Ebola in TX

[5.56'aholic]

Because you are only contagious when you are symptomatic and he was not symptomatic when he was traveling from Liberia to Murrica.

Completely missing the point. While he may not have symptomatic, his dead neighbors surely were. He himself also came in to contact with their body fluids. These fluids could theoretically have been placed on his belongings while transporting through the halls or by contact himself. The virus can live in body fluids outside the body for several DAYS. does that spe it out enough for you, or will you still turn a blind eye and think happy thoughts?

 

[hooky]

We're all going to be OK. He's being charged with a crime.

Ebola victim to be charged in Liberia for lying on health form as 100 people in Dallas monitored for deadly disease as family of first U.S. case quarantined for weeks - NY Daily News

 

[ghuns]

These fluids could theoretically have been placed on his belongings while transporting through the halls or by contact himself. The virus can live in body fluids outside the body for several DAYS. does that spe it out enough for you, or will you still turn a blind eye and think happy thoughts?

Tell ya what; I'll keep turning a blind eye and thinkin happy thoughts. You head for the bunker and worry about what's "theoretically" possible. If baggage handlers from the airports in Brussels and Dallas start droppin like flies, I'll give you a big fat "YOU WERE RIGHT".

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Thoughts on this?

Texas Orders Family Of Ebola Patient To Stay Home « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

 

[T.Lex]

We're all going to be OK. He's being charged with a crime.

Ebola victim to be charged in Liberia for lying on health form as 100 people in Dallas monitored for deadly disease as family of first U.S. case quarantined for weeks - NY Daily News

I need one of those facepalm gifs. Maybe the double one with Ryker and Picard. Clarification - Liberia is charging him with a crime. Like living in Liberia isn't punishment already....

Thoughts on this?

Texas Orders Family Of Ebola Patient To Stay Home « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

That's basically SOP, with medical staff visiting them daily to determine if they become symptomatic. Not sure if that's better or worse than confining them in a medical facility, given the number of medical people infected in West Africa.

 

[hooky]

When leaving Liberia with Ebola is outlawed, only Outlaws with Ebola will leave Liberia.

 

[ghuns]

Thoughts on this?

Texas Orders Family Of Ebola Patient To Stay Home « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

In before the "Meye rye-eets!" crowd.

I would be seriously interested to know how people who oppose things like mandatory vaccinations feel about this.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Dallas Ebola Patient Lied About Caring for Sick on Travel Documents | TheBlaze.com

Starting to really dislike this guy.

 

[Vigilant]

We have prosecuted infectious disease carriers in the past, and I believe just a few years back, an arrest warrant was issued for a person in the Indy area with TB, or Hepatitis, or some other nasty because he disobeyed a quarantine order?

 

[ArcadiaGP]

"We have some hygiene issues," City official on conditions in family home of Ebola patient in Dallas.

... What does that mean?

 

[hooky]

I'm assuming that it means there are bodily fluids from the patient on sheets, bath and bedroom surfaces, etc...

 

[T.Lex]

A slice of Liberia right there in Dallas.

ETA:
BTW, if I had to lie to get the hell out of Liberia, I probably would, too.

Just sayin'.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Two Patients Quarantined In Kentucky With Ebola-Like Symptoms | LEX18.com


Also, here's an image from a chopper showing a cleanup crew getting vomit off the sidewalk in Dallas.

"Don't worry. It's highly unlikely to come to the US." -> "Don't worry. He didn't have symptoms." -> "Don't worry about the clean up crew."

With every new piece of information suggesting we should have worried before, we keep getting told not to worry. So, yes. An unprotected clean up crew cleaning up where we KNOW this ******* threw up IS a ****ing problem. That clean up crew not having haz-mat suits suggest that maybe the authorities aren't taking this as seriously as they should.


I don’t want to panic anyone but we’re all going to die horribly.

 

[skulhedface]

I'm kind of doubting the authenticity of this picture. I saw it on Twitter and a "news" article (no news) but he would have thrown up there several days ago. I'm sure it's been cleaned at least once before today. Question though, if an animal nibbled on it while it was still laying there, would out then infect them? Birds, rodents perhaps even some type of insect. Scary thought.

 

[pudly]

I don’t want to panic anyone but we’re all going to die horribly.

[video=youtube_share;G2y8Sx4B2Sk]http://youtu.be/G2y8Sx4B2Sk[/video]

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Thoughts on this?

Texas Orders Family Of Ebola Patient To Stay Home « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

In before the "Meye rye-eets!" crowd.

I would be seriously interested to know how people who oppose things like mandatory vaccinations feel about this.

It is the extreme cases that test ones philosophical beliefs. Now that we have, no kidding, bona-fide ebola cases here do we stand by our beliefs or do cases like this legitimize not necessarily voluntary detentions?

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Dallas Ebola emergency coordinator tells Jake Tapper quarantined family will be moved out of the apartment where infected patient was.


Also, Red Cross worker delivering supplies to quarantined family.

I feel safer already

 

[T.Lex]

Been thinking about the timeline. He arrived asymptomatic on 9/20 and first went to the hospital 9/25 feverish and vomiting (or according the hospital, "with a low grade fever and lower abdominal pain"). He was then sent back home, and got worse, until he was taken to the hospital on 9/28.

(I think I have that right.)

Let's also accept that only symptomatic people are contagious. But, then we also have to allow that, as humans, we don't necessarily recognize exactly when a fever starts. Somewhere between 9/20 and 9/25 he was contagious, without knowing it.

There is a chance he stayed solely within the confines of that dingy apartment for that entire period of time. If that's the case, then it is only the people who visited him there that are at risk.

But, I have a difficult time believing that to be true. If he went out in public at all, wouldn't it be prudent to identify the times/places? I'm not trying to start a panic; rather, I think it would be a matter of public health/safety for people to be aware.

 

[ghuns]

...or do cases like this legitimize not necessarily voluntary detentions?

Hmmm, let me think... Yes.

 

[Trigger Time]

Been thinking about the timeline. He arrived asymptomatic on 9/20 and first went to the hospital 9/25 feverish and vomiting (or according the hospital, "with a low grade fever and lower abdominal pain"). He was then sent back home, and got worse, until he was taken to the hospital on 9/28.

(I think I have that right.)

Let's also accept that only symptomatic people are contagious. But, then we also have to allow that, as humans, we don't necessarily recognize exactly when a fever starts. Somewhere between 9/20 and 9/25 he was contagious, without knowing it.

There is a chance he stayed solely within the confines of that dingy apartment for that entire period of time. If that's the case, then it is only the people who visited him there that are at risk.

But, I have a difficult time believing that to be true. If he went out in public at all, wouldn't it be prudent to identify the times/places? I'm not trying to start a panic; rather, I think it would be a matter of public health/safety for people to be aware.

I think your exactly right! I think this is government at its worst!