E-Bola

There are three cases of Ebola here. It would need to get 5,000 times worse than it is to infect even 1 percent of one major American city. People are acting like it's decimated half the population already.

And, the flu is one mutation away from killing millions again. It deserves the attention it gets.

 

No. Not until it's confirmed she is not infected.

This is what disease containment looks like.

 

Kate Snow just now on MSNBC:

"We have 10 beds in this country that can handle Ebola "with the most specialized care".

The Dallas Judge (County Executive) has already declared that Dallas can not handle more than one patient, and that any future patients will need to be transferred. And, of course they're 0-1 so far, with one patient remaining, and two infections resulting from the first patient.

Anyone still think a couple of dozen cases would be no big deal?

 

I don't think this is a fair characterization. People are acting like they're scared that it might decimate half the population -- mainly the half that includes them.

 

The flu doesn't have the capacity to cripple our economy.

Two dozen cases of Ebola will.

5,000 cases would result in economic disaster.

 

Have at it, kiddo. I'm out.

 

Certainly a large drain on health insurance reserves.

At least the majority of country now has health insurance . This would not
have been the case a few years ago.

 

I'm not personally worried about getting Ebola.

I am worried that we've got 13 nurses on leave from one Cleveland hospital, and 70 healthcare workers, as well as others they've come in contact with, are in danger of infection.

This X10 has the potential to impact the healthcare that millions of Americans will receive, and has the potential to cripple our economy.

The downside of a travel ban on folks from Liberia seems a whole lot less than that.

 

And, btw, I sure as hell wouldn't want to be the 11th person to be diagnosed with Ebola, and learn that the 10 beds that can successfully treat me are all full.

 

A student in the Eagle Mountain-Saginaw school district- in a county bordering Dallas- will be isolated with his or her family for three weeks after the shared flight.

 

Nor I. And I would love to be quarantined for three weeks.
Would get a lot done, work and leisure.

 

I think you're on the wrong track there. Rooms/beds can be created/converted. Pretty sure an operating room would be a reasonably safe place to care for an infected patient.