Ebola

Concerning airborne, I doubt it, or at least hope not. However, I go dancing a lot, and from that I clearly know that just being close to somebody in a loud club, and having them talk to you... you aren't just breathing their air. Some people spit a lot when they talk. When people exhale, it isn't entirely air, which is why you can fog up a window with your breath.

This is basically a description of what airborne means:


From what I recall, ebola doesn't particularly cause you to cough or sneeze, so that isn't a huge issue, but, given that many people in Dallas (myself included) currently have a cold and are coughing, sneezing, and spitting out green stuff anyway, well, you can understand how someone who already has a cold could be a real threat if they also got ebola at the same time.

All it takes is 1 drop of fluid from an infected person on your hand and then you get that on you by scratching your face, rubbing your eye, touching your Rilldo when peeing, etc. and you just gave it the opportunity to infect you. Ebola lives a long time at room temperature and a longer time at body temperature on your skin, so we aren't well protected naturally. The same virus life outside the body at room temp, body temp, etc. pretty much goes for Flu and other things, but realistically, your likelihood of dying from the flu is really low.

I don't know if you guys have been seeing pics like this shared on facebook, twitter, etc. but I've seen a lot of them.


Do you know what the fundamental problem is with a chart like this? You have to be a complete moron to think this type of data matters. What matters is how deadly the disease is. Not how many people have died.

Heart disease, lung cancer, diabetes, motor vehicle, guns, and unintentional falls are completely self-inflicted and completely unrelated to communicable diseases. Who the hell cares about that data. This chart is made entirely to calm the fears of the ignorant and unintelligent. Hell, even the people who won't read that it is just a chart of the last 8 days, who will be default think it is a chart for the last month or last year.

So let's look at the flu and pneumonia. 1110 people in the US apparently died from those in the period of about 8 days. But here's the thing... Hundreds (or tens) of thousands of people probably had the flu/pneumonia, and that's the tiny number who died. I am not having any luck on Google researching the mortality rate percentage, because the CDC doesn't track the percentage of people who die or even get the flu or pneumonia, because they are kind of BS diseases that don't usually result in death. You can read about that here if you want: www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/us_flu-related_deaths.htm So let's just assume that somewhere between 0.05% and 5% of the people who get the flu or pneumonia die from it. The people who die are probably little kids or the elderly.

With Ebola, 50% to 90% of people die, basically regardless of their age. That's huge. Flu/pneumonia? Could be 1% or less, or maybe a little more. Who knows?

You get Ebola, and you have a perfect, expensive hospital stay with attentive care (that you'll be paying off for the rest of your life), and you have only a 50/50 chance of living through it. That's rough! You get the flu, and unless you're old or sick with something else, you probably have at least a 90% chance of living through it! If not 99% chance!

I don't know about the rest of you, but from customizing, I constantly have a scratch on my hand, a hangnail, or even a crack in my skin from washing with soap too much. An opening for ebola to enter is all it really takes, you don't have to lick your fingers after opening a door contaminated by it or anything like that to get it. You just have to touch something that is infected, and then touch something else, and then that something else touches something else, and so on. It's a pretty big problem.

Should you worry about Ebola is you live in... I dunno... California? Probably not yet. If you live in Dallas? Hell yes you should be concerned. Keep your hands as clean as reasonable, have some hand sanitizer in your pocket, and try to limit your exposure to people in close environments (like church, stadiums, movies, public transportation) in my opinion. Oh, and change out of your work clothes when you get home, wash them, and take a shower.

Ebola does make you puke, and so don't wear your shoes inside the house, and if you're cleaning your car, be mindful that you might have driven through remnants of ebola puke that was washed away into the gutter/street, so if you're washing your car, clean yourself afterwards.

Who is making drama? We've seen how this disease can spread and and we're aware of what it can do to a person. There's nothing wrong with discussing the possibility of an outbreak and suggesting people need to have a shred of concern about this disease.

A 2nd nurse has been diagnosed with Ebola, and has also been diagnosed as a complete idiot.

29 years old, lives by SMU in Dallas, worked on Ebola patient zero Duncan, decided to go home to Cleveland, Ohio to see her family, flies back to Dallas, potentially infected some/all 130+ people on that plane, potentially infected her entire family in Cleveland/Akron.

These nurses were not supposed to be permitted to use public transport, but it was on the "honor system" and thus not enforced. She took a plane to go home to Cleveland/Akron on Friday October 10th to plan her wedding and see her family. She came back on a flight on Monday October 13th with a fever. She was tested on October 14th for Ebola and tested positive.

Also, minutes ago, a report came on the news stating that patient zero Duncan was not in isolation for several hours after being admitted to the hospital, so he was around other patients and staff, and that nurses were not instructed or provided face masks at times when dealing with Duncan. Protective "booties" for shoes, face coverings, etc. were not always worn. There were other things listed, but I didn't catch them all as I was eating lunch.

This is why they should have shipped Duncan off to a place with training in diseases such as Ebola instead of trying to handle it here.

They are shipping this 29 year old off to a hospital called Emory (in Atlanta perhaps?) that specializes in diseases similar to this.

This is just ridiculous.

I've been avoiding saying anything about this but like bran said people r idiots but I also know in the medical field Ur not always told what a patient has even if it's serious. It's Kinnda crazy but it's true I'm currently working in a group home with 6 guys that all have behavior disabilities ie they hurt themselves or others and one of my first questions in training was if someone has something like HIV or aids will we be informed and I was told no I wouldn't be. I was like that's insane. But the trainer said look at it this way if u had say herpies or the clap would u tell everyone u worked with even though they could contact it via the bathroom and I was like well I guess not but Ur not going to die from that so it's kinda different. Anyway people in these hospitals arnt always being told what the people they work with might have Which again is insane

Walking in with my spacesuit on lol

And I guess what I meant more than anything is I doubt even 1/4 of the people in the hospital will know that there is someone with ebola being treated at the hospital at first anyway because people will freak out. It still took my breath away about them not telling me that kind of stuff where I work every other week now. I've never done anything like what I'm doing or worked with people with disabilities but my whole life I've always wanted to. Nothing in this world makes me more upset than to see someone with disabilities being treated or talked to unfairly I just can't stand it. I used to get in fights with people in high school that used to pick on anyone that was slow or different just to make themselves feel better or to try and look cool. Id tell them Ur so unhappy with Ur own life that u have to ruin another persons just to make urs better Ur the lowest of the low a pathetic person.

I enjoy it so u know