Posted on 10/08/2014 6:04:16 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
With government bureaucrats in charge all over the world, we are little better off than in the days of the Black Plague.
Maybe people will start waking up that liberals/leftist really are mental cases.
They’re adults with the mind of a child.
What is stranger is that she, like all the other people who had been in contact with the missionary, was supposedly being monitored by the hospital. They were all told to take their temperature twice a day and report any change immediately to the hospital.
She did so, and was then referred to her local out patient “walk-in clinic” instead of being told to come immediately to the first hospital (Carlos III). The second hospital examined her and, because her fever was very slight and didn’t reach the level at which they had to take action, sent her home with ibuprofen! She tried again later, and again she was sent home because her fever wasn’t “high enough.”
When she finally showed up at the emergency room, she supposedly already had hemorrhages, etc. and a very high fever. At that point, she was still allowed to sit there for 4 hours, and then finally sent back to the bigger hospital when someone realized that it actually WAS ebola!
She says she told them every time that she had been exposed (actually, she’s not saying anything, and this information comes mostly from her husband). Some of the places that saw her dispute this, but I think that they were so busy clinging to their guidelines that they just ignored it.
Apparently the guidelines were developed to keep everybody in the world who had a slight fever from getting paranoid about ebola and overwhelming the hospitals, but they never took into consideration the fact that a high fever generally begins with a low fever, and that people who are told to take an anti-inflammatory are going to keep their fevers artificially low until it’s too late.
That said, the real mystery is why the doctors supposedly monitoring the group missed one of the basic symptoms.
I think, personally, that it’s from the false assurances that the authorities (everywhere, including here) have given: “Oh, it’s hard to catch, Europeans aren’t likely to get it, don’t panic when you have a little fever, etc.” I agree that people shouldn’t panic, but a little prudence were certainly be welcome!
Wow. Total incompetence.
“ahh, but you need to report your fever by filling out a Q189-stroke-7 Zed form in triplicate...”
If ebola can't be spread by airborne means, and the health care workers treating victims are ostensibly trained, why is it that they continue to become infected?
Could the 0bama regime be lying?
Does a bear......?
I agree. I don’t want people to panic, but I do want to see real caution by those who are supposed to be “in the know”. It concerns me that hospitals seem to ignore the information that’s been given to them by the patients. Are they being overwhelmed by hypochondriacs already? Is everyone in the ER saying they’ve returned from Ebola-stricken countries, or worked with those patients? If not, they have no excuse.
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...
I can definitely see that happening. The problem is probably that they told her to "call the hospital", rather than give her the name and number of a specific person who had personal knowledge of her involvement with caring for the priest who had Ebola, and who could activate the processes for isolating and testing her.
“Apparently the guidelines were developed to keep everybody in the world who had a slight fever from getting paranoid about ebola and overwhelming the hospitals, but they never took into consideration the fact that a high fever generally begins with a low fever, and that people who are told to take an anti-inflammatory are going to keep their fevers artificially low until it’s too late.”
At some point EARLY in the protocol there should be a spot where they ask “did you have contact with a known case of Ebola? That alone will screen out 99.9999% of the paranoids.
They actually had it. She was even supposed to be under special monitoring for people who had been exposed.
Amazing incompetence. It started at the first point of contact (the supposedly specialized hospital) and then the rest of the chain just carried it on.
That may be true. She called the employee health services first; I don’t know if they didn’t pass it along to the other people or if perhaps that was who they had told her to call.
I think it may have been a weekend, also, never a good thing in a bureaucracy. If the weekday people are dysfunctional, the weekenders seem to be barely operative.
It’s sort of like the US immigration system...”don’t take anything too seriously, it’s probably nothing...”
It’s true that the vast majority of people tested for this (in Spain and elsewhere outside of Africa) have turned out to be negative, but that doesn’t mean they all are.
They just announced the guy in Texas that had Ebola has died.
Who’s they? Post a thread in breaking w source.
It was reported confirmed on Fox news. I’m on my phone so rather restricted.
Somebody’s now got one up in Breaking sourced to Yahoo News.
Thanks. That should get a few comments. :-)
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