May 21, 2026 • 38 mins
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay. I don't know if this is just coincidence, if
this is just maybe excessive pre planning, a little bit
of panic, or if they know something that we don't know.
(00:20):
But let me just here's the story. This is out
of a shit can't go okay, out of Chicago ABC seven,
So it's a local affiliate in Chicago. And apparently, now,
as I said, the World Health Organization is now warning
the entire world. They've declared an international public health emergency
(00:43):
about a growing Ebola outbreak. And as I've been saying
all morning, it is a disease without a vaccine. There
is no known vaccine for ebola. However, however, so far
it has not come into the United States. Fingers crossed
it will never enter the United States. But in Chicago,
(01:05):
two Chicago hospitals have been designated as treatment centers for
any possible Ebola cases across the state of Illinois. So apparently,
I'm just going by this story, Rush University Medical Center
(01:27):
and Lurry Children's Hospital apparently have been designated as quote
unquote elite special pathogen treatment centers for potential Ebola cases
in Illinois. Now again, to repeat, the outbreak so far
(01:50):
has killed one hundred and thirty one people and that
count is going to continue to rise. But not one
of these has reached US soil. But I'm asking myself,
is this over preparedness? I mean, if we don't even
have one case of an American on American soil with
(02:12):
a bola, never mind dying from a bola, why is
there you know, why are there not one but two
hospitals already now designated and being prepared as treatment centers
for any future of Bola cases. So I'm thinking this,
(02:34):
this can only be door one or door two. There's
only two choices. Either this is panic porn and over
preparation on steroids or number two. What do they know
that we don't know? That's what I would like to ask.
(03:00):
I mean so far. In fact, my understanding is there
hasn't even been a case in Europe, which is much
closer to Africa than here in the United States. And
we're already getting not one but two hospitals ready like
you know, they're they're ready. I mean they're locked and loaded.
You get one a bola patient or whatever, somebody with
(03:23):
a bola and boom, they are ready. They've got everything
ready to go. So I'm like, do you guys just
watch too much of the mainstream news, the fake news
with all the stories about abola and everybody's panicking over
there in Chicago, or has somebody told you something and
(03:44):
you're not letting us in on the secret. So anyway, Okay,
that's number one, number two, And this is now becoming
a huge issue, a big issue, so much so that
I kid you not President Trump has at the intervene
as you know. So, the United States is going to
be hosting the FIFA twenty twenty six World Cup Soccer Championship.
(04:10):
I know, we love football in the United States and
baseball and other sports, but soccer is the international sport
of choice. It is the most popular sport in the world.
The FIFA World Cup is the biggest sporting event in history.
It's bigger than the Olympics. It's bigger than the Super Bowl.
(04:31):
Not in America, but I mean around the world. Billions
and billions and billions of people watch. So the fact
that it's coming to America is a big thing. Long
and by the way, just so that you know, Jillette Stadium,
which is a stones throwaway from where the cooner Man lives.
(04:52):
I believe they're hosting I think four games. It could
even be more than that, maybe five or six. I
know it's a minimum of four, and I know one
of the games is Scotland versus Haiti, which actually I'm
thinking of attending. What the prices are outrageous, just because
you know, to get to the you know, feel the atmosphere,
(05:13):
experience the feeling of being in a World Cup soccer match.
Because people say, it's just something you've never experienced before.
So anyway, but you know, let that go. So it's
coming to Boston, it's going to be in Philadelphia, speaking
of Chicago, La, Houston, and Texas. It's going to be
(05:33):
all over in stadiums all across the United States. Now
you may be saying, Jeff, Jeev, Jeff, what the hell
does this have to do with the Bola, the Democratic
Republic of the Congo. Their World Cup soccer team qualified
(05:54):
for the tournament. In other words, they're going to be
coming here in a matter Erica to play. They're in
the tournament, and now the question is what do we
do with them? Should we allow them to come into
the United States? Six one seven two six six sixty
(06:16):
eight sixty eight is the number? Uh Okay, my friends.
So this is now an issue that has actually gone
all the way to President Trump, and he's going to
have to make a decision, and make a decision soon.
So with this ebola outbreak clearly now spreading in Central Africa,
there's no question about it. The Democratic Republic of Congo,
(06:41):
their national soccer team is scheduled. They've qualified, they are
scheduled to play in the World Cup's FIFA World Cup
Soccer tournament. In fact, they've got three games that they
mandate their mandate. They're mandated to play in the first
leg of the tournament. Two are going to be held
in the United States. Third is going to be in Mexico.
(07:03):
Their first game is against Portugal in Houston, and that's
going to be in the middle of June, and then
they're going to be playing Kazakhstan in Atlanta later in June.
Now here is the problem. The Obviously, the CDC has
(07:24):
expressed concern that the team, the Democratic Republic of Congo,
they may be infected. And if they're infected, then you're
coming into this country, You're going to be playing in
front of I'm talking legit eighty ninety one hundred thousand fans.
(07:44):
I mean the crowds at these World Cup soccer games
are I mean they're they're mind blowing. So you're playing
in front of that many people, You're going to be
on multiple planes, You're going to be going to multiple airports,
You're going to be shuttled around to multiple tells, You're
going to be eating at numerous restaurants. And it's not
(08:05):
just the team. This is a bit unusual for Americans,
but in soccer, especially World Cup soccer, governments pay for
fans to follow the team. I know it sounds crazy,
but they want, say ten to fifteen twenty thousand fans
because it's such an outburst of patriotism for countries around
(08:26):
the world. So they pay for fans to accompany the
team and then watch them play and waive the country's
flag or banner in the stands. So you've got thousands
and thousands of Congo Leese fans, you know, from the
Congo that are also scheduled to come into the United
(08:51):
States to cheer on their team in the World Cup.
You see the problem now, and so the question is
should they be allowed a the team, Should they be
allowed to participate and play in the World Cup and
be should their fans be allowed or given a visa
(09:14):
to come into the United States in order to cheer
their team on in these stadiums that are you know,
packed with eighty ninety one hundred thousand people. And that's
another thing, Mike. I mean, I'm not trying to insult them,
but Mike says they're not gonna win anyway. They barely qualified.
I mean, they're they're they're not a good team. I'm
(09:35):
not trying to be insulting. Portugal is a great soccer team.
They're a very good soccer power. They're going to destroy
the Democratic Republic of Congo, to give you an example.
They're look, they're probably gonna lose all three games. Hey,
I'm just telling you right now. It's not like ooh,
you know, this is I don't know, Brazil or Argentina
(09:56):
or France or England or you know, Germany or you know,
or Croatia. You know what I'm saying, you know, a
really world class soccer power. But you know this is Congo, man,
you know what I mean? Like, sorry, you know you're lucky.
You barely scraped in just to get into the tournament. Anyway,
(10:16):
Let that go now, listen to this. There's a training camp,
you know, pre World Cup training camp. The Congolese national
team decided to cancel the portion of their pre World
Cup training camp. This was scheduled to take place this
(10:41):
month in the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa.
So they said, no, we can't train in Kinshasa. Well,
why can't you train in Kenshasa. They said, their words,
it's too dangerous because of the outbreak of abola, that
(11:04):
the players may contract ebola, and so we don't want
to train in Kinshasa because the virus now is spreading
everywhere in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. So where
do you think they went? Kenshasa? Their own country is
too dangerous. So now they're in Europe. So now they're
(11:26):
training in Europe. And I'm thinking, what if they're sick
or a couple of their players or managers or coaches
or and you're just gonna just let them train in
Europe and have them board planes and you know, stay
at hotels and Hello, you know, go to restaurants like Hello.
(11:49):
And so it's too dangerous for them, they say to
train in Congo. So screw Congo. Even though they're representing Congo.
They're now training in Europe and then they're going to
be coming in about a week to start training here
in the United States before they play in the middle
(12:11):
of June. And the question now is whether President Trump
should be giving them visas. And they're ten thousand or
fifteen thousand fans that are going to be accompanying them,
should they be given visas? Now, what FIFA is now doing,
(12:31):
I'm telling you, I'm not making this up because they
want the Congo to play and they say it's a
violation of their civil rights if they're prevented from playing
in the United States. So FIFA is insisting that they
and the fans be given visas to come and either
(12:52):
play or cheer them on. So what FIFA is doing
is they're coordinating with the State Department, with the CDC.
I don't if you can follow me now, with the
Trump administration, agency after agency, bureaucracy after bureaucracy to make
(13:12):
sure that the team and their fans can safely come
and stay in the United States. And they say they're
going to try to prevent them from having as much
contact with the public as possible. So I don't know
they're gonna fly them in I guess, on a specific
(13:33):
plane with no one else but them. They're going to
put them up at a hotel where they have minimum
contact with anyone else. They're gonna put them on a
shuttle when they're taken to the practice field or to
the game, where they have as minimal contact as possible.
They're going to try to arrange for meals where I
(13:53):
guess they're more segregated or you know, uh, apportioned off
from other players or the general public. And I'm looking
at this and I'm like, this is turning into a
logistical nightmare, like this, this is this really worth it?
(14:15):
The potential risk the public health, the exposure to the
public health over them playing three soccer games a team
that's one of the worst, you know, that's qualified that
they're not going anywhere in this tournament. And if you
(14:36):
look at what happens to people when they contract ebola,
like why no, I'm sorry, I know I'm going to
get a lot of blowback on this, but I don't
think they should be allowed to come into the United States.
If you can't play in the Congo and if you
can't even practice in your own capital. But they're going
(14:59):
to ship you the year and then ship you here,
but they got to keep you in a quarantined area
because you may or may not pose a risk to
the public. Yeah, you know what, guys, just skip the tournament. Okay,
that's just It's okay, you don't have to play. I
know I'm dashing your world, your dreams of playing in
(15:20):
the World Cup, but I'm sorry. Public safety and public
health takes priority. That's me. I want to hear from you,
and it's the Kooner Country Pole Question of the Day
sponsored by Marios Marios Quality Roofing, siding and Windows. With
(15:44):
the obola outbreak in the Congo, should the Congo Leese
soccer team be allowed to participate in the World Cup
in the United States? A, Yes, B No. I want
to hear from you. You can vote on our web
(16:06):
page WRKO dot com slash cooner wrko dot com slash cooner.
You can also vote via x and yes, I was
very active on X last night. My handle there at
the Kooner Report. At the Kooner Report, kuh and is
(16:27):
a national er. By the way, It's on almost every
major cable news channel. As I speak to you, now
that the screening for ebola. Major screening for ebola is
now at all major airports taking place today in the
United States. So if you've been anywhere near Central Africa,
(16:51):
you're going to be screened aggressively. If you're an American citizen,
if you're a non US citizen, they're not going to
let you into our country. And that's beginning today because
of the Ebola outbreak. So should the Congolese soccer team
be allowed to play in the World Cup? I say no.
(17:12):
Dan in New Hampshire, thanks for holding Dan and welcome.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Thanks for taking the call, Jef.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
My pleasure.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
The connection is not very good. We can barely hear you.
Let's see if we can reconnect with Dan. Dan. Are
you there.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
From here?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Dan? We're gonna work on it because every second word
we're not able to hear it. Okay, we're gonna go
to Debbie. Dan, hang on, we're gonna come back to you.
We're just going to fix that connection. Debbie in Milton.
Thanks for holding Debbie and welcome.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah, Hi, come one, And Jeff hidn Hi. You know
that I had a friend who had to have a
thywordy movie this past Monday at one of the major
hospitals in Boston. I'm not going to say which one,
and she had to have an overnight stay. Come to
find out, her co the person's share in the room,
(18:14):
had a bola. So she was shocked by that. Now
we don't really know how many here have it because
we didn't have open borders at one point.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Correct and sorry, Debbie, I'm sorry. Can you just repeat that?
So your friend went to a hospital in Boston, this
was recent with the thyroid problem, and who had a bola.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Nope, she had a roommate next year to stay overnight.
Didn't know she had to. She thought I was going
to be in an outpatient her roommate had a bola.
She couldn't wait to get out of the hospital.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Had a bola as in she had it years ago or.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Oh no, no, no, had.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
A bola is and had it at the time when
she was there.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
They're treating her for a bola. Yes, not my friend. Now,
we haven't heard about that on the local news, but
you can surely believe if it's in Chicago, it's got
to be a lot of the places.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
But it's not, Debbie. I promised, I'll let you finish
what they're telling US is there's not a single case
of a Bola in the United States. They're telling us
that there's no one with a Bola on US soil. Now,
are you sure that your friend said ebola and not?
I don't know covid or you sure she said ebola.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Absolutely, She's a very high IQ person individual and that's
what she was told, and that's why she has a
low immune system. So she had to get out of that.
And she wouldn't mind me have known her for thirty No, no.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
No, I'm not saying she No, I'm not saying she lied.
I mean, Debbie a Bola. I mean I'm talking there's
blood pouring out of your eyes, there's blood coming out
of your skin. You're constantly vomiting. You're vomiting blood. Uh
And and that was so did she witness that or
were there people in hazmat suits around this? This roommate
(20:13):
of hers.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
For mate, and the nurse informed her because she had
to inform her because obviously her well being was at
help at Jeopardy too, So she couldn't wait to get
out of there. And I can only believe we've had
so many people that caught over the border. There's probably
more out there that we're not aware of, but that
has not been reported on the local news, and that
(20:37):
I was shocked to hear that and more more and
fair for her, So she's you know, obviously been checked out. Whatever.
But that's on top about my friend now, But it's
it's very worseo the things that they don't tell us. Wow,
And not to put fear in everybody, because we shouldn't
be fair for But that's another reason why they should
(20:59):
pass to say that, so that people can get out
and vote our at least, you know, show identification, et cetera,
because I think a lot of this was purposely led
into the United States through the open borders and through
aircraft to through flying.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Well, Debbie, one of the things about a bola I'm
just going by what the public literature is saying, is
it's got, first of all, a very high fatality rate.
Obviously people most people die from it, but even say
you survive and then the symptoms subside, so you know,
you're okay, You're out of the woods, you know, and
(21:39):
some of the more horrific aspects of a bola are
now you're no longer you know, bleeding out everywhere and
you're getting better. You're getting better, you're getting better. Apparently
you're still symptomatic, so you know, you can be symptomatic
weeks and weeks after you've had a bola. So that's
(22:01):
why you have to quarantine people for a very long time.
And I just to me, if they allowed a that
they didn't report someone with a bola is to me unconscionable.
It's unconscionable. That they allowed your friend to be potentially
exposed is unconscionable. And that they just had this person
(22:23):
in a room like that absolutely unconscionable. I mean, heads
should roll. Look, I'm not trying to scare people. I'm
just being honest with you. I just look at the videos.
Don't take my word for it. The last thing you
want is ebola. Holy mackerel, that's the last thing you want. Debbie,
thank you very much for that call. I really appreciate it. Says,
(22:46):
so who knows, you know, maybe they are not telling
us something in Chicago, because I just found that story
very suspicious if there's no known cases of a bola.
And by the way, that article that I'm citing says twice,
not once, but twice that there are no known cases
of ebola in America. No one with ebola that they
(23:10):
know of has been reported to have entered US soil.
So they're basically saying, look, no one has it. No
one that we even think is symptomatic has even come
into the United States. And Trump is taking all of
these procedures to restrict travel and to put up screening
at all major airports, So anybody who's come anywhere near
(23:34):
ebola or in these infected areas is not going to
be allowed to come in, period, full stop. And so
you know, they're saying, you know, don't worry, don't worry,
don't worry, don't worry. I'm like, well, if there's no
one here and no one's come in with it, why
do you got two hospitals already? You know, they're ready
(23:55):
to go, They've got their treatment centers up and running,
and they are just like they're waiting for the first patient.
And I'm like, that's a bit odd. Six one seven.
Well maybe I don't know, I mean, I don't want to. Yeah,
I agree with you. Mike's saying, better to be prepared,
but they they're really prepared, you know, I mean, they're
(24:20):
you know what I mean, it's not that they're saying like, okay,
you know, if something should happen, here are the protocols.
I mean they've got they've got treatment centers up and running,
and I'm like, why why are they up and running?
No one's sick, So anyway, maybe they're keeping I don't know.
I don't want to speculate. It's always not good to speculate.
(24:40):
But let's put it this way. I'm suspicious, okay, or
as I like to say, interesting, very very interesting Dan.
Let's see if we can reconnect with you, Dan in
New Hampshire. Thanks for holding Dan and welcome. Thank you
think ah loud and clear, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Then uh, I'm suspected to. I mean, let's face it,
this is this makes COVID look like, you know, little league,
and quite honestly, we don't need it. They'll steal an election.
They'll do anything. The radical liberal left would invite this
like you've never seen before and quite honestly capitalize on
(25:24):
it and handicap the election. There's no doubt about it.
They'll try to steal it. But my thought is here,
why can't we simulcast and necessarily like you know, we
can let them come into the Congo team, but no
one in the stadium simulcast that everybody watched. The crowd
(25:45):
won't be there. There'll be no interaction with you know,
spreading it because it'll just be the two teams, and
you know that might work, or just not let them
in at all. But if it ever took off and
ever got bad, I wouldn't let anybody in the stadiums.
I'd let the games go on and it'd be nobody
(26:06):
there and therefore very limited chance of spreading.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Well, you know, Dan, let me ask you, say they
allow them in and one of them, God forbid, has Abola,
or one of their fans, the thousands and thousands of
fans that will accompany them has Abola, will we say
it was worth it in the interests of fairness and
(26:34):
you know, competition and you know non discrimination, because you know,
you know, the Libs are already up in arms. They're
already going on about oh, you're screening people. How dare
you screen people? Oh you're not. I'm not going to
just becoming a big story the the the jock sniffers
on ESPN and you know, on sports TV, a sports cable.
(26:57):
This is discrimination against the democratic Republic of By the way,
they couldn't find the Congo on the map. Okay, But anyway,
that's just discrimination against the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
They should be allowed to come in, their fans should
be allowed to come in, Okay, So let them in,
and then what happens if people start getting abola? Is
(27:18):
it worth it? Really? Is it worth it for these
you know? I mean, I think they're the worst team
in the World Cup. Look, I don't want to get
into the details.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Normally the World Cup had thirty two teams. This is
the first World Cup where they expanded the number of
teams to forty eight, which, by the way, is letting
bad teams get in. Okay. The forty eight out of
the forty eight was the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
So what I'm telling you is if they didn't expand
the format from thirty two teams as it's been done
(27:51):
for decades and decades to now forty eight, they wouldn't
even have qualified for the tournament. So when I say losers,
I'm telling you this is a team of soccer losers. Okay.
So we're gonna put people's lives in jeopardy, stick them
in a stadium, bring their fans in here to see
(28:13):
them lose three straight games and get their asses kicked.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
For what.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
So we can show the world that we're not raised.
By the way, plenty of black teams are coming. Plenty
of African teams are coming. By the way, there's gonna
be a lot of Africans in the stands watching the game.
They're gonna get ebola. If these people are infected. It's
Africa now that's suffering from ebola. So I don't know
where they're again. They find racism where none exists. So
(28:43):
I don't care if this was asm Okay or Finland,
or Norway or Iceland. I don't know how much more
white you can get than the people from Iceland. If
they have a bola. I don't want them in the
United States. Why because I don't want my fellow citizens
to get abola and to be more selfish. I don't
want to get a bowler. They call me crazy. I
(29:05):
don't like to have blood pour out of my eyes
and drop dead because I vomited my insides. Literally my
insides I have vomited out. You know, if I do
go Dan, I'd like to go quick. I don't want
to go like this. But that's me, Dan, So you know, Dan,
would it be worth the risk? That's the question. And
(29:29):
God forbid, if somebody should be contracted, you know, contract
the bowler, will it have been worth it? What say you, Dan?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
It's a soccer game and it's not worth it. Although
you're going to have the radical lunatic left scream and
yell and kick that they want it. But did they scream,
yell and kick when they allowed COVID to go on
and handicap the country. No, they just kept riding and
riding and riding. As far as I'm concerned, they would
(29:59):
invite it into this country. But normal, regular thinking people
like yourself, me and all the listeners, we don't want it.
The game's not worth it, and don't do it. But
if you had to compromise, then you have a stadium,
two teams with nobody there.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Dan, And you know my prediction. Now I'm joking, obviously,
but I think the Congo is gonna win the whole
thing if they let him in. Because if I'm on
the opposing team, Hey, I'm on the you know, exchange
of bodily fluids. You know I'm not Hey, I'm not
bumping into that guy. You know what I mean. I'm
(30:38):
not wrestling for that ball, you know what I mean.
Just hey, just go right on by me. Go hey, whoa,
Just move right out of their way. If I'm the
goaltender and I see them charging down the field with
the ball, I'm like, just I'm running away from the net.
Go ahead, shoot score, I don't care. Just don't come
anywhere near me. So, you know, who knows. Maybe this
(31:03):
is a way for the Congo. You know they've been
saying for decades, when is Africa or a team from
Africa ever gonna win a World Cup soccer? World Cup
soccer tournament, Because you know, Africans are very good at soccer,
but they just can't seem to put it together as
a team. This could be their year. This could be
it where the Congo pulls it off and they win
(31:24):
the whole thing. Dan, thank you very very much for
that call. So honestly, you know, to me, if I
was say, say team USA and not that they're scheduled
to play okay, let's stay Portugal. Okay, their schedule to
play in the first game, I believe it's June seventeenth,
But don't quote me on that I don't want to
(31:45):
play why. I don't know if some of them are
symptomatic or not. Like this is soccer man, We're fighting
for the ball.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Their bodies are hitting each other, colliding each other. People
are sweating, perspire, wring you want to talk about bodily fluids,
you know, and people elbow each other, and believe it
or not, there is blood. People hit their you know,
their noses are hit, they get cuts whatever, people bleed
on the soccer field. And I'm like, no, no, I'm good,
(32:16):
I'm good. Oh no, no, hey, I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm.
I don't need this. I need this like I need
a hole in the head. Six one seven two six
six sixty eight sixty eight. Gary in Peebity, thanks for
holding Gary, and welcome.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Good morning, Jeff, Hi Gary, Hi. I just was reading
about all I actually starts. It's takes two to sixteen
days to incubate. How far are these soccer tournaments? I
don't think they should be coming anyways. But there is
also a vaccine that we've been using for over twenty years.
(32:58):
One of my friends is head of infectious disease at
Brigham and Women's and he knows about this, and they
have quarantine rooms that other collar. I just there's no
way they put someone in a shared room. I absolutely
guarantee that. Do I trust the government?
Speaker 3 (33:18):
No.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
But there is vaccines. I think everyone coming from that
region should have that.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Okay, my understanding, you're right. For the standard of bola,
there is a vaccine. But my understanding is because this
is a different strain, it's a virulent strain. That's everybody's panicking.
I'm butchering the name. I know, I'm going to butcher
the name, but it's the Bundi bugtio virus. I think
(33:51):
that's how you pronounce it. Anyway, Apparently there is no
known vaccine none. In fact, let me give you I'll
just play the cut again and you can just give
me your feedback on it. Gary. This is Emery Niati.
He's the disaster risk coordinator for the International Federation of
(34:14):
the Red Cross, and he's saying, look, the deaths are
now piling up. This thing is spreading very fast in
Congo and then it's spreading into Uganda, South Sudan, and
he says, this is what's dangerous about it. It's a
rare strain. It's not the regular, ord normal strain where
they do have a vaccine. This one there is no
(34:35):
known treatment or vaccine. Roll cut thirty, Mike.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
The situation is getting out of hand. DRC declared the
seventeenth ebola outbreak on the fifteenth, and we were talking
about two hundred and fifty suspected cases on the fifteenth,
and about eighty days, these numbers have doubled up as
(35:02):
I'm speaking right now, which makes this outbreak a bit complex,
given that definitely it's a restraint and there is no
approved vaccine or treatment whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
So Gary, that's why everybody's really worried. Frankly, that's why
Trump is worried, and that's why he's taking these really
proactive restrictions, health restrictions, travel restrictions. He doesn't want this
to come into America. If it's standardabola, we can deal
with it. It's not pleasant, but we can deal with it.
(35:38):
So far, this they have no known treatment or no
known vaccine. So you get this into the United States,
it can do a lot of damage. Gary, final word to.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
You, No, I just that's good for clarification because I
know there's three different vaccines out now, at least in
this country. But I can tell you the protocol in
Boston hospitals is they have a special room for it
and everything, like you isolated and you are there for
a long time, like usually around forty five days. If
(36:11):
you do have it.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Well, Gary, that's my you're dead on That's my understanding
as well. That's why when Debbie said no, no, no, no,
they put you know this a bola infected patient beside
her friend, you know, like a roommate. I'm like, are
you sure? Like is are we talking about a bola
you know what I mean? Or another virus or I mean, look,
(36:34):
if it's true, we're talking about metal medical malpractice on
a colossal scale. But look, I know they have these
protocols in place, and they'd be crazy. Honestly, when you
see someone with ebola, I don't know how you can
put them beside anybody. When you see the doctors treating them,
(36:57):
it's so sad. But the doctor, I mean, Gary, you
probably know this better than me. They're covered. I mean,
they got these hazmat suits. It's like they're in a
nuclear you know, fission reactor. They've got these you know,
huge plastic gloves, they've got the shield on their face,
they've they're covered from head to toe. And you see
(37:18):
these poor patients and the blood is just coming everywhere,
and they're an absolute agony. And I'm like, how could
you have somebody like that just exposed in a hospital.
I don't see it, certainly not in the first world country.
So I agree with you, Gary. I'm sure there's at
least a forty five day quarantine isolation period. There has
(37:39):
to be. I mean, this is one of the most
deadly viruses on the face of the earth. Gary, thank
you so much for that call. I really appreciate it.
Six one seven two six, six sixty eight sixty eight
is the number. Okay, let me ask all of you
double barreled question. Should we allow people who have gone
(38:02):
to that part of the world or from that part
of the world, Central Africa, should we allow them to
enter the United States? I say no. Trump is right
to impose these travel restrictions or a travel ban, however
you want to call it. And now, the soccer team,
the Democratic Republic of the Congo soccer team, they've qualified
(38:26):
for the FIFA World Cup. They've got two games scheduled
in the United States, there's going to be in front
of massive crowds, one in Houston, the other one in Atlanta.
They're bringing thousands of their fans from the Congo with
them
Okay. I don't know if this is just coincidence, if
this is just maybe excessive pre planning, a little bit
of panic, or if they know something that we don't know.
(00:20):
But let me just here's the story. This is out
of a shit can't go okay, out of Chicago ABC seven,
So it's a local affiliate in Chicago. And apparently, now,
as I said, the World Health Organization is now warning
the entire world. They've declared an international public health emergency
(00:43):
about a growing Ebola outbreak. And as I've been saying
all morning, it is a disease without a vaccine. There
is no known vaccine for ebola. However, however, so far
it has not come into the United States. Fingers crossed
it will never enter the United States. But in Chicago,
(01:05):
two Chicago hospitals have been designated as treatment centers for
any possible Ebola cases across the state of Illinois. So apparently,
I'm just going by this story, Rush University Medical Center
(01:27):
and Lurry Children's Hospital apparently have been designated as quote
unquote elite special pathogen treatment centers for potential Ebola cases
in Illinois. Now again, to repeat, the outbreak so far
(01:50):
has killed one hundred and thirty one people and that
count is going to continue to rise. But not one
of these has reached US soil. But I'm asking myself,
is this over preparedness? I mean, if we don't even
have one case of an American on American soil with
(02:12):
a bola, never mind dying from a bola, why is
there you know, why are there not one but two
hospitals already now designated and being prepared as treatment centers
for any future of Bola cases. So I'm thinking this,
(02:34):
this can only be door one or door two. There's
only two choices. Either this is panic porn and over
preparation on steroids or number two. What do they know
that we don't know? That's what I would like to ask.
(03:00):
I mean so far. In fact, my understanding is there
hasn't even been a case in Europe, which is much
closer to Africa than here in the United States. And
we're already getting not one but two hospitals ready like
you know, they're they're ready. I mean they're locked and loaded.
You get one a bola patient or whatever, somebody with
(03:23):
a bola and boom, they are ready. They've got everything
ready to go. So I'm like, do you guys just
watch too much of the mainstream news, the fake news
with all the stories about abola and everybody's panicking over
there in Chicago, or has somebody told you something and
(03:44):
you're not letting us in on the secret. So anyway, Okay,
that's number one, number two, And this is now becoming
a huge issue, a big issue, so much so that
I kid you not President Trump has at the intervene
as you know. So, the United States is going to
be hosting the FIFA twenty twenty six World Cup Soccer Championship.
(04:10):
I know, we love football in the United States and
baseball and other sports, but soccer is the international sport
of choice. It is the most popular sport in the world.
The FIFA World Cup is the biggest sporting event in history.
It's bigger than the Olympics. It's bigger than the Super Bowl.
(04:31):
Not in America, but I mean around the world. Billions
and billions and billions of people watch. So the fact
that it's coming to America is a big thing. Long
and by the way, just so that you know, Jillette Stadium,
which is a stones throwaway from where the cooner Man lives.
(04:52):
I believe they're hosting I think four games. It could
even be more than that, maybe five or six. I
know it's a minimum of four, and I know one
of the games is Scotland versus Haiti, which actually I'm
thinking of attending. What the prices are outrageous, just because
you know, to get to the you know, feel the atmosphere,
(05:13):
experience the feeling of being in a World Cup soccer match.
Because people say, it's just something you've never experienced before.
So anyway, but you know, let that go. So it's
coming to Boston, it's going to be in Philadelphia, speaking
of Chicago, La, Houston, and Texas. It's going to be
(05:33):
all over in stadiums all across the United States. Now
you may be saying, Jeff, Jeev, Jeff, what the hell
does this have to do with the Bola, the Democratic
Republic of the Congo. Their World Cup soccer team qualified
(05:54):
for the tournament. In other words, they're going to be
coming here in a matter Erica to play. They're in
the tournament, and now the question is what do we
do with them? Should we allow them to come into
the United States? Six one seven two six six sixty
(06:16):
eight sixty eight is the number? Uh Okay, my friends.
So this is now an issue that has actually gone
all the way to President Trump, and he's going to
have to make a decision, and make a decision soon.
So with this ebola outbreak clearly now spreading in Central Africa,
there's no question about it. The Democratic Republic of Congo,
(06:41):
their national soccer team is scheduled. They've qualified, they are
scheduled to play in the World Cup's FIFA World Cup
Soccer tournament. In fact, they've got three games that they
mandate their mandate. They're mandated to play in the first
leg of the tournament. Two are going to be held
in the United States. Third is going to be in Mexico.
(07:03):
Their first game is against Portugal in Houston, and that's
going to be in the middle of June, and then
they're going to be playing Kazakhstan in Atlanta later in June.
Now here is the problem. The Obviously, the CDC has
(07:24):
expressed concern that the team, the Democratic Republic of Congo,
they may be infected. And if they're infected, then you're
coming into this country, You're going to be playing in
front of I'm talking legit eighty ninety one hundred thousand fans.
(07:44):
I mean the crowds at these World Cup soccer games
are I mean they're they're mind blowing. So you're playing
in front of that many people, You're going to be
on multiple planes, You're going to be going to multiple airports,
You're going to be shuttled around to multiple tells, You're
going to be eating at numerous restaurants. And it's not
(08:05):
just the team. This is a bit unusual for Americans,
but in soccer, especially World Cup soccer, governments pay for
fans to follow the team. I know it sounds crazy,
but they want, say ten to fifteen twenty thousand fans
because it's such an outburst of patriotism for countries around
(08:26):
the world. So they pay for fans to accompany the
team and then watch them play and waive the country's
flag or banner in the stands. So you've got thousands
and thousands of Congo Leese fans, you know, from the
Congo that are also scheduled to come into the United
(08:51):
States to cheer on their team in the World Cup.
You see the problem now, and so the question is
should they be allowed a the team, Should they be
allowed to participate and play in the World Cup and
be should their fans be allowed or given a visa
(09:14):
to come into the United States in order to cheer
their team on in these stadiums that are you know,
packed with eighty ninety one hundred thousand people. And that's
another thing, Mike. I mean, I'm not trying to insult them,
but Mike says they're not gonna win anyway. They barely qualified.
I mean, they're they're they're not a good team. I'm
(09:35):
not trying to be insulting. Portugal is a great soccer team.
They're a very good soccer power. They're going to destroy
the Democratic Republic of Congo, to give you an example.
They're look, they're probably gonna lose all three games. Hey,
I'm just telling you right now. It's not like ooh,
you know, this is I don't know, Brazil or Argentina
(09:56):
or France or England or you know, Germany or you know,
or Croatia. You know what I'm saying, you know, a
really world class soccer power. But you know this is Congo, man,
you know what I mean? Like, sorry, you know you're lucky.
You barely scraped in just to get into the tournament. Anyway,
(10:16):
Let that go now, listen to this. There's a training camp,
you know, pre World Cup training camp. The Congolese national
team decided to cancel the portion of their pre World
Cup training camp. This was scheduled to take place this
(10:41):
month in the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa.
So they said, no, we can't train in Kinshasa. Well,
why can't you train in Kenshasa. They said, their words,
it's too dangerous because of the outbreak of abola, that
(11:04):
the players may contract ebola, and so we don't want
to train in Kinshasa because the virus now is spreading
everywhere in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. So where
do you think they went? Kenshasa? Their own country is
too dangerous. So now they're in Europe. So now they're
(11:26):
training in Europe. And I'm thinking, what if they're sick
or a couple of their players or managers or coaches
or and you're just gonna just let them train in
Europe and have them board planes and you know, stay
at hotels and Hello, you know, go to restaurants like Hello.
(11:49):
And so it's too dangerous for them, they say to
train in Congo. So screw Congo. Even though they're representing Congo.
They're now training in Europe and then they're going to
be coming in about a week to start training here
in the United States before they play in the middle
(12:11):
of June. And the question now is whether President Trump
should be giving them visas. And they're ten thousand or
fifteen thousand fans that are going to be accompanying them,
should they be given visas? Now, what FIFA is now doing,
(12:31):
I'm telling you, I'm not making this up because they
want the Congo to play and they say it's a
violation of their civil rights if they're prevented from playing
in the United States. So FIFA is insisting that they
and the fans be given visas to come and either
(12:52):
play or cheer them on. So what FIFA is doing
is they're coordinating with the State Department, with the CDC.
I don't if you can follow me now, with the
Trump administration, agency after agency, bureaucracy after bureaucracy to make
(13:12):
sure that the team and their fans can safely come
and stay in the United States. And they say they're
going to try to prevent them from having as much
contact with the public as possible. So I don't know
they're gonna fly them in I guess, on a specific
(13:33):
plane with no one else but them. They're going to
put them up at a hotel where they have minimum
contact with anyone else. They're gonna put them on a
shuttle when they're taken to the practice field or to
the game, where they have as minimal contact as possible.
They're going to try to arrange for meals where I
(13:53):
guess they're more segregated or you know, uh, apportioned off
from other players or the general public. And I'm looking
at this and I'm like, this is turning into a
logistical nightmare, like this, this is this really worth it?
(14:15):
The potential risk the public health, the exposure to the
public health over them playing three soccer games a team
that's one of the worst, you know, that's qualified that
they're not going anywhere in this tournament. And if you
(14:36):
look at what happens to people when they contract ebola,
like why no, I'm sorry, I know I'm going to
get a lot of blowback on this, but I don't
think they should be allowed to come into the United States.
If you can't play in the Congo and if you
can't even practice in your own capital. But they're going
(14:59):
to ship you the year and then ship you here,
but they got to keep you in a quarantined area
because you may or may not pose a risk to
the public. Yeah, you know what, guys, just skip the tournament. Okay,
that's just It's okay, you don't have to play. I
know I'm dashing your world, your dreams of playing in
(15:20):
the World Cup, but I'm sorry. Public safety and public
health takes priority. That's me. I want to hear from you,
and it's the Kooner Country Pole Question of the Day
sponsored by Marios Marios Quality Roofing, siding and Windows. With
(15:44):
the obola outbreak in the Congo, should the Congo Leese
soccer team be allowed to participate in the World Cup
in the United States? A, Yes, B No. I want
to hear from you. You can vote on our web
(16:06):
page WRKO dot com slash cooner wrko dot com slash cooner.
You can also vote via x and yes, I was
very active on X last night. My handle there at
the Kooner Report. At the Kooner Report, kuh and is
(16:27):
a national er. By the way, It's on almost every
major cable news channel. As I speak to you, now
that the screening for ebola. Major screening for ebola is
now at all major airports taking place today in the
United States. So if you've been anywhere near Central Africa,
(16:51):
you're going to be screened aggressively. If you're an American citizen,
if you're a non US citizen, they're not going to
let you into our country. And that's beginning today because
of the Ebola outbreak. So should the Congolese soccer team
be allowed to play in the World Cup? I say no.
(17:12):
Dan in New Hampshire, thanks for holding Dan and welcome.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Thanks for taking the call, Jef.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
My pleasure.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
The connection is not very good. We can barely hear you.
Let's see if we can reconnect with Dan. Dan. Are
you there.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
From here?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Dan? We're gonna work on it because every second word
we're not able to hear it. Okay, we're gonna go
to Debbie. Dan, hang on, we're gonna come back to you.
We're just going to fix that connection. Debbie in Milton.
Thanks for holding Debbie and welcome.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah, Hi, come one, And Jeff hidn Hi. You know
that I had a friend who had to have a
thywordy movie this past Monday at one of the major
hospitals in Boston. I'm not going to say which one,
and she had to have an overnight stay. Come to
find out, her co the person's share in the room,
(18:14):
had a bola. So she was shocked by that. Now
we don't really know how many here have it because
we didn't have open borders at one point.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Correct and sorry, Debbie, I'm sorry. Can you just repeat that?
So your friend went to a hospital in Boston, this
was recent with the thyroid problem, and who had a bola.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Nope, she had a roommate next year to stay overnight.
Didn't know she had to. She thought I was going
to be in an outpatient her roommate had a bola.
She couldn't wait to get out of the hospital.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Had a bola as in she had it years ago or.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Oh no, no, no, had.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
A bola is and had it at the time when
she was there.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
They're treating her for a bola. Yes, not my friend. Now,
we haven't heard about that on the local news, but
you can surely believe if it's in Chicago, it's got
to be a lot of the places.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
But it's not, Debbie. I promised, I'll let you finish
what they're telling US is there's not a single case
of a Bola in the United States. They're telling us
that there's no one with a Bola on US soil. Now,
are you sure that your friend said ebola and not?
I don't know covid or you sure she said ebola.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Absolutely, She's a very high IQ person individual and that's
what she was told, and that's why she has a
low immune system. So she had to get out of that.
And she wouldn't mind me have known her for thirty No, no.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
No, I'm not saying she No, I'm not saying she lied.
I mean, Debbie a Bola. I mean I'm talking there's
blood pouring out of your eyes, there's blood coming out
of your skin. You're constantly vomiting. You're vomiting blood. Uh
And and that was so did she witness that or
were there people in hazmat suits around this? This roommate
(20:13):
of hers.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
For mate, and the nurse informed her because she had
to inform her because obviously her well being was at
help at Jeopardy too, So she couldn't wait to get
out of there. And I can only believe we've had
so many people that caught over the border. There's probably
more out there that we're not aware of, but that
has not been reported on the local news, and that
(20:37):
I was shocked to hear that and more more and
fair for her, So she's you know, obviously been checked out. Whatever.
But that's on top about my friend now, But it's
it's very worseo the things that they don't tell us. Wow,
And not to put fear in everybody, because we shouldn't
be fair for But that's another reason why they should
(20:59):
pass to say that, so that people can get out
and vote our at least, you know, show identification, et cetera,
because I think a lot of this was purposely led
into the United States through the open borders and through
aircraft to through flying.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Well, Debbie, one of the things about a bola I'm
just going by what the public literature is saying, is
it's got, first of all, a very high fatality rate.
Obviously people most people die from it, but even say
you survive and then the symptoms subside, so you know,
you're okay, You're out of the woods, you know, and
(21:39):
some of the more horrific aspects of a bola are
now you're no longer you know, bleeding out everywhere and
you're getting better. You're getting better, you're getting better. Apparently
you're still symptomatic, so you know, you can be symptomatic
weeks and weeks after you've had a bola. So that's
(22:01):
why you have to quarantine people for a very long time.
And I just to me, if they allowed a that
they didn't report someone with a bola is to me unconscionable.
It's unconscionable. That they allowed your friend to be potentially
exposed is unconscionable. And that they just had this person
(22:23):
in a room like that absolutely unconscionable. I mean, heads
should roll. Look, I'm not trying to scare people. I'm
just being honest with you. I just look at the videos.
Don't take my word for it. The last thing you
want is ebola. Holy mackerel, that's the last thing you want. Debbie,
thank you very much for that call. I really appreciate it. Says,
(22:46):
so who knows, you know, maybe they are not telling
us something in Chicago, because I just found that story
very suspicious if there's no known cases of a bola.
And by the way, that article that I'm citing says twice,
not once, but twice that there are no known cases
of ebola in America. No one with ebola that they
(23:10):
know of has been reported to have entered US soil.
So they're basically saying, look, no one has it. No
one that we even think is symptomatic has even come
into the United States. And Trump is taking all of
these procedures to restrict travel and to put up screening
at all major airports, So anybody who's come anywhere near
(23:34):
ebola or in these infected areas is not going to
be allowed to come in, period, full stop. And so
you know, they're saying, you know, don't worry, don't worry,
don't worry, don't worry. I'm like, well, if there's no
one here and no one's come in with it, why
do you got two hospitals already? You know, they're ready
(23:55):
to go, They've got their treatment centers up and running,
and they are just like they're waiting for the first patient.
And I'm like, that's a bit odd. Six one seven.
Well maybe I don't know, I mean, I don't want to. Yeah,
I agree with you. Mike's saying, better to be prepared,
but they they're really prepared, you know, I mean, they're
(24:20):
you know what I mean, it's not that they're saying like, okay,
you know, if something should happen, here are the protocols.
I mean they've got they've got treatment centers up and running,
and I'm like, why why are they up and running?
No one's sick, So anyway, maybe they're keeping I don't know.
I don't want to speculate. It's always not good to speculate.
(24:40):
But let's put it this way. I'm suspicious, okay, or
as I like to say, interesting, very very interesting Dan.
Let's see if we can reconnect with you, Dan in
New Hampshire. Thanks for holding Dan and welcome. Thank you
think ah loud and clear, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Then uh, I'm suspected to. I mean, let's face it,
this is this makes COVID look like, you know, little league,
and quite honestly, we don't need it. They'll steal an election.
They'll do anything. The radical liberal left would invite this
like you've never seen before and quite honestly capitalize on
(25:24):
it and handicap the election. There's no doubt about it.
They'll try to steal it. But my thought is here,
why can't we simulcast and necessarily like you know, we
can let them come into the Congo team, but no
one in the stadium simulcast that everybody watched. The crowd
(25:45):
won't be there. There'll be no interaction with you know,
spreading it because it'll just be the two teams, and
you know that might work, or just not let them
in at all. But if it ever took off and
ever got bad, I wouldn't let anybody in the stadiums.
I'd let the games go on and it'd be nobody
(26:06):
there and therefore very limited chance of spreading.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Well, you know, Dan, let me ask you, say they
allow them in and one of them, God forbid, has Abola,
or one of their fans, the thousands and thousands of
fans that will accompany them has Abola, will we say
it was worth it in the interests of fairness and
(26:34):
you know, competition and you know non discrimination, because you know,
you know, the Libs are already up in arms. They're
already going on about oh, you're screening people. How dare
you screen people? Oh you're not. I'm not going to
just becoming a big story the the the jock sniffers
on ESPN and you know, on sports TV, a sports cable.
(26:57):
This is discrimination against the democratic Republic of By the way,
they couldn't find the Congo on the map. Okay, But anyway,
that's just discrimination against the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
They should be allowed to come in, their fans should
be allowed to come in, Okay, So let them in,
and then what happens if people start getting abola? Is
(27:18):
it worth it? Really? Is it worth it for these
you know? I mean, I think they're the worst team
in the World Cup. Look, I don't want to get
into the details.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Normally the World Cup had thirty two teams. This is
the first World Cup where they expanded the number of
teams to forty eight, which, by the way, is letting
bad teams get in. Okay. The forty eight out of
the forty eight was the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
So what I'm telling you is if they didn't expand
the format from thirty two teams as it's been done
(27:51):
for decades and decades to now forty eight, they wouldn't
even have qualified for the tournament. So when I say losers,
I'm telling you this is a team of soccer losers. Okay.
So we're gonna put people's lives in jeopardy, stick them
in a stadium, bring their fans in here to see
(28:13):
them lose three straight games and get their asses kicked.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
For what.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
So we can show the world that we're not raised.
By the way, plenty of black teams are coming. Plenty
of African teams are coming. By the way, there's gonna
be a lot of Africans in the stands watching the game.
They're gonna get ebola. If these people are infected. It's
Africa now that's suffering from ebola. So I don't know
where they're again. They find racism where none exists. So
(28:43):
I don't care if this was asm Okay or Finland,
or Norway or Iceland. I don't know how much more
white you can get than the people from Iceland. If
they have a bola. I don't want them in the
United States. Why because I don't want my fellow citizens
to get abola and to be more selfish. I don't
want to get a bowler. They call me crazy. I
(29:05):
don't like to have blood pour out of my eyes
and drop dead because I vomited my insides. Literally my
insides I have vomited out. You know, if I do
go Dan, I'd like to go quick. I don't want
to go like this. But that's me, Dan, So you know, Dan,
would it be worth the risk? That's the question. And
(29:29):
God forbid, if somebody should be contracted, you know, contract
the bowler, will it have been worth it? What say you, Dan?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
It's a soccer game and it's not worth it. Although
you're going to have the radical lunatic left scream and
yell and kick that they want it. But did they scream,
yell and kick when they allowed COVID to go on
and handicap the country. No, they just kept riding and
riding and riding. As far as I'm concerned, they would
(29:59):
invite it into this country. But normal, regular thinking people
like yourself, me and all the listeners, we don't want it.
The game's not worth it, and don't do it. But
if you had to compromise, then you have a stadium,
two teams with nobody there.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Dan, And you know my prediction. Now I'm joking, obviously,
but I think the Congo is gonna win the whole
thing if they let him in. Because if I'm on
the opposing team, Hey, I'm on the you know, exchange
of bodily fluids. You know I'm not Hey, I'm not
bumping into that guy. You know what I mean. I'm
(30:38):
not wrestling for that ball, you know what I mean.
Just hey, just go right on by me. Go hey, whoa,
Just move right out of their way. If I'm the
goaltender and I see them charging down the field with
the ball, I'm like, just I'm running away from the net.
Go ahead, shoot score, I don't care. Just don't come
anywhere near me. So, you know, who knows. Maybe this
(31:03):
is a way for the Congo. You know they've been
saying for decades, when is Africa or a team from
Africa ever gonna win a World Cup soccer? World Cup
soccer tournament, Because you know, Africans are very good at soccer,
but they just can't seem to put it together as
a team. This could be their year. This could be
it where the Congo pulls it off and they win
(31:24):
the whole thing. Dan, thank you very very much for
that call. So honestly, you know, to me, if I
was say, say team USA and not that they're scheduled
to play okay, let's stay Portugal. Okay, their schedule to
play in the first game, I believe it's June seventeenth,
But don't quote me on that I don't want to
(31:45):
play why. I don't know if some of them are
symptomatic or not. Like this is soccer man, We're fighting
for the ball.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Their bodies are hitting each other, colliding each other. People
are sweating, perspire, wring you want to talk about bodily fluids,
you know, and people elbow each other, and believe it
or not, there is blood. People hit their you know,
their noses are hit, they get cuts whatever, people bleed
on the soccer field. And I'm like, no, no, I'm good,
(32:16):
I'm good. Oh no, no, hey, I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm.
I don't need this. I need this like I need
a hole in the head. Six one seven two six
six sixty eight sixty eight. Gary in Peebity, thanks for
holding Gary, and welcome.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Good morning, Jeff, Hi Gary, Hi. I just was reading
about all I actually starts. It's takes two to sixteen
days to incubate. How far are these soccer tournaments? I
don't think they should be coming anyways. But there is
also a vaccine that we've been using for over twenty years.
(32:58):
One of my friends is head of infectious disease at
Brigham and Women's and he knows about this, and they
have quarantine rooms that other collar. I just there's no
way they put someone in a shared room. I absolutely
guarantee that. Do I trust the government?
Speaker 3 (33:18):
No.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
But there is vaccines. I think everyone coming from that
region should have that.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Okay, my understanding, you're right. For the standard of bola,
there is a vaccine. But my understanding is because this
is a different strain, it's a virulent strain. That's everybody's panicking.
I'm butchering the name. I know, I'm going to butcher
the name, but it's the Bundi bugtio virus. I think
(33:51):
that's how you pronounce it. Anyway, Apparently there is no
known vaccine none. In fact, let me give you I'll
just play the cut again and you can just give
me your feedback on it. Gary. This is Emery Niati.
He's the disaster risk coordinator for the International Federation of
(34:14):
the Red Cross, and he's saying, look, the deaths are
now piling up. This thing is spreading very fast in
Congo and then it's spreading into Uganda, South Sudan, and
he says, this is what's dangerous about it. It's a
rare strain. It's not the regular, ord normal strain where
they do have a vaccine. This one there is no
(34:35):
known treatment or vaccine. Roll cut thirty, Mike.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
The situation is getting out of hand. DRC declared the
seventeenth ebola outbreak on the fifteenth, and we were talking
about two hundred and fifty suspected cases on the fifteenth,
and about eighty days, these numbers have doubled up as
(35:02):
I'm speaking right now, which makes this outbreak a bit complex,
given that definitely it's a restraint and there is no
approved vaccine or treatment whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
So Gary, that's why everybody's really worried. Frankly, that's why
Trump is worried, and that's why he's taking these really
proactive restrictions, health restrictions, travel restrictions. He doesn't want this
to come into America. If it's standardabola, we can deal
with it. It's not pleasant, but we can deal with it.
(35:38):
So far, this they have no known treatment or no
known vaccine. So you get this into the United States,
it can do a lot of damage. Gary, final word to.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
You, No, I just that's good for clarification because I
know there's three different vaccines out now, at least in
this country. But I can tell you the protocol in
Boston hospitals is they have a special room for it
and everything, like you isolated and you are there for
a long time, like usually around forty five days. If
(36:11):
you do have it.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Well, Gary, that's my you're dead on That's my understanding
as well. That's why when Debbie said no, no, no, no,
they put you know this a bola infected patient beside
her friend, you know, like a roommate. I'm like, are
you sure? Like is are we talking about a bola
you know what I mean? Or another virus or I mean, look,
(36:34):
if it's true, we're talking about metal medical malpractice on
a colossal scale. But look, I know they have these
protocols in place, and they'd be crazy. Honestly, when you
see someone with ebola, I don't know how you can
put them beside anybody. When you see the doctors treating them,
(36:57):
it's so sad. But the doctor, I mean, Gary, you
probably know this better than me. They're covered. I mean,
they got these hazmat suits. It's like they're in a
nuclear you know, fission reactor. They've got these you know,
huge plastic gloves, they've got the shield on their face,
they've they're covered from head to toe. And you see
(37:18):
these poor patients and the blood is just coming everywhere,
and they're an absolute agony. And I'm like, how could
you have somebody like that just exposed in a hospital.
I don't see it, certainly not in the first world country.
So I agree with you, Gary. I'm sure there's at
least a forty five day quarantine isolation period. There has
(37:39):
to be. I mean, this is one of the most
deadly viruses on the face of the earth. Gary, thank
you so much for that call. I really appreciate it.
Six one seven two six, six sixty eight sixty eight
is the number. Okay, let me ask all of you
double barreled question. Should we allow people who have gone
(38:02):
to that part of the world or from that part
of the world, Central Africa, should we allow them to
enter the United States? I say no. Trump is right
to impose these travel restrictions or a travel ban, however
you want to call it. And now, the soccer team,
the Democratic Republic of the Congo soccer team, they've qualified
(38:26):
for the FIFA World Cup. They've got two games scheduled
in the United States, there's going to be in front
of massive crowds, one in Houston, the other one in Atlanta.
They're bringing thousands of their fans from the Congo with
them
Popular Podcasts
Hey Jonas!
Hey Jonas! The official Jonas Brothers podcast. Hosted by Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas. It’s the Jonas Brothers you know... musicians, actors, and well, yes, brothers. Now, they’re sharing another side of themselves in the playful, intimate, and irreverent way only they can. Spend time with the Jonas Brothers here and stay a little bit longer for deep conversations like never before.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.