[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GHung', 'S')ix: "It's all Obama's fault".
Sure, Six. I f you insist on being a simpleton while blaming all the failings of our bloated, hyper-complex disfuctional shit-pile of systems on a single person with limited powers and even less support from Congress, go ahead. I'm not defending Obama, but know better than to blame him for everything. Even the best President couldn't fix our totally FUBAR predicaments.

[Cid_Yama]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sixstrings', 'T')he president has emergency powers authority that can be activated in emergencies.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sixstrings', 'T')he president has emergency powers authority that can be activated in emergencies.

[basil_hayden]

Six = moronic. Cid arguing with moronic on parliamentary procedures = more moronic. The Usual Suspects.

GHung - That's right on the money with the doffing the suit without bleach dips, once again moronic on Gupta's part. It's all about the prevention of cross-contamination at this point - hot zones, warm zones, cool zones and decontamination.

As far as Ebola, thanks to possible mutations definite lax control measures and stupid airplanes, it's already conceptually everywhere in the transportation system like norovirus and ocean cruise liners.

Parents will prevent kids from attending school within a week, maybe two, once this realization sets in, whether it is deemed necessary or not.

[Cid_Yama]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'H')e can just pick up a phone and on something like this, hospitals and governors would listen.

[Quinny]

Cid - I wouldn't waste your energy 6 is beyond hope!

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('basil_hayden', 'S')ix = moronic. Cid arguing with moronic on parliamentary procedures = more moronic. The Usual Suspects.

[KingM]

We live in a time of diaper-wetting caution. Nobody is going to want to be the person who wasn't cautious enough. If the government would show some leadership in establishing a system for dealing with this (and the single, isolated hospital in the desert isn't a bad idea), who would want to be the governor who said, "nah, we can easily handle Ebola on our own"?

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Quinny', 'C')id - I wouldn't waste your energy is beyond hope!

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KingM', 'W')e live in a time of diaper-wetting caution. Nobody is going to want to be the person who wasn't cautious enough. If the government would show some leadership in establishing a system for dealing with this (and the single, isolated hospital in the desert isn't a bad idea), who would want to be the governor who said, "nah, we can easily handle Ebola on our own"?

[Sixstrings]

I'm sorry I've gotten so bent out of shape, but there's a big problem here guys.

We have a CDC that just sends out pamphlets and hosts "webinars" on the internet, that overworked nurses have no time to watch anyway.

These were the INITIAL patient zero cases.

There is NO EXCUSE for not sending a CDC team down to Dallas.

It's ridiculous -- all these people just have endless meetings and webinars on the internet, somebody needed to get out of their office and off the internet and fly the f*ck down to Dallas and help those nurses out, and be on top of it and clean up the stupid dirty diapers and THAT is how you stop ebola for God sake.

And do it safely, and do it correctly -- these were the patient zero cases, there is no excuse for CDC being absent.

That director needs to lose his job over this, it's outrageous.

[Sixstrings]

On the news now, another screwup, a patient being monitored for ebola was allowed to fly on a commercial flgiht.

So now the government says yes that was a screwup and won't happen again. Heckuva job!

Also, there are only 4 hospitals in the US certified to treat ebola. Emory is good but they only have 3 beds. There are a total of only NINETEEN beds in the US. That's it, 19.

So see, you do need that "camp in the desert." Obama admin should be on top of this and be ready. Army needs to be ready, they've got mobile hospitals. It sounds doomer but it would actually be smart -- army could set up a mobile hospital and camp that's totally isolated, on one of the military bases in Nevada. Have the military take over transport.

Make a STRICT quarantine. Somebody somewhere gets an ebola diagnosis, first in their city, then you fly them the f*ck out to that quarantine in Nevada or somewhere. That kind of policy could stop this thing (or a worse pandemic, in the future, you gotta stop it early and have solid quarantine).

[Sixstrings]

From Tanada's article link:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')urses were forced to use medical tape to secure openings in their flimsy garments, worried that their necks and heads were exposed as they cared for a patient with explosive diarrhea and projectile vomiting, said Deborah Burger of National Nurses United.

[basil_hayden]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('basil_hayden', 'S')ix = moronic. Cid arguing with moronic on parliamentary procedures = more moronic. The Usual Suspects.

[Plantagenet]

The Ebola crisis is starting to hurt the President's poll numbers.

No wonder Obama cancelled his fundraising trip and has been staging phony photo ops to make it look like he is working---his frequent golfing trips and fund-raising trips to meet his wealthy cronies raise questions about whether he is working full time on dealing with Ebola, ISIS, Putin, US job losses and wage declines, global economic slowdowns and other problems that are besetting his administration, or if he spends too much time laughing and boozing it up with his sycophants on the golf course, followed by too much time laughing and boozing it up with his obscenely wealthy donors at fundraisers.


The visuals of Obama golfing and fund-raising from the wealthy aren't good at a time like this.

[KingM]

Turns out the latest Ebola flyer had a fever before she got on the plane. Unbelievably reckless behavior, given that she already knew her coworker had contracted Ebola. She should be arrested for that, assuming she recovers.

[vtsnowedin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'T')he Ebola crisis is starting to hurt the President's poll numbers.

No wonder Obama cancelled his fundraising trip and has been staging phony photo ops to make it look like he is working---his frequent golfing trips and fund-raising trips to meet his wealthy cronies raise questions about whether he is working full time on dealing with Ebola, ISIS, Putin, US job losses and wage declines, global economic slowdowns and other problems that are besetting his administration, or if he spends too much time laughing and boozing it up with his sycophants on the golf course, followed by too much time laughing and boozing it up with his obscenely wealthy donors at fundraisers.


The visuals of Obama golfing and fund-raising from the wealthy aren't good at a time like this.

[ritter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KingM', 'T')urns out the latest Ebola flyer had a fever before she got on the plane. Unbelievably reckless behavior, given that she already knew her coworker had contracted Ebola. She should be arrested for that, assuming she recovers.

[Lore]

Everybody knows only zombie bites are infectious. You can hack em, whack em, zombie blood and bial shooting everywhere all over you, no problem. I mean how different can Ebola be?

[Graeme]

Second Ebola-infected nurse flown from Dallas to Atlanta for specialized treatment

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he second nurse infected with Ebola at a Texas hospital was flown by private jet Wednesday to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for further specialized treatment.

The patient was identified earlier in the day as 29-year-old Amber Vinson as authorities expressed concern that she took a domestic flight — reportedly to prepare for her wedding in Cleveland — just one day before coming down with symptoms of the deadly disease.

"The second health care worker should not have been allowed to travel by virtue of being in an exposed group," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Dr. Thomas Frieden said in a telebriefing Wednesday. "Although she had no symptoms or fever [that met the threshold] of 100.4, she did report that she took her temperature and found it to be 99.5."

Vinson, who like Nina Pham is a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, went to the hospital displaying symptoms of the disease on Tuesday morning, after taking a Frontier Airlines flight from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth on Monday night. Federal health officials are now tracking down all of Vinson's fellow passengers, the CDC said Wednesday.