Discussion for article #228952
we’re getting close to full blown panic… scarbro this morning screeching about implementing a travel ban; and chris matthews doubling down on his hysteria recommending that something akin to leper colonies be established for the ebola carriers…
good grief.
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Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has also announced lab workers in their infectious disease department have been instructed to travel about the Dallas metropolitan area licking door knobs in local restaurants and taverns.
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“Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas is an 898-bed acute-care
hospital treating some of the most complicated cases in North Texas. The facility is committed to transforming health care in North Texas.”
Seems they’ve far exceeded their goals – they’ve managed to transform health care nationwide.
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I never took everything Hunter Thompson said as gospel, but his characterization of the United States as a nation of “frightened dullards” often comes to mind. We’re panicking as badly as we did when AIDS first emerged and we didn’t even know how you got that for quite a while. Just pathetic. Land of the brave, indeed.
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Would those be like the Internment Camps for the Japanese during WW@? You know the ones for the people with slanted eyes that lost everything they had!!
Maybe we could start a camp for people like Matthews that can spit on each other and we wouldn’t have to worry about them spitting on us!!
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True enough, but the lack of fairly commonsense precautions by these health care workers is appalling. It’s as if they’d never heard of Ebola until a patient showed up at their door, and even when he died from the disease, they continued to follow a “no big deal, nothing to worry about” philosophy.
I’m no health care expert, but if I were involved in treating an Ebola patient in any capacity, I sure as hell wouldn’t be getting on a cruise ship or airplane.
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Have the quaking jellies of the recessed Congress advocated taking out the cruise ship with a missile, or better yet for a sterility, a laser in their vague, empty-headed, blustery way?
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It could happen. Just watch how Marsha Blackburn stumbled and bumbled on the latest Ebola hearing:
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Faulty priorities. Countless more lives would be protected and saved if everyone on the membership rolls of the NRA was issued a travel ban and quarantined.
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PANIC! EBOLA IS HEADING RIGHT FOR US! RUN!!!
Ridiculous.
They are isolating a guy who - as his job - handles fluid samples of diseases far more infectious and deadly than Ebola! That’s like not trusting a bazooka operator with handling a BB gun. By that standard, no one in his job should ever be let out of a hospital!
The most ridiculous thing about this is that the people screaming loudest about the threat of Ebola probably haven’t vaccinated their kids against diseases that have killed hundreds more people in America this year alone.
If - correction - WHEN they develop an Ebola vaccine, these same morons will refuse to take it.
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The problem here is that this disease is not being treated properly using Hazmat procedures so these medical workers are ignorant to how deadly this disease can be once a person has contracted it. Mass hysteria or not, and I don’t like Chris Matthews or especially Joe Scarborough, but we need to treat this virus more seriously than others or we will have a big problem. If you don’t have any experience with hazardous waste and it’s proper disposal you will probably have a casual attitude about this virus which in this case can be fatal.
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That’s funny cause its true. He does tend to spit on things when he talks. You can actually see that shit on camera when he engages in his non-stop blabbering…You could say he’s a one man communicable spitting machine. Let’s not let him get anywhere near Texas for now.
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Well, then, adding you’re no health expert is redundant. Hospital workers have to handle a dozen more infectious on a daily basis. By your standard, hospitals would be roach motels: You could check in but you’ll never check out.
Except for the Reagan administration and the Bush 1 Administration, who studiously ignored the epidemic and growing panic on our shores for 10 solid years, never uttering the word AIDS nor allocating a single dime to discover how these young, healthy people were dying these horrible horrible deaths, something like 21,000 deaths in the two administrations.
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Show me another infectious disease with the kind of mortality rate that Ebola produces. That’s the difference. In the case of most other infectious diseases, a hospital worker who becomes infected can be treated successfully.
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“They are isolating a guy who - as his job - handles fluid samples of diseases far more infectious and deadly than Ebola!”
A good point, HOWEVER, it appears as though this Texas hospital, for whatever reason, didn’t treat the fluid samples from this patient as highly infectious (or give the nurses proper gear) until a couple days after they knew he had Ebola.
This after sending him home with a fever and antibiotics after he had told them he had traveled in West Africa.
While I share your belief that Ebola can be contained with standard hospital isolation procedures, this hospital, for whatever reason, was extremely negligent in applying precautions for way too long.
Nurses were told to shut up about problems (non-union, of course) and the whole sample delivery pneumatic system has to be disinfected now because they weren’t packaging this guys stuff properly.
Texas–cain’t let regulations an procedures git inna way of our deliverin’ healthcare. Yee Haw!!
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For everyone’s amusement, here’s a nice chronological list of Obama’s Katrinas (not including this latest one). This is the third Obama’s Katrina in the past 12 months. The first Obama’s Katrina was the H1N1 not-so-much-of-an epidemic in the spring of aught nine, which Chris Matthews also sputtered and spittled about.
This too shall pass.
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CNN is running a “Special Report” tonight, likely to be milked for a few days. A panel will be discussing whether an Ebola attack wiped out the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 cockpit crew mid-flight, resulting in the jet crashing into the sea. Don Lemon is conducting a seance with select audience members afterward, hoping some of their dead relatives know where all the gold is buried.
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