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riqster

(13,986 posts)
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 08:13 AM Oct 2014

Amber Vinson is Ebola-Free. So much for the Panic Platoon.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ebola-free-nurse-amber-vinson-to-leave-atlanta-hospital-111542052.html

Yep, calm, science-based medicine saved another Ebola patient. And the eedjits who were panicking are left with egg on their faces.

There has been no outbreak in Dallas. Not one in Northeast Ohio, either. So please, calm the fuck down.
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Amber Vinson is Ebola-Free. So much for the Panic Platoon. (Original Post) riqster Oct 2014 OP
Give them time. It's still early in the morning. hobbit709 Oct 2014 #1
Oh, they'll insist that this is really, truly, so very dangerous, never mind the data. riqster Oct 2014 #2
There will be someone who will try to blame it all on Fukushima. hobbit709 Oct 2014 #3
I prefer blaming Bush. We don't like him, anyway. riqster Oct 2014 #4
Hey, now THAT I could be on board with. nt cwydro Oct 2014 #55
They still have the bowling doctor! morningfog Oct 2014 #5
And when he is well.....what will the panic button pushers do? I predict more ISIS shit.... Fred Sanders Oct 2014 #8
As the Rude Pundit said, riqster Oct 2014 #13
Maybe there is an asteroid nearby?? ISIS is still good to go for panic. Fred Sanders Oct 2014 #9
Naaah, they'll still panic about Ebola. Because this apparent success is.... riqster Oct 2014 #12
Until next Wednesday, then they will become amnesic again and turn to the next thing to terrorize Fred Sanders Oct 2014 #20
Point. I'd say the media are providing the "circuses". riqster Oct 2014 #22
This makes me feel very sad for Thomas Duncan alcibiades_mystery Oct 2014 #6
S'truth. Teabaggers have blood on their hands. riqster Oct 2014 #11
it's not just teabaggers JI7 Oct 2014 #29
True, Sir The Magistrate Oct 2014 #27
Very true etherealtruth Oct 2014 #37
Anti-science blankee-clutchers, delete your posts, save yourself further embarrassment. Learn. Fred Sanders Oct 2014 #7
We can hope,Fred. riqster Oct 2014 #10
Just a few more weeks and we'll put this cluster behind us. Baitball Blogger Oct 2014 #14
Yep. Time to calm down and treat this in a sane manner. riqster Oct 2014 #15
The duct tape and plastic sheeting brigade? nt msanthrope Oct 2014 #16
Naaah, the Panic Platoon like in this other thread. riqster Oct 2014 #18
Oh, crap. Reading that gave me a head ache but no fever yet. Still, I'm feeling ill. freshwest Oct 2014 #90
Elections? Oh hellz yeah. riqster Oct 2014 #100
The anti-science blankee clutchers will not give up easily, some just never gave up wanting to be Fred Sanders Oct 2014 #21
That is very good news. I am so very happy for her and her family. What a relief she is well. greatlaurel Oct 2014 #17
Agreed on all counts. riqster Oct 2014 #19
The only difference is numbers ecstatic Oct 2014 #97
Is this addressed to anyone on this board? Crunchy Frog Oct 2014 #23
Not directed at you. riqster Oct 2014 #24
That's a relief. Crunchy Frog Oct 2014 #25
CNN, NBC, etcetera, etceteray. riqster Oct 2014 #43
If those people didn't panic, they'd get no exercise at all. lob1 Oct 2014 #26
Yep. The PP workout: riqster Oct 2014 #31
Very well put. cwydro Oct 2014 #56
Nah. It will be flu season soon. Barack_America Oct 2014 #28
Amazing to me how so many people Texasgal Oct 2014 #46
Agreed. Flu could kill my ass. Nearly did, already. riqster Oct 2014 #101
Red faces can't calm down. LawDeeDah Oct 2014 #30
Where are the two usual suspects? Hmmmmm. nt Logical Oct 2014 #32
Panic didn't give Amber Vinson Ebola -- smug overconfidence did. If the CDC and the hospital pnwmom Oct 2014 #33
They also didn't have their act together customerserviceguy Oct 2014 #39
Panic did not give her Ebola. It DID result in her being blamed. riqster Oct 2014 #44
The hospital wanted to pass off the blame. That's why the nurses union pnwmom Oct 2014 #52
And good on the union. Didn't shut up the blamers, sadly. riqster Oct 2014 #67
Politicians playing on panic got her blamed. Christie, Cuomo, Gohmert, etc. freshwest Oct 2014 #91
Just so. riqster Oct 2014 #99
Yet only 2 of the 76 were infected. morningfog Oct 2014 #51
They were damn lucky that after locking those family members in that contaminated pnwmom Oct 2014 #53
It was stupid and wrong to keep the family locked up morningfog Oct 2014 #57
You said that the protocols "worked" because the family members didn't get sick. pnwmom Oct 2014 #58
Slow down and read it again. morningfog Oct 2014 #59
This message was self-deleted by its author ecstatic Oct 2014 #96
You have been on the wrong side of this issue since it started! nt Logical Oct 2014 #74
Right. Because it's so wrong to say that Dallas was unprepared, pnwmom Oct 2014 #76
You are unhappy about the 21 days, the temputure guidelines, etc. face it..... Logical Oct 2014 #77
The nurses never should have gotten it in the first place pnwmom Oct 2014 #78
Lol, I love only morning experts! This has been handled pretty damn well! nt Logical Oct 2014 #80
What happened to the OP and rest of the thread ... 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2014 #87
Which side is that? nt kelliekat44 Oct 2014 #95
Ok, then, maybe we should have authorities stop customerserviceguy Oct 2014 #34
agreed. KMOD Oct 2014 #36
Which speaks louder customerserviceguy Oct 2014 #40
Five planeloads was way overkill, KMOD Oct 2014 #42
How exactly did she catch this impossible to get disease again? Savannahmann Oct 2014 #35
The speculation from one of the doctors who treated her, KMOD Oct 2014 #38
I was thinking removing the adhesive tape from her neck might leave microtears in her skin too. uppityperson Oct 2014 #47
Oh yeah, certainly, KMOD Oct 2014 #48
Also, fluids can be aerosolized during needle sticks. riqster Oct 2014 #49
WHO here or on CDC has said ebola is "impossible to get"? 1 link, just 1 not uppityperson Oct 2014 #45
Bingo. riqster Oct 2014 #50
You will hear no answer I assume! nt Logical Oct 2014 #63
LOL, someone is grumpy! nt Logical Oct 2014 #62
Apparently all at HQ. Barack_America Oct 2014 #41
But that doctor went BOWLING!!! cwydro Oct 2014 #54
No egg here. It could just as easily have been a different diagnosis. WinkyDink Oct 2014 #60
Nope, that means 50/50 which it is not true in the USA when caught early. Logical Oct 2014 #61
You think a total of what, 4? 6?, cases makes a scientific argument? Besides, there are WinkyDink Oct 2014 #70
Curious? What other diagnosis do you think it could have been? KMOD Oct 2014 #64
NOT being cured. WinkyDink Oct 2014 #68
That is not a diagnosis. It is an outcome. riqster Oct 2014 #72
Like'em both ways. :-) WinkyDink Oct 2014 #81
Lucky you. I am stuck with egg beaters these days. riqster Oct 2014 #82
The first sentence made the point. Second? William Perry doing the Icky Shuffle in the End Zone. cherokeeprogressive Oct 2014 #65
But, "Obola!!!!11111" :( Swear to Buddha that what I read the President was being Cha Oct 2014 #66
How bizarre. And a reply to this thread is now in MY Journal written by someone else. I can't remove freshwest Oct 2014 #89
"Obamacare saved us from ebola" is the talking point. Gloating is unbecoming. grahamhgreen Oct 2014 #69
It did no such thing. The ACA has little impact on Ebola mitigation. riqster Oct 2014 #71
LOL, we should be running on it! grahamhgreen Oct 2014 #73
Running on the ACA? Damn right we should. riqster Oct 2014 #75
It protects us from Ebola! grahamhgreen Oct 2014 #85
Naaah. riqster Oct 2014 #86
Having more people with access to doctors definitely lessens the threat of ebola and all grahamhgreen Oct 2014 #94
Ah, now I get it. Thanks. riqster Oct 2014 #98
I haven't seen their screen names hanging around here in a couple of days notadmblnd Oct 2014 #79
I feel like I'm uninformed as I don't understand the panic or justification of others' panics` JonLP24 Oct 2014 #83
I'm more of a panic over the panic. Egnever Oct 2014 #88
There will always be another Y2K just around the corner... LanternWaste Oct 2014 #84
So, Kim's ex-husband numbers are still greater? Eleanors38 Oct 2014 #92
The Panic Platoon already has another target. Brigid Oct 2014 #93
And a new thread! riqster Oct 2014 #102

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
1. Give them time. It's still early in the morning.
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 08:14 AM
Oct 2014

They will have all day to find something to panic about.

riqster

(13,986 posts)
2. Oh, they'll insist that this is really, truly, so very dangerous, never mind the data.
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 08:17 AM
Oct 2014

Panic isn't rational, after all.

riqster

(13,986 posts)
13. As the Rude Pundit said,
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 09:16 AM
Oct 2014

"So long as I don't lick every bowling ball in the city, I'll be OK", or words to that effect.

riqster

(13,986 posts)
12. Naaah, they'll still panic about Ebola. Because this apparent success is....
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 09:13 AM
Oct 2014


Guaranteed, the PP will insist that the Ebolacalypse is imminent, this is a false sense of security, and so on.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
20. Until next Wednesday, then they will become amnesic again and turn to the next thing to terrorize
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 05:14 PM
Oct 2014

folks with. Your pick, my pick is ISIS and looks like the old standbys of NK and Iran would do in a pinch, during a slow terror news cycle.

The American media are the terrorists, if not, enablers of terrorism. They are doing exactly, fucking exactly, what the terrorists want, to spread their terrorist news.

Maybe not a news blackout, but a dimming of the fucking lights.

riqster

(13,986 posts)
22. Point. I'd say the media are providing the "circuses".
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 06:14 PM
Oct 2014

But the government has cut way back on the "bread".

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
6. This makes me feel very sad for Thomas Duncan
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 08:43 AM
Oct 2014

Had he been admitted to the hospital in a timely manner, it seems he may have survived as well.

Perhaps the real question is why an utterly treatable virus (all ebola patients brought to or treated in the US except for Duncan have recovered) is killing so many people in West Africa. The answer is obvious: resource allocation.

We have not seen the brigade of people who insisted that those guys cleaning the sidewalk would surely die mention that Mr. Duncan's family is apparently ebola-free.

The Magistrate

(95,237 posts)
27. True, Sir
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 07:25 PM
Oct 2014

The hospital pretty much killed him for being uninsured, black, foreign-sounding, and probably angling for pain-killers, like all the rest of 'those people' who show up at the emergency room....

Baitball Blogger

(46,573 posts)
14. Just a few more weeks and we'll put this cluster behind us.
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 09:41 AM
Oct 2014

I'm confident that the only person who is still a concern is her boyfriend, and that is assuming they had unprotected sex when she had a fever.

riqster

(13,986 posts)
18. Naaah, the Panic Platoon like in this other thread.
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 09:49 AM
Oct 2014
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025679070

Cray-cray.

Duct tape and Visqueen are useful things for home improvement protects, at least.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
90. Oh, crap. Reading that gave me a head ache but no fever yet. Still, I'm feeling ill.
Wed Oct 29, 2014, 06:36 PM
Oct 2014
MOVE AWAY FROM YOUR KEYBOARD WHILE I SNEEZE!

Not making fun of Ebola...

Obola as some call it now...

Or the poor victims...

Was it you posted a thread about how the Ebola was getting attention by the CDC, etc. in February...

But only in the last months is the media going nuts?

I think the elections are part of it... Sorry, but I do.

riqster

(13,986 posts)
100. Elections? Oh hellz yeah.
Thu Oct 30, 2014, 09:15 AM
Oct 2014

Textbook GOP: create a climate fear, get people to demand security , "we are the party of security, vote for us."

Works for them, and has for decades. Bastards.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
21. The anti-science blankee clutchers will not give up easily, some just never gave up wanting to be
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 05:19 PM
Oct 2014

delivered from evil.

It is, after all, soothing to be frightened and then there is the relief when a Savior comes through.

Kind of fitting all this false alarm, fake fear, bed wetting and worst of all, not believing President
Obama, as Haolloween approaches.

Like God is playing a cosmic joke on America that it just does not get.

greatlaurel

(2,004 posts)
17. That is very good news. I am so very happy for her and her family. What a relief she is well.
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 09:47 AM
Oct 2014

As someone else pointed out, it is very troubling that Mr. Duncan died. No one else treated in the US has died from Ebola. It is obvious that his care was substandard. The only excuse the hospital may have is that he did not get early treatment. It is also very troubling about the death rate of the disease in West Africa. What is the difference between here and West Africa? I would like to see the news media ask that question.

riqster

(13,986 posts)
19. Agreed on all counts.
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 09:53 AM
Oct 2014

I expect the difference between survival rates has a lot to do with resources.

ecstatic

(32,566 posts)
97. The only difference is numbers
Thu Oct 30, 2014, 01:41 AM
Oct 2014
No hospital in this country is equipped to handle more than two ebola patients at a time. That includes our special biocontainment facilities. Also, we've yet to see an ebola survivor come out of a non-biocontainment hospital.

As little as 10 simultaneous cases in the US could quickly spiral out of control, since the special bio containment facilities in this country have a total of 9 beds (for ebola patients) combined. For some reason, people still aren't grasping this when smugly comparing ebola to the flu or gloating about how high ebola's survival rate is in this country. Of course the mortality rate (so far) is low- every surviving ebola patient has been treated at one of the 4 special biocontainment units in the country. But think about the quality of care people would receive if the cases were to ever exceed 10. We'd see a much lower survival rate.



http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/best-us-ebola-care-remains-limited-in-scale-343868483864

Crunchy Frog

(26,548 posts)
23. Is this addressed to anyone on this board?
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 06:59 PM
Oct 2014

I think I may be one of the people you are intending to address. If so, I can assure you that I am pleased, but not surprised that she has recovered, and I never thought there was a very high probability that she would pass the disease onto anyone else, but.

I still don't think that she should have been flying around the country, or out visiting public businesses while she was incubating, and possibly in the early symptomatic stages of, this disease.

If anyone wants to take your agressions out on me, I'm here to be your punching bag.

riqster

(13,986 posts)
31. Yep. The PP workout:
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 07:59 PM
Oct 2014

Last edited Sat Feb 13, 2021, 11:57 PM - Edit history (1)

Leap to conclusions

Make mountains out of molehills

Jump at shadows


Repeat per the fitness coach's instructions.

Barack_America

(28,876 posts)
28. Nah. It will be flu season soon.
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 07:51 PM
Oct 2014

We'll be up to our ears in Ebola scares. None of it WILL be Ebola, of course, but that doesn't matter because it COULD be Ebola because we haven't quarantined Africa.

Texasgal

(17,029 posts)
46. Amazing to me how so many people
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 09:51 PM
Oct 2014

dismiss the Flu.

It kills and people still go to work, Fly and go to grocery stores or send their kids to school.

As an RN we are way more concerned about influenza than anything else right now since the season is coming soon.

 

LawDeeDah

(1,596 posts)
30. Red faces can't calm down.
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 07:54 PM
Oct 2014

The eternally red faced with rage and panic will step onto the next platform of despair in short order.

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
33. Panic didn't give Amber Vinson Ebola -- smug overconfidence did. If the CDC and the hospital
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 08:57 PM
Oct 2014

had gotten their acts together sooner, she would have been wearing proper protection from the very beginning.

But instead, the CDC was saying that Dallas and every other hospital with a private room was fully prepared to take care of Duncan.

Which obviously wasn't true.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
39. They also didn't have their act together
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 09:19 PM
Oct 2014

when they told her it was OK to fly to Ohio. And when they blamed the nurses for not following protocol, that was another big stumble.

I would have to imagine that public confidence in the CDC has dropped dramatically.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
91. Politicians playing on panic got her blamed. Christie, Cuomo, Gohmert, etc.
Wed Oct 29, 2014, 06:39 PM
Oct 2014
To divert attention from the GOP having irresponsibly slashed funding for the CDC, public health care, wasting time trying to repeal the ACA, denying Medicaid expansion and in general promoting death.

 

morningfog

(18,115 posts)
51. Yet only 2 of the 76 were infected.
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 10:08 PM
Oct 2014

Which suggests to me the protocols worked for the other 74.

They had to make adjustments to account for more people being exposed and the risk that when the numbers increase, it is more likely something will go wrong.

Also, the bit lesson is self-monitoring and early detection works. It works to make it treatable, reduce infections and keep people less infectious-- safer treatment for the workers.

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
53. They were damn lucky that after locking those family members in that contaminated
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 10:18 PM
Oct 2014

apartment for almost a week, none of those relatives got sick, including the one who had been in charge of cleaning up his mess.

Or is that one of their "protocols" that you say "worked"?

 

morningfog

(18,115 posts)
57. It was stupid and wrong to keep the family locked up
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 10:50 PM
Oct 2014

anywhere, especially in the apartment. I've always said that. Not sure what you're on about here.

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
58. You said that the protocols "worked" because the family members didn't get sick.
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 10:52 PM
Oct 2014

I think they were just lucky -- that the protocol that shut the family up in the contaminated apartment was stupid. So I'm glad you agree.

 

morningfog

(18,115 posts)
59. Slow down and read it again.
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 10:58 PM
Oct 2014

I said only two of the 74 were infected, speaking only about the health workers. No other health workers were infected.

It is true that none of the 50 or so family and pre-isolation contacts were infected either. But that is an entirely separate issue.

Response to morningfog (Reply #51)

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
76. Right. Because it's so wrong to say that Dallas was unprepared,
Wed Oct 29, 2014, 01:23 PM
Oct 2014

despite what the CDC had been insisting for months.

 

Logical

(22,457 posts)
77. You are unhappy about the 21 days, the temputure guidelines, etc. face it.....
Wed Oct 29, 2014, 02:18 PM
Oct 2014

The nurses did not spread it to ANYONE! Panic <> logic!

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
78. The nurses never should have gotten it in the first place
Wed Oct 29, 2014, 02:20 PM
Oct 2014

and they wouldn't have if the CDC had made sure all the hospitals were prepared, instead of just holding press conferences saying that they were.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
34. Ok, then, maybe we should have authorities stop
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 09:01 PM
Oct 2014

Notifying people who have been in close quarters with Ebola patients, and wiping down every possible surface in the patient's home and pathway. Maybe that would make the panic subside.

You can't have all this frantic activity and have people believe your soothing words at the same time.

 

KMOD

(7,906 posts)
36. agreed.
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 09:12 PM
Oct 2014

The messaging has been mixed and it's not helpful and contributing to the confusion.

People still need to be notified, though. And most, when they are notified, do seem to understand that it is an abundance of caution in the bulk of the situations.

The media is also playing up the ridiculousness though as well. Like "Why was she on a plane?" It's ok for the media to ask that, but I also expect them to get the answer to that as well, immediately. And not their own speculations, they should find experts to immediately give them information and answers.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
40. Which speaks louder
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 09:22 PM
Oct 2014

Words or actions? I don't blame the public for losing confidence in the CDC and other health authorities to manage this.

And notification always causes concern, which in many people manifests itself as worry. I'm sure everyone who was on those five planeloads of notified people talked to at least a dozen friends and family members, and they in turn each talked to another dozen or so.

 

KMOD

(7,906 posts)
42. Five planeloads was way overkill,
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 09:30 PM
Oct 2014

I would have just notified people directly next to, in front of and behind her. And that's it.

 

Savannahmann

(3,891 posts)
35. How exactly did she catch this impossible to get disease again?
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 09:02 PM
Oct 2014

I can't really recall. It must have been some sort of right wing plot.

I'd say more about what I think about you, but you're not worth the hide I'd get.

 

KMOD

(7,906 posts)
38. The speculation from one of the doctors who treated her,
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 09:19 PM
Oct 2014

was that they didn't have respirators. We are doing care here, that is not done if West Africa, such as dialysis and intubation. The gear they were wearing was eventually, obviously not at first, but eventually what the HCWs wear in West Africa. However, with care involving even more direct contact with bodily fluids, (Thomas Eric Duncan had a tube to remove vomit, a tube for diarrhea, a catheter) a respirator was needed. That has now been a change in the protocols as well.

uppityperson

(115,674 posts)
47. I was thinking removing the adhesive tape from her neck might leave microtears in her skin too.
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 09:52 PM
Oct 2014

Last edited Sun Feb 14, 2021, 03:47 AM - Edit history (2)

Enough openings to let virus in if she rubbed her neck with a contaminated hand. I wasn't there but that report made me flinch.

 

KMOD

(7,906 posts)
48. Oh yeah, certainly,
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 09:58 PM
Oct 2014

I don't know if they will ever know for sure. But the timeline for the typical signs of infection, 8-10 days or so, fits when they had proper PPE, but they did not have the respirators, yet.

But yeah, that was just the doctor's speculation, we probably really never will know exactly when the breach occurred.

riqster

(13,986 posts)
49. Also, fluids can be aerosolized during needle sticks.
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 10:02 PM
Oct 2014

Not for nothing are so many victims health providers.

uppityperson

(115,674 posts)
45. WHO here or on CDC has said ebola is "impossible to get"? 1 link, just 1 not
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 09:48 PM
Oct 2014

sarcastic one or obvious troll. Show me ONE link to someone here who said a communicable disease is impossible to get?

Except for a few circumstances, it IS very difficult to get, being spread through a contagious person's bodily excretions or dead body.

She got it from caring for his dying and dead hoghky infectious body wothout having adequate protective gear.

Being near or touching an asymptomatic non-contagoius person, it would be quite difficult to get it.

Washing feces, vomit from his dying and dead body? Quite a bit riskier and how it has spread.

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
54. But that doctor went BOWLING!!!
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 10:23 PM
Oct 2014

Gah! Sweaty hands, rented shoes, plastic beer cups, shared restrooms....aaaiiieeeee!

riqster

(13,986 posts)
82. Lucky you. I am stuck with egg beaters these days.
Wed Oct 29, 2014, 03:44 PM
Oct 2014

Unless the Araucanas are laying. Cholesterol, feh...

 

cherokeeprogressive

(24,853 posts)
65. The first sentence made the point. Second? William Perry doing the Icky Shuffle in the End Zone.
Wed Oct 29, 2014, 12:52 AM
Oct 2014

You felt that need? Really?

Cha

(295,899 posts)
66. But, "Obola!!!!11111" :( Swear to Buddha that what I read the President was being
Wed Oct 29, 2014, 01:08 AM
Oct 2014

dubbed on Hillary44.. So Bitter their tears. I don't even know how I got on that site.. just researching something and there I was.

Disclaimer.. this is not against Hillary supporters per se.. just the 44ers.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
89. How bizarre. And a reply to this thread is now in MY Journal written by someone else. I can't remove
Wed Oct 29, 2014, 06:29 PM
Oct 2014
it because it says it is in a locked thread?



riqster

(13,986 posts)
71. It did no such thing. The ACA has little impact on Ebola mitigation.
Wed Oct 29, 2014, 09:12 AM
Oct 2014

Not sure where idea that came from.

 

grahamhgreen

(15,741 posts)
94. Having more people with access to doctors definitely lessens the threat of ebola and all
Thu Oct 30, 2014, 12:34 AM
Oct 2014

Last edited Thu Oct 30, 2014, 02:58 PM - Edit history (1)

Infectious diseases

notadmblnd

(23,720 posts)
79. I haven't seen their screen names hanging around here in a couple of days
Wed Oct 29, 2014, 02:23 PM
Oct 2014

Maybe they were reassigned God forbid, they were laid off due to lack of work.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
83. I feel like I'm uninformed as I don't understand the panic or justification of others' panics`
Wed Oct 29, 2014, 03:53 PM
Oct 2014

First thing I do understand is it has a high killer rate. That much I get.

Everything I keep reading is there isn't much difference than transmission of AIDs or Hepatitis and I keep reading more to find something different but I can't. I'm not scared to be in the same room with someone with AIDs and I thought people did a long time ago. I understand the death rate which means I'll be less likely to share a needle with someone with Ebola than I would with someone with AIDs but that is where my panic ends.

I'm more of a panic over the panic.

 

Egnever

(21,506 posts)
88. I'm more of a panic over the panic.
Wed Oct 29, 2014, 06:13 PM
Oct 2014

Exactly!

The fact that so many people here are so quick to buy into the hysteria frightens the hell out of me. It is unbelievable on a site so easy to educate yourself on.

The TV is apparently very powerful.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
84. There will always be another Y2K just around the corner...
Wed Oct 29, 2014, 03:54 PM
Oct 2014

There will always be another Y2K just around the corner, exhorting the irrational, reinforcing the hysterical and validating the general impression that Americans should pay just a wee bit more attention in school.

Brigid

(17,621 posts)
93. The Panic Platoon already has another target.
Wed Oct 29, 2014, 06:49 PM
Oct 2014

Kaci Hickox.

BTW, my autocorrect has finally stopped arguing with me every time I put in her last name! Took long enough.

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