Ebola (2 Viewers)

[Josie Maran]

A middle-school principal in Mississippi is on leave from work this week because he recently set foot on the African continent.

The bizarre events at Hazlehurst Middle School near Jackson, Miss., illustrate how just a few diagnosed cases of Ebola in the United States have prompted bursts of panic in unexpected places.

In this case, it was triggered by the principal attending his brother's funeral.

That funeral was held in Zambia a country in Africa, as some panicked parents correctly discerned, but one that's some 4,800 kilometres away from the Ebola-stricken area, roughly the distance from Edmonton to El Salvador.

A crush of parents descended upon the school last week and demanded to take their children home. The crowd got so big they had to free up the gym to make room for the parents seeking to sign waiver forms to get their kids out of class.

The principal was placed on vacation, and was meeting with infectious-disease experts, school superintendent John Sullivan said in an interview Monday. As far as his prognosis goes, it's so far, so good.

"He did not want to be a distraction to the learning process," said Sullivan, who declined to name the principal. "I commend him for that."

Various media reports have identified the man, but with his name spelled a number of different ways. His leave of absence will probably last the rest of this week, Sullivan said.

Footage from an area TV station last week illustrated the extent of the fear. Some parents went to the high school a different school to withdraw their children out of fear that the virus might be branching out between institutions.

One mother said she wasn't taking any chances even if she didn't believe the rumours that the middle-school principal might be ill: "I don't want Ebola and I don't want my child to have Ebola," she told the local news crew.

"I don't think (it's dangerous) but I'd rather be safe than sorry."

That unfounded rumour had a spillover effect way, way beyond the local high school. In Hazlehurst, Ga., a school district had to clarify that it was not the Hazlehurst in Mississippi.

It's not clear that the message got through. The very first comment on the Georgia district's Facebook post was: "So our principle (sic) has Ebola?"

http://www.insidehalton.com/news-story/4924512-america-s-ebola-jitters-felt-far-and-wide/

I hope all these people get Ebola.

 

[jon_mx]

As stupid as it is to be fearful of getting Ebola here in the US, it is just as stupid to poo-poo what is going on in West Africa and compare it to anything that is going on here. The disease has already taken a significant toll and not even close to peaking. The impact of any travel ban is trivial compared to the devastation these countries will be seeing. The last thing we need are people from this area traveling else where. These countries need aid from the world and an aggressive program to isolate the virus, educate the people, and medical treatment for those infected. Or we can take the who cares if 10 percent of their population could be wiped out, they have AIDS anyways.

 

[Tom Servo]

Ron Klain misses second WH meeting since being appointed. -- You'd think he could at least duck in to get himself up to speed.

Information from the WH pool report about the meeting in general.

 

[msommer]

As stupid as it is to be fearful of getting Ebola here in the US, it is just as stupid to poo-poo what is going on in West Africa and compare it to anything that is going on here. The disease has already taken a significant toll and not even close to peaking. The impact of any travel ban is trivial compared to the devastation these countries will be seeing. The last thing we need are people from this area traveling else where. These countries need aid from the world and an aggressive program to isolate the virus, educate the people, and medical treatment for those infected. Or we can take the who cares if 10 percent of their population could be wiped out, they have AIDS anyways.

As I posted earlier in the thread the indications that more than one million affected by the end of the year are a guess on top of an estimate on top of a projection.

Reality is that no one knows how many are affected.

But the vast majority of thóse affected do not have the means to travel anyway, so we won't, in any part of the world, be hit by a deluge of Ebola stricken people coming by air, which in essence is the only way a sick person can survive the time it takes to get to Europe or the US.

 

[culdeus]

So surely we are up to 100 cases here by now right?

 

[Ned]

Hey guys,

I'm starting up a new website, but first I need some start-up capital. Who wants in?

http://www.vomittracker.com/

 

[3C's]

So surely we are up to 100 cases here by now right?

Only a matter of time until this takes off explosively.

Bet you thought I was gonna say exponentially.

 

[Apple Jack]

Exponential means, at the very least, a number multiplied by itself, no?

Exponential growth results when there is a constant rate of growth. It is just like compounding interest. It starts off slower, but each time period the actual growth increases eventhough the rate of growth is constant. It does not matter if the growth is only 1,000 for one month, it can still be exponential. But the next month the growth will be more. People here seem to be hung up that it has to go up by a square of itself to be exponential, but that is simply not the case.

Apple Jack, remember the time you bought a new stock and the price dropped 50% every few weeks? Jon means the opposite of that.

I need to go back to seventh grade and have a talk with Mrs. Aronson about what she is teaching in that math class.

 

[msommer]

So surely we are up to 100 cases here by now right?

Cases of hysterical overreaction? Easily...

 

[Bucky86]

Hey guys,

I'm starting up a new website, but first I need some start-up capital. Who wants in?

http://www.vomittracker.com/

Hey guy.There's only room for one nerdy Ebola monkey wearing glasses.

 

[dickey moe]

Both of my dogs had diarrhea this weekend. Should I be worried?

Did you drink?

 

[timschochet]

So far Ebola has killed one person in this country, and it's already an epidemic, and Obama had to appoint a czar. Back in the mid 80s, AIDS killed over 20,000 people before Reagan took any action at all.

 

[El Floppo]

Flu season should be fun. Especially for emergency rooms.

seriously.

no- seriously.

given the hysteria, how in the hell are people going to handle this? mandatory 21 day sick leave for a cough and a fever?

 

[jamny]

So far Ebola has killed one person in this country, and it's already an epidemic, and Obama had to appoint a czar. Back in the mid 80s, AIDS killed over 20,000 people before Reagan took any action at all.

Yeah, I saw that on facebook yesterday too.

 

[Doug B]

seriously.

no- seriously.

given the hysteria, how in the hell are people going to handle this? mandatory 21 day sick leave for a cough and a fever?

America's collective ADD might actually be helpful here. Come Thanksgiving or so, people will realize in the back of their minds that "Hey, no one's got Ebola anymore!** " and thus "the flu" will be regarded as "the flu" once more.

** in the USA. African cases aren't in the collective American public consciousness.

 

[culdeus]

seriously.

no- seriously.

given the hysteria, how in the hell are people going to handle this? mandatory 21 day sick leave for a cough and a fever?

America's collective ADD might actually be helpful here. Come Thanksgiving or so, people will realize in the back of their minds that "Hey, no one's got Ebola anymore!** " and thus "the flu" will be regarded as "the flu" once more.

** in the USA. African cases aren't in the collective American public consciousness.

Come Thanksgiving? How about now. Nobody has ebola now in this country.

 

[El Floppo]

seriously.

no- seriously.

given the hysteria, how in the hell are people going to handle this? mandatory 21 day sick leave for a cough and a fever?

America's collective ADD might actually be helpful here. Come Thanksgiving or so, people will realize in the back of their minds that "Hey, no one's got Ebola anymore!** " and thus "the flu" will be regarded as "the flu" once more.

** in the USA. African cases aren't in the collective American public consciousness.

Come Thanksgiving? How about now. Nobody has ebola now in this country.

but... but... but... EBOLA

 

[timschochet]

So far Ebola has killed one person in this country, and it's already an epidemic, and Obama had to appoint a czar. Back in the mid 80s, AIDS killed over 20,000 people before Reagan took any action at all.

Yeah, I saw that on facebook yesterday too.

i don't read facebook.

 

[Ditka Butkus]

Flu season should be fun. Especially for emergency rooms.

seriously.

no- seriously.

given the hysteria, how in the hell are people going to handle this? mandatory 21 day sick leave for a cough and a fever?

I mentioned this earlier in the thread and was mocked....The FBG who are experts on ebola will assure you that flu season will be no problem and a diagnosis can be made by a simple general practitioner by asking one question.

 

[Sinn Fein]

Flu season should be fun. Especially for emergency rooms.

seriously.

no- seriously.

given the hysteria, how in the hell are people going to handle this? mandatory 21 day sick leave for a cough and a fever?

I mentioned this earlier in the thread and was mocked....The FBG who are experts on ebola will assure you that flu season will be no problem and a diagnosis can be made by a simple general practitioner by asking one question.

Have you ever ####ed a fruit bat?

 

[Ditka Butkus]

Flu season should be fun. Especially for emergency rooms.

seriously.

no- seriously.

given the hysteria, how in the hell are people going to handle this? mandatory 21 day sick leave for a cough and a fever?

I mentioned this earlier in the thread and was mocked....The FBG who are experts on ebola will assure you that flu season will be no problem and a diagnosis can be made by a simple general practitioner by asking one question.

Have you ever ####ed a fruit bat?

Maybe two questions...

 

[dutch]

Flu season should be fun. Especially for emergency rooms.

seriously.

no- seriously.

given the hysteria, how in the hell are people going to handle this? mandatory 21 day sick leave for a cough and a fever?

I mentioned this earlier in the thread and was mocked....The FBG who are experts on ebola will assure you that flu season will be no problem and a diagnosis can be made by a simple general practitioner by asking one question.

Have you ever ####ed a fruit bat?

Maybe two questions...

2. Have you ever participated in a two girls, one cup scenario?

 

[Cliff Clavin]

seriously.

no- seriously.

given the hysteria, how in the hell are people going to handle this? mandatory 21 day sick leave for a cough and a fever?

America's collective ADD might actually be helpful here. Come Thanksgiving or so, people will realize in the back of their minds that "Hey, no one's got Ebola anymore!** " and thus "the flu" will be regarded as "the flu" once more.

** in the USA. African cases aren't in the collective American public consciousness.

Come Thanksgiving? How about now. Nobody has ebola now in this country.

Once you factor in the exponential growth, there will be millions of cases by Christmas.

 

[El Floppo]

I'm sad that fruit bats are involved in all of this. I love those things.

how much?

 

[culdeus]

seriously.

no- seriously.

given the hysteria, how in the hell are people going to handle this? mandatory 21 day sick leave for a cough and a fever?

America's collective ADD might actually be helpful here. Come Thanksgiving or so, people will realize in the back of their minds that "Hey, no one's got Ebola anymore!** " and thus "the flu" will be regarded as "the flu" once more.

** in the USA. African cases aren't in the collective American public consciousness.

Come Thanksgiving? How about now. Nobody has ebola now in this country.

Once you factor in the exponential growth, there will be millions of cases by Christmas.

0^2t = ?

 

[Cliff Clavin]

seriously.

no- seriously.

given the hysteria, how in the hell are people going to handle this? mandatory 21 day sick leave for a cough and a fever?

America's collective ADD might actually be helpful here. Come Thanksgiving or so, people will realize in the back of their minds that "Hey, no one's got Ebola anymore!** " and thus "the flu" will be regarded as "the flu" once more.

** in the USA. African cases aren't in the collective American public consciousness.

Come Thanksgiving? How about now. Nobody has ebola now in this country.

Once you factor in the exponential growth, there will be millions of cases by Christmas.

0^2t = ?

0^2t = 3,654,215

 

[3C's]

seriously.

no- seriously.

given the hysteria, how in the hell are people going to handle this? mandatory 21 day sick leave for a cough and a fever?

America's collective ADD might actually be helpful here. Come Thanksgiving or so, people will realize in the back of their minds that "Hey, no one's got Ebola anymore!** " and thus "the flu" will be regarded as "the flu" once more.

** in the USA. African cases aren't in the collective American public consciousness.

Come Thanksgiving? How about now. Nobody has ebola now in this country.

Once you factor in the exponential growth, there will be millions of cases by Christmas.

0^2t = ?

Where's MOP when you need him?

 

[Doug B]

The FBG who are experts on ebola will assure you that flu season will be no problem and a diagnosis can be made by a simple general practitioner by asking one question.

... you do know that your regular ol' family GP can affirmatively diagnose influenza and rule out Ebola with a cheek swab, right? What they can't readily do (yet) is positively ID Ebola in the office. But they won't need to.

GPs and drugstore nurses across America can pretty much rule out Ebola anyway when presented with flu, strep, etc. The odds of all the just-so conditions being present in their next patient are as good as zero.

 

[Doug B]

Come Thanksgiving? How about now. Nobody has ebola now in this country.

Agreed, but we're talking about perceptions here, not reality. Still need a few weeks for local yokels to accept that the quarantine of their local school principal (or whatever) has "safely" cleared "quarantine".

 

[Tom Servo]

So far Ebola has killed one person in this country, and it's already an epidemic, and Obama had to appoint a czar. Back in the mid 80s, AIDS killed over 20,000 people before Reagan took any action at all.

And the band played on?

 

[the moops]

So far Ebola has killed one person in this country, and it's already an epidemic, and Obama had to appoint a czar. Back in the mid 80s, AIDS killed over 20,000 people before Reagan took any action at all.

Yeah, I saw that on facebook yesterday too.

i don't read facebook.

You should. Maybe that way you would write fewer words here

 

[jon_mx]

So far Ebola has killed one person in this country, and it's already an epidemic, and Obama had to appoint a czar. Back in the mid 80s, AIDS killed over 20,000 people before Reagan took any action at all.

Yeah, I saw that on facebook yesterday too.

i don't read facebook.

You should. Maybe that way you would write fewer words here

I disagree. It would only serve as another source of material for Tim to post here.

 

[Hilts]

Just got out of some high level ebola training. They're refusing to call it as such (instead referring to it as strict isolation room training). Fun times. We got an entire isolation unit set up over the weekend to do total training.

 

[Fennis]

Just got out of some high level ebola training. They're refusing to call it as such (instead referring to it as strict isolation room training). Fun times. We got an entire isolation unit set up over the weekend to do total training.

 

[Fennis]

The FBG who are experts on ebola will assure you that flu season will be no problem and a diagnosis can be made by a simple general practitioner by asking one question.

... you do know that your regular ol' family GP can affirmatively diagnose influenza and rule out Ebola with a cheek swab, right? What they can't readily do (yet) is positively ID Ebola in the office. But they won't need to.

GPs and drugstore nurses across America can pretty much rule out Ebola anyway when presented with flu, strep, etc. The odds of all the just-so conditions being present in their next patient are as good as zero.

Unless someone has ebola *and* the flu.

 

[TheIronSheik]

The FBG who are experts on ebola will assure you that flu season will be no problem and a diagnosis can be made by a simple general practitioner by asking one question.

... you do know that your regular ol' family GP can affirmatively diagnose influenza and rule out Ebola with a cheek swab, right? What they can't readily do (yet) is positively ID Ebola in the office. But they won't need to.

GPs and drugstore nurses across America can pretty much rule out Ebola anyway when presented with flu, strep, etc. The odds of all the just-so conditions being present in their next patient are as good as zero.

Unless someone has ebola *and* the flu.

Flubola? Or eFlu?

 

[jon_mx]

The FBG who are experts on ebola will assure you that flu season will be no problem and a diagnosis can be made by a simple general practitioner by asking one question.

... you do know that your regular ol' family GP can affirmatively diagnose influenza and rule out Ebola with a cheek swab, right? What they can't readily do (yet) is positively ID Ebola in the office. But they won't need to.

GPs and drugstore nurses across America can pretty much rule out Ebola anyway when presented with flu, strep, etc. The odds of all the just-so conditions being present in their next patient are as good as zero.

Unless someone has ebola *and* the flu.

Flubola? Or eFlu?

eFlu.....you can catch it over the intrawebs now?

 

[Swing 51]

On October 19, the Rwandan Ministry of Health introduced new Ebola Virus Disease screening requirements. Visitors who have been in the United States or Spain during the last 22 days are now required to report their medical condition—regardless of whether they are experiencing symptoms of Ebola—by telephone by dialing 114 between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. for the duration of their visit to Rwanda (if less than 21 days), or for the first 21 days of their visit to Rwanda. Rwandan authorities continue to deny entry to visitors who traveled to Guinea, Liberia, Senegal, or Sierra Leone within the past 22 days.

Message for U.S. Citizens: Kigali (Rwanda), New Ebola Screening Procedures for Travelers from the United States and Spain

https://www.osac.gov/Pages/ContentReportDetails.aspx?cid=16472&__Referrer=morning_newsletter_21_10_2014

 

[Godsbrother]

I am thinking of starting an Ebola rumor here at work so the office can close for a couple of weeks. I could use a vacation.

 

[Godsbrother]

On October 19, the Rwandan Ministry of Health introduced new Ebola Virus Disease screening requirements. Visitors who have been in the United States or Spain during the last 22 days are now required to report their medical condition—regardless of whether they are experiencing symptoms of Ebola—by telephone by dialing 114 between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. for the duration of their visit to Rwanda (if less than 21 days), or for the first 21 days of their visit to Rwanda. Rwandan authorities continue to deny entry to visitors who traveled to Guinea, Liberia, Senegal, or Sierra Leone within the past 22 days.

Message for U.S. Citizens: Kigali (Rwanda), New Ebola Screening Procedures for Travelers from the United States and Spain

https://www.osac.gov/Pages/ContentReportDetails.aspx?cid=16472&__Referrer=morning_newsletter_21_10_2014

Dang it! I was planning on going to Rwanda...

 

[Hilts]

I am thinking of starting an Ebola rumor here at work so the office can close for a couple of weeks. I could use a vacation.

I've been telling everyone at my work I'm exhibiting ebola like symptoms. They just laugh it off.

 

[TheIronSheik]

The only thing worse than someone infected with Ebola is a person infected with Ebola and holding a 120 oz. fountain soda.

 

[jon_mx]

I am thinking of starting an Ebola rumor here at work so the office can close for a couple of weeks. I could use a vacation.

I've been telling everyone at my work I'm exhibiting ebola like symptoms. They just laugh it off.

Poorly played. You should have just said you are dating a girl from Liberia who came and visited a couple weeks ago. Then start to cough.

 

[El Floppo]

The only thing worse than someone infected with Ebola is a person infected with Ebola and holding a 120 oz. fountain soda.

X

The only thing worse is the Man trying to keep the ebola infected from drinking sodas out of garbage cans

 

[Sinn Fein]

I predict more stupid political posts about the Ebola in the FFA than number of people infected.

Winner, Winner, Ebola Dinner

 

[Sinn Fein]

There once was a man from Liberia

Who coughed and created an hysteria

He puked on his bed

He ended up dead

Just wait till you see his bacteria

 

[3C's]

Czar doing work? http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/21/ebola-travel-restrictions-dhs-screening-jfk-dulles-ohare-newark-atlanta/17655889/

 

[3C's]

This might be a little

Experts have brought to the public’s attention that Ebola is a genetically modified organism developed in US bio-warfare laboratories in Africa.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/10/20/382993/ebola-developed-in-us-biowarfare-labs/

 

[Parrothead]

This might be a little

Experts have brought to the public’s attention that Ebola is a genetically modified organism developed in US bio-warfare laboratories in Africa.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/10/20/382993/ebola-developed-in-us-biowarfare-labs/

wait till the airborne version we made gets out

 

[3C's]

This might be a little

Experts have brought to the public’s attention that Ebola is a genetically modified organism developed in US bio-warfare laboratories in Africa.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/10/20/382993/ebola-developed-in-us-biowarfare-labs/

wait till the airborne version we made gets out

Dirty bomb for the win!