Posted on 04/11/2025 6:04:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Like Ebola, that flesh eating type of disease is also hard to pin down. Local radio station boss Al Kresta—(co founder with Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino’s Pizza) near here died a few months ago.
He had lost a leg to amputation due to the “flesh eating disease” necrotizing fasciitis, and no one could identify the cut or abrasion that got it into his bloodstream.
Go check the link.
It’s all there.
The likelihood of such an event is, unfortunately, on the riseopens in a new tab or window. Climate change yada yada yada.
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Inserting “climate change” into any scientific discussion reduces the credibility to essentially zero. Nice try but the grant money has already dried up.
This is just how the Zombie Apocalypse starts.
OMG ALL THESE DISEASES ARE OPENING IN NEW TABS OR WINDOWS OMG OMG
In 2014, Kaci Hickox, a Doctors Without Borders nurse from Maine, legally battled 21-day quarantines imposed by the states of New Jersey and Maine after returning home from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.[105] “Hickox was sequestered in a medical tent for days because New Jersey announced new Ebola regulations the day she arrived. She eventually was allowed to travel to Maine, where the state sought to impose a ‘voluntary quarantine’ before trying and failing to create a buffer between her and others. A state judge rejected attempts to restrict her movements, saying she posed no threat as long as she wasn’t demonstrating any symptoms of Ebola. Hickox said health care professionals like those at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – not politicians like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Maine Gov. Paul LePage – should be in charge of making decisions that are grounded in science, not fear.”
I remember that story. IMO, that nurse’s reaction to her quarantine was silly. Surely, she had to care for isolated/quarantined patients from time to time as part of her job. But, when it was her turn, she complained.
I once was isolated in a hospital room because the staff believed I might’ve caught a very contagious illness. (It wasn’t something as serious as Ebola.) All the doctors and nurses admitted I probably didn’t have the illness, but they were required to take precautions while waiting for test results. The results were negative, and I never complained about being isolated.
The 6 ft distance is bullshit. The former CDC Director Friedan sp was made to eat those words on national TV by Dr Sanjay Gupta. You can get it farther than 6 ft from a sneeze. It is also likely IMO the hospital probably didn’t even initially have the correct level PPE at the time.
She wasn’t the only one who had a tantrum over it.
There was another doctor who came straight from the hotzone and decided to go to the deli while having a fever and sweating.
He didn’t get as famous as Ebola Nurse because after opening his yap a few times he figured out that he was getting pretty hated.
Ebola Nurse though, she was very special.
Still has her defenders.
I don’t remember hearing about the doctor, but that nurse was a piece of work. Everyone else who was exposed had to be quarantined, but she didn’t think she should be required.
Actually, hospitals do not have protocols. When the Ebola patient landed in Texas, our hospital in WA state sent out an email about the PPE we should wear. Except, the neck, arms and lower legs were exposed. Its like they didn’t care. Even the hospital in Texas didn’t care about their staff, and a couple of nurses got Ebola due to a lack of protection protocols.. Thats why the CDC is useless, there was no screening of people coming from Africa. Thats why I don’t care why they are getting fired now under Musk , they also was useless during covid.
Well, the hospital I worked at had them. As a member of the EM team we had protocols for a binder full of scenarios. And we reviewed them and augmented them on an annual basis.
It was the most interesting part of my job there. It was scary to review ALL of the things that could happen.
I forget his name, he drew tons of heat.
But princess Kaci, yeah.
And she hadn’t followed protocol for the whole allotted time, and nobody really knows for sure what the incubation or transmissive periods are.
There were reports of a guy being cleared, gives his significant other ebola via sex yet he survived.
Ebola is a weird bug, and the whole kerfluffle with it was made even worse with the Obama administration insisting on bringing people from the hot zone straight here.
Almost like the whole point was to try and get an outbreak going.
Thankfully ebola is a crap infector outside of its home turf.
But still, breaking quarantine and then tossing a tantrum over it.
Then a couple years later they had everyone in quarantine over a bug with a 99 percent survival rate.
And instead of quarantining the sick they locked up everything.
Thats good that your hospital had protocols. I was shocked when we got the email that showed exposed body parts. But then I recalled, its a corporate soul less entity. I would walk out if I had no adequate PPE. Its too bad the nurses in Texas didn’t do that, they have had lifelong health consequences and are not practicing nursing anymore. Not my problem anymore, I am retired.
Get vaxed, boosted, masked, social distance— no problemo.
Hickox said health care professionals like those at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - not politicians like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Maine Gov.Paul LePage — should be in charge of making decisions that are grounded in science, not fear.”
a STATE JUDGE rejected attempts to restrict her movements.. he had extensive science/health care background no doubt.
Here is more on her situation, she complied, didn’t have Ebola, and then the panic caused politics got involved, Ebola was nothing new and had been around almost 40 years at the time.
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2017/kaci-hickox-ebola-nurse/
If you work in a hospital you ARE the cavalry. Do your job, know the procedures, follow them.
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