| Author | Message | ||
     Blake |
It's more likely I'll think of Iran when I think of her. What could be if only... Great story Steve! | ||
| Sifo |
A couple of blog posts to think about. Not a blog I've read before, so I know little about the blogger. They claim to work in a hospital. They could be in neurosurgery, they could be in housekeeping, I don't know. Something to think about though... http://raconteurreport.blogspot.kr/2014/10/you-can t-handle-truth.html http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2014/10/do-mat h.html My wife was out with a friend last night. Her friend said that in doing her grocery shopping that day, there was a run on bottled water. Sounds to me like an early sign of panic, or at least concern. I don't know, we don't get bottled water. Interesting though. I will say this... In the past there have been villages where they pretty much did little but isolate the village and wait for the virus to burn out. Then they burn down the remains and move on. Not much of an option for a metropolitan area in the US. I'm encouraged by the fact that we aren't hearing of patients popping up in more locations. Yet. If that happens, things could get interesting. If it ever goes airborne...? | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
Everyone talks about Ebola going airborne but Hepatitis and HIV come to mind as two viruses that have never made that jump and HIV, specifically, is one of the most mutable viruses in existence. | ||
| Sifo |
Tend to agree that airborne Ebola is probably not worth getting my panties wadded over. If and when the time comes, that will be different. I still have a hard time being told that there is very little to fear from casual contact of an Ebola patient like you might have in a hospital waiting room, to seeing the pictures of the clean up team in Dallas.  That doesn't look like someone who is unconcerned with "casual contact". So now if Ebola gets out in a town near you, are you more or less likely to run to the hospital at the firs sign of having the flu? You NEED people to go to the hospital to contain it, but I sure wouldn't want to go in with a simple flu and walk out with Ebola. This is just an experiment that I would prefer to not participate in. | ||
| Aesquire |
Just call in, tell them you have flu symptoms, are staying home and will treat yourself. Have relatives or friends call you daily to make sure you're not melting down. Might not be stupid to get the flu shot, eh? Just don't panic the next couple of days. Many people get a mild fever and bleh's after a shot. Airborne? We'll see. If the President tells me it isn't, I'm staying home.  | ||
| Sifo |
Getting a flu shot tomorrow AM. Nothing to do with this though. Driving a school bus, getting sick is an occupational hazard. | ||
| Pwnzor |
Flu shots are mind control serum brought to you the people who control the black helicopters and chemtrails.  Seriously though, I'm not taking any unnecessary risks. I'm still going to work, but I will be limiting my face to face contact with drivers. I do have several guys who are from Ghana, one of which just returned from there in the last 2 months. Just finished stocking up with 600 gallons of bottled water, 100 gallons of general purpose water, more MRE's and lots of tasty treats like Spam. Got enough vittles to lock 5 people in the house and emerge 6 months later without losing any weight. Of course, we're completely unarmed, law abiding subjects, the lot of us. edit: I forgot to note that my wife and I tested one of my oldest MRE's, over 15 years on the shelf. I swear to you by my sainted mother's name that it tasted as good as they did when I bought them. Nice to know I don't have to throw out those 4 cases, with 48 complete meals contained. (Message edited by pwnzor on October 05, 2014) | ||
| Kenm123t |
I had some close to 20 years old and the packaging fell apart but they were stored under many conditions over the years | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/389550/case- panic-matthew-continetti violating my own wishes.... It is precisely the intersection of Ebola and globalization that worries me. The only response to a virus this deadly is to quarantine it. Stop flights, suspend visas, and beef up customs and security. It can be done. If the FAA can cancel flights to Israel, why can’t it cancel flights to and from the West African countries whence the outbreak originated? Simple: because doing so would violate the sacred principles by which our bourgeois liberal elite operate. To deny an individual entry to the United States over fears of contamination would offend our elite’s sense of humanitarian cosmopolitanism. For them, “singling out” nations or cultures from which threats to the public health or safety of the United States originate is illegitimate. It “stigmatizes” those nations or cultures, it “shames” them, it makes them feel unequal. It’s judgmental. It suggests that America prefers her already existing citizens to others. Such pieties endanger us. | ||
| Kenm123t |
Hmm its easier to say FOOLS shut the border. | ||
| Aesquire |
It's just a matter of time before Europe cuts off American air travel. Please note the time and date, because I Will Say I Told You So. | ||
| Kenm123t |
Now JCB parts and Lute fisk shortages could be a problem. lol | ||
| Aesquire |
Lefse is great stuff but easily made at home. My Mother has a Norwegian lefse paddle.... but her Mother used a Venetian blind section. A great ethnic food on a par with crepes and funnel cakes. Look it up. Lutefisk is also made here for the purpose of torturing young scandahoovians while teaching them how badaxx their ancestors are. It's astonishingly bad. No one will notice if supplies of it are cut off. You should even get your JCB parts by container no problems....... But I bet you won't be able to fly yourself to Europe at the current rate of political insanity on quarantine of Africa's plague regions. | ||
| Kenm123t |
Hey They wont let me have the keys to the B1Bs or even the Buffs. I think European urban renewal is way over due! Lefse is great My Ex wasn't allowed to wear the candles on her head at Christmas her dad said she would burn the house down she's clumsy lol My ex mother in law made all the scandahoovian goodies | ||
| Reindog |
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| Aesquire |
http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2014/10/05/the -anatomy-of-surprise/ | ||
| Blake |
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/ 06/thomas-eric-duncan-ebola-patient-dallas-hospita l/16798391/ | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
WE HAVE A PROBLEM http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/ wp/2014/10/07/after-nurse-contracts-ebola-spanish- health-workers-raise-concerns-about-protective-equ ipment/ | ||
| Aesquire |
Class 4 biohazard. | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
Level 4 labs in the U.S. http://fas.org/programs/bio/research.html#USBSL4 | ||
| Aesquire |
When dealing with biological hazards at this level the use of a positive pressure personnel suit, with a segregated air supply is mandatory. The entrance and exit of a level four biolab will contain multiple showers, a vacuum room, an ultraviolet light room, and other safety precautions designed to destroy all traces of the biohazard. Multiple airlocks are employed and are electronically secured to prevent both doors from opening at the same time. All air and water service going to and coming from a biosafety level 4 (or P4) lab will undergo similar decontamination procedures to eliminate the possibility of an accidental release. The reaction of the administration to this disease has been to send three thousand unprotected troops into the center of infection and announce that it would impose no restriction on travel into or out of infected areas. The ‘stupid incompetence’ of the graduates of our most prestigious universities who are responsible for our Ebola policy (and our energy policy, our medical policy, our foreign policy, our immigration policy, ad infinitum) grows more obvious every day The fellow telling you that you are perfectly safe next to a guy on an airliner if his temperature is under 105 degrees is incompetent, a bald faced liar, or has never traveled in the back of an airliner where the seats bear no resemblance to a barcalounger. It's nearly impossible NOT to swap body fluids with a sweating passenger on a 4+ hour flight in last class. | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
Some Ebola experts worry virus may spread more easily than assumed http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ebola-question s-20141007-story.html#page=2 | ||
| Court |
The pResident and his minions have lied so many times that I find zero comfort in their "oh don't worry about it" dialogue . . . Same idiots who told us it "could not" reach our shores are, 2 weeks later, telling us how to "contain" it within our shores . . . I . . in all candor . . am not even sure they understood community organizing. | ||
| Kenm123t |
Court you have a Point look how well Detroit and Chicago are doing Now that's organizing | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ebola-question s-20141007-story.html#page=1 http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/u-s-now-denies-troops-i n-contact-with-ebola-patients/ Moral of the story? If they lied to you before, they probably are still lying. I wouldn't trust these folk to babysit. | ||
| Hootowl |
I wouldn't trust them to mow my lawn, let alone trust them with the life of my child. | ||
| Court |
Wasn't it less than a month ago . . when they were brining those technicians back to the USA in the special "ET Bags" that they told is . . . . "never reach our shores". Then the fellow in Texas . . . "it's an isolated case and will be contained". Today we have 14 cases and they are headed out today to euthanize and incinerate a dog they think may be infected. Stupid tends to self propagate like nuclear fission. | ||
| Reindog |
Thomas Eric Duncan died this morning.  | ||
| Pellis |
How Many Ebola Victims Can Be Treated in U.S. Hospitals? 23. Read more at http://teapartyeconomist.com/2014/10/06/many-ebola -victims-can-treated-u-s-hospitals-23/#VokcjgifoI0 rbT61.99 | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
Shaping up to be a long hard winter. |
