Ebola in TX

[ghuns]

This is not the time to be complacent about what we "know" or sit back on our protocols and just assume nothing will change.

It's also not the time to head for the bunker.

Close, but not just yet. I have seen all the zombie apocalypse movies and we aren't even 10 minutes in yet.

The hospital in Dallas had protocols in place for just such an occurrence and effed them up. Hopefully, it's a wake up call for medical care providers to take this ***** seriously. It's no longer an abstract, what if, concept.

 

[Vigilant]

MOPP level IV from here on out!

 

[88GT]

Agreed. Now is not the time to panic. But we don't need to throttle up train to catastrophe just because of our arrogance.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Someone needs to make the call to stop travel between these countries. This call should have been made yesterday.

 

[T.Lex]

Someone needs to make the call to stop travel between these countries. This call should have been made yesterday.

And by "yesterday" I think you mean July 1. Or August 1. Or even September 1.

But, keep in mind, too, dude flew through Belgium. So, wouldn't necessarily have mattered.

I sympathize with many experts who say that travel restrictions hurt the efforts to fight the disease more than they help control the transmission. But, kinda like grounding air traffic over CONUS on 9/11, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

Shut. It. Down.

 

[Expat]

I am confused by the whole transmission thing. They say it is spread by bodily fluids including mucus. But they say it can not spread through the air. So if the guy sneezed and spread mucus all over another person, why can't that person get it? Or I have seen (and done so myself) a person have a coughing fit and a chunk of phlegm break loose and go flying in the air. If that hits you in the face, you can't get it? They talk like a damp handshake, then rub the nose might spread it. I don't see a difference in that and the above two.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

And by "yesterday" I think you mean July 1. Or August 1. Or even September 1.

But, keep in mind, too, dude flew through Belgium. So, wouldn't necessarily have mattered.

I sympathize with many experts who say that travel restrictions hurt the efforts to fight the disease more than they help control the transmission. But, kinda like grounding air traffic over CONUS on 9/11, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

Shut. It. Down.

13,500 US Visas Given To People in Three Ebola Countries | The Daily Caller

 

[T.Lex]

I am confused by the whole transmission thing. They say it is spread by bodily fluids including mucus. But they say it can not spread through the air. So if the guy sneezed and spread mucus all over another person, why can't that person get it? Or I have seen (and done so myself) a person have a coughing fit and a chunk of phlegm break loose and go flying in the air. If that hits you in the face, you can't get it? They talk like a damp handshake, then rub the nose might spread it. I don't see a difference in that and the above two.

Here's what I think: they don't know. They really do not know.

Look at the WHO protocols for the teams that are going out to just MONITOR people who have had contact with a patient. These are people who are asymptomatic - show no signs of the disease. WHO tells its people to maintain 1 meter of separation and not to touch surfaces that the contact people touched.

So, a distance somewhere less than 1 meter gets risky and touching things that have been touched by ebola-carriers has risk. May be a small risk, but it appears to be a risk.

 

[hooky]

Here's what I think: they don't know. They really do not know.

I'm leaning towards agreeing with you wholeheartedly.

I'm guessing that there hasn't been a whole lot of research done on this virus, given its origin and the remoteness of the past outbreaks.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Has anyone suggested that the Ebola "outbreak" starting in Texas, a predominantly red state, is all a conspiracy by the government or something?

Because I'd be surprised if that hadn't been suggested yet.

 

[PistolBob]

CNN reported that as many as 18 people are now quarantined in Dallas because of exposure to ebola.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Early possible breaking: National Institute of Health admits Ebola patient 3 days ago in Rockville, MD.

 

[Expat]

Officials: Second person being monitored for Ebola

maybe another in Dallas.

 

[Vigilant]

Has anyone suggested that the Ebola "outbreak" starting in Texas, a predominantly red state, is all a conspiracy by the government or something?

Because I'd be surprised if that hadn't been suggested yet.

Are you implying that Haliburton may have an Ebola machine? If that's what you are implying, then it's Bush's fault!

 

[winchester]

a 1996 nova documentary on ebola. at about the 14 minute mark they said a strain went airborne in 1989 and infected 400 monkeys in a lab in d.c.???
EBOLA: THE PLAGUE FIGHTERS NOVA Discovery/Science/History (documentary) - YouTube

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Oh good lord...

Farrakhan - "Whites created Ebola to kill blacks."

There are some people in this world that should not have a stage to expound their ridiculous BS.

 

[HeadlessRoland]

BREAKING: Sister of US Ebola patient: He told hospital he was from Liberia on 1st visit, was sent home.

For **** sake. This is un-****ing-believable.

It's not unbelievable, it is deliberate. Obama wants this to spread. Those in charge want this to spread. Those in charge want mass chaos and panic.

 

[HeadlessRoland]

a 1996 nova documentary on ebola. at about the 14 minute mark they said a strain went airborne in 1989 and infected 400 monkeys in a lab in d.c.???
EBOLA: THE PLAGUE FIGHTERS NOVA Discovery/Science/History (documentary) - YouTube

Ebola-Reston. Not proven or believed fatal or even infective in man.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

They say 80 people were in contact with patient

And we still have no travel restrictions

Also:

Classy liberals ‘gleeful’ about Ebola case in Texas

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

It's not unbelievable, it is deliberate. Obama wants this to spread. Those in charge want this to spread. Those in charge want mass chaos and panic.

I'm sure the doctors called Barack and told him they had a dude from Liberia with Ebola and Barack said "Awesome, now tell him to go home and make out with as many strangers as he can".