Ebola Chan

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Well I guess its.....


And other than some mild dick-itch I feel fine

(then again I am in the middle of rural UK so im gonna be fine)
 
I don't think its going to be a huge issue. Unless he was out and about spreading his bodily fluids on everything, sneezing and coughing would be the two big ways for him to spread it. And droplets only have a ~3-4' distance from the source as it is. Any competent hospital in the US should be able to keep Ebola from spreading. All about dat hygiene.
 
Anathe said:
I don't think its going to be a huge issue. Unless he was out and about spreading his bodily fluids on everything, sneezing and coughing would be the two big ways for him to spread it. And droplets only have a ~3-4' distance from the source as it is. Any competent hospital in the US should be able to keep Ebola from spreading. All about dat hygiene.
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It's a hospital in Texas. Texas is a SHITHOLE in many, MANY ways.
 
Shokew said:
It's a hospital in Texas. Texas is a SHITHOLE in many, MANY ways.
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Unlike those poor sad fools in Africa, people in the rural south always seek appropriate medical care in a timely fashion and never shun evidence-based medicine in favor of faith healers and charlatans...oh.
 
buster_kitten said:
Unlike those poor sad fools in Africa, people in the rural south always seek appropriate medical care in a timely fashion and never shun evidence-based medicine in favor of faith healers and charlatans...oh.
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Dallas isn't exactly rural. DFW is the fourth-largest metro area in the US, and Dallas proper is the ninth. And he'll be getting the full attention of the CDC.
 
I'm waiting for the conspiracy theories. Not the ones started by Alex Jones but the really good ones -- the government sponsored Black PR.

Like it's 30 years later and there are many people who have no idea what Operation INFEKTION was, though they know the conspiracy theory (and a sizable minority still believes it, despite the pre-1980s history of HIV having been very well documented by now).
 
Shokew said:
It's a hospital in Texas. Texas is a SHITHOLE in many, MANY ways.
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Ebola can be stopped by, I kid you not, throwing on a face mask, shield, gloves, and a gown. Despite how shitty Texas hospitals may or may not be, they're smart enough to do this much.

And this hospital actually seems to be a pretty well ranked hospital.

The fact of the matter is that the main cause of Ebola spreading, as of this moment, is through inadequate sanitation in hospitals. In the areas of Africa where it spreads, they're miserably uneducated, understaffed, and undergeared. They'll reuse gloves to save pennies over there. Here, my 8 person clinical group goes through ~100 pairs in a single 1 hour training session.

We have so much more adequate training, standards, and resources here. Not saying we shouldn't get lazy and completely ignore any threat from Ebola. Just saying that the news seems to completely ignore how we actually react to infectious diseases of this severity. It would take someone royally screwing up to cause an outbreak in a hospital here. And while errors do happen, we tend to stop making mistakes when we realize it would kill us. Sad that providers value their lives over their patients, but that's a whole different thing.

/endrant.
 
Anathe said:
Ebola can be stopped by, I kid you not, throwing on a face mask, shield, gloves, and a gown. Despite how shitty Texas hospitals may or may not be, they're smart enough to do this much.

And this hospital actually seems to be a pretty well ranked hospital.

The fact of the matter is that the main cause of Ebola spreading, as of this moment, is through inadequate sanitation in hospitals. In the areas of Africa where it spreads, they're miserably uneducated, understaffed, and undergeared. They'll reuse gloves to save pennies over there. Here, my 8 person clinical group goes through ~100 pairs in a single 1 hour training session.

We have so much more adequate training, standards, and resources here. Not saying we shouldn't get lazy and completely ignore any threat from Ebola. Just saying that the news seems to completely ignore how we actually react to infectious diseases of this severity. It would take someone royally screwing up to cause an outbreak in a hospital here. And while errors do happen, we tend to stop making mistakes when we realize it would kill us. Sad that providers value their lives over their patients, but that's a whole different thing.

/endrant.
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Good to know - I guess my anger here besides at what's on topic comes from my passionate, yet justified hatred of Texas as a state... I apologize for that and will aim to cut that shit out around here, unless truly justified.
 
Guys it's ok

We will grow stronger.
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hellbound said:
Dallas isn't exactly rural. DFW is the fourth-largest metro area in the US, and Dallas proper is the ninth. And he'll be getting the full attention of the CDC.
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You know the US ebola patient was sent home with antibiotics for two days before being hospitalized and quarantined, right? Really, though, I'm not picking on TX Health Presbyterian, the city of Dallas, the state of Texas, or second-guessing the CDC - they're awesome and I mean that literally. Like I actually gasped when a whole bunch of CDC models were declassified during the H1N1 scare a few years back. I have no doubt they'll shut this down.

That said, US media coverage of the African ebola outbreak repeatedly noted that the crisis was exacerbated by sufferers shunning hospitals and seeking treatment from traditional healers in remote villages, often crossing national borders in the process. Like the unfortunate fools didn't know what they were doing to themselves, and people in the US would not behave in such an ignorant and irrational way. Yeah, no.

Plenty of Americans are terrifying morons when it comes to infectious diseases. We're lucky that the risk for person-to-person transmission of fVHFs is so low.
 
Artard said:
Apparently private contractors are handling the clean-up of the guy's apartment. Decontamination of a building by a company known as "The Cleaning Guys" just doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence. I guess "The Mop Monkeys" were booked solid this week.
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I don't know anything about The Cleaning Guys - and some decon crews are indeed terrifyingly unprofessional - but all of them pretty much have bland names. Landlords who need a moldy dead tenant scraped out of their property don't want some BIOHAZARD EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM freaking out the neighbors and killing their future rental income.

I used to know a lady who ran an excellent decon crew whose business was called something like "Marcie's Maids."
 
A lady I know said the other day that she" can't believe that Obama let that guy with that damn flu thing into our country. He's gonna give it to everybody!"
Cause, you know, Obama is personally responsible for the medical state of every person who enters the country ever.
 
MerriedxReldnahc said:
A lady I know said the other day that she" can't believe that Obama let that guy with that damn flu thing into our country. He's gonna give it to everybody!"
Cause, you know, Obama is personally responsible for the medical state of every person who enters the country ever.
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But Obamacare should have stopped it! :roll:
 
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