Ebola!

[Henry Hawk]

Bingo!

That would be the LEFT, correct?.....

[The Troll]

  I think there should be a travel band. No travel travel to the United States from Ebola infected areas.     Those wanting to come must be isolated and cleared of any chance of them carrying Ebola.

  But the TV news are beating a dead horse.   All of the channels 24/7  trying to scare the public out of their mind.  STOP THE BULLSHIT, STOP THE GOD DAMN NEW REPORTING ON EBOLA.  Most of it is speculation. 

[Henry Hawk]

It is hard to tell, but when the World Health Organization is calling the Ebola outbreak "the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times"....another reason we need to close off our borders.

Who knows how many from Mexico that could have been in Africa that could easily walk across our borders....

Troll, I agree, I think the media is playing this for all it is worth....but....

another reason as to why we need effective leadership....

[Anne]

I don't know whether it would be factual or not but my husband and I were talking about it tonight and he said what better way for a terrorist group to take over than to start an epidemic!!!

I don't believe terrorists are trying to start an epidemic here with the Ebola virus, it would be very inefficient sending infected people here. On the other hand, Tom Clancy wrote a book that used Ebola as a terrorist weapon. It has been a long time since I read that particular book, but I think they found a way to atomize it and set it off at a convention in front of one of those misters. I think that with travel as easy as it is this was bound to happen sooner or later and Ebola is a disease that we don't know everything about. It is a virus and they mutate. Makes it harder to come up with a cure or a vaccine.

[Palehorse]

The sad reality is that, whether it is Ebola or something else, despite having the most expensive healthcare on the planet, which healthcare entities continue to validate by saying it is state of the art and ready for anything, our healthcare system and infrastructure is ill-prepared to deal with a pandemic situation of the magnitude many highly contagious diseases are capable of achieving.

Any one of you reading this could be financially ruined by one serious health issue that will require hospitalization. You may be better off croaking than to be cured and find yourself homeless and destitute; forced to eat dog food and sleep under a bridge, only to expire from exposure instead of the disease that puts you there.

[Locutus]

Then we have idiots like this:

"NBC medical correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman issued a statement tonight apologizing for reported violations of the quarantine she and her NBC News team were placed in after freelancer photographer Ashoka Mukpo, who was working with the NBC team in Liberia, was diagnosed with Ebola.

After reports of the quarantine violation, NBC News ordered Snyderman and her team to be placed in isolation. Reports from Planet Princeton and TMZ alleged that Snyderman was spotted in public, in violation of the quarantine, to pick up soup from a New Jersey restaurant."

Seriously, you're going to risk spreading Ebola just because you want some fucking soup from a restaurant?!?!???   What a bitch. 

[Palehorse]

Then we have idiots like this:

"NBC medical correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman issued a statement tonight apologizing for reported violations of the quarantine she and her NBC News team were placed in after freelancer photographer Ashoka Mukpo, who was working with the NBC team in Liberia, was diagnosed with Ebola.

After reports of the quarantine violation, NBC News ordered Snyderman and her team to be placed in isolation. Reports from Planet Princeton and TMZ alleged that Snyderman was spotted in public, in violation of the quarantine, to pick up soup from a New Jersey restaurant."

Seriously, you're going to risk spreading Ebola just because you want some fucking soup from a restaurant?!?!???   What a bitch. 

There goes any credibility she held! 

[libby]

"Do as I say, not as I do" applies where the good doctor is concerned.

Reminds me of something that happened years ago, when I still believed that people in responsible positions (especially doctors) practiced what they preached. My first job in Northern VA was as a medical transcriptionist for a doctor who was Professor of Medicine at a local University. I loved the job because I got to follow the treatment of patients from the time they saw the doctor, the tests done, the results of the examination and tests, and final instructions to the patients. I typed it all. One day I walked from my desk to his office with some notes to patients he had dictated, ready for his signature. One of those notes contained stern advice to a patient about not smoking. I opened the door and walked in and there he sat, with his chair tilted back, his legs crossed, feet on his desk, puffing on a cigarette! I said, "Dr. S!" and he laughed; thought it was funny. 

[Locutus]

Meanwhile, back on the regular Ebola thread, a second healthcare worker has been diagnosed with the disease.  The bad thing about this one is she was on a flight from Cleveland to Dallas the evening before her symptoms presented.  CDC now wants to talk to all 132 people who were aboard Frontier Airlines Flight 1143 from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth, which landed at 8:16 p.m. CT Monday. 

[Exterminator]

Meanwhile, back on the regular Ebola thread, a second healthcare worker has been diagnosed with the disease.  The bad thing about this one is she was on a flight from Cleveland to Dallas the evening before her symptoms presented.  CDC now wants to talk to all 132 people who were aboard Frontier Airlines Flight 1143 from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth, which landed at 8:16 p.m. CT Monday. 

And so it begins...

[Locutus]

And so it begins...

All from one man. 

[Anne]

Are you really surprised at this? It is not going to be a quick fix. Ebola may be difficult to catch but it can spread quickly. People always think it won't happen to them or that they really can't spread it to other people. It is like TB, you don't hear much about that any more but it would not take much to have an outbreak of it any time and unlike Ebola we have proven drugs to treat TB.

[Locutus]

From CNN:  Because she had helped care for Dallas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, this health care worker should not have traveled on a commercial airplane, CDC Director Tom Frieden said.

At that point, health care workers were undergoing self-monitoring. They were allowed to travel but not on a commercial plane with other people, he said.

Moving forward, the CDC will ensure that no one else in such a situation travels outside of a closed environment, he said.

[Locutus]

^^  Seems like these medical professionals aren't very professional when it comes to self-policing after potential exposure. 

[Anne]

She still caught Ebola working with the first patient. I don't know if she knew she wasn't allowed to travel on a commercial airline or not, what about a city bus or subway/tram?