Maine Governor Makes False Ebola Claim
Governor Paul LePage claims that 13% of Ebola deaths occur when there are no symptoms. Not true.
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Matt Byrne of the Portland Press Herald corrects this latest bit of misinformation from LePage:
Fever is the single most common early indicator of the illness. Fever was present in 88 percent of fatal cases and 84 percent of nonfatal cases, the study found. The assertion that 13 percent of people who died of Ebola showed no symptoms at all “until a few hours before they died” is false. Ebola does not sneak up on its victims like a heart attack, but builds over time until the patient is overcome with the virus. Once inside the body, the virus travels through the bloodstream until it attaches to a cell. The virus replicates itself to the point that it disrupts cell function and kills the cell. The process repeats in countless cells, with the virus attacking many types of tissue at once. After fever, the next most common symptoms are fatigue and vomiting. Patients who die of the disease often suffer uncontrollable diarrhea, and in the final stages, massive organ failure.[su_csky_ad]
tracey marie November 1st, 2014 at 3:15 pm
He pulled that lie out of his prodigous backside.
Larry Schmitt November 1st, 2014 at 3:25 pm
Is prodigious a fancy word for fat?
tracey marie November 1st, 2014 at 3:28 pm
in a way yes
Larry Schmitt November 1st, 2014 at 3:29 pm
In a “big” way, you might say.
tracey marie November 1st, 2014 at 3:34 pm
🙂
mea_mark November 1st, 2014 at 3:18 pm
LePage must be getting desperate. He is showing symptoms of a career in politics ending.
Larry Schmitt November 1st, 2014 at 3:24 pm
I’ve pretty much come to expect to see the word “false” in any story involving republicans. And so far I have not been disappointed.
edmeyer_able November 1st, 2014 at 3:25 pm
How unique a politician telling a lie, what’s next one asking for money?
Larry Schmitt November 1st, 2014 at 3:25 pm
And then telling a lie about asking for money.
Larry Schmitt November 1st, 2014 at 3:28 pm
A lot of these republicans don’t seem to exactly be starving themselves, do they? He looks like Mike Huckleberry’s twin.
Pick6 November 1st, 2014 at 4:07 pm
Toss in Christie and you’ve got triplets.
neworleans878 November 1st, 2014 at 4:25 pm
Hey Pick…refreshing on this side, ain’t it?
Pick6 November 1st, 2014 at 6:58 pm
Yes indeedy!
labman57 November 1st, 2014 at 3:28 pm
Each of these stories highlighting the scientific and medical ignorance of a right wing politico should be prefaced with the headline:
“Damn the science, full stupidity ahead!”
Larry Schmitt November 1st, 2014 at 4:46 pm
Facts? We don’ need no stinkin facts.
tiredoftea November 1st, 2014 at 3:36 pm
Paul LePage opens his mouth and stupid just floods from it. Kind of an Elepageola attack.
eyelashviper November 1st, 2014 at 3:50 pm
Lies, hysteria, and fear mongering…the Goper Trinity.
NW10 November 1st, 2014 at 3:55 pm
And from what school did Lepage get his doctorate from again?
Larry Schmitt November 1st, 2014 at 4:45 pm
Koch State. Their BS is from Fox U. Literally.
neworleans878 November 1st, 2014 at 4:06 pm
When Ebola goes airborn, let me know.
Until then, STFU Fox and NBC.
allison1050 November 1st, 2014 at 4:18 pm
And not just NBC it’s all of them.
neworleans878 November 1st, 2014 at 4:24 pm
Worst day’s work the networks did was when they made their news divisions for profit.
Obewon November 1st, 2014 at 4:20 pm
100% of all 7 US Ebola cases now cured had symptoms. The lone US Death had symptoms ignored by Perry’s TX HC Dr’s: Duncan “underwent basic blood tests, but not an Ebola screening, and was sent home with antibiotics, said Dr. Edward Goodman with Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.” http://www.kcci.com/health/first-us-ebola-case-diagnosed-now-what/28348090#ixzz3Hg5Oa5ku
Herb Sarge Phelps November 1st, 2014 at 4:21 pm
The amazing thing is that in spite of easy to get facts and available medical knowledge to get for free, people choose to believe this silly stuff. No wonder the Republican get so many votes even though any half thinking person would not insult themselves by voting for them.
Larry Schmitt November 1st, 2014 at 4:43 pm
Maybe none of their constituents know what google is. A lot of them are missing opposable thumbs, making it a lot harder to type.
ExPFCWintergreen November 1st, 2014 at 5:03 pm
And eleventy-one percent of them rise again, Lazarus-like, and become Down East governors….
Larry Schmitt November 1st, 2014 at 5:03 pm
Is that more than 100%?
ExPFCWintergreen November 1st, 2014 at 5:06 pm
In Republican math, everything is 100%
Larry Schmitt November 1st, 2014 at 5:15 pm
Wow, they just pull numbers out of their a$$es. They’re not even trying to make it look legitimate.
L. B. November 1st, 2014 at 5:31 pm
Lmao….so 120%, that’s some squirrely numbers there.
Obewon November 1st, 2014 at 5:10 pm
Guber LePage touts ‘GOP Ebola midterm futures as good as gold and oil’ as Limbaugh sold gold and Koch Oil polluters plummet. http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/commodities/futures/
Tommy6860 November 1st, 2014 at 5:15 pm
This is unsurprising, he is a RWNJ afterall. But the GOP just proves itself more the anti-science fact free misinformation party that they’ve evolved into the past twenty years. If they can scare and lie their way into power, so be it.
Mainah November 1st, 2014 at 8:21 pm
AAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!! Can’t stand him! “He survived homelessness” No. People helped him along the way. He just lies and acts like a bully. He’s just a ruthless, mean, lying, self serving bully.