[Libloather]

Didn't Hussein and the CDC say something different?

[NoLibZone]

Strike until visas are no longer taken from West Africa..

Let the DNC care for them.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

But . . . but . . . I thought we had a protocol in place, and after these few cases are done with, it’ll be all rainbows, skittles and unicorn farts.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Coming to a hospital near you.

PING!

[fatnotlazy]

I don’t know why, but I’m somewhat suspicious about this coming from a union. I agree that health care workers haven’t been adequately prepared for the Ebola epidemic. But I can’t help thinking there is some ulterior motive behind this “protest” — such as a demand for higher wages.

[Cowboy Bob]

"We have heard consistently across the country that there are no protocols in place," she said.

Hey, where are the protocols? I bet you that Obama is hording them and only giving them out to friends. I believe it's time to march on Washington and demand out protocols. Right now, the only thing that can protect Americans from Ebola are Protocols. Demand action now! Where is Rev. Jesse and Al? They need to get out in front of this now and start demanding protocols.

[RC one]

The CDC is recommending N95 masks; meanwhile, they still mandate level 4 containment facilities and protocols for their own work with this extremely high consequence pathogen. The CDC also tells us that Ebola is not an airborne pathogen despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. and the media is regurgitating the misinformation. Ebola is transmissable in aerosolized droplets produced by coughing, sneezing, vomitting, urinating, defecating, flushing a toilet, etc. It only takes 1-10 aerosilized viral units landing anywhere in your respiratory tract or mucous membranes to cause the disease. millions of viruses may be aerosolized by sneezing or coughing. An N95 mask filters out 95% of airborn particles. I'm pretty sure that 5% that makes it through the mask to your respiratory tract is more than 1-10.

[Berlin_Freeper]

exposure incidents

[Eagles6]

Why isn’t Nina Pham in one of these premiere care and containment centers while the other nurse was rushed right it?

[raybbr]

http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/entry/national-nurses-united-endorses-president-obama/

They get what they paid for....

[BobL]

Don’t be surprised if this union-babe nurse changes her tune and tells us that Ebola is the fault of Ted Cruz and that the Obama Administration is really doing a bang-up job on it.

...and just after that she hits it big on, maybe, cattle futures.

The Dems don’t allow union-types to stray very far, and she has definitely strayed.

[skr]

We should all go on strike.

[TalBlack]

“Strike”? Look at how long it takes for sanity to kick in these days.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

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

[Jabba the Nutt]

Rather than strike demanding to be given stuff, get creative, organize you own Ebola training. That would be even more embarassing to the CDC, public health organizaions, doctors and hospital administrators.

[jetson]

When is the government going to pass out years supply of gloves, masks and sanitary wipes to the public?

[kidd]

I am completely on the nurse’s side on this.

Their employers and the CDC are endangering the nurses with a lack of training, a lack of preparation, improper protocol and inadequate PPE.

IMO, this is the only legitamite function of a union...protection of its workers from harm.

[null and void]

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

[1Old Pro]

Hospitals are WAY underprepared for this all accross the country. Management is liberal and opting for the russian roulette style Obama approach of not preparing and ignoring the risks.