Is your FB blowing up with crazy over Ebola?

bumpuser8448316

A friend posted that she's calling her union because she learned that she could contract Ebola from sweat. And she works outside with the public. Where people sweat!!!!!1111eleven!!!!

bumpuser8448316

It's not airborne so it's way less scary than say, SARS. She said we should have left the two Americans with Ebola in Africa

chickaboo1974

No.  It isn't.  As an interesting story, my husband works in Pharma- so he has many dealings with the FDA.  One of the FDA workers that he has many dealings with, shared that he use to work for the CDC and was a field worker.  So he was sent into some not so great locations, with deadly outbreaks, and doing less than glamorous jobs.  He actually contracted Marburg virus (another hemorrhagic virus) - and fortunately survived.

JMC11511

My husband's cousin and her husband both freaked out about this. DH said he thought it was transmitted through bodily fluids and cousin said, "Yeah, like a sneeze." Then her DH chimed in and said something about illegal immigrants are probably bringing it with them right now. DH just laughed at them. They are over the top about germs and paranoid about anything that isn't Conservative enough so I wasn't surprised.

catycate

Ug. Yes. I live in Atlanta, so right by the cdc and everyone is up in arms about it. The most tin foil hat theory I've seen (courtesy of my step grandmother) is that Bin Laden started it. I just... I can't.

likeanoldtimemovie

I'm in Atlanta, too and my mom works at Emory. Everyone is making it sound like we're all going to catch it just by driving through downtown.

rosesandpetals

This is my favorite thing I've seen so far.

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--K_Y-GL4p--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/ylyhgptplckkfbf8qlf4.jpg

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meglew

catycate said:

Ug. Yes. I live in Atlanta, so right by the cdc and everyone is up in arms about it. The most tin foil hat theory I've seen (courtesy of my step grandmother) is that Bin Laden started it. I just... I can't.

From his grave?

catycate

meglew said:

catycate said:

Ug. Yes. I live in Atlanta, so right by the cdc and everyone is up in arms about it. The most tin foil hat theory I've seen (courtesy of my step grandmother) is that Bin Laden started it. I just... I can't.

From his grave?

I mean... I just... I actually thinks that because every American wasn't granted with a lock of his hair, she doesn't really beleive that he's dead. So, that's a thing people think. Like, for real.

thechickencoop

rosesandpetals said:

This is my favorite thing I've seen so far.

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--K_Y-GL4p--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/ylyhgptplckkfbf8qlf4.jpg

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zbeesma86

the news makes it sound scary.

I'm more afraid of the flesh eating virus in the ocean right now  :-<

zbeesma86

cjcouple said:

zbeesma86 said:

the news makes it sound scary.

I'm more afraid of the flesh eating virus in the ocean right now  :-<

whoa - what??

yep

https://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2014/7/30/flesh_eating_bacteri.html

penguingrrl

No one on my feed is freaking out. A few people have passed on actual factual info, but that's cool. A friend from undergrad works for the CDC and has passed on some really good info, especially the fact that it's really quite hard to catch provided you follow proper sanitation protocol.

bumpuser8448316

zbeesma86 said:

the news makes it sound scary.

I'm more afraid of the flesh eating virus in the ocean right now  :-<

MIL had flesh eating disease. That shit is scary