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(Second + Third) Ebola Confirmed Infection Dallas

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massmedia said:
'should' is meaningless. It is what people do that counts. People in the US go to work sick, go to cafes sick, do all sorts of public activities while they are sick. should' is meaningless.
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Yep, they sure do. People are too terrified of getting fired to miss a day of work, or they have to keep up that image of a company soldier, marching along for the good of the company, even if it kills them and everyone else. Fucking idiots. The company doesn't give half a shit about them anyway. People have no god damn self respect these days.
 
Ns1 said:
saw this as a comment on another site, can't believe these people exist.
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Lots of crazy conspiracies about this. Very counterproductive. Some educated people are intelligent enough to combat a virus like this, but most are not. People aren't very intelligent unless heavily educated and conditioned. A good virus could wipe most of us out.
 
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health officials wont say that you can catch ebola from a sneeze. they keep insinuating that it requires some kind of intimate contact.

all it takes is for someone infected to sneeze and it gets in your eye, mouth, lands on your clothes which you touchwith your hands, later you rub your eyes, pick your nose.

of course they dont want to start a panic.
 
Does America have the resources. Lets say in december there are 2000 infected in Dallas. how would the hospitals deal with this? And what about people living in Apartments etc..

what is the protocol if something like that happens?
 
Hugo Drax said:
Does America have the resources. Lets say in december there are 2000 infected in Dallas. how would the hospitals deal with this? And what about people living in Apartments etc..

what is the protocol if something like that happens?
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Martial law. CDC, FEMA, and Southcom coordinating the effort. 2,000 I think we could handle assuming containment geographically. Ft. Sam and Ft. Hood are plenty close to provide support.

Problem is there won't be containment. Thousands of infected people looking for treatment will come by air, land, and sea.
 
monkeydelmagico said:
Martial law. CDC, FEMA, and Southcom coordinating the effort. 2,000 I think we could handle assuming containment geographically. Ft. Sam and Ft. Hood are plenty close to provide support.

Problem is there won't be containment. Thousands of infected people looking for treatment will come by air, land, and sea.
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Then before you know it Mel Gibson's flying past, pursued by a mobile S&M club and spewing BS about the Jews.
 
Imp said:
WHO saying death rate at 70%...

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/10/14/ebola_death_rate_rises_to_70_per_cent_says_who.html
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Is there a more detailed statistic, say by age? I hope that young healthy adults are way off to the left on the Gaussian half curve distribution... :\

Maybe a good idea to get a flu shot for the first time in my life to have a boosted immune system for the next months. I know that won't prevent one from getting Ebola, but I wonder if having the boosted immune system would further improve your chances. Even something like a 5% better chance would be huge.
 
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surfsatwerk said:
That's not how a flu shot works.
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Yeah you're right. Like I said, never had one before. For some reason I thought those made you purposely sick (lightly) for a brief period of time during the off season and that's how you became more protected.

I'm more thinking along the lines of those people who get sick yearly, but when they get sick, they only do so for a short period of time. Whereas people who never get sick, when they finally get sick, they're knocked out for an entire week because their immune system just isn't prepared.

This is outside of the obvious eat well, get enough sleep, be active, etc.
 
Hugo Drax said:
Does America have the resources. Lets say in december there are 2000 infected in Dallas. how would the hospitals deal with this? And what about people living in Apartments etc..

what is the protocol if something like that happens?
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Zambies?

Hospitals would have a difficult time dealing with 2,000 people infected with Ebola.
 
njdevilsfan87 said:
Yeah you're right. Like I said, never had one before. For some reason I thought those made you purposely sick (lightly) for a brief period of time during the off season and that's how you became more protected.

I'm more thinking along the lines of those people who get sick yearly, but when they get sick, they only do so for a short period of time. Whereas people who never get sick, when they finally get sick, they're knocked out for an entire week because their immune system just isn't prepared.

This is outside of the obvious eat well, get enough sleep, be active, etc.
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The flu shot will immunize you vs. the the influenza virus, and nothing else.
 
cabri said:
Amazing how people do not understand matching blood types. Those types will try to make a deal out of the skin color just to whip up issues.
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You only need serum for this, but yes, there could still be a reaction. Still, I'd rather take my chances with a mild type II than no treatment.
 
njdevilsfan87 said:
Is there a more detailed statistic, say by age? I hope that young healthy adults are way off to the left on the Gaussian half curve distribution... :\

Maybe a good idea to get a flu shot for the first time in my life to have a boosted immune system for the next months. I know that won't prevent one from getting Ebola, but I wonder if having the boosted immune system would further improve your chances. Even something like a 5% better chance would be huge.
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No idea, but if you factor in that the people of Africa have relatively terrible nutrition, mostly live in poverty, and have relatively poor hygiene and regular access to medical care, the survival rate would probably be higher in the first-world.
 
Regarding all these loud calls for travel bans from West Africa, somebody said to me : It is amazing what a difference couple of hundred years make to travel plans 🙂
 
Dari said:
I doubt that. I think there's some type of anti-ebola drug being used in North America. Also, the risk of injecting someone else's blood into a patient are too high considering the aforementioned drug is available.

A bit off-topic: Why did the Liberian guy die when all the other ebola patients that came from Africa survived? Was it because he did not have the medical insurance so they did not give him the anti-ebola drug?
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Doubt it all you want. Duncan is the only one I've seen so far that hasn't received a plasma transfusion from either Brantly or Darca(?).

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=brantly+transfusion
 
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