zx3vfr Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 Btw...I work as industrial electrician...currently at a cryo plant over near Woodsfield.If you walk through the parking lot you'll see plates from at least 15 states.There are people there from all over,including a few from Africa.For either work or play I've been to all the lower 48 states and around 10 countries.Every work day I'm around voltages from 480 to 13800 volts,2-3000 amps,lifting stuff up to 10,000 lbs and very high psi's.So please excuse me if I'm not impressed with your itinerary or job hazards Mr My Level.Pshh we all know voltage doesn't kill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidgetTodd Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 youre gonna get the 'bolz and spread it to people by double dipping sauce and its going to spread world wide and we're all going to fucking dieStrangely ok with this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-bus Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 (edited) I can be reasonably successful at avoiding ellectrical accidents by following safety protocol. I can be reasonably successful at avoiding violent crime by avoiding certain areas, situational awareness, and self defense weapons. I can be reasonably successful at avoiding the HIV by not putting my dick in dirty things and the proper use of universal precautions. Until more is known about the "live time" outside of the human body, I can do nothing to prevent me from sitting in the same airplane seat that some Liberian Bloody McSneezy hacked on three flights earlier out of Newark International or Logan International.....both places where my livelihood requires me to frequent. That is what has me scared....I'm not in control and I'm not hearing solid info as to how to gain control.Zombies....I can also ward off zombies with crossbows, guns, and machetes. I know that you must brain one to effectively stop it. Edited October 16, 2014 by C-bus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScubaCinci Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 I decided yesterday that the new fashion trend in Texas will be the ebolo too soon? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-bus Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 I decided yesterday that the new fashion trend in Texas will be the ebolo e.jpg too soon?Funny stuff.On a good note, the deputy who quarantined the Dallas guy tested negative for Ebola. That bodes well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gump Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 There was a suspected case at Children's Hospital but tests came back negative. Haven't heard anything else.Correct. I was wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strictly Street Posted October 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 From Slashdot. Pamela Engel writes that Americans need only look to Nigeria to calm their fears about an Ebola outbreak in the US. Nigeria is much closer to the West Africa outbreak than the US is, yet even after Ebola entered the country in the most terrifying way possible — via a visibly sick passenger on a commercial flight — officials successfully shut down the disease and prevented widespread transmission. If there are still no new cases on October 20, the World Health Organization will officially declare the country "Ebola-free." Here's how Nigeria did it.The first person to bring Ebola to Nigeria was Patrick Sawyer, who left a hospital in Liberia against the wishes of the medical staff and flew to Nigeria. Once Sawyer arrived, it became obvious that he was ill when he passed out in the Lagos airport, and he was taken to a hospital in the densely packed city of 20 million. Once the country's first Ebola case was confirmed, Port Health Services in Nigeria started a process called contact tracing to limit the spread of the disease and created an emergency operations center to coordinate and oversee the national response. Health officials used a variety of resources, including phone records and flight manifests, to track down nearly 900 people who might have been exposed to the virus via Sawyer or the people he infected. As soon as people developed symptoms suggestive of Ebola, they were isolated in Ebola treatment facilities. Without waiting to see whether a "suspected" case tested positive, Nigeria's contact tracing team tracked down everyone who had had contact with that patient since the onset of symptoms making a staggering 18,500 face-to-face visits. The sky is not falling after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScubaCinci Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 Anybody spending time worrying about ebola has way too much time on their hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidgetTodd Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 Anybody spending time worrying about ebola has way too much time on their hands.so fucking true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidgetTodd Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 I can be reasonably successful at avoiding the HIV by not putting my dick in dirty things and the proper use of universal precautions. I literally just blew half a bottle of Gatoraid out my nose. I now hate you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strictly Street Posted October 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReconRat Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 Somebody wanted stats? Here's rough stats. Currently one in 700,000 chance of infection world widebeginning sometime in December, that jumps to one in 350,000 when infections double (if they do)the next week it jumps to at least one in 233,000 based on same rateagain, the next week is 175,000 based on same rateand so on, until it's either under control, or out of controlwith the possibility of either rapidly increasing rates of infections,or an end to the spread of infections or simply continue at the current rate wait for December to see if predictions by UN WHO are correct,to see if infections double and possibly go on an increased rate after thatthen we'll know roughly what to expect keep in mind that current method will be to quarantine many more people than those infected (or suspected)which means by the end of the year chance of being quarantined might be like one in 1750 or even one in 350 also keep in mind this is all "worldwide" numbers, and in the USA it should be at least a thousand times lowerand Ebola has a low rate of spreading, roughly two more people for each infected on the average Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavyDuty Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 The CDC could not contain the first case of Ebola that came to the United States and at least 2 nurses end up getting the disease as of now. Then they screw up and let one of them fly across the country 2 times while she was sick. Can you really trust them to be able to handle a real epidemic when it comes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gixxus Christ! Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 The 2 nurses were infected because the hospital hadn't put proper controls in place and the nurses were cleaning up puke and shit without the correct ppe. Really nothing to do with the cdc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavyDuty Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 But don't you think the CDC might have wanted to be on top of this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-bus Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 The 2 nurses were infected because the hospital hadn't put proper controls in place and the nurses were cleaning up puke and shit without the correct ppe. Really nothing to do with the cdc.I call bullshit. Nurses know how to clean up puke and shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiztedRabbit Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 how many medical professionals does it take to get it through some peoples heads that a lot of medical professionals are the absolute worst when it comes to PPE and precautionary measures.. some think that well I work in a hospital my immune system is stronger than outsiders.. worse yet some are just negligent .. I've been there seen it I for one am a glove/ppe handwashing Nazi.. and have been for all 13 years of my professional career that includes everything from the mundane doctors office to the true front lines of surgery/ ED and EMS .. I've seen doctors come in with colds coughing and sneezing not wash there hands then go to every pt in the ED or a nurse that cleans up piss with a pair of gloves on then walks to the station and types on the computers with the gloves on.. and yes a lot more egregious things as well..on the flip I have seen many of agencies and hospitals underestimate the amount of ppe that's needed or provided for certain care! do not think for a second that there are not nurses/medical staff out there that are any more safety oriented than your average mc donalds worker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zx3vfr Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 We are all gonna be thankful for those FEMA camps after all 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tpoppa Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 The 2 nurses were infected because the hospital hadn't put proper controls in place and the nurses were cleaning up puke and shit without the correct ppe. Really nothing to do with the cdc.I have to disagree. The CDC fucked this one up. They exist to deal with this shit. Where was their onsite presence and oversight? http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/16/opinion/vox-frieden-should-resign/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 -- This week Thomas Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, stepped up to the microphone and took responsibility for the worst mistake in Dallas' Ebola-stricken hospital: its utter lack of preparedness. After insisting for months that any U.S. hospital could handle an Ebola case by following CDC guidelines, Frieden now wishes he had provided Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital with the robust CDC clinical support team it desperately needed to care for Thomas Eric Duncan -- the first of three people to be diagnosed with Ebola on American soil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gixxus Christ! Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 I call bullshit. Nurses know how to clean up puke and shit.Call it what you want, they didn't have the hazmat suits at first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidgetTodd Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 I call bullshit. Nurses know how to clean up puke and shit.They do. Doesn't mean they did though. I've no idea if they did it right or not, just know I see the nurses in the ER I work out of and nursing homes in my service area doing it wrong a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-bus Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 They do. Doesn't mean they did though. I've no idea if they did it right or not, just know I see the nurses in the ER I work out of and nursing homes in my service area doing it wrong a lot.I guess I was leaning more to the defense of the hospital. Union mentality blames the mean-old boss instead of their own lack of sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gump Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 They're not 99% ready unless they've done it consistently in the same scenario.. They're people, not machines, regardless of training, there will be hiccups. On a side note, 3m is out of lower end face masks due to this Ebola scare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidgetTodd Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 They're not 99% ready unless they've done it consistently in the same scenario.. They're people, not machines, regardless of training, there will be hiccups. On a side note, 3m is out of lower end face masks due to this Ebola scare. I guess I was leaning more to the defense of the hospital. Union mentality blames the mean-old boss instead of their own lack of sense.Agreed on both Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tpoppa Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 (edited) If I was the CDC driector, I would have swooped into Texas like the FBI and taken over the isolation protocol. Then patted myself on the back in gratiutous, nationally televised press conferences for months. Edited October 17, 2014 by Tpoppa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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