Ebola spreading in West Africa: What you need to know
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Curious as to what our Right/Libertarian leaning brethren would suggest in this current state of hysteria?
- Have the Federal government take over the healthcare industry?
- Mandatory quarantine for international travellers? Who gets it? How long? Where? Armed guards?
- Mandatory training for all EMT/ER personal in level 3 biosafety? Who pays? When implemented?
- Local hospitals with 'ebola rooms'? Who pays?
- What about the upcoming flu season when a lot of people have symptoms and walk into the hospital with fevers and vomiting? Treat as ebola?
- Impeach Obama, because it's his fault. Golf, fundraising, IRS, Benghazi! Isn't he from Africa?
wkmac
Well-Known Member
SARS, West Nile, Mad Cow, AIDS..........what's next on the menu?
ImWaitingForTheDay
Annoy a conservative....Think for yourself
moreluck
golden ticket member
I will still be vigilant. I will avoid crowds and closeness with people.....flu season you know? I will use the wipes provided for wiping the cart handles. I will go early to the stores when there's less people. I sure as hell won't fly anywhere.
This practice has kept me well (no cold or flu) since 2008....it works.
This practice has kept me well (no cold or flu) since 2008....it works.
moreluck
golden ticket member
Complete incompetence.
Via NY Post:
A nurse at the Texas hospital where two of her colleagues contracted Ebola has blasted the center, saying it violated basic safety principles and put patients and staff at risk.
“I can no longer defend my hospital,” Briana Aguirre — a nurse who treated friend and co-worker Nina Pham — told the “Today” show. “They should have known that they were not handling this well. They should have known this was getting out of hand.
“I watched them violate basic principles of nursing care,” she added.
Aguirre went on to condemn the protective gear she wore while working at the hospital.
“Initially we were advised to wear a gown, front and back,” she said. “By the time i partook in the Ebola situation at my hospital, we were already wearing what I guess would be hazmat suits, they were tydex suits.”
“It was basically just like you would have in a snow suit or any hoodie,” Aguirre continued. “It would zip up to about here [pointing to the bottom of her neck] and then from there it would go into a hood around my face…then on top of that was a mask in front of me that would go under my chin.”
Aguirre then pointed out that there was a space of exposed skin between her chin and her neck, roughly where an Adams apple on a man would be located.
“I threw a fit, I just couldn’t believe it,” she said. “I flat out asked several infectious disease nurses, I asked the CDC, why would I be wearing two pairs of gloves, three pairs of booties, a plastic suit covering my entire body, and then leave my neck hanging out this much so that something can potentially go close to my mouth and nose?”
Via NY Post:
A nurse at the Texas hospital where two of her colleagues contracted Ebola has blasted the center, saying it violated basic safety principles and put patients and staff at risk.
“I can no longer defend my hospital,” Briana Aguirre — a nurse who treated friend and co-worker Nina Pham — told the “Today” show. “They should have known that they were not handling this well. They should have known this was getting out of hand.
“I watched them violate basic principles of nursing care,” she added.
Aguirre went on to condemn the protective gear she wore while working at the hospital.
“Initially we were advised to wear a gown, front and back,” she said. “By the time i partook in the Ebola situation at my hospital, we were already wearing what I guess would be hazmat suits, they were tydex suits.”
“It was basically just like you would have in a snow suit or any hoodie,” Aguirre continued. “It would zip up to about here [pointing to the bottom of her neck] and then from there it would go into a hood around my face…then on top of that was a mask in front of me that would go under my chin.”
Aguirre then pointed out that there was a space of exposed skin between her chin and her neck, roughly where an Adams apple on a man would be located.
“I threw a fit, I just couldn’t believe it,” she said. “I flat out asked several infectious disease nurses, I asked the CDC, why would I be wearing two pairs of gloves, three pairs of booties, a plastic suit covering my entire body, and then leave my neck hanging out this much so that something can potentially go close to my mouth and nose?”
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moreluck
golden ticket member
In their 2014 budget, the CDC was given $7 Billion, a 200% increase over what they received in 2000. Congress actually gave more than requested by Obama, so don’t buy any of the “Republicans cut funding” nonsense talking points.
Post #237 will show you where they can pull back some money from those ridiculous studies.
Post #237 will show you where they can pull back some money from those ridiculous studies.
It wasn't the CDC that screwed up, it was Texas Health Presbyterian. By their own sworn testimony, they did not take heed of the warnings given to them months ago by the CDC.
It should be noted that the CDC budget almost doubled (in inflation adjusted numbers), from $3.4b to $6.3b between 2000-2008. From 2008-2014 it has gone from approximately $6.3b to $6.8b. These figures are from the Cato Institute. It was the most Conservative source I could find.
http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/charts/
It should be noted that the CDC budget almost doubled (in inflation adjusted numbers), from $3.4b to $6.3b between 2000-2008. From 2008-2014 it has gone from approximately $6.3b to $6.8b. These figures are from the Cato Institute. It was the most Conservative source I could find.
http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/charts/
Oh, a Yale student puked...EBOLA!
He tested negative, Mr Fear Monger.
Thanks, Obama!
wkmac
Well-Known Member
Not sure that works like you intended. Are you arguing that under the GOP (2000-2008) CDC budget doubles and from 2008 (2009 actually) to 2014, the CDC budget goes up barely?
Now if you want to argue that the GOP is really big gov't, yeah, I'm down with that. The republicans have never been unlike the democrats in pillaging the masses. The 2 only differ in how those spoils will be divided out to their faithful.
ImWaitingForTheDay
Annoy a conservative....Think for yourself
Right, Jesus hasn't stopped Ebola, so they're out of ideas.
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
It's all God's will!! Benny Hinn will take care of this, but he needs $50 M for "costs".
Babagounj
Strength through joy
Africa stems Ebola via border closings, luck
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Health officials battling the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 4,500 people in West Africa have managed to limit its spread on the continent to five countries - and two of them appear to have snuffed out the disease.
Officials credit tighter border controls, good patient-tracking and other medical practices, and just plain luck with keeping Ebola confined mostly to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea since the outbreak was first identified nearly seven months ago.
WHO, the U.N. health agency, called it "a piece of world-class epidemiological detective work." The organization is set to declare an end to the outbreak in Nigeria on Monday.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Health officials battling the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 4,500 people in West Africa have managed to limit its spread on the continent to five countries - and two of them appear to have snuffed out the disease.
Officials credit tighter border controls, good patient-tracking and other medical practices, and just plain luck with keeping Ebola confined mostly to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea since the outbreak was first identified nearly seven months ago.
WHO, the U.N. health agency, called it "a piece of world-class epidemiological detective work." The organization is set to declare an end to the outbreak in Nigeria on Monday.
wkmac
Well-Known Member
Congressional House Democrat David Scott, member of Congressional Black Caucus calls for flight bans to and from countries stricken with Ebola.
Bares watching in the days ahead to see where this goes.
Bares watching in the days ahead to see where this goes.
wkmac
Well-Known Member
If god were a god of love and intervened in the lives of mankind, yeah you'd think so at some point. Seems at the moment, again assuming an intervening god, that god is a harsh, vengeful god out for blood like the god of the OT.
Babagounj
Strength through joy
US Ebola Hospital Laid Off Staff Due To Obamacare, Now Has Staff Constraints
The Nebraska hospital at the center of U.S. medical efforts to fight Ebola recently laid off staff due to budget cuts caused by Obamacare, and its Ebola-fighting resources are now limited due to staff constraints.
The Nebraska hospital at the center of U.S. medical efforts to fight Ebola recently laid off staff due to budget cuts caused by Obamacare, and its Ebola-fighting resources are now limited due to staff constraints.
Until the people of africa give up the practice of eating "BUSHMEAT", (appropriately named for another killer) this virus will continue to spread across africa.
"BUSHMEAT" is the contaminated meat which includes Bat, ape, deer, gorilla, goat and rodents is sold on the streets of many of africas towns. The people eat this stuff without regard for safety.
In reality, this is the worlds fault. IF the world didnt try so hard to keep africa living in the stone age, in order to steal their resources out of their country, they would have advanced to the point where they would be civilized.
Instead, they keep them living like the flinstones, so those in charge can take diamonds, oil, gold, silver and titanium out of the country un-opposed.
http://www.bellanaija.com/2014/09/0...-liberia-fg-in-nigeria-bans-bushmeat-imports/
Watch this video on "BUSHMEAT", and see how easy this desease is spreading across africa.
Then ask yourself, where can moreluck get some bat meat!
TOS.
"BUSHMEAT" is the contaminated meat which includes Bat, ape, deer, gorilla, goat and rodents is sold on the streets of many of africas towns. The people eat this stuff without regard for safety.
In reality, this is the worlds fault. IF the world didnt try so hard to keep africa living in the stone age, in order to steal their resources out of their country, they would have advanced to the point where they would be civilized.
Instead, they keep them living like the flinstones, so those in charge can take diamonds, oil, gold, silver and titanium out of the country un-opposed.
http://www.bellanaija.com/2014/09/0...-liberia-fg-in-nigeria-bans-bushmeat-imports/
Watch this video on "BUSHMEAT", and see how easy this desease is spreading across africa.
Then ask yourself, where can moreluck get some bat meat!
TOS.
moreluck
golden ticket member
All I've heard since this thing started was "21 days". So you have no symptoms for 19 days and decide to take a cruise?
You couldn't wait ? You had to involve an entire cruise ship full of passengers in your drama?? Irresponsible!!
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/...aboard-cruise-ship-other-passengers-stranded/
You couldn't wait ? You had to involve an entire cruise ship full of passengers in your drama?? Irresponsible!!
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/...aboard-cruise-ship-other-passengers-stranded/
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