"You. You and your crazy life. You and your geographic anomaly. You and your drunken lesbianic ways and terrible navigational skills." - ProfArt and her holy baby
"You. You and your crazy life. You and your geographic anomaly. You and your drunken lesbianic ways and terrible navigational skills." - ProfArt and her holy baby
I'm pretty sure that all those people in West Africa who have it wouldn't say it was that hard to transmit...
Honestly the longer this epidemic continues, the more *I'm* concerned that it will mutate to become airborne... that's what viruses do...
Well do you come into contact with lots of other people's bodily fluids on a daily basis?
Also plenty of viruses never mutate to become airborne.
LIke I said, this was bound to happen sooner or later. Maybe now that's it "in the US" the public will actually care.
I don't know that the public doesn't CARE - but maybe that there really isn't anything practical that we can DO about it. For all the reasons LHC listed, even if legions of highly trained specialists went to West Africa to DO something it may not be enough or be terribly effective.
I know *I* care because I have friends who have family in that part of the world.
Our hospital has an Ebola plan in place. I'd be more concerned if there WASN'T one. I don't know the exact details but I do hope they have a waste pickup plan ahead of time.
Post by shostakovich on Sept 30, 2014 17:01:47 GMT -5
As a daily subway commuter who recently got strep throat somehow (I don't want to think about it, OKAY?), I'll admit I'm more concerned about respiratory illnesses.
Post by joshlyman on Sept 30, 2014 17:56:14 GMT -5
I am choosing to believe the infectious disease specialist I heard on NPR the other day. He told me it would be easily contained in the USA and I refuse to believe different.
I'm more freaked out by the enterovirus thingy. It's way more likely to affect my family.
I'm only half joking when I say I would buy my girls a hazmat suit in a heartbeat. But then I would really become "that" mom.
I'm still trying to decide if I was "that" mom yesterday when I wrote my kid's preschool teacher asking if they have hand washing routines in place and if there was anything (Clorox wipes, Lysol, tissues, hand soap, etc) that I could contribute to the class to help keep them all a little healthier. I finally hit send when I realized I didn't really care if I was earning myself a label :/
Listen people who are 'freaking the fuck out', don't go poking your paper-cut riddled finger in the orifices of someone with active Ebola and you will be JUST FINE.
You haven't randomly caught AIDS yet have you?
i am fully aware of how likely overhyped my paranoia is, but i have been terrified of ebola for YEARS. i never thought i would actually have to worry about it though, and the fact that it's now in the same country is freaking me the fuck out. and the fact that i travel all the time and could end up trapped in a small space with someone who has it? regardless of logic.
"You. You and your crazy life. You and your geographic anomaly. You and your drunken lesbianic ways and terrible navigational skills." - ProfArt and her holy baby
"You. You and your crazy life. You and your geographic anomaly. You and your drunken lesbianic ways and terrible navigational skills." - ProfArt and her holy baby
When you go to the hospital in the US, do they not ask if you've travelled outside of the country in the past 2 months?
It took 2 days to get him into isolation. That's actually ridiculous. He came from Liberia. That should have been question 1.
It's entirely possible he lied.
You have to understand what it's like in Liberia right now. This disease has absolutely devastated the nation. People have watched their loved ones die all around them. They cannot touch them or hug them or kiss them or even tell them they love them. They aren't allowed to care for the bodies of their loved ones after they pass.
On top of that, we're talking about a country with years and years worth of reasons to mistrust the government and foreigners. Authority figures and outsiders have done terrible things to Liberians. So they're not convinced this disease is real or that the people who are there to help aren't instead hurting them. My guess is that he wasn't forthcoming about his country of origin, which resulted in a delay in placing him into isolation.
I remain concerned about the people of West Africa and for this man and his family.
But I'm not in any way worried that Ebola will spread throughout the US the way it has in West Africa.