The article pic shows the plane with no ground power hooked up. To stop air circulation?
(As a life-long Airline Schmuck, can I ask who gets the lucky job of dumping the lav?)
Please tell me its not Bush’s fault again.
Keep tellin' yourself that, darlin' . . .
South Carolina ???
Reality will finally hit the administration when you have some country like Brazil or Panama....ID some guy on the plane with a fever (they will actually board the plane and take each person’s temp), and then they say ONE person has a temp...we refuse to allow anyone off the plane, and it returns to the US.
Within forty-eight hours after that...the crap will hit the fan. Every airline will be in total fear of the cost to them, and the administration will be sweating over how to smile and play out this “I’m OK” game.
“A nosebleed is a symptom of advanced Ebola”
yeah, also dry nasal passages, high blood pressure, various medications and a myriad of other causes”
The person would be extremely ill with other complaints & symptoms besides a nosebleed.
Good grief. There are numerous reasons for nosebleeds, and high altitude, low air pressure doesn’t help.
SC Ping Worthy?
Well, Dulles is a designated entry point for Ebola.
We'll send you our sick and infectious.
Life is just a series of punny ironies, these days
Looks like the USA has become an important Ebola vector.
One of the few accomplishments of the current administration.
I’ve had nosebleeds on flights before - including one memorable time leaving Colorado where the stews would not stop their in-flight instructions to offer help. Absent any other symptoms, it is probably a false alarm. I understand all the precautions but I’m guessing this one is going to turn out to be no big deal.
Makes me wonder about athletes who get their nose busted in some competition and then have to fly home. Imagine them needing to be quarantined instead as a precaution.
The passenger had a reported nosebleed, and the plane was being held on the ramp Friday morning, according to airport spokeswoman Kaela Harmon.A nosebleed is a symptom of advanced Ebola, a deadly virus that has killed nearly 5,000 worldwide
Sweating, vomiting, now nose bleeds will bring mass transit to a grinding halt! Yet, we can't stop flights from the hot zone to protect the economy of those nations which apparently trump the health and economy of ours.
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FWIW, As the seasons change and we activate furnaces here in the damp NE, we suffer nuisance nose bleeds routinely. A weird and consistent treatment to stop the nose bleed is to find your keys and drop them down your back. As silly as that sounds, it really works. I don't know why but I do know that this has worked for generations of teachers in classrooms.
"This folk remedy was known in colonial America and seems to have come from the British Isles. the Maharani of Jaipur, Gayatri Devi, reported in her memoir, a Princess Remembers, that when she got a nosebleed at age 11, the actor Douglas Fairbanks Sr. "put a key down my back to stop the bleeding" Nuns and teachers seem particularly fond of this remedy."I was teaching in a rual school in south Georgia in a four-pod classroom with 120 first-graders and four teachers. Kids played hard in the heat and humidity and many children came in with nosebleeds. I used the old methods of squeezing their nostrils and having them hold their heads back or putting ice on the backs of their necks to try to stop the bleeding.
One day an elderly custodian who had lived in the South all her life took out her car keys, asked for some string to tie through the key ring, placed the ring around the neck of the child with the nosebleed and dropped the keys down the child's back under her shirt. that nosebleed was no longer a frightening problem!
I treated nosebleeds this way and never had a problem again. That's 120 first-graders a year for 15 years, which sounds like a pretty big number to me!"
Quoted from "Best Choices from the people's pharmacy"
Someone is playing a very dangerous game here.
On one hand we hear that thousands(?) a day are dying in Africa from Ebola.
We have had 1 death (and he from Africa) BUT the people that treated him are being diagnosed WITH it AND surviving.
My cyncical take on this guy in NY will turn out to be ‘no problem’ with the ‘lesson’ being that he can go through the genpop and not spread anything etc etc etc....
Now since ‘we’ have a supposed cure, ‘they’ will be flocking from African and we can look forward to a ‘Mexican’ like Exodus....(I mean the ‘African’ Government sponsoring and encouraging their infected to make the trip to US).
If we would have put a stop to it immediately, our chances of a problem would be lessened BUT how many do you think are already not only enroute, but here.
“They” keep telling us “nothing to worry about” but keep the ‘scare’ going as long as feasible.
If this bunch of lily livered pols gets reelected (AGAIN) it may be time to do something, as the present occupiers have shown they will do nothing - they have even stopped ‘acting’ like they care about anything.
Another few years and we will be looking like Calcutta or worse and if that happens, it won’t be ‘worth’ being around etc etc etc
Did he have the chicken or the fish?
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
“Liars gotta lie.”
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...