Posted on 09/14/2014 11:23:15 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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With each day, the small group of caregivers trying to cope with the worst outbreak of Ebola on record falls further and further behind as the pace of the virus’s transmission rapidly accelerates. Health facilities are full, and an increasing number of infected people are being turned away, left to fend for themselves.
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The sick arrive each day, hopeful that their timing and symptoms will get them past the gate. Even so, 7 in 10 will die inside, slightly better odds than the 9 in 10 who are dying in the community, Madden said.
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Across Monrovia, such breakdowns in basic services are common. Schools are closed. Aside from the delivery of children, it is almost impossible to get any kind of medical care that would require a hospital, because Ebola has overwhelmed the system.
Few people are working. They have been told to stay home, to help slow transmission of the virus, which means that no money is coming in for basics such as food. People say they are relying on handouts from family and friends and hustling for a few dollars.
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Boiling the crap out of it does.
I have the waterBOB:
and a LifeStraw:
I never considered that. And think of the first responders...emt's etc. They would have to fully suit up on each and every call or risk exposure.
I just re-read “The Stand.” There is a chapter full of little scenarios about how survivors die in the “echo” where no one is left to take care of those who fall into wells, get stung by bees, and the like.
I had forgotten about that from my first read years ago. It reminded me how screwed I would be with the huge kidney stone I had, but could not physically pass. Not a scenario I am interested repeating with only my wife to tend to me.
Water out of the tap can stay good for at least six months in a bottled container if you keep it in a cool, dark place.
Which will put a stake in the heart of the economy.
It won’t take many “wild” cases here to put a lot of folks on self imposed lockdown, IMHO. I read a while back that overall projected cases were modeled to reach the 100,000 level in the first couple weeks of December, and that was the number where wild cases would start cropping up in western nations.
I doubt the country could make it through a Spanish Flu mortality event these days. That would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 7.5-10 million dead in one season.
When urban areas start to rack up numbers, how long will the first responders stay on the job? The guys picking up trash? The power plant crews? Transit workers?
The gov’t would shut down, no major loss there I imagine.
Thanks for the tip! We have a plastic sandbox outside for the grandkids. I could dump the sand and fill it with water. It has a cover to keep animals out. I do have trash barrels that I could use with plastic garbage bags, but the childrens pool is better. Also will fill bathtub at any sign of a shortage.
Just leaving the infected alone probably guarantees it will keep spreading
I read NYC runs out of food 4 times a day. Lots hungry people doing crazy things. IN 1918 most people were rural. In the cities today people don’t even have a weeks food in the house.
My mother was born in 1918, right in the middle of the Spanish Flu epidemic. One of the things related to her by her parents was that you’d see a person, healthy, one day, then the next day the doctor’s buggy would be at their house, and the next the undertaker.
My mother was born in 1918, right in the middle of the Spanish Flu epidemic. One of the things related to her by her parents was that you’d see a person, healthy, one day, then the next day the doctor’s buggy would be at their house, and the next the undertaker.
BTTT!
Thanks for the ping!
Think of EVERYONE. One is either sick, caring for someone sick, or afraid of getting sick. Either way, it would mean most people won't be going to work. I would hope that as was seen on 9-11 that emergency crews would respond to their higher calling, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Pretty sure the garbage man, the power-plant operators, water-treatment facility workers, the long-haul truckers, etc. will have less qualms about staying home. Or - they are forced to stay home (or out or your area) due to quarantines.
"Around the corner and down a block or two, another small crowd had grown angry at the delay in retrieving a man’s body that lay under a tree outside some homes. Residents said that it had been there since Friday and that Redemption officials had failed to respond to repeated calls to come get it. Ebola, a hemorrhagic disease, is at its most lethal in the body fluids that leak from corpses.
“They have not come to spray” disinfectant in the area around the corpse, Powell Johns, a preacher, said angrily. “That’s wrong. They’ve got to do their jobs.”
The group led some American and French journalists to the body.
AND YET SOME WONDER, how ebola will get 'into' the US.
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