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CDC: U.S. health worker with Ebola should not have flown on commercial jet...no shit?
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/15/health/texas-ebola-outbreak/index.html
We have doctors going to restaurants when they are supposed to be quarantined, nurse flying across the country after the patient they were watching dies…and their partner is taking herself to the hospital with the same disease…and we are only talking about screening some of the airports? While I am not even talking about how the virus is breaking containment, when are we going to start taking this seriously? How many dead Americans before enough is enough? 10, 100, 1,000 or 10,000?
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/15/health/texas-ebola-outbreak/index.html
We have doctors going to restaurants when they are supposed to be quarantined, nurse flying across the country after the patient they were watching dies…and their partner is taking herself to the hospital with the same disease…and we are only talking about screening some of the airports? While I am not even talking about how the virus is breaking containment, when are we going to start taking this seriously? How many dead Americans before enough is enough? 10, 100, 1,000 or 10,000?
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My big issue is why are we treating people all over the place? They just flew the nurse from Dallas to Maryland to be treated - WTF?? Isn't there a greater risk by moving patients all over the place? Emory was the place the first victims were flown to, why were all patients not treated there? Now we have 3 states where Ebola patients have been treated. Containment and isolation, hello??
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Heard yesterday they only have two beds their in Maryland to handle those types of cases. And that 150 people fly into the U.S. from the contaminated countries a day.
But don't worry Dr Frieden is on the job!
Not sure if I should laugh or start crying!
But don't worry Dr Frieden is on the job!
Not sure if I should laugh or start crying!
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MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca
Be afraid MSgt (Join to see), be VERY afraid! I still like my Idea of an offshore hospital ship, but since I hold no clout with the Admiralty, so bee it :-)
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MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca It was outright asinine when Dr Frieden stated his reason for no travel ban. That if we stopped travel they would just cross our unprotected southern border. And we would not know what disease they are carrying in to the country and have no way to monitor them. Like if we actually know now what crosses the border and how well we keep tabs on those who fly in. Hell 50% of the illegals here now are on expired visas and they don't keep track of that. Truly great leadership, NOT!
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PO1 Tony Peters
the Nurse in "Maryland" was transferred to NIH one of the 4 (I think) hospitals fully capable of dealing with an outbreak.
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Some of my friends and family have a place to go if it starts spreading fast that is away from any population larger than 2000 and the site is still 8 miles from there. We have our own well, food stores, medical supplies, guns and ammo for 5 months. But if necessary we could stay a lot longer. So people need to take it seriously and the government needs to get a clue.
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SFC Boots Attaway
MSG Brad Sand You need to bring food for at least 3 months also. LOL You should have plenty of areas up there that you could bug out to up there though. An isolated area along a river or lake would be great as long as you have a food and water source. A couple of life straws will come in handy also.
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Boots, old buddy, message me privately on this. I'll take you up on it. :-) Are you a prepper? Seems like a good idea if Ebola does "take off" in the USA, but I don't see that happening.
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Great question, MSG Brad Sand. I think that Ebola is just a little more contagious (easy to transmit) than I thought, and probably than most people thought.
I'd say we'll take it seriously when more Americans get infected and die from the Ebola virus. I don't think it will take too terribly many in number to scare/shock Americans into reality. This is a serious threat - especially when healthcare workers who are professionals and are taking precautions get infected.
Testing potentially infected (but non-symptomatic) travelers who enter the U.S. is a weak attempt to stop the virus from spreading in the U.S. If I travel to Liberia, contract Ebola, then fly back here and get tested on day #5, say, or even day #10, and I don't have any symptoms ... what happens the next day when I start having symptoms. Some people will go to the hospital, others will not. And we could have a real mess on our hands.
It seems that the CDC's guidelines for how Ebola is transmitted may have to be tweaked, based on recent experience right here in the U.S.
I'd say we'll take it seriously when more Americans get infected and die from the Ebola virus. I don't think it will take too terribly many in number to scare/shock Americans into reality. This is a serious threat - especially when healthcare workers who are professionals and are taking precautions get infected.
Testing potentially infected (but non-symptomatic) travelers who enter the U.S. is a weak attempt to stop the virus from spreading in the U.S. If I travel to Liberia, contract Ebola, then fly back here and get tested on day #5, say, or even day #10, and I don't have any symptoms ... what happens the next day when I start having symptoms. Some people will go to the hospital, others will not. And we could have a real mess on our hands.
It seems that the CDC's guidelines for how Ebola is transmitted may have to be tweaked, based on recent experience right here in the U.S.
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CW2 Ernest Krutzsch
It's like Cancer, I smoked for over 35 years, my excuse...Cancer only happens to other people, well...it happened to me. Americans are only involved when it happens to them, that makes the Texas cases very important. I think we need to be a bit more protective of who we let in the country and from where. It can be beaten, but not if we just play it off as something that happens to other people.
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