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With a capital E and that rhymes with B and that stands for EBOLA!!!1!!!
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So…has the US Ebola kill count hit 3 yet?
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By omitting any information whatsoever as to where and how this was discovered, you only contribute to the ridiculous hysteria. Did this person recently come from West Africa and not spend 22 days in quarantine? If so, why not? When did they discover the systems? How long have they been here? What have they been doing in the interim? This story makes it sound like this person came over from West Africa, traipsed about NYC vomiting in the water supply while treating patients in a major hospital that sees hundreds or thousands of patients a day and then finally someone noticed and decided they should be tested. It’s ridiculous.
And I’m dead serious: if this person came from West Africa and did not spend 22 days in quarantine, then someone’s fucking head should roll. Taking this virus seriously does not mean you are panicking, and proving you’re not panicking does not require you to be flagrantly negligent.
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Look, pal. They’re “journalists”. Control-C, Control-V doesn’t happen all on its own you know.
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No.
22 days in quarantine is ridiculous. Ebola isn’t contagious until it is symptomatic, and frankly, not very contagious until the last stages of the disease.
We know that from the recent case in Texas where family members of a very sick individual were fine.
Monitoring for symptoms and taking appropriate precautions as indicated is the proper response. Going crazy and locking people up because they were in the vicinity will only make people avoid getting identified, and resist contact with the medical system.
THAT’s what could lead to a domestic Ebola epidemic.
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The GOVERNMEnt is COverING UP the BODy Count. THEy’RE lITerALLTy EMPTYIng garBAGE trUCKs FULL of DEAD EBOLAs wiTH pitCHforks INto the POTOmac. MArital LAW has BEEN decLARed. I am CurreNTLY wriNTING from A PLAN 21 UN FEMA reeducATIon camp. Vote REPUblican. Not EBola!!11!!!one!1!!!
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I just ate someone diarrhea. Should I be concerned about contracting Ebola?
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Don’t you mean “EBOLASOLYNDRAGHAZI!” ?
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LOLz
Pretty sure it’s only diarrhea if you can drink it.
You’re thinking of the flu and it is only October.
I’m working on the assumption that since this person is a “health care worker,” they were in West Africa “health care working” with people suffering from Ebola. Anyone doing that should be quarantined before release into the general public. Are there lesser steps that would be sufficient for someone who wasn’t? Sure. But people in direct contact as health care workers or “news” industry gawkers should understand they’re signing up for some quarantine when they choose to come in contact with the disease to help or gawk.
This is the problem with shitty fact-vacuum articles that don’t give us enough to understand what is actually happening. Lazy bullshit…and I noted it in my first sentence.
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Possibly. But for us to help you, you need to provide a careful description of the diarrhea, including its color and consistency. Also specify the quantity ingested. Was it more than a quart?
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He said “eat”. And you can’t “eat” a quart!
It’s all a librul trick!
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But I ate a quart of ice cream just last night! Are you saying I’m at risk for Ebola now? I sense another librul trick here…
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OK, there have been a lot of cases like this. Nearly all have been negative for Ebola. This isn’t news until there is a positive test.
Were there nuts?!?!
No, it is still one.