Ebola hits US

A pharmaceutical company most likely. More profit when white people are scared.

is there anything that isn't probably due to racism, in your warped mind? is ebola itself racist?

Maybe not blatant racism, but as the article mentioned, otherization.

Are you claiming that the international response to the Ebola outbreak wouldn't be any different if it happened somewhere in the US or Europe?

wtf does that even mean? are you trying to tell me that you personally are such a great person of high moral standing, that you wouldn't care more about something like this if it's closer to your home? which means that people you know and care about are at some, even if only ever so slightly, increased risk of being affected? because if you're trying to say that you're a liar. first you threw the notion of it being racist out there, now you're backpedaling, but that already goes to show how eager you are to make that accusation. this is why the phrase 'race card' exists. because of people like you. you think its just something you can slam on the table without even think about what you're saying. you're actually accusing people of a pretty serious thing, with 0 thought behind it. oh but its ok, because now it's 'otherization'.

find me a country whose citizens wouldn't be more worried about a disease having infected people in their own country, rather than in some other country around the world. you won't. but maybe you can explain to me how that basic element of human nature somehow makes people (especially when we're talking about americans, right?) evil, or bigger assholes than you. you can't.

I am just going to leave it, since I've seen what other stuff you've spewn on this site regarding an assortment of different matters and I know we are never going to see eye to eye.

you're not supposed see eye to eye with him, only admit that he's completely right on this particular issue and your argument is idiotic. that's pretty much a universal thing i think - no one cares about anyone but themselves and their close ones. it probably won't affect the live of average westerner whether 10,000 africans die because of it or a million.

They would find the vaccine faster, of course - more profit in selling it in the developed world. Nothing to do with race.

Policy makers should actually hopefully care about protecting their own citizens, but these kinds of security issues are borderless, so caring about other nations equally is an infinitely more valid way of approaching the situation.

  On 10/1/2014 at 12:42 AM, skibby said:

is life supposed to be full of suffering or something?

 

wait a second Buddha ain't that two things? Did the Brahmans teach you math?

lol

pretty considerate of joyrex to add a new smiley that is relevant to this current event

second healthcare worker tests positive.

this really means the protocols they were using were insufficient. the simple gown/glove setup is what we wear when we're handling healthy laboratory mice. what's more, it's not like we were overwhelmed with ill people when duncan showed up. he absolutely should have been flown to a sophisticated facility and treated by people in moon suits. this is the benefit of hindsight, but the decision to let regular nurses and doctors deal with him is an unacceptable blunder. the person or persons behind this decision should lose their jobs and the two new cases should be in the safest rooms in the country.

the other point worth being made is that if this gets out into the wild it's going to be orders of magnitude more difficult to deal with for the simple reason that our most powerful screening strategy: "have you traveled to areas with infected people?" won't be helpful anymore. so every person who reads the news and has food poisoning / stomach bug / bad cold / the flu will crowd into ERs and overwhelm hospitals.

rural Scotland is looking pretty good these days.

Something stinks about this whole thing. If it does escape into the public, I'm gonna jump on board with Chris browns conspiracy theory.

this shit is getting hilarious...sure, let a nurse who worked with Duncan just fly to wherever. "Could you please fly to the midwest nurse lady, we got the southwest covered, let's maybe head to Ohio...Ohio...sounds good...*high fives*

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/10/15/health-ebola-usa-idINKCN0I40UO20141015

Lighthearted Comment Corner: A coworker thought Ebola was a country and wanted to know why it was invading other countries.

  On 10/15/2014 at 7:26 PM, Bechuga said:

Lighthearted Comment Corner: A coworker thought Ebola was a country and wanted to know why it was invading other countries.

You guys work at the CDC?

edit: nice Leah shoutout in your av.

ebola doesn't kill people

human incompetence kills people

also ebola kills people

sad to see the victims getting the brunt of the blame when they were basically completely unprepared and the CDC seemed to think non-specialist nurses and doctors could effectively follow protocols they weren't trained in because this is the first world, dammit, truly god's country

ol

yeah and they have to make sure nobody even begins to think some of the blame may lay with them. so, quick, blame the nurses! typing cdc into google gives this summary for their website:

"CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or ..."

well, if they're blaming the nurses i guess that means that the CDC wasn't in texas, working 24/7 to make sure the disease wouldn't spread? making sure everyone knew how to handle the patient? i don't know, it's right there in their self defined job description and it seems like they weren't there doing it. how exactly do they think they can blame the nurses on this one?

A Reggae E-BO-LA woooooooooo!!!

  On 10/15/2014 at 7:47 PM, MisterE said:

yeah and they have to make sure nobody even begins to think some of the blame may lay with them. so, quick, blame the nurses! typing cdc into google gives this summary for their website:

"CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or ..."

 

well, if they're blaming the nurses i guess that means that the CDC wasn't in texas, working 24/7 to make sure the disease wouldn't spread? making sure everyone knew how to handle the patient? i don't know, it's right there in their self defined job description and it seems like they weren't there doing it. how exactly do they think they can blame the nurses on this one?

It's cause none of them wanted to go there that's why. It's like the use of generals promoted through the ranks in peacetime, none are truly battle tested, they're just seat fillers, better at the cut and thrust of battling within the office dynamic than the battle field.

Moan moan moan, dleet the armchair critic. Also that nurse was(is, and will continue to remain) cute.

why is it that ebola only wanted to live in africa since it was first invented? didn't they have planes that flew out of africa for zillions of years already?

going to dallas on friday.

  On 10/15/2014 at 7:13 PM, olo said:

this shit is getting hilarious...sure, let a nurse who worked with Duncan just fly to wherever. "Could you please fly to the midwest nurse lady, we got the southwest covered, let's maybe head to Ohio...Ohio...sounds good...*high fives*

 

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/10/15/health-ebola-usa-idINKCN0I40UO20141015

just read about this. what in the goddamn fuck. how could they let someone exposed to ebola fly across the country before the incubation period was over??

also, someone who allegedly has personal ties at the dallas hospital reports that 5-6 more nurses and doctors are showing symptoms of fever. he broke the story of the second healthcare worker getting sick before the news, so it might be true... http://www.reddit.com/r/ebola/comments/2jbfui/user_involved_with_dallas_emergency_broke_that/

edit: just saw this on that post:

this thread has another person with personal connections commenting: http://www.reddit.com/r/ebola/comments/2jbfui/user_involved_with_dallas_emergency_broke_that/cla8pji

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Many of us in Dallas have connections to the nurses or friends of nurses who were involved with the treatment of Duncan. There are many things that are not being reported. Currently my buddy is at home waiting for the FBI to come to his house to retrieve a bag of belongings for his girlfriend, who is a nurse that treated Duncan for one day. The nurses are receiving constant death threats and are scared. They are all being quarantined in the hospital. The hospital is being locked down and will be used exclusively to quarantine the medical staff that had contact with Duncan. I'm sure this is a story that will break soon. Everyone in this circle expects 5-6 more cases at least among the people that treated Duncan. No on will talk about how they suspect this happened.

  On 10/15/2014 at 7:26 PM, Bechuga said:

Lighthearted Comment Corner: A coworker thought Ebola was a country and wanted to know why it was invading other countries.

Quarantine that worker until their immense infection of stupid dissipates. Make sure they spread no semen or eggs to reproduce, the stupid must not spread... you may already be infected by having to be in the presence of such mindless word diarrhea... I fear the worst.

May God help us all...