Vanity: Ebola reality check

[dangus]

Thomas Eric Duncan was already symptomatic when he flew on a jet filled with other passengers. He went to a hopistal, filled of course, with medical staff and patients, and was sent back home. He vomited, sneezed, coughed and sweat all over an apartment packed with relatives. By the time he returned to the hospital, he was spewing vomit in every direction. He boarded an ambulance with unprotected health care workers, and waited for help.

Emergency workers waited days before cleaning out the apartment he was staying in. Unprotected street workers blasted the vomit he left in the street all over the neighborhood by using high-power sprayers.

The government and medical response couldn't be worse. And still no ebola transmission.

[null and void]

Yes, fortunately no healthcare workers taking precautions have been infected in the US.

You might want to turn on your TV...

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...

[goldstategop]

The prospects of getting it are low.

You’ll be at greater risk from the flu and drowning in your bathtub than from dying from exposure to ebola.

The things that can kill you - are not what’s hyped in the media.

[Slump Tester]

"And still no ebola transmission."

If you're so sure of that, why don't you go hang out with his neighbors?

[PghBaldy]

First sentence is wrong.

[Lil Flower]

What was that you said?

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/10/12/health-care-worker-at-dallas-hospital-tests-positive-for-ebola/

[Crazieman]

Dangus asserts we need to bathe in ebola victim “bodily fluids” and still have a 50/50 chance of contracting it.

[junta]

And Sierra Leone is now dealing with this virus that is hard to transmit by basically saying to its people go die at home.

[Texas Eagle]

How long has it been. We’re told it can take up to three weeks for symptoms to appear. It’s been what? Two weeks? Give it one more week and then we’ll know whether or not we’re being played.

[goldstategop]

People who work in close proximity to an infected person are at greater risk.

That doesn’t invalidate the general rule. At the moment the hot zone is limited to a few hospitals.

And we’re better equipped to contain it than in Africa. Panic is unwarranted.

[goldstategop]

The Third World is short of qualified doctors and sufficient drugs.

Africa doesn’t have the sophisticated infrastructure to address a deadly epidemic and sanitation and quality of life is often poor.

So no wonder people are resigned to the inevitable there.

[P-Marlowe]

Panic is unwarranted.

An abundance of Caution is not panic. Panic is when you run into the street without thinking. Caution is when you prepare for the worst.

The worst is yet to come.

[goodnesswins]

“At the moment”....those are the words that cause many to “panic”...Prevention is what people want...and allowing those from Ebola affected areas doesn’t smack of prevention.

[zwerni]

I believe the panic is unwarranted… Obama said we didn’t have to worry about Ebola in the US

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Ebola, the October Surprise.

[tomkat]

And still no ebola transmission

Hate to burst your rosy bubble, but:

Texas healthcare worker tests positive for Ebola

And if that weren't enough, CYØ is already in high gear:

A top federal health official says the Ebola diagnosis in a health care worker who treated Thomas Eric Duncan at a Texas hospital shows there was a clear breach of safety protocol.
Dr. Tom Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says the worker had treated Duncan multiple times after the Liberian man was diagnosed.
Frieden tells CBS' Face the Nation that all those who treated Duncan are now considered to be potentially exposed. Frieden couldn't give an exact number.

Texas health worker tests POSITIVE for Ebola:
Outbreak of deadly virus on U.S. soil as 'heroic person' who treated Thomas Duncan is confirmed to have the fatal virus DESPITE wearing protective gear

Informative graphics coverage as well ...

[junta]

I would rather be here of course, but the third world is expanding here in the USA. By third world I mean when things just don’t work, like our schools. So my WAG is the first batch of people will get wonderful first world care at about one million dollars worth, after that hello Sierra Leone.

[boycott]

And that was just one. I am sure there are plenty more on the way.

[wintertime]

Africa doesn’t have the sophisticated infrastructure to address a deadly epidemic
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And,...The evidence is now plain for all to see that the U.S. government and the CDC do NOT have the sophisticated infrastructure to address a deadly epidemic, as well.

I don't see panic. I see concerned citizens asking rational questions.

[precisionshootist]

"People who work in close proximity to an infected person are at greater risk. That doesn’t invalidate the general rule. At the moment the hot zone is limited to a few hospitals. And we’re better equipped to contain it than in Africa. Panic is unwarranted."

While I agree panic is unwarranted what is very warranted is the SHUTTING DOWN OF OUR BORDERS IMMEDIATELY!

What we learned today is that someone else has now tested positive for Ebola. What is NOT being said is what's important.

What is not being said is that it takes several days to test for Ebola. This was a health worker who worked with the first patient, someone who clearly would have been on notice to watch for symptoms. So this worker MUST Have been sick and clearly showing symptoms for several days YET WE HAVE HEARD NOTHING ABOUT IT UNTIL A TEST HAS SHOWN POSITIVE. In other words CDC officials have known and suspected this person had Ebola for several days but kept it under wraps.

We are being lied to by the CDC and the administration to protect at all costs the political agenda of the left. The left in our government do not care who dies as long as they are able to keep the borders open and ultimately take over our countries elections.