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In reply to the discussion: Nurse in Madrid tests positive for ebola [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)69. And you're still panicking.
You always show up every single time anyone questions the government and their handling of any situation
And you always show up insisting science is always wrong. Such as here.
She only came into the hospital after running a HIGH fever, not a low grade one, which means it is taking over her body. More transmissible.
And if you'd stop panicking for a minute, you'd pause to remember how ebola is transmitted. She has a fever. That's it. She's not bleeding. She's not vomiting. She's not fucking everyone she comes across. The virus doesn't appear in sweat or spit until later in the disease.
In other words, she still could not infect large masses of people. Yet you are insisting that this is horrible because she could have infected large masses of people.
I have a much more curious mind than yours
No, you utterly reject evidence that you don't like over anything that reinforces your preconceptions. Then you disappear when you're shown to be utterly wrong.
You claim that makes you more curious, because you're just exploring other options. What that actually means is you're demanding people respond to your impossible theory instead of what can actually happen.
What if Ebola was caused by thermisol? Let's spend weeks pushing any story we find claiming a cover-up to help big business sell mercury-based preservatives!
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You're unclear, but it's actually quite clear how someone could contract Ebola
Cali_Democrat
Oct 2014
#11
Well, the CDC lists someone in the room (three feet) for a prolonged period without PPE
Yo_Mama
Oct 2014
#14
It's hard to believe that the staff who first met the Ebola patient inside the "bubble,"
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#25
Your link says she had earlier treated another priest with ebola but outside incubation period.
uppityperson
Oct 2014
#31
Yes, outside the incubation period. So she must have gotten it from one of her two contacts
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#35
I misread the other's month so edited. It will be interesting to see what they trace back
uppityperson
Oct 2014
#38
nope. don't know. don't know what your inane snark has to do with this story. fail.
cali
Oct 2014
#6
she did, her only symptom was a slightly elevated temp. she checked in immediately and apparently
magical thyme
Oct 2014
#68
Deutschewelle is reporting she felt ill for "several days" before she went to a hospital.
suffragette
Oct 2014
#67
It's hard to believe that the staff that met the missionary when he was in his "bubble,"
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#28
Horrifying breach of recommendations. She has low risk exposure, presumably,
kestrel91316
Oct 2014
#27
"first person in the current outbreak known to have contracted Ebola outside Africa"
riversedge
Oct 2014
#30
Uh, yes it is. Tell the folks in West Africa it isn't and then get back to us.
kestrel91316
Oct 2014
#79
I disagree. We are special. we have the education and the infrastructure...where we should spend..
yawnmaster
Oct 2014
#88
I have thought that Friedman's calm, deliberate reassurances seemed a bit forced this
kestrel91316
Oct 2014
#48
He thinks it may have been from body fluids (blood likely since ebola patients leak) in a car...
yawnmaster
Oct 2014
#59
he was spraying water and trying to clean the inside of the car. actually it was quite likely blood
yawnmaster
Oct 2014
#61