Ebola coming to a town near you.

[Arlo]

Better to be infected early, while society is still functioning and health care is available.  Once I survive and my immunity is established, then society can go crumble, and good luck to you surviving your inevitable infections when everyone is looting and running amok.

Now just need to get a passport and airline ticket to Africa... or Texas.

As if when society collapses all you'll have to worry about is ebola.

[zack1234]

When will that be?

[Brooke]

For those of you wondering how the US carefully does a safe, high-tech clean up of infectious waste from this Dallas Ebola victim:







From:  http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/outrage-ebola-vomit-washed-down-storm-drain/

Hey, what could go wrong?

The most-recent announcement of an American who got Ebola (a NBC cameraman in Africa) thinks he got it this way:  "'At one point he was trying to help decontaminate a car. He had most of the protective gear on, but he thinks something might have splashed on his body at that point. That’s one possibility, but really, one doesn’t know fully,' Diana (his mother) said."  http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/10/03/nbc-news-cameraman-from-providence-diagnosed-with-ebola/

I'm sure a t-shirt and baseball hat for the guys above counts as "most of the protective gear on".

[68ZooM]

hey but the CDC and gov are on top of it, remember what we heard the chances of it coming to the US are slim to none... slim landed in Texas.

[Brooke]

In a bit over a week, we'll know if anyone else got infected.

However, it's very easy to do a PCR test.  That would pick it up far in advance of someone showing symptoms.  The health agencies should be doing that now for the people who were in contact with him -- but they probably aren't.  Maybe this is a wrong impression, but from the outside, all of this sure looks like a Keystone Cops production.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

For those of you wondering how the US carefully does a safe, high-tech clean up of infectious waste from this Dallas Ebola victim:

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From:  http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/outrage-ebola-vomit-washed-down-storm-drain/

Hey, what could go wrong?

The most-recent announcement of an American who got Ebola (a NBC cameraman in Africa) thinks he got it this way:  "'At one point he was trying to help decontaminate a car. He had most of the protective gear on, but he thinks something might have splashed on his body at that point. That’s one possibility, but really, one doesn’t know fully,' Diana (his mother) said."  http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/10/03/nbc-news-cameraman-from-providence-diagnosed-with-ebola/

I'm sure a t-shirt and baseball hat for the guys above counts as "most of the protective gear on".

Quite different from the X-files etc. Hollywood fairy tales. If this was a movie there'd be a special decontamination team in space suits and hover crafts lol. The reality? A black dude in plain clothes rinsing off the biohazard into the nature. I hope they at least used a disinfectant.

[Rob52240]

According to the news, Ebola just landed on the east coast in Newark New Jersey.

[tassos]

Buy fast more guns!

[Brooke]

Tassos is from northern Greece.  My great grandfather was born in the Macedonian region of Greece.  We could be related! 

[Rich46yo]

These imbeciles running the show had better ban flights from these countries and quick.

[Meatwad]

These imbeciles running the show had better ban flights from these countries and quick.

Yup

[guncrasher]

These imbeciles running the show had better ban flights from these countries and quick.

ok so they fly to another country that flies into the usa.  us citizens arent allowed to fly to cuba but many do thru other countries.



semp

[Brooke]

ok so they fly to another country that flies into the usa.  us citizens arent allowed to fly to cuba but many do thru other countries.



semp

When you increase a barrier to entry, you get fewer people entering.  For example, eliminating flights from Liberia would result in a significant reduction in number of Liberians travelling to the US.

However, if we were going to do that, it is trivially simple to ban travel into the US for people with Liberian passports regardless of where they originate.

Of course, currently, the simplest way around any restriction is to fly to Mexico and walk in with the rest of the 20,000 people per month doing that.

[FLOOB]

I think semp assumed he meant that only the us ban flights from west africa. What west african country hasnt closed it's borders yet? I thought S Leone and Liberia had already closed.

[FLOOB]

I opened the window and in flew enza.