Right? I was reading an article about how the unit accepting them in ATL is prepared for this kind of thing and my brain was like "BUT THE AIRPLANE THO."
I mean I'm sure they know what they're doing but.....
To be fair to the infected, I'm sure they long to be home and such so I can appreciate not wanting to stay in West Africa, but dammit don't bring that shit here.
ETA - also, the descriptions of the bleeding from the eyes eerily reminds me of TWD and I'm already paranoid about WWIII, now a massive virus outbreak (
I was talking to my mom on my way home from work today, and she was writing out a memo to send to Drs about how to recognize it with first symptoms and such.
I know cdc headquarters are in Atlanta, but didn't they just find a bunch of vials of things like smallpox and the Spanish flu in a storage closet? Doesn't exactly instill confidence... At least the Ukrainian rebels are letting officials investigate the crash site, but the ceasefire in Gaza collapsed so...
I so think they used the fighting to buy time to do shit to the crash site/destroy evidence/etc.
So I was at a funeral dinner this afternoon, and someone on the buffet line a few people ahead of me started LICKING HIS FINGERS.
In other words, we're all screwed. Nice knowing you.
No, No, NO, DO Not randomly spread your body fluids. Seriously, have these people NEVER seen a dystopic future science fiction movie?
There is a more personal article on the doctor who is being flown back. The other person is a nurse with the same organization. Definitely both are heroes.
I heard an expert interviewed on NPR and he said even if it comes here we have the infrastructure and resources to isolate it and a widespread outbreak in the US or EU is unlikely. Just one guy's opinion but take some comfort maybe.
Just to calm some anxiety. It's far easier for these viruses to spread in underdeveloped countries. They are isolated and/or don't trust doctors so by the time they seek help they have already spread it. Ebola isn't airborne, so you actually hav to have contact with an infected person's body fluids. The doctors are each being flown in a seperate plane totally equipped for handeling infectious diseases. But it is creepy. On a related note, this reminds me of an app I used to play called Plague Inc. You basically mutate a virus to take oh mankind. I was scarily good at it.
I've been having horrible visions of them having to quarantine cities. I think it's a bad, bad idea. Sure, it could have gotten here anyway, but why intentionally bring it and risk it??
I've been having horrible visions of them having to quarantine cities. I think it's a bad, bad idea. Sure, it could have gotten here anyway, but why intentionally bring it and risk it??
Anyone ever read The Hot Zone??
Maybe I'm too trusting, but I feel like if there was even minimal risk they would have taken the medical care to them rather than move them. I'm mobile so I can't link but the planes look legit and I'm sure they will be basically in bubbles throughout.
This reminds me of that movie contagion. That shit can happen for real but I'm with @keags5496. The US is much better equipped to deal with this. However, if it were any other developing country I'd say a prayer as people have very different meaning for hygiene there.
I was at a top hospital in India and butt naked on the table to get examined. There was no sheet on the bed. I freaked out but the nurse insisted it was sanitized. Yeah that did not go well.
I've been having horrible visions of them having to quarantine cities. I think it's a bad, bad idea. Sure, it could have gotten here anyway, but why intentionally bring it and risk it??
Anyone ever read The Hot Zone??
Maybe I'm too trusting, but I feel like if there was even minimal risk they would have taken the medical care to them rather than move them. I'm mobile so I can't link but the planes look legit and I'm sure they will be basically in bubbles throughout.
The protocols for handling infectious disease patients are VERY strict. I'm sure that these workers will be extra cautious since they have so many eyes on them and it's so vital.
I want those doctors home. It's scary, yes, but I imagine it being my husband and I'd want him home.
This outbreak does make me wish he'd gone into a different speciality. He gets to work with all the sick patients. Ask the bumpies I lost it to how well I handled him having measles patients.
I told DH about this thread and he groaned and said that three times today someone got worked up about a patient having Ebola. The symptoms never fit but as soon as someone said it there were lots of anxious people.
He's glad he'll be out of the ER soon so that he doesn't need to deal with the flood of super anxious people convinced their indigestion is Ebola.
I've been having horrible visions of them having to quarantine cities. I think it's a bad, bad idea. Sure, it could have gotten here anyway, but why intentionally bring it and risk it??
Anyone ever read The Hot Zone??
Maybe I'm too trusting, but I feel like if there was even minimal risk they would have taken the medical care to them rather than move them. I'm mobile so I can't link but the planes look legit and I'm sure they will be basically in bubbles throughout.
The protocols for handling infectious disease patients are VERY strict. I'm sure that these workers will be extra cautious since they have so many eyes on them and it's so vital.
I want those doctors home. It's scary, yes, but I imagine it being my husband and I'd want him home.
This outbreak does make me wish he'd gone into a different speciality. He gets to work with all the sick patients. Ask the bumpies I lost it to how well I handled him having measles patients.
Is he an infection disease fellow?
I don't really get the excitement, chances of an Ebola outbreak is low. I'd be much more concerned about the bugs that are prevalent in the community and we have few drugs to treat them. And even those bugs....Hell, I'm exposed to them on almost a daily basis (and so are thousands and thousands of healthcare workers everyday) You can't focus and dwell on these kinds of things that you can't control.
Infectious disease is scary when you have a sick patient and you don't know what's making them sick. The illness has been identified, and therefore proper precautions will be taken to minimize exposure.
I've been having horrible visions of them having to quarantine cities. I think it's a bad, bad idea. Sure, it could have gotten here anyway, but why intentionally bring it and risk it??
Anyone ever read The Hot Zone??
Maybe I'm too trusting, but I feel like if there was even minimal risk they would have taken the medical care to them rather than move them. I'm mobile so I can't link but the planes look legit and I'm sure they will be basically in bubbles throughout.
The protocols for handling infectious disease patients are VERY strict. I'm sure that these workers will be extra cautious since they have so many eyes on them and it's so vital.
I want those doctors home. It's scary, yes, but I imagine it being my husband and I'd want him home.
This outbreak does make me wish he'd gone into a different speciality. He gets to work with all the sick patients. Ask the bumpies I lost it to how well I handled him having measles patients.
Is he an infection disease fellow?
I don't really get the excitement, chances of an Ebola outbreak is low.
I'd be much more concerned about the bugs that are prevalent in the community and we have few drugs to treat them. And even those bugs....Hell, I'm exposed to them on almost a daily basis (and so are thousands and thousands of healthcare workers everyday)
You can't focus and dwell on these kinds of things that you can't control.
Nope, just internal medicine but he's at one of the largest hospitals in the area so he's around fun things like MRSA often (though he tells me daily that MRSA isn't a big deal).
DH isn't worried about ebola either, but I can't shake some anxiety (mostly because more people will flood the hospital and clinic and he'll bring home more fun germs).
Unfortunately, MRSA and VRE is everywhere, in every hospital, not just the larger facilities. It's not really a concern unless you are immunocompromised.
Maybe I should be more concerned...because if people do start to show up with Ebola, it will be me who is taking care of them.
Re: Is anyone else not so excited about Ebola?
ETA - also, the descriptions of the bleeding from the eyes eerily reminds me of TWD and I'm already paranoid about WWIII, now a massive virus outbreak
I was all "wait. This is a thing again??"
<--------------- cynic
::shopping for bubble::
On a related note, this reminds me of an app I used to play called Plague Inc. You basically mutate a virus to take oh mankind. I was scarily good at it.
Anyone ever read The Hot Zone??
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I was at a top hospital in India and butt naked on the table to get examined. There was no sheet on the bed. I freaked out but the nurse insisted it was sanitized. Yeah that did not go well.
The protocols for handling infectious disease patients are VERY strict. I'm sure that these workers will be extra cautious since they have so many eyes on them and it's so vital.
I want those doctors home. It's scary, yes, but I imagine it being my husband and I'd want him home.
This outbreak does make me wish he'd gone into a different speciality. He gets to work with all the sick patients. Ask the bumpies I lost it to how well I handled him having measles patients.
He's glad he'll be out of the ER soon so that he doesn't need to deal with the flood of super anxious people convinced their indigestion is Ebola.
I don't really get the excitement, chances of an Ebola outbreak is low.
I'd be much more concerned about the bugs that are prevalent in the community and we have few drugs to treat them. And even those bugs....Hell, I'm exposed to them on almost a daily basis (and so are thousands and thousands of healthcare workers everyday)
You can't focus and dwell on these kinds of things that you can't control.
Infectious disease is scary when you have a sick patient and you don't know what's making them sick. The illness has been identified, and therefore proper precautions will be taken to minimize exposure.
It's not really a concern unless you are immunocompromised.
Maybe I should be more concerned...because if people do start to show up with Ebola, it will be me who is taking care of them.