"Here's How You Get Ebola"

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by hillbilly

Oh no, I was just talking about that reporter that flew back to the states from the infected area and went to pick up food in NJ. One of their team had already came down with Ebola and the reporters had agreed not to go out in public until they were sure they were not going to get sick. Been all over the tv news channels. I'm just wondering how we can stop this if we can't keep people from putting others at risk after they know they've been exposed to it.

Poppycock. You aren't contagious if you don't have symptoms. If he had as much as a headache, you've got a point. But as it is, it's just Hypeline News.

[hillbilly]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Poppycock. You aren't contagious if you don't have symptoms. If he had as much as a headache, you've got a point. But as it is, it's just Hypeline News.

OK, how about the heath care worker from that hospital in Dallas that now has it, makes two workers in the same hosp? Didn't our nightly news just say something about one ofthem flew from TX to OH to see family After Treating the man who died.. AND when she flew back to TX she had a fever On The Plane? Perhaps I just heard the news wrong? If I heard it correctly, was that a very smart thing to do?

It's like this. If it were MY SAY, anyone that treated someone would keep their ass planted in one spot until it is certain without a doubt they were not going to get sick after being exposed to it. This is peoples lives at stake here, not something to gamble with.

Hope I make sense... I'm juggling 5 month old twin granddaughters in my lap as I watched the news and try to piece all this together. I know the doctor told us to keep them home during the holidays and not have company being they were born 6.5 weeks premature. So I pretty much am very carefull about everything we do from now until they are better able to fight off any type of sickness. And I really don't give a rats ass how butthurt family or friends are during the holidays. Our ass will be planted at home as recommended by their doctor for their well being until he gives the go ahead.

[barbara]

Originally Posted by hillbilly

OK, how about the heath care worker from that hospital in Dallas that now has it, makes two workers in the same hosp? Didn't our nightly news just say something about one ofthem flew from TX to OH to see family After Treating the man who died.. AND when she flew back to TX she had a fever On The Plane? Perhaps I just heard the news wrong? If I heard it correctly, was that a very smart thing to do?

It's like this. If it were MY SAY, anyone that treated someone would keep their ass planted in one spot until it is certain without a doubt they were not going to get sick after being exposed to it. This is peoples lives at stake here, not something to gamble with.

Hope I make sense... I'm juggling 5 month old twin granddaughters in my lap as I watched the news and try to piece all this together. I know the doctor told us to keep them home during the holidays and not have company being they were born 6.5 weeks premature. So I pretty much am very carefull about everything we do from now until they are better able to fight off any type of sickness. And I really don't give a rats ass how butthurt family or friends are during the holidays. Our ass will be planted at home as recommended by their doctor for their well being until he gives the go ahead.

Good luck with your twins!

My boys were twelve weeks early and things turned out good for us. They are in their thirties now and strong young men.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by hillbilly

OK, how about the heath care worker from that hospital in Dallas that now has it, makes two workers in the same hosp? Didn't our nightly news just say something about one ofthem flew from TX to OH to see family After Treating the man who died.. AND when she flew back to TX she had a fever On The Plane? Perhaps I just heard the news wrong? If I heard it correctly, was that a very smart thing to do?

It's like this. If it were MY SAY, anyone that treated someone would keep their ass planted in one spot until it is certain without a doubt they were not going to get sick after being exposed to it. This is peoples lives at stake here, not something to gamble with.

Hope I make sense... I'm juggling 5 month old twin granddaughters in my lap as I watched the news and try to piece all this together. I know the doctor told us to keep them home during the holidays and not have company being they were born 6.5 weeks premature. So I pretty much am very carefull about everything we do from now until they are better able to fight off any type of sickness. And I really don't give a rats ass how butthurt family or friends are during the holidays. Our ass will be planted at home as recommended by their doctor for their well being until he gives the go ahead.

The lady should not have made that flight when she had the fever. Such casual contact with a beginning-stage patient isn't a likely way to spread the disease, I don't think, but it's not impossible. Given the possible consequences, it should not have happened. But where there are people, there are 'slips.'

More should be done to prevent further slips.

[nailer]

Besides a dracronian rights trampling quarantine of all exposed, what?

[bobabode]

We need a wall with a moat full of ravenous alligators starting at the Oklahoma border extending down to the gulf of Mexico.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by nailer

Besides a dracronian rights trampling quarantine of all exposed, what?

There are laws empowering state and federal authorities to impose and enforce quarantine and isolation. If the laws are implemented properly, no one's rights are being trampled. You do not have a right to endanger the health of innocent others with a deadly disease.

See http://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutl...isolation.html

Note that 'Viral hemorrhagic fevers' are thoughtfully included in the list of diseases found in the sidebar on the right. Quarantine hasn't been used much since the days of the Spanish Flu. But the powers are there.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by hillbilly

Hope I make sense... I'm juggling 5 month old twin granddaughters in my lap as I watched the news and try to piece all this together. I know the doctor told us to keep them home during the holidays and not have company being they were born 6.5 weeks premature. So I pretty much am very carefull about everything we do from now until they are better able to fight off any type of sickness. And I really don't give a rats ass how butthurt family or friends are during the holidays. Our ass will be planted at home as recommended by their doctor for their well being until he gives the go ahead.

Congrats again Grampy. Twins, whooo hooo!

[nailer]

Originally Posted by bobabode

We need a wall with a moat full of ravenous alligators starting at the Oklahoma border extending down to the gulf of Mexico.

Let's not forget Ohio's needs.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by nailer

Let's not forget Ohio's needs.

Napalm?

Naw, neutron bombs.