IS EBOLA COMING TO AMERICA?

As readers know, there is a new Ebola breakout in Central Africa. When it was initially reported, it was stated that a new and more contagious variant of the Ebola disease was responsible for the outbreak. The number of those infected and those deceased from the outbreak steadily moved upward. It was also reported that the numbers of infected and/or killed by the Ebola disease was likely considerably greater than reported because the outbreak is in a remote area where tribal warfare is occurring and national governments’ ability to keep accurate statistics on the outbreak were limited.

A recent total of cases listed 906 cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with 223 deaths. Uganda had a much lower total (first link and second link). Please read the third link which reports the World Health Organization (WHO) had just declared the Ebola outbreak in the DRC to be a Public Health Emergency due to the virulent strain of Ebola present and the rapidly rising number of cases. Just days ago, the WHO and other health agencies were struggling to contain the spreading Ebola outbreak (third link).

Then, almost magically, the number of cases and deaths were revised downward in a major way in media reports. The new outbreak data reported 321 cases and only 48 deaths in the DRC and just 9 cases and 1 death in Uganda from Ebola (fourth link and fifth link). How can there be a sudden and dramatic reduction of the number of cases/deaths if this Ebola outbreak is caused by a more virulent form of Ebola and there are inadequate means of dealing with the crisis. It is acknowledged that there are no vaccines or specific drugs for the prevention or treatment of this strain of Ebola, so how did so many cases/deaths from Ebola statistically disappear so suddenly? Was the WHO totally in error?

I may have a possible answer. In case you haven’t noticed, the 2026 FIFA World Soccer Tournament will begin in mid-June, 2026. It will be hosted in North America with the USA, Canada and Mexico all hosting matches in 16 of their cities. I checked a roster of the 46 nations with teams in the contest, and noticed that the Democratic Republic of Congo (where the Ebola outbreak is most prominent) is sending a team to the tournament in North America (fifth link and sixth link) . The DRC opens its competition in Houston, Texas on June 17th vs. the team from Portugal (seventh link and eighth link). Ebola is reportedly spread by contact with body fluids, including sweat. If Ebola cases and deaths are reported as rapidly increasing in the DRC, how can FIFA be sure that none of the DRC players are infected with Ebola but not yet symptomatic? What about the coaches, players’ relatives and fans from the DRC–how many of them are potentially infected but not yet symptomatic? Obviously, they all need to be tested before they should be able to come in contact with other people. Obviously, if Portugal’s soccer players came into contact with sweat, sneeze droplets, etc. from DRC soccer players, Portugal’s players could get infected with Ebola if any of the DRC’s players are infected. Have all DRC citizens traveling to North America for the soccer matches been tested and quarantined for appropriate lengths of time before boarding airplanes for North America? That is a question no one wants to ask.

It was clearly “bad for business” if the DRC’s Ebola statistics had continued sharply upward as the DRC’s soccer team drew closer to its first match. If the Ebola cases/deaths in the DRC had continued a rapid rise, how many people would want to attend a soccer match with players and spectators from the DRC present? It was “good for business” to suddenly report the numbers of people infected with Ebola in the DRC to be drastically reclassified downward just before the soccer tournament began.

It has been reported that Ebola is spread from person-to-person via bodily fluids, that there is no vaccine for the virulent strain of Ebola now found in the DRC and there is no ready cure either. The death rate for those infected is distressingly high. One would logically expect that the virulent strain of Ebola found in the DRC would continue spreading with warfare occurring, refugees fleeing war zones and Ebola-affected regions, etc. That is what was occurring until the cases and deaths magically took a precipitous drop. Could this be a statistical reclassification caused by an urgent need to make people attending matches with the DRC’s attendees and players feel safer? If DRC people flying to North America were infected with Ebola but non-symptomatic, they could potentially expose everyone on the aircraft via the air recirculating systems on all passenger aircraft. It takes little imagination to see how Ebola could spread to North America via people from the DRC coming to North America for the soccer tournament games (sixth link). Who vetoed the WHO’s previously agreed-upon totals of infected/deceased persons with Ebola? Who reversed the WHO’s Declaration of a Public Health Emergency or has it been reversed? Was such a decision made due to new objective medical data or was it a political decision? I have seen nothing in the media about the WHO agreeing with the new, drastically-reduced infection totals.

It was likely economically vital to reassure people that they would not be exposed to Ebola by attending the world soccer tournament games. Issuing new statistics with a sharply-reduced number of Ebola cases reassures people to attend games, pay for tickets, buy concessions, etc. I doubt that there has been any previous outbreak of Ebola where the number of deaths and cases were arbitrarily reduced in the middle of the outbreak for uncertain reasons.

Jesus Christ prophesied in Matthew 24:7 that “pestilences” (disease epidemics) would characterize the world in the latter days just prior to his Second Coming. COVID was a pestilence which was likely created in a Chinese lab in Wuhan, China and spread from there around the world. The shots forcibly imposed on people were never declared to be “safe and effective” by US health agencies. It was an “experimental” vaccine which was being imposed on the world. Ebola is a known “pestilence” which periodically erupts without warning, generally in Central Africa. That this recent outbreak of an especially contagious strain of Ebola was rapidly infecting and killing more people was entirely logical and predictable, based on previous Ebola outbreaks. A massive reduction in the totals of infected and deceased people infected with Ebola in the early stages of an outbreak doesn’t pass “the smell test” in my opinion.

Millions of people will be traveling for the World Soccer Tournament. They will be rubbing shoulders and sneezing on each other in airports, airplanes, rental car facilities and stadium grandstands for many days. I certainly hope that everyone coming from the DRC is free of any Ebola infection. All it takes is one asymptomatic person spreading it to many other people from many other nations to greatly accelerate the spread of Ebola worldwide. I very much hope that does not happen. The health agency statisticians have essentially declared that Ebola isn’t all that infectious or dangerous any longer. Some health statisticians are saying to the world: “There is nothing to see here folks, move on. Go to the soccer matches, spend money, be happy.”

Let’s hope the statisticians are right.

IS EBOLA COMING TO AMERICA?

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