"Can't you send Gopher?"
Posted on 10/17/2014 6:54:24 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
But the leftists are telling me this is an “overblown” response to a nothing issue.
Bttt
Well this is the “no class” cruise line after all.
There goes to cruise ship business. Our refusal to quarantine infected countries is going to take down industry after industry.
Meanwhile our government is worried about hurting african economies instead of protecting our own.
The best thing you can do for the african countries is quarantine them and quarantine communities within them until the threat is eliminated.
Like tornados and trailer parks. Cruise ships cause Ebola.
I don’t blame Belize. If only we had this level of resolve.
Micheal Crichton couldn’t have scripted this any better. Time for Dr. Frieden to resign.
The similarities between Norovirus and Ebola are interesting. Same method of transmission, R naught rate and virulence. Norovirus is pretty common. I’d hate to imagine if Ebola became as common.
This has the earmarks that a Govt. agency was checking on the whereabouts of all the nurses involved with an ebola patient, and found that nurse had left the country.-Tom
I've been on eight cruises of this size and don't recall any one dying!! Where did you get this little tid bit of information!!
Several years ago on the maiden voyage of Allure of the Seas (a floating city), Royal Caribbean, my 92 year old father with congestive heart disease had a major heart issue after dinner, and while we were at the elevator discussing taking him to the Medical area, a doc jumped out of the crowd who was a passenger, took his pulse, and said, “Get him to medical immediately!”
Two minutes later we were in the med unit and he had first class treatment from TWO ship docs who knew exactly what to do (serious arrythmia, gave IV with electrolytes, low potassium if I remember correctly) and in 24 hours he was his old self. We were so grateful for the level of help we got. RC is the best. And we’ve been on all the good ones. Carnival? Never.
He passed in his sleep a year later......
What is interesting is the fact that thus far those closest to patient zero have not showed symptoms, or at least there have been no reports yet. Patient zero was exposed to full blown Ebola victim that died very shortly thereafter. The nurses that have come down with Ebola were exposed when patient zero was very ill. Not to minimize the danger, but this strain of Ebola (and others may be different) appears to be very contagious when the patient is very sick, and thus ultra precautions are warranted when exhibiting such symptoms.
I think we will learn a lot from this whole episode, and hopefully enable rational approaches to dealing with it (cutting travel when so much is unknown sure would have been prudent). The biggest problem is the potential for mutations that increase the chance of contracting it from victims at earlier stages of the disease. My own doctor mentioned during an office visit last week that another doctor in the practice had recently returned from volunteer work treating Ebola patients. Worked in the appropriate protective gear, but saw workers sharing food from common containers (rice...) after removing their gear, just simply unsafe cultural practices. He was very careful with food preparation....
Hope the ship has a quarantine flag on board.
Every little breeze
Brings more germs to Belize
As a young nurse will sneeze
Out there on the high seas....
My Friends’ Wifes’ parents are currently on board that ship.
Obviously they do not publish an obituary in the ships news. Its kept quiet out of respect for the passengers family and also so as not to unnecessarily alarm the passengers who might wonder what the cause of death was. Several different sources have corroborated this. Each cruise ship routinely stores coffins for human remains among its supplies.
So... is she symptomatic or not?
It says that on Wednesday she had no symptoms. But today is Friday - and she is in the ship tender, so obviously she must have symptoms now.
All she did was handle a vial of his blood and she caught Ebola??? What about the family in the apartment with him who were hugging, feeding him, using the same bathroom??? How could they still all be well?!
You really think someone could die on a cruise and the news would not leak out...come on man! People definitely die on cruises...but its not any where near a normal occurrence!!
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