Posted on 10/15/2014 4:48:29 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
The loons truly are running the asylum.
I agree that CNN is doing a good job on ebola.
It’s funny that people think that 98.6F is such a precise estimate of normal body temperature. But the reality is that it was estimated by a guy working in the metric system, and represents a direct conversion from 37C, which converts to 98.6F. When the body temperature was initially pegged at 37C the accuracy was only to the closest degree C, so that the average would actually fall somewhere in the range 36.5C - 37.5C. That half degree C is +-0.9F. So, when normal was defined as 98.6F, the accuracy really was only good enough to say 97.7F-99.5F.
But even with that uncertainty range, the reality is some people run hot and others cold... I tend to run about a degree below “normal”.
Does that make sense?
Normal? Maybe just sick enough to kick your feet up, watch TV and drink tea while staying home from work instead of bugging your doctor about a minor illness. However someone who had been exposed to ebola would trump that rule every day.
I know I run cold. If I hit 98.6 without having just exercised I am well on my way to being sick.
How the hell do they know that 100.4 is the magic number? Not 100.3 or even 100.39 but 100.4.
How can you trust your oral thermometer? I had a recent sinus infection, felt a fever coming on and took my temp with a new thermometer that read 100.5. Wanted to be sure so used a second thermometer and it said 99.4. Next I dug out an old glass one and it read 98.6. My ‘normal’ is around 97.4 so I was left with only uncertainty.
If the degree of separation for letting her on the plane was less near one degree, how could anyone be sure with today’s products?
Thank you for being honest. So many FReepers are too filled with pride to acknowledge that they are wrong. She called the ‘experts’... multiple times... and they told her to go ahead.
This is not her fault. This is the fault of political bureaucracy and it needs to be seen as such. There’s blame, alright.
But not the nurse.
This is game changing stuff.
FEDGOV is hell bent on not protecting Americans from bush meat eating bleeding from every orifice hemorrhagic fever Ebola infected Africans.
The degenerate bastards from both parties are running for the tall grass, all they care about is getting reelected and not doing or saying anything that would be considered politically incorrect and cost them their seats.
The time for the US military to step up and institute a provisional military government is at hand.
Provisional military government for six months, then new elections (no incumbents need apply) only taxpayers and veterans enfranchised, all amendments repealed except the Bill of Rights, dueling legalized within DC limits.
Good point. Maybe 98.6 is average but people do vary
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