E-Bola

What do you get out of doing this on these forums?

 

Back on topic. As Boom said- we need to be there for each other with news and updates once the pathology changes. Despite our differences.

 

So you just made that shit up. Got it.

 

If you were to provide details on what, exactly, the virus is doing that "the experts" said it wouldn't, that WOULD be on topic.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/us-hospitals-ebola-handle-dallas-nurse

 

The CDC admits it didn't do all they could:

 

What we need is someone like Tommy " plenty of cipro" Thompson to
be Ebola Czar. He would have a reassuring effect on the country.

 

Nah, Zuck's on the case.

http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/10/mark-zuckerberg-ebola

Mark Zuckerberg
Founder and CEO at Facebook · 30,413,352 followers · 7 hrs ·

Priscilla and I are donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to help fight Ebola.

The Ebola epidemic is at a critical turning point. It has infected 8,400 people so far, but it is spreading very quickly and projections suggest it could infect 1 million people or more over the next several months if not addressed.

We need to get Ebola under control in the near term so that it doesn't spread further and become a long term global health crisis that we end up fighting for decades at large scale, like HIV or polio.

 

I understand that. It was more that I was comparing the level of hysteria. You had a couple of legit attacks and a number of envelopes of white powder, covered to death by the media post 9/11, and that resulted in people being frightened far beyond what was reasonable. I got to where I answered "Do you have the anthrax vaccine?' by laughing and saying "Al-Qaeda couldn't *find* this place. If someone gets anthrax around here they must run cattle."

 

The best conjecture currently is that she caught it while removing her contaminated protective gear. You can bet that people got even more highly motivated to do things right afterwards.

 

16 staff members of Doctors Without Borders have been infected with Ebola, and nine have died.

Healthcare workers in Spain and the U.S. have become infected.

You really think healthcare workers don't have reason to be concerned?

We don't even know how the Dallas nurse became infected, as she in personal protective gear every time she interacted with the infected patient.

 

I *am* a health care worker. Of course I'm concerned. If any sort of pandemic ever breaks out, people like me will be the front line. The risk to myself personally and more than that to my family is very real and something I have considered, and of late reconsidered.

I don't mean to minimize the risk. I'm just saying that people are reacting as though the plague had come to town and the death carts were rolling when there has been one death in the US and one additional person has contracted it here.

Compare that to what I heard on NPR this afternoon about the hospital in Liberia that has established a triage area in the parking lot to separate out the Ebola cases before they enter the hospital proper.

It scares the shit out of me... but there is still a lot of overreaction going on.