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'Ebola suits' selling well at local health, nutrition store
The Fort Wayne News-Sentinel ^ | October 17, 2014 | Ellie Bogue

Posted on 10/17/2014 8:07:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

There is no mistaking you are at the right place: A large sign in the window of HealthKick Nutrition Center, 10174 Maysville Road, lets you know "We Have Ebola Suits."

Step in and on a table just inside the door is a stack of boxes with white Tyvek suits, sizes small, medium, large and extra large. David Morris, owner of the store, said he had already sold 35 of the suits by noon Thursday.

A tall blond enters the store, and Morris helps her determine her size. She buys two suits. One for her and one for her husband. The suits are going for $59.99.

"Better safe than sorry," the woman said as she left the store, suits in hand.

"People who shop here are buying prevention," Morris said, gesturing to the stocked shelves of vitamins, minerals and supplements the store trades in. The suits are just another form of prevention....

(Excerpt) Read more at news-sentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: ebola; epidemic; indiana; pandemic; preppers; prepping; survival; survivalists
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

You might be humanity’s root stock. Hope some beautiful fertile females survive with you.


21 posted on 10/18/2014 5:51:37 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping...

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

22 posted on 10/18/2014 5:56:35 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Awgie

Me too.... :)


23 posted on 10/18/2014 5:57:58 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: palmer

That is why I said ventilate the laundry well. The combination and resulting chlorine gas is a very very effective sterulant. Like I said, vent the laundry very well.


24 posted on 10/18/2014 6:03:18 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Chlorine gas can sterilize and people use it (dangerously) to kill rodents and bugs. But I’m not sure the gas has been tested on viruses. IMO it is not worth the risk.


25 posted on 10/18/2014 6:07:37 AM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

26 posted on 10/18/2014 6:11:54 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
How many cups of vinegar for the washing machine?
27 posted on 10/18/2014 6:39:11 AM PDT by GOPJ (The beast roams the earth... there's been a seismic shift in our world. Rabbi Shalom Lewis)
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To: Birdsbane

A Tyvex suit is not appropriate for Ebola. Asbestos, dust, oil and caustic chemicals, OK, in many instances. Cost= $250 a case. One biohaz suit cost= $1350, at least, and the cost of SCBA is higher yet (I’ve been out of the business for a while so prices probably went up). But if it makes them FEEL better, OK. Problem is, they’ll probably spread it faster because they think they are able to take greater chances.


28 posted on 10/18/2014 6:55:18 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: GOPJ

A little more than half vinegar. If it comes to it, i will run it on the soak cycle, and wash my clothes in the tub. That way the vinegar will be reused between days.

Also, re the poison gas. There will not be a lot produced since it will be traces of bleach on the suit, but make sure to vent the laundry well. There will be chlorine gas produced, and chlorine gas is a WMD. Was used on the battlefield in WWI, and can kill you.

Watch this as to how to take off the suit and yo explain why the trash bags.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/video/ebola-crisis-protective-suit-health-workers-west-africa-26162799


29 posted on 10/18/2014 7:03:11 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: Safetgiver

If ebola goes airborne, true.... If it goes airborne it is an extinction event.

Right now it is not. It is still fluid droplet based like flu or the cold. For that Tyvek (Notice the spelling) is fine.

SCBA breather is not required, and N95 is reasonably good. N100 masks would be better, but too costly. So if the N95 mask is good enough so is Tyvek. It is substantially less porous than a N95 mask.

The suits are only for the when the SHTF situation.

See my previous post and the protocol being used in med centers in Africa. That protocol is allowing them to interact with the most virulent patients and not get it. The only thing is don’t break protocol. Notice they are using N95/P95 masks. SCBA is not required.


30 posted on 10/18/2014 7:12:27 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: 2harddrive

“Hey Obama, be a MAN - Implement a travel BAN!!”

He is being a man. He is telling you to shut the hell up while he implements the liberal agenda of “killing 10% of the population”, as outlined by his best friend, the domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers.


31 posted on 10/18/2014 7:44:34 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for the ping!


32 posted on 10/18/2014 10:08:37 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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