Omg ebola panic

[Ruptga]

Just kidding, it's almost totally beaten, even in Africa. About six months ago we had people crapping their pants, screaming about literally blockading Africa, and whispering about terrorist infiltrator and immigrant carriers, and that's just in one of the big threads that was going at the time. As one of the people that rolled their eyes at the hysteria, I feel it is my civic duty to tell you all that I told you so. Well I told you so, and my work here is done.

 

[Printer Bandit]

time now for sweating sickness to make a comeback.

 

[Markbnj]

Yes, I will accept that I was more alarmed than necessary. Thank you for reminding me.

 

[Jodell88]

Africa is already coming up with something else to kill us.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-32365830

 

[balloonshark]

Africa is already coming up with something else to kill us.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-32365830

The disease - characterised by blurred vision, headache and loss of consciousness - killed the victims within 24 hours of falling ill.

Sounds like a really bad hangover

 

[angminas]

It's only contained because people took it seriously.

 

[TheVrolok]

I was right there with you. But hey, unfounded hysteria is entertaining at least.

 

[Murloc]

Sounds like a really bad hangover

maybe they drank bad moonshine and it will all add up to nothing.

 

[Paratus]

Just kidding, it's almost totally beaten, even in Africa. About six months ago we had people crapping their pants, screaming about literally blockading Africa, and whispering about terrorist infiltrator and immigrant carriers, and that's just in one of the big threads that was going at the time. As one of the people that rolled their eyes at the hysteria, I feel it is my civic duty to tell you all that I told you so. Well I told you so, and my work here is done.

What are you taking about? Because we didn't quarantine Africa and especially all those illegal immigrants carrying Ebola through the Mexican border we're all dead now.

Anyway it's almost like our infectious disease experts actually knew what they were talking about.

 

[Ruptga]

What are you taking about? Because we didn't quarantine Africa and especially all those illegal immigrants carrying Ebola through the Mexican border we're all dead now.

Oh shit, in that case I take it all back and instead I'd like to file a complaint with the appropriate deities.
This afterlife sucks.

 

[Phoenix86]

It's only contained because people took it seriously.

Exactly. It also exposed our inability to handle infectious diseases on the front lines at hospitals. What happened in Dallas could have happened almost anywhere, most front line nurses are woefully trained/equipped.

 

[TheSlamma]

This has been my sig for months now.. even while all you people were buying duct tape and canned goods panicking.

 

[Captante]

All the actual experts said it wasn't anything we needed to worry much about in the USA and thankfully they were correct.

 

[TheVrolok]

Exactly. It also exposed our inability to handle infectious diseases on the front lines at hospitals. What happened in Dallas could have happened almost anywhere, most front line nurses are woefully trained/equipped.

Not that I want to start this up again but.... Wrong.

 

[Strk]

Exactly. It also exposed our inability to handle infectious diseases on the front lines at hospitals. What happened in Dallas could have happened almost anywhere, most front line nurses are woefully trained/equipped.

Except the part where most nurses deal with infectious diseases daily and are perfectly fine doing so (and these are diseases that have the same precautions as Ebola). What happened in Dallas could have happened anywhere because sometimes people screw up -- regardless of training.

 

[CraKaJaX]

Don't worry. In a few more months, something else will be 'breaking news' for weeks on end to scare the living hell out of the same people.

 

[Jeff7]

Exactly. It also exposed our inability to handle infectious diseases on the front lines at hospitals. What happened in Dallas could have happened almost anywhere, most front line nurses are woefully trained/equipped.

Same with the Y2K bug.

"What a load of crap that was. Nothing bad happened!"

Right, nothing happened because a lot of people realized that serious shit would go down if nothing was done, so they took care of it before it was a problem. "Prevention" is a foreign concept for a lot of people.

 

[Ruptga]

What you call prevention was going to happen regardless of how many joe nobodies flipped their shit, and was already well underway before major news picked the story up. Every day hundreds or thousands of disasters you've never considered are averted by people you'll never hear of doing things you know nothing about, their jobs. The idea that a public freakout is necessary for the planet to keep spinning is beyond retarded.

 

[Zstream]

Not that I want to start this up again but.... Wrong.

I'm not sure as to why you state the opposite but I have numerous family members that are nurses and I agree with the above poster.

 

[cbrunny]

This is a joke thread right?

 

[DrPizza]

I'm not sure as to why you state the opposite but I have numerous family members that are nurses and I agree with the above poster.

And I have a wife who is a nurse - an infection control manager who has been distinguished numerous times as nurse of the year, nominated for Western NY nurse of the year, a bunch of other awards, etc., and I yelled to her to ask her. That was about 15 minutes ago; she went on and on and on and on and on and on. No, it's not almost over in Africa. Still considered "widespread transmission" in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/distribution-map.html They're still bringing patients over to the US for treatment. (*gasp* That doesn't make headlines any more.) The Dallas transmission from patient to nurse was due to an overzealous protocol which turned out to increase hazards more than it decreased them - they used duct tape over the gown/glove and gown/neck area. During removal, while it decreased the possibility for transfer during care, it increased the probability while removing the duct tape. The protocols have been gone over, again and again and again and again. At least in NY, every hospital has bent over backwards; I know my wife has spent untold hours making sure emergency personnel (ambulance crews, etc.) have been trained, etc.

It's not going to spread in the US, period. If for some reason, we had an influx of infected passengers who came here at the same time, there's a very slim possibility that someone could screw up the protocol during treatment, but that would be hard to do - before and after you treat a patient, there's another staff member with a checklist going over, step by step, exactly which steps you're supposed to take next for personal protection. At least in NY, every hospital has had to run drills. When I use my wife's phone to call someone that's not programmed into my cell phone, I scroll past a bunch of different contacts. Someone named EBOLA in capital letters. Not sure where that one goes to.

But, again, from an expert in this, not a typical RN who you might happen to know and who would never be in contact with an Ebola patient, even if there was one, no, Dallas isn't going to happen again.

 

[TheVrolok]

I'm not sure as to why you state the opposite but I have numerous family members that are nurses and I agree with the above poster.

I've explained it in the other Ebola threadnoughts. It's really simple. While your family of nurses may agree, they're also wrong.

Edit: Didn't read DrP's post above prior to this post. Great post.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Just kidding, it's almost totally beaten, even in Africa. About six months ago we had people crapping their pants, screaming about literally blockading Africa, and whispering about terrorist infiltrator and immigrant carriers, and that's just in one of the big threads that was going at the time. As one of the people that rolled their eyes at the hysteria, I feel it is my civic duty to tell you all that I told you so. Well I told you so, and my work here is done.

I was right there with you. But hey, unfounded hysteria is entertaining at least.

This has been my sig for months now.. even while all you people were buying duct tape and canned goods panicking.

You guys really need to stop hanging out with nutjobs or listening to shitty conservative media. Those were the only ones actually spouting off that nonsense so acting like you called them on it is just dumb as hell. I have no idea why people cop this "I knew it all along" attitude when you're basically talking about one minor aspect (that even at the time people that actually knew what was going on and what they were talking about were either saying it was ridiculous bullshit or ignoring it because that's what it was so they didn't even want to dignify it with a response).

On top of that, as pointed out the only reason it's been tamped down as much as it has is because of the buildup of resources to do exactly that. The problem in the US was never serious. But the situation in Africa was and continues to be a problem. And like I tried to explain to some people on here, the issues is bigger than Ebola, so even with Ebola being managed the actual problem still exists.

 

[CZroe]

Same with the Y2K bug.

"What a load of crap that was. Nothing bad happened!"

Right, nothing happened because a lot of people realized that serious shit would go down if nothing was done, so they took care of it before it was a problem. "Prevention" is a foreign concept for a lot of people.

Except that the news would cite "experts" and interview them where they would say ridiculous things like "nothing will work" and "everything from calculators to wristwatches will STOP WORKING ENTIRELY."

When people express what a load of crap the warnings were, they are talking about those know-nothing self-proclaimed "experts."

 

[notposting]

I miss being able to say "oh it's Ebola" when I had a sniffle or something because now I would probably get locked up either in quarantine or as a terrist. "Merica