Confirmed: The first ever Ebola diagnosis on U.S. soil
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somebody on the news said the guy was symptomatic and walking around for 4 days before going to the hospital...
everybody should read "the hot zone" by douglas preston(that is if you don`t feel like sleeping for about a month)....
or this short read...........https://storify.com/GaltsGirl/rick-wilson-tells-twitter-a-story
everybody should read "the hot zone" by douglas preston(that is if you don`t feel like sleeping for about a month)....
or this short read...........https://storify.com/GaltsGirl/rick-wilson-tells-twitter-a-story
As some of you know I own a medical recruiting/staffing company here in Dallas. I have employees out working in offices and I'll have to say I'm worried. I actually have already put in a call to my insurance company to check on the liability on my side. My wife manages a medical office and even though it wouldn't have to deal with anyone would have these symptoms I still worry. When you're in a group of offices that are all medical then you never know who is walking in and out and who you will come in contact with. They're acting like it's not a big deal and it won't spread but the guy went to the ER once and was sent home with meds and then came back in. What the hell, how many people could he have infected during that period.
GW, I'm not reading that because I don't want to get paranoid but if more people turn up with it then I'll shut things down and keep my kids and wife at home.
GW, I'm not reading that because I don't want to get paranoid but if more people turn up with it then I'll shut things down and keep my kids and wife at home.
http://www.putlocker.tw/watch-contagion-online-free-putlocker-2011.html
Contagion - this is the entire movie
Contagion - this is the entire movie
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I hear you brother.....it certainly looks like the guy brought the disease with him from Liberia...but how do they know for sure that the guy was the carrier?...I mean,it sure looks that way...but it`s not absolute certainty that he didn`t catch it from someone else on that plane...you have a limited number of bathroom facilities that everyone else on the plane is using...
and what if the guy wasn`t forthcoming about when his symptoms first manifested themselves?...
honestly,forget the p.c. crap and and start restricting or heavily monitoring flights from the heavily infected areas until this thing subsides or is brought under control.....
g.l.,layin....hope it doesn`t affect you or your livelihood...
Thanks GW. I do worry. I have ICU and ER nurses that work PRN at the hospitals. I've already contacted the ones that have shifts scheduled and told them they are ok to cancel their shifts if at any point they don't feel comfortable. I DON'T think it will happen but if too many cases break out then I can see some things going downhill just from fear.
A bit worried myself. I have two employees at Presby Dallas so yeah.... I was just there myself a week ago:facepalm:
Everyone should be worried, simply because the gubmint is saying, "There is nothing to worry about".
How many people do you come into contact with in a given day? They can say he wasn't contagious all they want! How the fuck do they know??? How long was he walking around "sick" before he went to the ER? Then they send him home, and he's roaming around for another TWO DAYS? Bullshit!
If he coughed on anyone, or sneezed, pissed, bled, whatever......now they are walking around spitting and sneezing on people? This might not wipe out mankind, but you can bet dollars to donuts that "an isolated incident" this will most certainly not be!
How many people do you come into contact with in a given day? They can say he wasn't contagious all they want! How the fuck do they know??? How long was he walking around "sick" before he went to the ER? Then they send him home, and he's roaming around for another TWO DAYS? Bullshit!
If he coughed on anyone, or sneezed, pissed, bled, whatever......now they are walking around spitting and sneezing on people? This might not wipe out mankind, but you can bet dollars to donuts that "an isolated incident" this will most certainly not be!
This is where our government is a bunch of pussies. Anyone traveling from that part of Africa should be restricted from entering the US until this shit is under control. They should have to travel to a different country and wait a set time before they are allowed in the US. Of course this will never happen because we live in a country full of vaginas who are too worried about being PC than protecting our own.
I'd be shocked if others don't contract it from this guy. How do you think this started in Africa? With one patient.
gubmint last month: "there is no risk Ebola will come to the u.s."..
gubmint today:"there is no risk this patient infected anyone."...
we all need to remain calm...I`m confident that this will be handled just as soon as the fcc decides whether or not to zap t.v. and radio station licensing for saying "redskins".....
So now they're saying they have several high school students that came in contact with him and they're monitoring them. But hey guess what, they let them go back to school anyway. LOLOL you can't make this crap up. Why would you let kids go back to school that you're monitoring?
Butt puckering time. The school closest to my kids sent a letter home to parents stating that a student is being monitored and to watch their kids. Not sure if my kids would be attending school for a few weeks if I were to get one of those letters.
If my kids went to that school - they would be missing a lot of school. Why chance it? You have to ask yourself - "What are you willing to do to keep your kids from not contracting Ebola?"
If you send your kids to a school that is known to have had at least one exposure (contracting it or not) then you didn't really care THAT much.....
from the book,"the hot zone" by richard preston(that I mentioned in an earlier thread oanel):
" Ebola Zaire attacks every organ and tissue in the human body except skeletal muscle and bone. It is a perfect parasite because it transforms virtually every part of the body into a digested slime of virus particles. The seven mysterious protiens that, assembled together make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relenless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself. Small blood clots begin to appear in the bloodstream, and the blood thickens and slows, and the clots begin to stick to the walls of blood vessels. This is known as pavementing, because the clots fit together in a mosaic. the mosaic thickens and throws more clots, and the clots drift through the bloodstream into the small capillaries, where they get stuck. This shuts off the blood supply to various parts of the body, causing dead spots to appear in the brain, liver, kidneys, lungs, intestines, testicles, breast tissue (of men as well as women), and all through the skin. The skin develops red spots, called petechiae, which are hemorrhages under the skin. Ebola attacks connective tissue with particular ferocity; it multiplies in collagen, the chief constituent protein of the tissues that hold the organs together. (The seven Ebola proteins somehow chew up the body's structural proteins.) In this way, collagen in the body turns to mush, and the underlayers of the skin die and liquefy. The skin bubbles up into a sea of tiny white blister mixed with red spots known as maculopapular rash. This rash has been likened to tapioca pudding. Spontaneous rips appear in the skin, and hemorrhagic blood pours from the rips. The red spots in the skin grow and spread and merge to become huge, spontaneous bruises, and the skin goes soft and pulpy, and you can tear it off if it is touched with any kind of pressure."
" Ebola Zaire attacks every organ and tissue in the human body except skeletal muscle and bone. It is a perfect parasite because it transforms virtually every part of the body into a digested slime of virus particles. The seven mysterious protiens that, assembled together make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relenless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself. Small blood clots begin to appear in the bloodstream, and the blood thickens and slows, and the clots begin to stick to the walls of blood vessels. This is known as pavementing, because the clots fit together in a mosaic. the mosaic thickens and throws more clots, and the clots drift through the bloodstream into the small capillaries, where they get stuck. This shuts off the blood supply to various parts of the body, causing dead spots to appear in the brain, liver, kidneys, lungs, intestines, testicles, breast tissue (of men as well as women), and all through the skin. The skin develops red spots, called petechiae, which are hemorrhages under the skin. Ebola attacks connective tissue with particular ferocity; it multiplies in collagen, the chief constituent protein of the tissues that hold the organs together. (The seven Ebola proteins somehow chew up the body's structural proteins.) In this way, collagen in the body turns to mush, and the underlayers of the skin die and liquefy. The skin bubbles up into a sea of tiny white blister mixed with red spots known as maculopapular rash. This rash has been likened to tapioca pudding. Spontaneous rips appear in the skin, and hemorrhagic blood pours from the rips. The red spots in the skin grow and spread and merge to become huge, spontaneous bruises, and the skin goes soft and pulpy, and you can tear it off if it is touched with any kind of pressure."
I read this....just before having a serving of one of my favorite desserts ~ tapioca.
thanks. anything else to ruin my morning? you still have fifty minutes left.
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