[Innovative]

Ebola virus: British aid worker’s diary reveals horror as six nurses die from killer bug

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ebola-virus-british-aid-workers-3956692

Read the article — nurses were completely covered from head to toe, with no skin exposed and they still caught it and died.

So how is it a good idea to bring it to the US deliberately?

[sickoflibs]

That does it, I am canceling my vacation to Africa.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping... (I only saw 9, not 10)

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Can mosquitos transmit it?

[diverteach]

I can’t tell you how safe I feel with Oblunder in charge.

[dennisw]

If I want a thrill I’ll take up base jumping or bungee jumping off bridges. No way am I getting within a thousand miles of an Ebola outbreak and I don’t respect these Western doctors and aid workers who do. They are looking for thrills and bragging rights back home. Yes there is some altruism and religious motivation but it is misguided. The need to find another outlet for their do-goodism.

[Veggie Todd]

10 Questions You Never Thought You'd Ask About Ebola

1. What is Ebola?

You're right. I NEVER thought I'd ask that question about Ebola.

[Advil000]

Yeah I really don’t understand how they can say it would be easily to keep a handle on here.

A simple way to screw up everything:
We have an outbreak during regular influenza season. So people are having those “early symptoms” by the millions and 999 out of 1000 are common flu. You can’t just put them all in ebola isolation ward with the rest of the ebola patients. For one thing there would be too many and for another you’d end up infecting them all with ebola when all they had was the flu.

And in the time it would take to run tests on them all, they’re all infectious... but you don’t know if they are the 999 with the flu or the 1 with ebola... until after the test.

How on earth would we handle that?

They’re just assuming that it simply could not get that far. But all that would have to happen is just a handful of cases in inner city areas of a few cities and suddenly you’d have no idea whether any given case was flu or ebola.

You’d have to trust the population to self isolate anyone sick and not touch them or their clothes or bedding. And the few poor souls who have ebola... it would be too late to help them by the time the advanced symptoms show up.

This is why I don’t understand their “don’t worry” attitude. Yes, it’s not super easy to transmit because it isn’t airborn but even in western countries you’re likely to have human contact during the early infectious period.

I’m confused...

[a fool in paradise]

When I ask for a bowl of chili, do I need to worry about being mistakenly served ebola?

[OrangeHoof]

Once Ebola is exposed to the American gay community, it will be "game over" because homosexuals will treat the disease with all the willful neglect they did the AIDS virus, demanding the privacy and civil rights trump the community's need to know that someone is carrying a deadly disease.

The ACLU will sue to stop any quarantining and the condom will again be trotted out as the "magic bullet" that will prevent spreading the disease so that indiscriminate anal sex can continue with multiple partners.

To suggest that public health should be more important will get you labeled a bigot and a hater.

[ronnie raygun]

Our 1...........
why are we allowing it to enter hear and for what purpose?

[Jim Noble]

“The grave situation prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue travel warnings on Thursday to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. They urged travelers to forgo all nonessential travel to those countries.”

When they close the airports in West Africa to departing flights we will know they are serious.

[Artie]

This site has an article on airborne warnings for the virus with the caveat that this (the warning)is not for general public consumption. Mildly concerning.

http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2014/08/alert-cdc-warns-hospitals-on-ebola.html

[Vermont Lt]

I cannot believe all of he uneducated worry warts popping up.

If it shows up, stay indoors. Use your prepped food and water.

There is not much else you are going to do.

Stop whining and get ready. And stop spreading BS rumors.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The USA never worried about diseases in the past did it? (snark)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

"I think we could contain it," he said. "We have very good isolation procedures here."

Unless activists determine that those "good isolation procedures" have a disparate impact on minorities, glbt or other politically protected classes, in which case, we'll just have to die. It is not the first time that this country has attempted suicide to assuage political activists.

[az wildkitten]

Man, there go my vacation plans.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Wow, Obama really has brought change. A credit rating downgrade for the first time ever; and now Ebola on our shores.
Real hope and change.

I find it totally baffling why these two patients weren't flown to a remote ; offshore island instead on brought to our shores. Seems that prudent risk management would have keep them off the mainland USA.

[riri]

Well, it's not even on Joe Six Pack's radar. I brought it up to a group of gymnastics moms while I was waiting for my son's parkour class yesterday. It was a group of about six of them. None of them had a clue. As expected they looked at me like I had just admitted to keeping aliens locked in my basement for even bringing such a thing up. (I figured that would be the response but, sometimes, I just can't help it). I think I got one or two, "Ewww that's scary. But did you see there is a new Cafe 57 opening?" type responses.

People have been lobotomized.

[Cvengr]

"I think we could contain it," he said. "We have very good isolation procedures here."

As easily contained as, say, illegal immigrants?