Drastic action needed on Ebola

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myrobbins7 said:
CNN just had a story where Anderson Cooper reported on a telephone conversation with the partner of the Ebola patient in Dallas. She is finally under some sort of quarantine at her apartment. But she told Cooper that her partners bed sheets were still on the bed and that somebody had brought her some bleach by her apartment to disinfect it. You have to be kidding me! They get 14 hazmat teams out if they even suspect a meth lab was ever at a place. And this is what they do about Ebola? Guess which stock I am buying today.
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Ashliegh Banfield was reporting on this on her show. She was going off big time.
 
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jamesd1628 said:
I believe you've lost track of the conversation. My original point, and the one I've consistently argued for here, is that people are more scared of ebola than they are the flu, even those in this thread who choose to cite a statistic (and a faulty one at that) to argue that they should be more scared of the flu.
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And what you keep missing is this: Most, if not all of us have at one point or the other had the flu and lived (well, the alternative may explain LG and others). NONE of us has had Ebola yet. The best mortality rates for an Ebola outbreak are 40-50%. The flu does not kill 40-50% of the people it infects. Ergo, I am way more afraid of contracting Ebola and dying than the flu and living.
 
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Word on the street is Typhoid Mary from Liberia knew he was infected and purposefully came to the US for treatment. Supposedly he bent to the aid of a lady convulsing and what not in the street, took her in hopes of finding her medical treatment along with her family. She's dead.... Family is dead and dude is in Dallas.

This BS is getting out of control.
 
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Carl Pickens said:
Word on the street is Typhoid Mary from Liberia knew he was infected and purposefully came to the US for treatment. Supposedly he bent to the aid of a lady convulsing and what not in the street, took her in hopes of finding her medical treatment along with her family. She's dead.... Family is dead and dude is in Dallas.

This BS is getting out of control.
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Word on the street ? Sounds like just the usual anti-African speculation on the websites you visit every day.

If that were the case, you'd think he'd have sought treatment right away or brought up Ebola at the hospital.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Word on the street ? Sounds like just the usual anti-African speculation on the websites you visit every day.

If that were the case, you'd think he'd have sought treatment right away or brought up Ebola at the hospital.
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I think he did seek treatment right away. He was given antibiotics and released.
 
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The odds of a widespread outbreak are small, but that doesn't mean it's not possible, nor is something we shouldn't be prepared for. If anything, when dealing with a threat of something so deadly, it's probably best to be prepared for the worst. Because when the improbable happens, you don't want to be up **** creek with out a paddle.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Word on the street ? Sounds like just the usual anti-African speculation on the websites you visit every day.

If that were the case, you'd think he'd have sought treatment right away or brought up Ebola at the hospital.
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Or catch a flight to America and receive the worlds best care. All you have to do is lie on a form and swipe your cc
 
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lawgator1 said:
Word on the street ? Sounds like just the usual anti-African speculation on the websites you visit every day.

If that were the case, you'd think he'd have sought treatment right away or brought up Ebola at the hospital.
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There is at least one story saying that he knew:

Many sick in US Ebola patient's Liberia hometown

"Meanwhile, Liberian authorities Thursday announced plans to prosecute Duncan, saying the delivery driver lied about his Ebola status upon leaving the country."

Not sure how reputable that source is.
 
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And now we have word that some guys working in the contamined ambulance were never contacted about possible exposure:

Dallas Paramedic: We Weren

"A Dallas paramedic claimed he drove the ambulance that the US Ebola patient was transported in and that he was not contacted by anyone about the potential exposure. He claims he drove the ambulance sometime after the patient was transported. The Dallas Fire Department left the ambulance that transported Ebola patient Thomas Duncan to the hospital in service for at least 48 hours before putting it in quarantine on Wednesday. The ambulance was exposed to the Ebola virus when Duncan was transported on September 28th."

There seems to be a great deal of incompetence involved in this entire thing.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Word on the street ? Sounds like just the usual anti-African speculation on the websites you visit every day.

If that were the case, you'd think he'd have sought treatment right away or brought up Ebola at the hospital.
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Nothing I said was anti-African. As a matter of fact, what I did say is that he tried to help someone in spite of the danger .....a rather noble act......ignorant liberal pansy sympathizer.
 
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VolsNSkinsFan said:
We are screwed

@JohnGGalt: BREAKING PHOTO: Chopper 5 from @wfaachannel8 showing how Ebola vomit was cleaned up http://t.co/FtMLHR8l5z
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If that's legit, I don't know what to say. No CDC, no hazmat suits, nothing roped off, just spraying it down with water into the storm drain. Jesus. Everyone in the pic should be added to the contact list (but I'm sure won't be), as well as anyone who walked by and/or stepped in said vomit before it got "cleaned up" (and how could they even identify such people?). All I can say is, I hope that's not really how it got cleaned up.
 
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jamesd1628 said:
And now ebola scares in Kentucy (Two Patients Quarantined In Kentucky With Ebola-Like Symptoms | LEX18.com) and Utah (Patient with Ebola-like symptoms 'unlikely' to have virus, Primary Children's Hospital says | KSL.com). Those will probably turn out to be nothing, but I think we're getting an idea of what we have in store for us over the next several weeks and months.
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Yes, Americans will be going to the hospital over a simple cough and demand a test for ebola. The Kentucky article says the two patients have already tested negative for ebola. The Utah case says the patient did travel to Africa but not to countries in the impact zones and possibility of ebola is remote
 
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jamesd1628 said:
If that's legit, I don't know what to say. No CDC, no hazmat suits, nothing roped off, just spraying it down with water into the storm drain. Jesus. Everyone in the pic should be added to the contact list (but I'm sure won't be), as well as anyone who walked by and/or stepped in said vomit before it got "cleaned up" (and how could they even identify such people?). All I can say is, I hope that's not really how it got cleaned up.
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My sarcasm meter just pegged.
 
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