Posted on 10/24/2014 10:33:47 PM PDT by tcrlaf
-A HazMat team was sent in to sterilize the apartment of NYC Ebola patient Craig Spencer on Friday
-The team spent almost the entire day in the building
-They left with sealed barrels, but not wearing any sort of protective gear
The preparedness of New York City officials and workers to deal with Ebola has once again left much to be desired as a HazMat team sent in to decontaminate the apartment of Craig Spencer, the first person to contract the deadly virus in the city, was seen leaving his apartment with sealed barrels, but wearing no protective gear.
The men were photographed exiting the apartment without gloves, face masks, or anything else to protect them as they loaded the barrels with possibly contaminated goods into the back of a truck.
In fact, one man had something dangling out of his mouth as he carried two barrels out
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Low bidder.....
Either they know something we don’t or the have a death wish.
Don’t rule out both.
But did they have clipboards?
These are Jersey guys....they are immune to every disease on the face of the Earth. /sarcasm off
Hold my beaker of amoebic dysentary, and watch this ...
Ok so maybe they won’t get sick but don’t they need to be monitored now to be sure and maybe even quarantined...and won’t the people they come in direct contact with need to be monitored?
How expensive is all this? It is a comedy of errors.....
Saw a new blip from some New York politician to the effect that people in New York were “going to show the dumb Texans how to handle Ebola”. You would think by now, especially with an Ebola czar, that their fine tooled system would be up and running and things like this wouldn’t be happening.
What is this, ‘Joe’s Ebola Cleanup and Trash Hauling Service’?
I thought that this country was ready to contain any spread of ebola.
Hopefully this clean-up crew will be quarantined before they spread the virus to their family members.
And will they be quarantined or just walk around spreading it to more people. Will be waiting for N.Y.’s response to this!
I would feel a lot safer if they weren't carrying the barrels by their lids. Fortunately waste disposal in New York is handled by the most ethical and safety conscious people in the world. And if youse questions that, youse might just be found in the East River. Capiche?
Yo, Joey and Vinny got this! Are you kidding me with the casualness of that cleanup crew? The whole scene looks like a regular trash pickup, but this is freaking Ebola!!! Also, why isn’t that building cordoned off? You see people walking casually by with apparently no concerns in the world. I’m certainly no epidemiologist or infectious disease control officer but if I’m part of a cleanup crew of a house where the occupant tested positive for a killer disease I’m not going in unless I’m fully gloved and gowned up. I sincerely hope those pictures are fake because everyone seems to be taking this much too casual for the situation. Incredible.
Makes you wonder who really is taking this Ebola threat serious....obvious those who should aren’t to date....from medical teams to CDC to police. ...it all does start at the top!
I think this may be the answer. I would have been concerned if they showed up on the street with their hazmat suits on. After all, we would expect those suits to be covered with questionable biological material. The best technique would have been to take them off prior to coming into a public, uncontrolled area.
The proper procedures for something like this has got to be a nightmare. Here's my first guess:
(1) don suits
(2) enter hazardous area with all equipment you are ever going to need unless you are able to pass things in from the outside and seal the apartment
(3) clean every surface which possibly could be contaminated while not spreading any contamination which might have accumulated on your suit (WOW!)
(4) establish a portable clean field by rolling out a fresh mat where everyone can stand
(5) clean your suit and equipment on the clean field
(6) take off cleaned hazmat suit for disposal while standing on the clean field
(7) someone still in a hazmat suit places discarded hazmat suit in a barrel
(8) last guy puts their own hazmat suit in barral
(9) roll up "clean field" and place in barrel
(10) seal lids on barrel and hope that nobody touched the outside with their hazmat suits prior to being sprayed down
(11) open the apartment
(12) carry the barrels out to the street in your street clothes
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