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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #150 on: October 05, 2014, 01:21:35 PM »
Since I don't have TV, can someone let me know if this has become a ghoulish sideshow with the reporters breathless in anticipation of his death so that they can ratchet up the fear even more?
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #151 on: October 05, 2014, 01:34:58 PM »
^^^

Not so much nationally that I have seen, but I don't watch a lot of news.

I do have a nurse friend who works the ER where this guy is at, and was working the second time he came in, and this is what she has to say;

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I don't know how much media coverage y'all are getting from here but our local news stations have been ridiculous! The level of fear that they have helped to create is exhausting!

So true to form the media, at least locally, is helping fan the flames of fear in order to keep their ratings up, I would guess.

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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #152 on: October 05, 2014, 05:06:40 PM »
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #153 on: October 05, 2014, 05:41:52 PM »
^^^ I just about snorted a big swig of Elysian 'Night Owl' beer all over the screen upon reading this.  :laugh:
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #154 on: October 06, 2014, 01:01:23 PM »
^^^ I just about snorted a big swig of Elysian 'Night Owl' beer all over the screen upon reading this.  :laugh:

My wife loves pumpkin beer, she's always excited for this time of year. Do you prefer Night Owl or Dark of the Moon?
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #155 on: October 06, 2014, 01:20:42 PM »
My wife loves pumpkin beer, she's always excited for this time of year. Do you prefer Night Owl or Dark of the Moon?

I prefer Night Owl since it has a much more pronounced pumpkin and spice flavor than does Dark of the Moon.  I have tried several pumpkin stouts and I think the style does not lend itself well to other flavors.  With the exception being I have had some very good coffee stouts, which I see as a complementary flavor to the dark stout malts.
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #156 on: October 06, 2014, 04:06:25 PM »
this is the sort of report that concerns me-

 http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_SPAIN_EBOLA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-10-06-14-41-22

 A nurse, who was knowingly treating an ebola patient in a first world hospital has been infected. (headline says "suspected". text body says it was confirmed with two tests) One could make a case that all the medical personnel infected in Africa were due to poor local protocols, substandard equipment, being over-whelmed with a flood of patients, etc- but how does a nurse in Spain, treating a single, known infectious patient, come down with it? It suggests either very poor procedures, or a virus that is a lot more infectious than we have been told. Of course, the end result is the same.

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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #157 on: October 06, 2014, 04:18:37 PM »
this is the sort of report that concerns me-

 http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_SPAIN_EBOLA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-10-06-14-41-22

 A nurse, who was knowingly treating an ebola patient in a first world hospital has been infected. (headline says "suspected". text body says it was confirmed with two tests) One could make a case that all the medical personnel infected in Africa were due to poor local protocols, substandard equipment, being over-whelmed with a flood of patients, etc- but how does a nurse in Spain, treating a single, known infectious patient, come down with it? It suggests either very poor procedures, or a virus that is a lot more infectious than we have been told. Of course, the end result is the same.

I've gotten MRSA twice from US hospitals. I'm going with very poor procedures. If it was actually airborne, highly transmissable etc it would've killed a LOT more than the <4000 people it has so far. Nothing says it will never be a danger, but as it stands it can't even cause a decent epidemic in countries where people prefer witch doctors to Western doctors and hand washing the corpse of the ebola victim (but never washing your hands) are the norm.
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #158 on: October 06, 2014, 04:20:40 PM »
Hospitals are dangerous places.  =)

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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #159 on: October 06, 2014, 04:30:23 PM »
Hospitals are dangerous places.  =)

All those darn sick people.  :O  =D
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #160 on: October 06, 2014, 06:47:57 PM »
People die in hospitals all the time, and the longer you stay the more likely it is to happen. We don't kick you out just because, we know the hospital is a bad place.

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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #161 on: October 06, 2014, 07:33:56 PM »
Many of the nurses and docs I've observed in hospitals have been scarily sloppy...no wonder MRSA is persistent in our hospitals.

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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #162 on: October 06, 2014, 09:59:56 PM »
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #163 on: October 06, 2014, 10:10:45 PM »
Jesus christ Harold WHAT THE *expletive deleted*ck

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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #164 on: October 06, 2014, 10:22:13 PM »
Kill it, kill it with fire. >:D then eat it? ???

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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #165 on: October 06, 2014, 10:28:06 PM »
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #166 on: October 06, 2014, 10:38:11 PM »
Apparently the spanish nurse has died. I got this wrong- she is in hospital under care)She went on vacation after the priest she was caring for died. 10 days later she checked into a hospital with a fever. That was Sunday.  
 The next two weeks are going to be very informative.
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #167 on: October 06, 2014, 10:40:10 PM »
Yes they will be



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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #168 on: October 06, 2014, 11:53:51 PM »
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #169 on: October 07, 2014, 11:44:58 AM »
No worries, Mr Reynolds.  In the night, a pack of coyotes licked most of it up and then they retired to the creek bed to the south to roam all over the north texas river waterways (AKA "Critter Highways").

Here's a cheerful thought to go with that:
http://www.alloutdoor.com/2014/10/02/ebola-fido/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=2014-10-07&utm_campaign=Weekly+Newsletter#sthash.XMvltUwv.dpuf

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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #170 on: October 07, 2014, 12:04:54 PM »


Harold, that is pure gold. Thank you.  :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #172 on: October 08, 2014, 09:12:52 AM »
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2782694/Ebola-victim-s-stepdaughter-took-hospital-vomiting-wildly-given-clear-return-work-nursing-assitant.html

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The stepdaughter of Texas Ebola victim, Thomas Duncan, who called 911 and rode in the ambulance with the man she calls ‘Daddy’ has been told she can return to work, MailOnline can reveal. Nursing assistant Youngor Jallah, 35, has been in 'quarantine' in her small Dallas apartment along with her husband, Aaron Yah, 43, and their four children ages 2 to 11 since Thomas Duncan's devastating diagnosis last Monday. MailOnline has reported that Mr Yah, also a nursing assistant, had been told he could return to work at the end of last week. Ms Jallah whose contact with Mr Duncan - who remains in a critical condition - was far more intimate and prolonged than that of her husband, told MailOnline on Monday: 'The CDC came yesterday. They said I can go back to work but I do not know what I will do. I will not go back yet.'

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Re: Ebola: first case has been confirmed in the US
« Reply #174 on: October 08, 2014, 09:49:39 AM »
They can test before visible symptoms
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/diagnosis/


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