Posted on 10/01/2014 9:12:46 PM PDT by TLI
Hundreds of nurses have staged a protest rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, warning that US hospitals aren't ready for an Ebola outbreak and demanding more action by authorities against a possible epidemic in the US. About 1,000 nurses and healthcare workers attended the Planet Nurse convention on Wednesday, chanting slogans to raise awareness about the increasing danger and death from Ebola.
The protesters highlighted the lack of training, equipment and isolation rooms where suspected Ebola-infected patients in the US could be quarantined. They also took part in what they called a “die-in” by laying on the ground in imitation of dying Ebola victims.
Ebola "can easily come to our shores, and we're not ready," said Julia Scott, a registered nurse from Largo Medical Center in Florida who was attending the rally.
The rally included a moment of silence for international health workers who have died while caring for Ebola patients in West Africa. "It's not acceptable that these people are dying," RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, told her fellow protesters. "It is going to come here," she said.
Four Americans have been or are being treated for Ebola in the US after contracting the virus in West Africa.
Biosafety experts say US hospitals do not have the means to properly dispose of medical waste contaminated with Ebola, which will jeopardize the safety of communities.
According to infectious disease experts, waste management companies are refusing to take any soiled sheets or protective gear that might be contaminated with the virus, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
The waste companies have cited US federal guidelines that require Ebola-related waste to be handled in special packaging by people with hazardous materials training.
A big shout out to Barry and the ‘RATS! Good job clowns!
All you lurking RN’s that voted for zero with stars in your eyes, you are expendable. Just think of your massive student loans as payback to an unfair nation. Something to remember when you are mopping up infectious sputum and blood. Hope you enjoy your free contraceptives.
PING!
*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!
Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!
Bring Out Your Dead
We’re gonna need 
a bigger cart!
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Ironically, Sept. 24 was the same day the Ebola patient went to the ER in Dallas and was sent home with an antibiotic...after telling a nurse he was from Africa. But he didn’t tell her he had been exposed to Ebola by nursing a sick relative who had died four days before he left for America.
The Brits, with their ban on all flights to west Africa, certainly care more for the safety of their people than our governent does for Americans.
The Brits, with their ban on all flights to west Africa, certainly care more for the safety of their people than our governent does for Americans.
May not be enough, if infected fly to US then to Britain.
Yeah, little bammy's regime is showing every single one of it's true colors...
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That is what visas and passports are for.
Why aren’t the repiublicans calling for no more flights from Ebola infested countries? (britain and france did it) Why aren’t they raking Obama over the coals for his refusing to protect the country from Ebola? are they that big a bunch of chicken sh*ts???
Where is the majority frigging representation in this country anymore?
Bring back Ellis Island. Close the borders. Deport all criminal invaders. Oh...thanks LIBS/RINOs.
The Brits, with their ban on all flights to west Africa, certainly care more for the safety of their people than our governent does for Americans.
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I think the guy in Dallas may have flown to Belgium first.
I’d be tempted to head for the hills.
Hey, if they aren’t comfortable with firing on us, what better way to get rid of political dissent? Hmmmm? Think about it.
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Nurses are fat.
There is no way on earth our medical system is ready for this.
United airlines is complicit in this.
How dare they and we put our doctors and nurses through this!!
What?
PressTV is an Iranian propaganda outlet. Those nurses are only afraid for themselves and predictably threatening to go on strike. Fire them all and blacklist them for life. Replace them with Army medics at the same fat pay.
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