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ParticipantMedical staff in Texas must be better practitioners of Standard Precautions – or, very lucky indeed. This one in Spain caught it from a known patient. My heart goes out to her and her family.
And no, Spain is not about to be wiped from the face of the Earth but nonchalance should not be the order of the day.http://news.yahoo.com/first-outside-africa-nurse-spain-hospital-contracts-ebola-174043185.html
ParticipantThis is the sound of an institution throwing two employees under the bus.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5931780ParticipantLet’s not forget the natural reservoir for Ebola is not humans but…animals. Again, better to be lucky than good.
Participant[quote=zk][quote=outtamojo]
Signs of systemic failure do not bode well for not just Ebola. Faith in institutions is paramount to containment and lack of it contributed greatly to its spread in Africa.[/quote]I’m not sure what “signs of systemic failure” and “faith in institutions” mean. But what contributed greatly to the spread of ebola in Africa is rituals involving touching dead bodies in a way that subjects persons to that dead person’s bodily fluids. Those are rituals that Americans are educated enough to avoid (or maybe, in some cases, just lucky enough not to regularly participate in).
I don’t think I understand the desire to be afraid of ebola or of armageddon in general. I wonder if maybe there’s an excitement factor involved. I think a lot of people are excited to be afraid of ebola or nuclear war or the christian armageddon or the collapse of capitalism or whatever world-changing thing it is they’re afraid of.
If you want to be afraid of a germ, might I suggest you be afraid of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. That is ten thousand times more likely to kill you than ebola, and the threat is growing. Not as exciting as ebola. But way more dangerous.
There are people out there lounging in the sun or eating big macs or not exercising or driving like idiots or riding their bikes on the road and at the same time freaking out about ebola. That doesn’t make any sense at all. Any of those habits are thousands of times more likely to kill you than ebola.
Heck, not flossing is more likely to kill you than ebola.[/quote]
Let’s not focus so much on the ebola virus but the bumbling that led to a deadly virus reaching our shores and how we failed to protect the general public. Sure nobody else has contracted ebola from the Dallas carrier but being sent home from a hospital after ebola had been all over the news forever and having told the hospital he came from Liberia? I’d say we are definitely more lucky than good.
I know that ER’s get overworked and things slip through the cracks but 2 people, the Nurse and the Doctor had the chance to prevent further exposures.
In the old days they would just be fired but nowadays they want to look at hospital procedures and see if they can call it a flaw in the system.
I get enjoyment from eating burgers and being out in the sun – those are my choices. I don’t think I would get any enjoyment at all from ebola.
I agree, ebola is not likely to kill ME but if I was one of those exposed after a carrier was sent home from a hospital I would not be too happy right now having to listen to the CDC tell everyone how they will stop ebola in its tracks.ParticipantHere’s the hazmat team cleaning up ebola vomit
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/10/workers-spray-ebola-patients-vomit-sidewalk-pressure-washer-protective-clothing-photo.htmlParticipant[quote=zk][quote=outtamojo]”Not transmittable until symptoms appear” reminds me of how in the space of 1 minute or seconds milk
can go from ok to sell to not ok to sell. The paranoids have earned their day imo.[/quote]Not sure how the paranoids have earned their day when not a single person in the U.S. has caught ebola here. That’s a long way from a widespread outbreak.[/quote]
Signs of systemic failure do not bode well for not just Ebola. Faith in institutions is paramount to containment and lack of it contributed greatly to its spread in Africa.
Participant“Not transmittable until symptoms appear” reminds me of how in the space of 1 minute or seconds milk
can go from ok to sell to not ok to sell. The paranoids have earned their day imo.ParticipantDo they have fruit bats in Texas?
ParticipantIt was a disappointment that it even reached our shores;shocking that it was not even suspected by the health care providers given his travel history.
Participantyeah, just goes to show if there ever was a zombie virus we are all dead er walking meat.
July 25, 2014 at 6:01 PM in reply to: totally cool home searching app by one of our own pigg forum members #777044Participant[quote=fypio]Google and LinkedIn logins coming in a few weeks.
How do you feel about using one of those 2 other login options to log in?
Thanks for your comment[/quote]
What no Piggington log in ?
Participant[quote=SD Realtor]Allan the participation trophy is the downfall of society… though it is a perfect description of what is desired by many these days.[/quote]
While the participation trophy is relatively new, I don’t know that it any worse than what goes on with kids who are somehow connected to the coaching staff or well connected socially to the organization sponsoring the team. Anyone else see
kids who somehow made the team or got some kind of award they didn’t seem to deserve? I ask cause my 12 year old son was part of a summer basketball program and the assistant coach’s son was named MVP. The whole team of 12 year olds began muttering “but he didn’t do ANYTHING” when it was announced. I gave my son a hard look and the keep quiet sign and later said to him “welcome to the world of grown ups”.Participant[quote=flu][quote=harvey]But who will speak for the dumb kids?
CAR to the rescue![/quote]
It isn’t about dumb kids… You know the sad part of this is… Most “genius” kids either flunk out because they never bother to try or they end up like Mark Z and Bill Gates and drop out on their own because they have a better use of their time. So this really isn’t about “smart kids”.
It’s really about folks who paid their dues, put in a lot of time and effort to further themselves….And simply being denied opportunity because of their ethnicity in the interest of filling quotas…
Put in another way, it would be like the NBA having a policy that says that since asians make up 13-14% of the California population, asians are disproportionately under-represented on the LA Lakers and LA Clippers…
As a result, there should be quotas that specifically recruit asians and fill 13% of the starters on the LA Lakers and LA Clippers.. As a result, there should be a law that restrict the number of african americans that are on the LA Lakers and LA Clippers so that the percentage of african americans on the LA Lakers and LA Clippers is similar to the % of population in CA that are african americans….. irrespective of how good they may be..Simply because they are african americans and there are “too many of them” on the NBA teams…it doesn’t matter if they have “talent” or achieved great athleticism through “hard work”….
Of course the if someone did propose such a ridiculous racist/discriminatory policy, of course all hell would break lose.
So, again…….Double standards anyone?????
It would be a pretty funny spoof on the daily show if we had an SCA-NBA bill…[/quote]
It should be a SCA-NCAA bill. Racial quotas all around to include athletic scholarships and college team composition.
Participant[quote=spdrun]Why salvage? If a junkyard will give you a grand, a private buyer looking to fix the car will give you about the same, and at least you’re not destroying a repairable car.[/quote]
Would not be very bright purchase by private party imo. After fix-up blue book/car value < expenses paid due to accident history. I am getting a very favorable amount of repair$$ from my insurance co-I was expecting a total loss check for 7-8K.
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