So...is anybody else really, really worried?
Before this outbreak did you ever hear someone say ebola isn’t that bad or its not a threat?
Seems to me it’s always been used as the worst case example. That if it ever got into population centers we were screwed.
Yes!
I have worked in hospitals for the past 30 years. I try the best I can to practice good hygiene. Hand washing, disinfectant gel, pressing elevator buttons with my knuckle. I lost a hip to MRSA. I almost lost my life. Three, three- month courses of IV antibiotics to finally get clear.
Hospitals test staff for Hep B, Hep C, TB. They still do NOT test for MRSA. I asked a Hospital Infection Control person why not test for MRSA.? They shrugged their shoulders and said “Why?”. It is so pervasive they assume most of the workers carry it in their nose and swabs would test positive. Even if they treated their noses to clear it, in a few months it would be back.
For anyone not worried, I suggest you visit a major hospital ER on a Friday night. Spend just one hour in the ER waiting room and just imagine one of the patients coming through the door positive for Ebola. Watch what they touch, from the registration desk, bathroom, vending machine knobs, etc. Then watch the kids roaming the room. Look at the floor and the puddles of “liquids” you stepped in and will bring back to your car, and home, unless you stop at Wal-Mart on the way home.
Yes, I am really, really worried.