Ebola In Newark, New Jersey? (health, nursing, metro)
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Ignorant people are the ones who aren't worried about it. People who blindly listen to the president or his administration or the media without questioning.
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1,069,000,000 -estimated population of African continent 2014
7,493 -latest count of reported cases of Ebola in Africa where the virus is infecting a population uneducated about the spread of disease/virology, people live in extremely densely populated conditions with open sewers and little to no hygeine facilities, family members regularly clean their dead by hand with warm water, no soap to prepare them for burial.
.0007% of the population of Africa has contracted the ebola virus. By contrast, every single day in the United States over 100 people die in car crashes which you also typically 'catch' from other humans. While I wouldn't say Ebola is a non-issue and it certainly demands the attention of every nation's medical experts and vigilance, I wouldn't say the sky is falling either.
1,069,000,000 -estimated population of African continent 2014. 7,493 -latest count of reported cases of Ebola in Africa where the virus is infecting a population uneducated about the spread of disease/virology, people live in extremely densely populated conditions with open sewers and little to no hygeine facilities, family members regularly clean their dead by hand with warm water, no soap to prepare them for burial. While I wouldn't say Ebola is a non-issue, I wouldn't say the sky is falling either.
What are you going on about? I don't think it's possible to get infected from someone showing no signs of disease. I also never said that the CDC has been hiding information regarding transmission through taxis, I know that they are and that has been in the news for a while.
About the ambulance, that's not true. It was put into quarantine after they discovered he had ebola. It was used for other patients immediately after him. THEN they cleaned it thoroughly and stopped using it.
You keep saying that you can catch Ebola from hand rails and doorknobs. Unless the patient is already showing symptoms, he is not going to leave infectious material on surfaces like that.
All I have read about the ambulance is that it was pulled out of service after the run to transport Duncan. The EMS crew were aware that he might have Ebola, and they use universal precautions anyway. Ambulances are disinfected after every patient anyway.
I think the saddest part of all of this is that ebola panic (or lack thereof) in the U.S. breaks down predictably along party lines. Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and other conservative news sources/pundits are the ones calling for closing down the borders, calling the President on the carpet for how he's handling the situation, etc...and then that trickles down to people like JerseyGirl-if you read through her posts it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out which side of the spectrum she's on.
Of course, if Bush were still the President, MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, etc...would all be lambasting him for his handling of the situation and breaking into hysterics on the air about how we're all going to die. EBWick and the rest of the liberal contingent on the CD NJ forum would then follow suit.
Confidence comes from leadership that has a demonstrated they can be trusted. That is not the case here as fedral agencies have become politcal arms of an administration whose lies are legendary and explainations short.
We were told standard treatment of clinical signs as available in the US would be all that was needed to treat ebola.
Now we hear another popular, 'my computer ate it ' story from the TX hospital as the reason the guy wasn't trewated sooner.
Obamacare rollout was a galactic disaster despite Sebelius, obama et al telling us it will be ready, it is fixed, etc.
Nurses organization claims shortage of fluids, the basic treatment for the dehydration that comes with ebola or any other yet to be discovered disease intoduced form off shore.
Feds sending illegal aliens to parts unknown across the country with minimal health exams and no apparatus to trace the people they released and required to return on the date specified for a followup hearing.
Zero confidence exists in the government to protect us. No leadership in sight.
Panic should be replaced with a conviction to vote out the ruling party.
Zero confidence exists in the government to protect us.
Anyone who has ever had any confidence in any government protecting them is fooling themselves.
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