No the real lesson, is that it’s pretty easy to spread.
We have had one person with Ebola come into the country and two American healthcare workers now have it as a result.
In Africa the cases double about every 3 weeks. This one in America has already doubled plus. Two more cases doesn’t seem like much now, but 3 weeks from now, it could be 4 more people sick. And then 6 months from now it will hundreds of new sick per day.
And we have yet to learn how many people the two health workers have infected. You have to assume at least two each. Similar to Duncan. That would be prudent.
The news this morning said the boyfriend of Nina Pham was hospitalized this morning.
Just the fact that it can survive outside the body for up to 6 days means it is airborne and can easily spread. It’s a virus no different from the common cold, or the flu which is an RNA virus just like Ebola. When someone at your work has the flu or a cold does everyone at your work get it as well? You’re lucky if you get one or two. But that doesn’t mean millions of people do not get it every year nationwide. What we don’t want is Ebola becoming “common” because when that happens we are effed. A sure sign will be when several people from different parts of the country get it and they don’t know how they got it and this piece of rat slime in the White house is absolutely no doubt in my mind whatsoever trying to make that a reality.
In my house last year, 3 out of the four of us had a horrible, bad, on death's door flu. It lasted a good ten days.
Once we all got sick, my son my husband and I, we all isolated ourselves in my bedroom. We used only the bathroom in my bedroom.
My daughter would leave drinks or soup or whatever outside the door. She never came into contact with us or the room. Literally, I was texting her from my room. LOL.
She never got sick. And that's the flu, pretty easy to spread.