[Kartographer]

Interesting that much waste for only two patients?

[Kartographer]

Ping!

[El Cid]

Send it special delivery to the White House.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping…

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[LucianOfSamasota]

It should go to the White House?

[Black Agnes]

If even the ‘experts’ were that unprepared, what would happen if the local county hospital had 6 or 8 such patients?

[silverleaf]

interesting lack of any news or reporting from the “frontline” of our troops obama sent to the middle on the Liberian hot zone

No CNN or PMSNBC volunteers to report from the hotzone in biohazard gear? ho hum

[knittnmom]

I’d guess the waste included used hazmat suits, soiled bedding, mattresses, etc. But that is still a lot of waste!

[BenLurkin]

If anyone has money to invest (heaven knows I don’t) they might look at Stericyle (SRCL).

I’m not saying to buy , sell or short it. Or even put dime one down on it in any way. That’s up to you.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=srcl

[ansel12]

Very poorly written article, it doesn’t separate the regular Emory hospital from the special isolation unit.

Whether they are doing that on purpose, to confuse it all together, I don’t know.

The special isolation unit says that it disinfects it’s human waste, and it’s disposables are autoclaved and incinerated “”All disposables are autoclaved [sanitized via pressurized steam] and then incinerated.””.

[KoRn]

I believe they all have incinerators, but I believe many hospitals don’t use them, and contract it out to companies that pick it up. If Ebola gets a foothold here, I’d buy as many shares of Waste Management that I could get my dollars on, or any other company that handles such waste. I’d assume Waste Management does, given their size.

[Crunchy]

Scary to think that the hospitals didn’t anticipate this, nor the CDC.

[FlingWingFlyer]

About that “history” thing blaming “the white man” for killing off all of the Indians by bringing diseases to this pure, pristine country. What was that all about?

[iowacornman]

Wait until these poor “soldiers” start dieing. Why did we send military people into ebola can anyone articulate that reasoning? Did they take flame throwers?

[Chgogal]

They have to bag every piece of waste as it happens. There is no garbage can.

[TangledUpInBlue]

By all means though, let’s bring more of these people back home!

[meadsjn]

Interesting that much waste for only two patients?

Don't worry. With 50 million or so patients, we'll see some economy of scale -- maybe save 50% of the trashbags.

[null and void]

The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…

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...

[Veggie Todd]

Send it to the Mexican El Presidente.

[greeneyes]

Only two patients? If so, we are all screwed if an outbreak hits here. Those countries should all be quarantined, and the borders shut.

No one in or out. If travel is allowed, then there should be a quarantine for 30 days before leaving and 30 days on arrival.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Face it, we're scrrreeeewwwwwwwwed!

PING!