Posted on 10/09/2014 3:09:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The nurse who has ebola tested negative too. That would be the Spanish nurse.
Did you know that before I asked you?
God loves these brave souls.
I head it on the news yesterday and confirmed with another source today.
If he hasn’t had symptoms for at least 72 hours, it could be a falss negative. I hope they told him to self quarantine for at least 2 more days.
That’s why they wear head to toe bio-suits when they’re near it.
That being said, I do hope you’re right.
Fat chance. They’ll just keep laughing at the virus while screaming about Racism, AIDS and Global Warming.
“All that stress is unnecessary and people are in a panic over something that is not a threat.”
I live within 20 min. of the hospital where the man was who died and live 12 min. from the sheriff’s deputy (in my county) who was checked out and is okay. I don’t know anyone in this area who is “in a panic”, but we are keeping close tabs on what happens in this area so we will know if we should stay home.
People coming into the US with this disease IS a threat to life in this country.
This outbreak is unprecedented in a few ways, not the least its scope and duration, but in that it has spread to cities and places where infected persons have the ability to end up literally on any continent between exposure and becoming symptomatic. All they have to do is lie.
Also unprecedented in this outbreak is the number of medical personnel who have become infected with the disease. Surely they are following the best practices they can in terms of PPE and biosafety, and know the penalty for failure to do so. They see the disease (at least those who remain alive) as a grave risk, and describe it as "highly contagious".
All that remains is for the disease to be here in the wild. Oh. We have had that.
Well, all that remains is to see if, and if, how many people become infected. With 2 to 21 days incubation, the jury is still out.
That isn't the absence of any threat, just that no threat has been confirmed (absence of evidence is not evidence of absence).
We'll see, but frankly, anyone who is not concerned is not paying attention. (That level of concern may increase with proximity to places Mr. Duncan was, which is normal.)
It is a sad event that that level of concern is not being translated into preventative measures to keep such an event from being repeated (with possibly disastrous results), but it appears hubris is trying to carry the day, instead.
No one who has thought through the ramifications of a contagious disease that has a mortality rate some seventeen times the Spanish Flu (at best) would be unconcerned, especially now that it has been in the wild on our shores.
Even small outbreaks here, spread out, would likely crash the economy, and if you don't trust Obama or the Government to give you the skinny, you realize how fragile that is.
There haven't been 100 a day over Ebola. But, here
We track a lot of potential epidemics around here. These are mostly over H7N9, you should have seen the ones about H5N1.
Exactly. Much of what you listed isn't really self-induced, but imposed by amorphous leviathan bureaucracies where no one or no thing can be held accountable and the bureaucrats can't even tell you what the rules are.
With Ebola, at least the threat can be pinpointed, defined, and hopefully avoided.
When one is remiss in taking proper precautions, mocks death, and fails to prepare, zero can turn into a really big number.
I see from an earlier post that you are likely ready to apply for airline toilet cleaner to replace them lazy folks who don't want to deal in the areas that would contain the most hazardous waste materials - all without proper protection.
Thanks to both of you for your posts on Ebola. We are prepared to not leave the house if more cases happen in Dallas County. The deputy sheriff lives in our county, Denton County, and Dallas County is 20 min. away from us.
Maybe we will get lucky and no more cases will happen here.
I know for sure more people with it will come into the country since carriers of it don't have to have fever so they won't be found by airport checks. The man in Dallas who died did not have fever when he came into the country. Our sorry Muslim president will not stop Africans or workers there from entering this country. That is an open door for more infected.
I do believe that quarantine should have happened a long time ago, to try and keep it confined to the countries that had the outbreaks.
We used to understand no non essential travel. No one in or out without being held in isolation for the required length of time.
Taking aid and supplies in could be handled by setting up 3 decontaminated zones. The middle zone is the one used to drop off the supplies, then they retreat to zone one and decontaminate as a precaustion.
Non symtomatic people come and get the supplies and take them into the end zone, and sorted out for distribution around the country. The middle zone is then decontaminated.
After supplies leave the end zone for distribution, the end zone is decontaminated too.
Or something similar.
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