly admitted crack shortages were "a serious problem").
After the trashing of the NiggerDome, one can only imagine how uninhabitable those cruise ships have become...
Death - 20 Nov 2006 15:18 GMT "Life" <Life@life.com> wrote in message
> One can only imagine how much taxpayer money was blown on fried chicken, > chitlins and watermelon... but my sources do tell me that the niggers on [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Mayor Nigger Nagin publicly admitted crack shortages were "a serious > problem"). I've read several articles where the niggers who went to Texas are having a hard time with the school system. It seems Texas actually wants the New Orleans nigger to read and write.
It seems their careers as drug-dealer, pimp, ho and wel-fare queen are put on hold until Texas kicks their worth-less black a.ses back into Louisiana.
GMCarter - 21 Nov 2006 11:45 GMT >"Life" <Life@life.com> wrote in message >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >> >I've read several articles where the niggers who went to Texas Racism.
Well...that says a lot about you guys.
Death - 21 Nov 2006 17:23 GMT "GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
> Racism. > > Well...that says a lot about you guys. Damn, and I went to great lengths to hide it. There's just no fooling you.
Death - 21 Nov 2006 19:33 GMT "GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
> Racism. > > Well...that says a lot about you guys. Again you think the names are worse than the deeds. This is racism:
Approximately 34 million acts were committed in the U.S. in 1992--about 94,000 crimes daily. This is a Justice Department estimate. We don't know the exact number, because many, if not most, crimes are not reported. We do know, however, that the national crime rate-crimes per capita-has tripled over the past 30 years, and at least 71 percent of all violent crimes involve some kind of economic loss.
Distorted Statistics Prior to 1986, Hispanics were classified as a distinct and separate racial group. Not anymore. The FBI and U.S. Census Bureau no longer distinguish between Hispanics (who are actually Spanish speaking Indians for the most part) and Whites; their crimes are lumped together in one ethnic pot. The 22,354,059 Hispanics living in the U.S. do not exist, at least not in the ethnic sense when it comes to the FBI compiling criminal statistics for mainstream and news organizations.
Included by the FBI as "WHITES" is not only Hispanics, but also West Asians, Jews, Middle Easterners, North Africans, Iranians, Iraquis, Libyans, Palestinians, and refugees from the former Soviet Union. The question that immediately comes to mind is: "Why would the FBI and the U.S. Census Bureau classify persons of Hispanic origin as being white?" The answer might surprise you.
The FBI and the U.S. Census Bureau, along with mainstream media purposely distort criminal statistics and conveniently classify Mexican-Americans as white because they do not want the American public to know the truth--that Blacks are responsible for committing the vast majority of crimes here in the United States. For example, in 1993, there were 20,343 Americans murdered: Blacks, who compromise 12 percent of the U.S. population, committed 11,686 or a whopping 58 percent of those murders.
The black murder rate was 38.8 per 100,000. Based on their murder rate in 1986, Hispanics committed an estimated 2,242 murders in 1993. This is 10.7 per 100,000. 76 percent of the U.S. is White (European-American) and they committed only 29.5 percent of the murders. On the other hand, Black and Hispanic minorities combined constitute 21 percent of the population, yet they committed a staggering 68.7 percent of the murders in the U.S. during 1993. This means, on a per capita basis, a Black person is 12.3 times as likely to commit murder as a White person.
Since this information is not deemed "politically correct" and would perhaps offend the black segment of society, it is offset by falsely inflating the per capita basis for whites by backhandedly including Hispanics and other ethnic groups.
Here are some more shocking statistics:
More than 1,600 Whites are murdered by Blacks each year.
Blacks murder Whites at 18 times the rate Whites murder Blacks.
About 1 million Whites were murdered, robbed, assaulted, or raped by Blacks in 1992.
In the last 30 years, 170 million violent and nonviolent crimes were committed by Blacks against Whites in the U.S.
Blacks under 18 are more than 12 times more likely to be arrested for murder than Whites the same age.
Some 90% of the victims of race crimes are Whites.
Blacks commit 7.5 times more violent interracial crimes than Whites, although they comprise only one-seventh of the White population.
On a per-capita basis, blacks commit 50 times more violent crimes than Whites.
Some 27 million nonviolent crimes were committed in the U.S. in 1992 alone. 31% of the robberies involved Black offenders and White victims; only 2% involved White offenders and Black victims.
1.3 million of the 6.6 million violent crimes committed in the U.S. each year are interracial.
Between 1964 and 1994, more than 45,000 people were killed in interracial murders in the U.S., compared to 58,000 Americans killed in Vietnam and 38,000 killed in Korea.
The above stats were collected by an Australian reporter, Neil Sheehan, who dug out half-concealed U.S. crime figures for an article in the Sydney Morning Herald (May 2, 1995). The contents of his article, he commented, could not possibly be published or discussed in the U.S. mainstream media. One wonders how many Whites have to be killed by Blacks before the N.Y. Times and Dan Rather break the conspiratorial silence about the number of White casualties in the guerrilla war being waged against them by Blacks.
Paved With Good Intentions, a book by Jared Taylor, also studies crime statistics by race. It must be stressed that Blacks make up only 12% of the population according to the 1990 U.S. census (and Black males about 6%), but they commit a vastly disproportionate number of violent crime. Mr. Taylor reveals: 1) 58% of all arrests for weapons violations are Blacks. 2) 46% of all arrests for violent crimes are Blacks. 3) 73% of all "justified self-defense" killings are committed by Blacks. 4) 60.5% of all Blacks are armed with some type of weapon at all times. 5) 98% of all youths arrested for gun fights in Atlanta are Blacks.
In 1989, the FBI reported the following:
A) Blacks commit 8 times more assaults than Whites. B) Blacks commit 9 times more rapes than Whites. C) Blacks commit 14 times more murders than Whites. D) Blacks commit 19 times more armed robberies. E) Black neighborhoods are 35 times more violent than White neighborhoods. F) There were 629,000 interracial attacks committed in 1985 (the last year the FBI "chose" to report this information). Some nine out of every ten were committed by Blacks against Whites. G. Black males (6% of the population) make up 46% of the nation's prison population.
It can be seen that in only one category of crimes, driving under the influence, are Blacks actually underrepresented, and even this is only by one percent. Perhaps this statistic can best be explained by the fact that Blacks own fewer cars than do Whites percentage-wise. It can further be seen that overall, Blacks are committing 2 1/2 times the amount of crimes percentage-wise as their population in America and as far as violent crimes are concerned, they are committing almost four times as much as their population percentage-wise. As far as murders go, Blacks are committing almost five times as many as their population percentage-wise. Why isn't this ever reported on the news? Furthermore, it must be pointed out once again that many crimes go unsolved or are unreported, particularly those involving random acts. Therefore, the number of crimes that Blacks and Hispanics are committing may actually be much higher.
GMCarter - 22 Nov 2006 02:17 GMT >"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Again you think the names are worse than the deeds. Again--you seem to think that words are harmless.
They're not.
And not all speech is protected or "free" under US law.
For example: libel. Hate speech is another.
Incitement to riot.
While it is good to recognize if you have hate in your heart that is rooted in irrationality and ignorance, it is not good to nurture and coddle it. Let alone spew it.
Because it can lead to violence or incite others to violence.
I cannot imagine that you are that stupid not to understand that--but then again, you're not likely to WANT to understant that.
George M. Carter
Death - 22 Nov 2006 02:54 GMT "GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net>
> Again--you seem to think that words are harmless. > > They're not. So I see, you could talk a person to "death" and never say anything.
GMCarter - 22 Nov 2006 11:28 GMT >"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >So I see, you could talk a person to "death" >and never say anything. Once again, you run away from the truth.
That's OK. You know it. You will have to face it one day.
Perhaps before then you will see that the one suffering the MOST from your racism and anti-gay hatred is YOU.
That your hatred is the disease.
Maybe a cure before you die? Unlikely, I realize.
Death - 22 Nov 2006 17:18 GMT "GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net>
> " Death" <Death@yourdoor.net> > > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Maybe a cure before you die? Unlikely, I realize. Another example wasn't necessary
Life - 22 Nov 2006 20:10 GMT > Again--you seem to think that words are harmless. > > They're not. > > And not all speech is protected or "free" under US law. Ah yes, the land of the free and home of the politically correct.
> For example: libel. Hate speech is another. > > Incitement to riot. So the f.ck what - if niggers are ready to riot they'll find an excuse.
> Because it can lead to violence or incite others to violence. Then off to jail they go - along with at least the other 25% of the niggers, 70% of whom are raised without knowing who their daddy be ...
Life - 22 Nov 2006 20:06 GMT > "GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > 94,000 crimes daily. > This is a Justice Department estimate. Racism is in the eye of the beholder - when niggers do it, its OK. When crackers do it, it is racism... go figger.
If you want to create an organization for white people, then you are an Aryan racist - when you want to create an organization for niggers, well, that's just f.cking fine.
Death - 22 Nov 2006 20:43 GMT > > "GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message > >> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Aryan racist - when you want to create an organization for niggers, > well, that's just f.cking fine. Is there a White pride month? A White station like oh.....BET? A White group like the NAACP, oh that's the KKK isn't it, LOL. An all White beauty pageant?
The phrase African American is racist to the whites who relocated from Africa.
I find the ones who cry racist are the very ones that are racist. They just forgot which side their (cracker) is buttered on.
brainfart - 25 Nov 2006 15:59 GMT Death wrote...
> Carnival Cruise Ship Hit > By Virus - 700 Taken Ill [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > company. The ship left Rome on Fri 3 Nov 2006 with about 2800 paying passengers and more than > 1150 crew members. The boat is due in Ft. Lauderdale on Sun 19 Nov 2006. If it had been leased out as a gay cruise and 700 passengers contracted HIV in the ship's sauna the media would be celebrating it, and instead of quarantining the ship and tracking down the source of infection, the government would escort it into harbor in parade fashion complete with fireworks and a brass band.
> Epidemics occur frequently during winter months in situations where people from diverse > backgrounds congregate in close proximity such as on board cruise ships. This particular > outbreak is significant on account of its extent and duration.- Mod.CP The neat thing is that chances are at least one sickened passenger was also HIV+ and that the norovirus incorporated traces of HIV DNA in the replication process, and the resulting hybrid strain now enjoys protected civil rights status, making it illegal for the CDC to make any attempt to contain future outbreaks.
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