Ebola (1 Viewer)

[Angry Beavers]

Mrs SB works in healthcare and just flew to :drumroll: Cleveland this Sunday.

That's nothing... I live in Cleveland and I am flying to Dallas on Monday for a week....... not that I am a healthcare worker or anything, but needless to say the wife is um.. not pleased.

 

[Ditka Butkus]

Here is what I'd like to know....How is the medical community going to treat flu-season, being that the flu and Ebola mimic each other as far as types of symptoms. Somebody goes into a family practice , are they going to be able to differentiate between the two?...Are they going to have the tools to do so? How many ebola patients are going to be sent home with the diagnosis of the flu only to infect others with ebola....This is going to get a lot more murky before it gets clear.

Yep. I don't see how a doctor could possibly solve this conundrum with one question.

What is the question Cliff? Have you been to West Africa or been in contact with anybody from West Africa? " Well Doc. I know I haven't been to West Africa, but as far as contact with somebody who has...I don't know....I ate at the Buffet near the Dallas hospital....I took a #### in JFK Airport before noticing it looked like somebody vomited in the stall, I used a pay phone at a local convenience store in the section of town they call Little Liberia...I f**ked a nurse last week".

Is this schtick? Or is this truly over your head?

Is what truly over my head....The fact that eventually ebola patients will be walking around unintentionally infecting people with their bodily fluids......It isn't like it is happening any other place in the world....Oh that's right only 4,000 people have died in West Africa with another 4,000 or so infected. Get a clue Matt...Oh by the way you can't get it casually, but they still took the Cleveland plane out of service once they realized an Ebola patient flew on it.

I still can't tell if this is schtick.

Well I can't help you there......You may want to hire a tutor to help you read, comprehend and respond. Also sounds like you can use a little help in the research process as well...Good luck.

 

[Ditka Butkus]

Ebola Chart

Just ignore that...Haven't you heard there is nothing to worry about.

 

[TheIronSheik]

Ebola Chart

Kind of looks like that GW chart that everyone goes ape#### over.

 

[Harry Manback]

Ebola Chart

Just ignore that...Haven't you heard there is nothing to worry about.

I think it's time to panic.

Start by disconnecting from the internet.

 

[Harry Manback]

Ebola Chart

Kind of looks like that GW chart that everyone goes ape#### over.

Gone wild?

 

[Cliff Clavin]

Ebola Chart

Just ignore that...Haven't you heard there is nothing to worry about.

Are you saying we should stop licking elevator buttons and door knobs?

 

[TheIronSheik]

Ebola Chart

Kind of looks like that GW chart that everyone goes ape#### over.

Gone wild?

Global Warming

 

[TheIronSheik]

Ebola Chart

Just ignore that...Haven't you heard there is nothing to worry about.

Are you saying we should stop licking elevator buttons and door knobs?

Only in Dallas and Cleveland.

 

[joffer]

Ebola Chart

Just ignore that...Haven't you heard there is nothing to worry about.

I expected it to go negative

 

[Ditka Butkus]

Ebola Chart

Just ignore that...Haven't you heard there is nothing to worry about.

I think it's time to panic.

Start by disconnecting from the internet.

No panic Harry..just trying to educate the Ostrich's.

 

[Ditka Butkus]

Ebola Chart

Just ignore that...Haven't you heard there is nothing to worry about.

Are you saying we should stop licking elevator buttons and door knobs?

Most of us have...but you can feel free to continue to lick the knobs....Door knobs that is.

 

[culdeus]

DB is outperforming Ham here.

 

[Josie Maran]

Ebola Chart

Just ignore that...Haven't you heard there is nothing to worry about.

I think it's time to panic.Start by disconnecting from the internet.

No panic Harry..just trying to educate the Ostrich's.

Please keep educating us, buddy.

 

[urbanhack]

Ebola Chart

Just ignore that...Haven't you heard there is nothing to worry about.

I think it's time to panic.

Start by disconnecting from the internet.

No panic Harry..just trying to educate _____________

 

[Guest]

Hasn't this virus been around for a long time in Africa? Why are there so many questions and theories about how it would spread in the U.S. if there's already tons of real life experience in vivo?

I don't know that we should expect a government institution to be uber competent, but reports that Duncan's waste was piled from floor to ceiling and there was to protocol or anyone there to educate are alarming. Something like this occurs, you'd think there'd be a play book based on best practices, but there really isn't. Sounds like these nurses were through to the wolves in paper gowns. Add to that the fact that it took days to get anyone to agree to clean the apartment, and that a plane was "cleaned" but put back in service the same day... Seems like no one has oversight and is taking the kinds of measures you'd want to see to clamp down.

The goal is to keep each infection below a 1x multiple of new exposures. We are at 2x and counting from Duncan. Now let's see if the new patients can be kept below 2x in Round 2. Frankly, we failed in Round 1, and there's little to suggest that we will get all that much better with the same loose approach.

We need real experts and the A-Team that cares more about capping this than what the public thinks.

 

[Jayrod]

DB is outperforming Ham here.

umpossible

 

[Swing 51]

"Fearbola"

 

[Jayrod]

DB is outperforming Ham here.

umpossible

see

 

[matuski]

Mrs SB works in healthcare and just flew to :drumroll: Cleveland this Sunday.

That's nothing... I live in Cleveland and I am flying to Dallas on Monday for a week....... not that I am a healthcare worker or anything, but needless to say the wife is um.. not pleased.

That is nothing, I work in the Dallas Presby OR all the time. Have been there several times the last couple weeks. Will be there again tomorrow.

Should I panic?

 

[eoMMan]

Does the first nurse's boyfriend have it or not?

I don't see the news reporting it.

 

[culdeus]

Mrs SB works in healthcare and just flew to :drumroll: Cleveland this Sunday.

That's nothing... I live in Cleveland and I am flying to Dallas on Monday for a week....... not that I am a healthcare worker or anything, but needless to say the wife is um.. not pleased.

That is nothing, I work in the Dallas Presby OR all the time. Have been there several times the last couple weeks. Will be there again tomorrow.

Should I panic?

Lunch? Wanna hit 1050 for lunch w/ me and uni?

 

[matuski]

Mrs SB works in healthcare and just flew to :drumroll: Cleveland this Sunday.

That's nothing... I live in Cleveland and I am flying to Dallas on Monday for a week....... not that I am a healthcare worker or anything, but needless to say the wife is um.. not pleased.

That is nothing, I work in the Dallas Presby OR all the time. Have been there several times the last couple weeks. Will be there again tomorrow.

Should I panic?

Lunch? Wanna hit 1050 for lunch w/ me and uni?

I am possibly meeting with a perfusionist from Presby for lunch.. only penciled in though. What time?

 

[matuski]

Does the first nurse's boyfriend have it or not?

I don't see the news reporting it.

Under watch but no symptoms last update I heard.

 

[Josie Maran]

Mrs SB works in healthcare and just flew to :drumroll: Cleveland this Sunday.

That's nothing... I live in Cleveland and I am flying to Dallas on Monday for a week....... not that I am a healthcare worker or anything, but needless to say the wife is um.. not pleased.

That is nothing, I work in the Dallas Presby OR all the time. Have been there several times the last couple weeks. Will be there again tomorrow.

Should I panic?

Lunch? Wanna hit 1050 for lunch w/ me and uni?

I am possibly meeting with a perfusionist from Presby for lunch.. only penciled in though. What time?

Great, now the whole FFA is gonna get it.

I call dibs on infecting GMTAN.

 

[UniAlias]

Mrs SB works in healthcare and just flew to :drumroll: Cleveland this Sunday.

That's nothing... I live in Cleveland and I am flying to Dallas on Monday for a week....... not that I am a healthcare worker or anything, but needless to say the wife is um.. not pleased.

That is nothing, I work in the Dallas Presby OR all the time. Have been there several times the last couple weeks. Will be there again tomorrow.

Should I panic?

Lunch? Wanna hit 1050 for lunch w/ me and uni?

I am possibly meeting with a perfusionist from Presby for lunch.. only penciled in though. What time?

Great, now the whole FFA is gonna get it. I call dibs on infecting GMTAN.

Too late. I've been licking elevator buttons for weeks now. GMTAN is a goner.

I'm IN for FBG Ebola lunch cornhole. Does Presby have a deli we can eat at? May as well eat in the belly of the beast IMO.

 

[wazoo11]

Logged into Facebook to see fake outrage of Ebola. Now I'm having symptoms of a headache.

Am I screwed?

 

[Ned]

I'm more worried about common contact points than people sneezing directly into each other's faces....

How many times a day do you rub your eyes, nose, mouth? You'd be surprised...

What about nipples?

 

[culdeus]

Mrs SB works in healthcare and just flew to :drumroll: Cleveland this Sunday.

That's nothing... I live in Cleveland and I am flying to Dallas on Monday for a week....... not that I am a healthcare worker or anything, but needless to say the wife is um.. not pleased.

That is nothing, I work in the Dallas Presby OR all the time. Have been there several times the last couple weeks. Will be there again tomorrow.

Should I panic?

Lunch? Wanna hit 1050 for lunch w/ me and uni?

I am possibly meeting with a perfusionist from Presby for lunch.. only penciled in though. What time?

Whenever, Uni and I work right by there. I can come pick you up. We can eat and makeout afterwards.

 

[TheIronSheik]

I'm more worried about common contact points than people sneezing directly into each other's faces....

How many times a day do you rub your eyes, nose, mouth? You'd be surprised...

What about nipples?

Oddly enough, it says that Ebola could stay in your semen for 3 months.

 

[Fennis]

Does the first nurse's boyfriend have it or not?

I don't see the news reporting it.

she's a 7 on the Offdee scale, but a 10 on the Ebola scale.

 

[Ned]

I'm more worried about common contact points than people sneezing directly into each other's faces....

How many times a day do you rub your eyes, nose, mouth? You'd be surprised...

What about nipples?

Oddly enough, it says that Ebola could stay in your seamen for 3 months.

It's an outrage they haven't quarantined the entire US Navy.

 

[Josie Maran]

Mrs SB works in healthcare and just flew to :drumroll: Cleveland this Sunday.

That's nothing... I live in Cleveland and I am flying to Dallas on Monday for a week....... not that I am a healthcare worker or anything, but needless to say the wife is um.. not pleased.

That is nothing, I work in the Dallas Presby OR all the time. Have been there several times the last couple weeks. Will be there again tomorrow.

Should I panic?

Lunch? Wanna hit 1050 for lunch w/ me and uni?

I am possibly meeting with a perfusionist from Presby for lunch.. only penciled in though. What time?

Great, now the whole FFA is gonna get it. I call dibs on infecting GMTAN.

Too late. I've been licking elevator buttons for weeks now. GMTAN is a goner.I'm IN for FBG Ebola lunch cornhole. Does Presby have a deli we can eat at? May as well eat in the belly of the beast IMO.

This is bull####! Between you and Zooks, 80% of that thread is already a Petri dish. And no doubt Bob will take care of the rest just by association.

I never get to kill anybody.

 

[msommer]

Sold all my holdings of Fruit Bat Soup, Inc.

Way to sell low...

 

[Hilts]

Clearly the Dallas hospital wasn't well equipped to handle their first case. Duncan should have been sent to a facility better equipped. In any case, they will implement new protocols such as the buddy system and that will be that.

You guys are acting like we have never seen infectious diseases before. Tens of thousands of Americans die from infectious diseases a year, but for some reason you all like to panic over one death with Ebola.

These kinds of posts are getting more and more annoying.

As are most posts which bring reality to situations.

 

[Fennis]

I treated one of the American Ebola patients. Like you, I was anxious, too

Informative read.

 

[shader]

I treated one of the American Ebola patients. Like you, I was anxious, too

Informative read.

I think the patient being shipped to Atlanta is a good step. Send any all patients to hospitals that are equipped to deal with this (like the one in Atlanta and this one in Nebraska), and the current US outbreak will end quickly.

 

[Sinn Fein]

We should probably fire the surgeon general over this, no?

 

[TheIronSheik]

We should probably fire the surgeon general over this, no?

Why bother. Probably already has Ebola.

 

[TheIronSheik]

Turns out she was sick on the plane.

 

[Parrothead]

Turns out she was sick on the plane.

don't worry, we got this

 

[SacramentoBob]

I just coughed on all the FBG servers. No sense in only 10% of us dying.

 

[squistion]

We should probably fire the surgeon general over this, no?

There is no surgeon general to fire, thanks to the Republicans in the Senate.

 

[Harry Manback]

Turns out she was sick on the plane.

Then she should be criminally charged.

 

[TheIronSheik]

Turns out she was sick on the plane.

Then she should be criminally charged.

They can take it up with her after we get done pressing charges on the first guy for coming to America with the disease.

 

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BBC breaking News

Second healthcare worker positive for Ebola

"Both health workers treated Liberian man Thomas Eric Duncan, who died last week after becoming the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the US.

A senior Dallas official said there was a "real possibility" of further cases, and contingencies were being prepared."

 

[TheIronSheik]

BBC breaking News

Second healthcare worker positive for Ebola

"Both health workers treated Liberian man Thomas Eric Duncan, who died last week after becoming the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the US.

A senior Dallas official said there was a "real possibility" of further cases, and contingencies were being prepared."

 

[culdeus]

BBC breaking News

Second healthcare worker positive for Ebola

"Both health workers treated Liberian man Thomas Eric Duncan, who died last week after becoming the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the US.

A senior Dallas official said there was a "real possibility" of further cases, and contingencies were being prepared."

I guess it takes a long time for news to reach the other side of the globe these days.

 

[Harry Manback]

Turns out she was sick on the plane.

Then she should be criminally charged.

They can take it up with her after we get done pressing charges on the first guy for coming to America with the disease.

He was tried, convicted and punished with treatment withheld, his sentence was death.

 

[GroveDiesel]

I can't believe the Ebola thread has turned political.

If past decisions on spending are having a direct effect on this current situation, then they need to be addressed. Is there anyone who disagrees with me that the federal government should spend whatever it has to, without limitation, to either contain or solve this problem?

I think a good hard look has to be taken at how the CDC and other health-related government organs spent the money they were given.

I've seen stories about all sorts of research funded by CDC that had nothing to do with what I believe their core mission is: responding to the threat of infectious disease. Lesbian obesity, fighting the privatization of liquor stores, etc. I haven't read into it heavily, but I am not shocked that the CDC has bloated and suffered from mission creep over the years. Their move into obesity - while not utterly ridiculous - is an obvious example.

I've also seen a story detailing how money was given no-bid to a company (Siga, now bankrupt) run by political allies rather than to a company (Chimerix - Brincidofovir) currently at the forefront of anti-viral research. Siga even got a troublesome goverment lead negotiator removed during the process. Think of a viral version of Solyndra.

Fair enough. It's all worth looking at. And if it leads to political recriminations, so be it.I think we all want a CDC with enough money to deal with these types of issues, and yet not waste money on irrelevant matters for political purposes. Whatever the best methods are to achieve this is what we need to pursue.

It's already been looked into. They're wasting money on all sorts of stuff like origami condoms, poop flinging chimps, horny fruit flies and whether yoga helps menopause. In fact, the GAO determined that they had major gaps in accountability and that they could easily cut funding without putting important projects at risk.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2791744/origami-condoms-michelle-obama-gardening-games-poop-throwing-chimps-national-institutes-health-cried-poor-ebola-money-wacky-research.html#ixzz3GANPdOZT

But yeah, blame the Tea Party boogie man.